The Award Selection Committees
Pre-selection Committee Members
Dr. Theresa Visarius
Secretary General of the Award Pre-Selection Committee
Switzerland Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Business Implementation Expert
Prof. Akissa Bahri
Formal Minister of National Agronomic
Institute of Tunisia
Prof. Alan Irwin
Copenhagen Business School Organization Department Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Science and Technology Policy
Prof. Atya Kapley
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, Environmental Biotechnology and Genomics Division
Mr. Christian Pleijel
Senior Advisor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Executive School; Former Director of Leadership and Change, KTH Executive School
Dr. Fangruo Chen
Dean of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Mr. Frank Sesno
Executive Director, GWU Alliance for a Sustainable Future, The George Washington University
Mr. Marcelo Carvalho de Andrade
Co-founder of Earth Capital
Founder & Chairperson of Pro-Natura International
Mr. Östen Ekengren
CEO of Stockholm Green Innovation District (SGID)
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute (Retired)
European Climate Pact Ambassador
Mr. Rolf Nagel
Managing Partner at Munich Venture Partners
Dr. Sandra Pitta-Alvarez
University of Buenos Aires
University of the City of Buenos Aires
CONICET - National Council for Scientific and Technological Research
Prof. Slav W. Hermanowicz
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Prof. Yuya Kajikawa
Institute for Future Initiatives,
Department of Technology Management for Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering
The University of Tokyo
Final Selection Committee Members
Dr. Simran Chana
Director, Frontier Technology Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
Dr. Alyssa Gilbert
Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment
Dr. Li Haisheng
Chief Scientist at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES)
Mr. Agam Khare
Founder and Group CEO of Absolute, a pathbreaking Bioscience company
Dr. Julie Newman
Director at the MIT Office of Sustainability; Lecturer in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at MIT.
Ms. Charlotte Pera
Executive Director of the Sustainability Accelerator at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Ms. Jocelyn Weber Phipps
Deputy Director, The UC Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI)
Prof. Volker Sieber
Full Professor, Technical University of Munich, Chair of Chemistry of Biogenic Resources, Germany
Ms. Megan Smith
Engineering technologist and former Chief Technology Officer of the United States
Prof. Andrew W. Smyth
Professor and Director of the NSF Center for Smart Streetscapes. Columbia University
Prof. Frank Tietze
Head, Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory (Centre for Technology Management) at the University of Cambridge
Mr. John Werner
Managing Director and Partner at Link Ventures