List of Participants for the European and North American Regional Roundtable
Vail, Colorado, USA, 6 - 8 June 2001

Co-Chairman
Sir Crispin Tickell, United Kingdom
Chancellor, University of Kent at Canterbury; Trustee, Natural History Museum; Chairman, Climate Institute of Washington DC; President, Earth Centre, South Yorkshire; Director, Green College Centre for Environment Policy and Understanding; former Ambassador to Mexico and the British Permanent Representative to the UN; Warden, Green College, Oxford; President, Royal Geographical Society; Chairman, International Institute of Sustainable Development; Chairman, UK Government's Advisory Committee on the Darwin Initiative; President, National Society for Clean Air; and Convenor, Government Panel on Sustainable Development.

Mr. Charles Alexander, USA
International Editor, Time Magazine; Former science and business editor, Time Magazine.

Ms. Cindy Burton, Canada
Former President & CEO, iWave.com, Inc.

Ms. Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Canada
Student at Yale University; Environmental activist; Speaker at the Earth Parliament & the Plenary Session of the Earth Summit (then aged 12); Member, Earth Charter Committee; Recipient, Global 500 Award, 1991.

Mr. Ward Dossche, Belgium
Policies & Procedures Manager, BELGACOM (Belgian telecoms company); former Chairman and Executive Director, Belgian Greenpeace-office; Member, Board of the European Environmental Bureau; and Founder, Chair and Treasurer of Seas At Risk (a European marine environment federation of NGO's).

Mr. John Evans, United Kingdom
General Secretary, Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD, Paris, France (representing 56 national trade union centres).

Prof. Dr. Rumen Gechev, Bulgaria
Professor of Economics and International Business, International University and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria; Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Bulgaria; and Chairman of the Fourth Session of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development.

Dr. William Glanville, Canada
Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, International Institute for Sustainable Devt (IISD).

Dr. Andrzej Kassenberg, Poland
President, Institute for Sustainable Development, Warsaw; Member: Environmental Advisory Committee to President of European Bank of Reconstruction and Develpoment; Advisory Board to President of Energy Regulatory Agency, Regional Steering Committee of 'Leadership for Environment and Develpment Europe'; and Board of Directors, Centre for Environmental Studies in Budapest, Hungary.

Prof. István Láng, Hungary
Vice-President, National Council for Sustainable Development; member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; former member,  Brundtland Commission.

Mr. Walter Link, Germany
Founder and CEO, Link Group (Real estate, assisted living facilities, ecological farming, financial imnvestments and tech-oriented venture capital in Europe and America); and Global Academy; former Partner, B. Grimm (South East Asia Trading House, Thailand); founding member, Social Venture Network Europe.

Ms. Hunter Lovins, USA
Rocky Mountains Institute; Joint Recipient, 1999 Lindbergh Award, 1993 Nissan Award and 1982 Mitchell Prize (with colleague Amory Lovins).

Ms. Alicja K. Malecka, USA
Senior international finance executive; former Executive Vice President of the Management Committee of the Pioneer Group Inc.; Advisor to Polish Minister of Finance; former Senior VP, Deutsche Bank Capital Corp.; and VP and Regional Director with Chemical Bank.

Prof. Dr Neils Meyer, Denmark
Professor of Physics and emeritus professor, Technical University of Denmark; Member, executive committee of the Danish Council for Sustainable Energy; former Chairman, Danish Council for Renewable Energy; and President, Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.

Prof. Bedrich Moldan, Czech Republic
Chairman of Ninth Session of the United Nations' Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD9); Professor, Charles University.

Mr. Yannis Paleocrassas, Greece
Chairman, Spectrum Financial Services SA and AMBIO Ltd; Senior executive, Ergobank S.A. (Athens); former Greek Minister  for National Economy, Finance and Environment; EU Commissioner for the Environment and Fisheries; Visiting Fellow,  Brasenose College, Oxford University; Member,  Steering Committee of LEAD Europe.

Dr. Olga Ponizova, Russia
Executive Director, "ECO-Accord" Centre for Environment and Development; "Green Leader of the 1998 Year" (National contest for best personal contribution to environmental protection).

Dr. Ivan Rynda, Czech Republic
Vice- Chair, Society for Sustainable Living; Deputy Director, Centre for Environmental Scholarship, Charles University; former member, Prague City Council.

Mr. Gordon Shepherd, United Kingdom
Head, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International Unit.

Mr. Roy Spence, USA
Co-Founder and President, GSD&M Advertising.

Ms. Margaret Sweeney, Ireland
Member and former Chairman, An Taisce (Ireland's leading environmental organisation); former President, European Environmental Bureau (EEB): currently advisory member, EEB's Executive Committee.

Ms. Kaarin Taipale, Finland
Special advisor to the City of Helsinki, Chair, International Council for Local Environment Initiatives (ICLEI)'s Executive Committee.

Ms. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Canada
President, Inuit Circumpolar Conference; member, international ICC executive council; Vice-President, national Inuit organisation, Inuit Tapirisat of Canada.

Mrs Christine von Weizsäcker, Germany
Biologist, author, researcher and activist.

Mr. Ian Williams, United Kingdom
International journalist; former President, UN Correspondents Association.

Ms. Ludmila Zatadskaya, Russia
Former member of Parliament. Currently involved, inter alia, in research and action on gender aspects of legal and institutional reform in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.