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The Award Selection Committees

Pre-selection Committee Members

Dr. Theresa Visarius

General Secretary 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

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute (retired)

Mr. Rolf Nagel

Managing Partner at Munich Venture Partners

Prof. Slav W. Hermanowicz

University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

More details regarding the composition of the Final Selection Committee will be announced in due course.

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