Workshops, Seminars and Conferences

Advisory Panel

• Nigel Cross, Managing Director, International Institute for Environment and Development
• Olav Høgetveit, Media Consultant
• Domingo Jiménéz-Beltrán, former Executive Director, European Environment Agency

Board of Directors

• Leif E. Christoffersen, Board Chairman
• Øystein Dahle, Board Chairman of the World Watch Institute
• Kari Elisabeth Fagernæs, Research Director, NINA (Norwegian Insitute for Nature Analysis
• Gordon McInnes, Acting Director, EEA (European Environment Agency)
• Sigrun Møgedal, Senior Advisor, NORAD (Norwegian Agency for Development Aid)
• Hanne Peteresen, Director, Danish Polar Centre
• David MacDevette, Chief of Assessement, Division of Early Warning and Assessment (representing UNEP)

Invited Speakers

• Daniel B. Botkin, Research Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California
• Pekka Haavisto, Chairman, UNEP Afghanistan Task Force
• Frits Schlingemann, Director, UNEP’s Regional Office for Europe

GRID-Arendal

• Svein Tveitdal, Managing Director
• Harald Holt, Deputy Director
• Karen Folgen, Personal Assistant to the Managing Director
• Kathrine Johnsen,
• Helga Pedersen,
• Lars Kullerud (Director, University of the Arctic)
• Brian Lucas,
• Helge Selrod,
• Åke Bjørke,
• John Mugwe
• Nickolai Denisov,
• Valentin Yemelin,
• Janet Fernandez Skaalvik
• Morten Sørensen
• Magnus Magnusson
• Mariya Potabenko,
• Zurab Jincharadze