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
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 at KTH Royal Institute of Technology 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
Agam Khare
Founder and Group CEO of Absolute, a pathbreaking Bioscience company
Professor Andrew W. Smyth
Professor and Director of the NSF Center for Smart Streetscapes. Columbia University
Charlotte Pera
Executive Director of the Sustainability Accelerator at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Dr. Haisheng Li
Chief Scientist at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES)
Prof. Kamiar Mohaddes
Associate Professor in Economics and Policy, Director of the Global Executive MBA Programme at the University of Cambridge
Prof. Volker Sieber
Full Professor, Technical University of Munich, Chair of Chemistry of Biogenic Resources, Germany