Principal of William Bordass Associates and research and policy adviser to the Usable Building Trust
A scientist with a long experience in the technical and environmental performance of buildings in operation, he is also research and policy adviser to the Usable Buildings Trust and co-author of the Soft Landings Framework, which helps design and building teams to focus their projects more on performance in use.
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Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Botswana
Professor Ngowi has worked for various construction companies in Tanzania, Sweden, and Botswana, and has researched and published extensively on sustainable construction in Botswana and in the region. He is also the reviews editor of the Botswana Journal of Technology, and a co-Chief Editor of the Journal of Construction in Developing Countries.¨
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Professor, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia
Dr Ray Cole is Professor and past-Director in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia, Canada. Professor Cole has received a number of academic and professional awards and distinctions for his activities in green building, being the most recent the Canada Green Building Council’s Life-time Leadership Award in 2009.
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Dean, Faculty of Urban Construction & Environmental Engineering, Chongqing University, China
President of ENCORD, the European Network of Construction Companies for Research and Development
Founded in 1989, ENCORD, http://www.encord.org/, is Europe's forum for industry-led research, development and innovation in the construction sector. Members are leading construction companies and suppliers from all over Europe. Ger Maas is president of ENCORD since 2008.
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Father of dye-sensitized solar cells
Director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Prof. Grätzel has been awarded the 2010 Millennium Grand Prize Winner for the development of dye-sensitized solar cells, which promise electricity-generating windows and low-cost solar panels and have just made their debut in consumer products.
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Human Settlements Officer, Housing Policy Section - Shelter Branch, UN-HABITAT
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, http://www.unhabitat.org/, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. Christophe Lalande has been working at UN-HABITAT for the past seven years on promoting sustainable urban development.
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Co-Founder and CEO of Architecture for Humanity
AFH, http://architectureforhumanity.org/, is a nonprofit design services firm that since its creation in 1999 has grown into an international hub for humanitarian design, offering innovative solutions to humanitarian crises in all corners of the globe. Cameron Sinclair and AFH have been awarded many honors over the past decade.
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Former Minister of the Environment and Development
The first Green minister in Europe, Mr. Haavisto is a Finnish politician and a Member of the Parliament. An expert in global issues, he also acts a Special Representative of the Foreign Minister of Finland in African crisis specializing in Sudan and Somalia, and lectures regularly at the University of Helsinki and the NATO School in Oberammergau.
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