The Council
The World Future Council was deeply saddened at the loss of one of its Council members, Anita Roddick. The thoughts of everyone at the Council are with her family at this difficult time.
Below is a list of the members of the Council, each of whom has been selected in consultation with civil society organisations from across the world.
To find out more about a particular Councillor, click on their name.
Hafsat Abiola-Costello, Human and civil rights campaigner; Founder, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND)
Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish, Founder, SEKEM
Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan
Dr. Tariq Banuri, WFC Executive Commitee Member, Senior Fellow of the Stockholm Environment Institute
Maude Barlow, Chairperson, The Council of Canadians
Rae Kwon Chung, Director, Environment and Sustainable Division, UNESCAP
Tony Colman, Director, Africapractice; former MP
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Director, The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL)
Nicholas Dunlop, Co-founder and Secretary General, e-Parliament
Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Dürr, Nuclear physicist and philosopher
Jared Duval, National Director, Sierra Student Coalition
HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, President and Patron of the Arab Thought Forum (ATF), ISESCO Ambassador for Dialogue among Cultures and Civilisations, President of the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD)
Prof. Dr. Tewolde Berhan Egziabher, General Manager, Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia
Riane Eisler, Author, historian; President, Centre for Partnership Studies
Dr. Scilla Elworthy, Founder, Oxford Research Group
Fabio Feldman, Brazilian environmental legislator
Tim Flannery, Scientist, explorer, author and conservationist
Prof. Rafia Ghubash, President, Arabian Gulf University
Olivier Giscard d'Estaing, Chairperson, Committee for a World Parliament; Governor, Atlantic Institute
Prof. Prabhu Guptara, Executive Director, UBS Wolfsberg Centre
Cyd Ho, Broadcaster, civil rights activist
Wes Jackson, Co-founder and President, The Land Institute
Bianca Jagger, WFC Executive Commitee Chair, Human rights advocate; Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador
Baroness Helena Kennedy, Barrister and QC; President, School of Oriental and African Studies (London University); Member of the House of Lords, UK
Ashok Khosla, Chairman, Development Alternatives; Co-President, Club of Rome
Prof. C. S. Kiang, Founding Dean, College of Environmental Sciences, Beijing
Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibich, Scientific and Managing Director, Institute for Future
Studies and Technology Assessment
David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Ylva Lindberg, Founder and Managing Director, SIGLA
Dr. Rama Mani, Executive Director/CEO, International Centre for Ethnic Studies
Prof. Stephen Marglin, WFC Executive Commitee Member, Economist, Harvard University
Prof. Dr. Manfred Max-Neef, Pioneer of 'Barefoot Economics', Former Rector, Universidad de Chile, Valdivia
Frances Moore-Lappé, Founder, Small Planet Institute; author
Youssou N'Dour, Musician and human rights advocate
Dr. Katiana Orluc, Middle Eastern expert; visiting Professor, Harvard University
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in West Africa
Dr. Vithal Rajan, Vice-President, Oxfam India, Chairman, Governing Body/Confederation of Voluntary Associations
Dr. Hermann Scheer, President, EUROSOLAR; MP Germany
Prof. Dr. Vandana Shiva, WFC Executive Commitee Member, Founder, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Sulak Sivaraksa, Co-founder, International Network of Engaged Buddhists
Count Hans-Christof von Sponeck, Former UN Assistant Secretary General, Chairman, Centre for the UN Millenium Development Goals, Basel/Switzerland
Prof. Motoyuki Suzuki, Chairman, Central Environmental Council of Japan
Kaarin Taipale, Sustainable urban development expert
Pauline Tangiora, Maori elder, Rongomaiwahine Tribe, New Zealand
Beate Weber, WFC Executive Commitee Deputy-Chair, Former MEP and Mayor of Heidelberg, Germany
Judge C. G. Weeramantry, Former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice
Francisco Whitaker, Co-founder, World Social Forum
Anders Wijkman MEP, President, GLOBE EU; former UN Assistant Secretary General
