Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2015 Sustainable Development Goals and Dealing with Climate Change 5-7 February, 2015 High Level Corporate Dialogue- February 4, 2015 New Delhi, India CONFIRMATIONS as on January 19, 2015 HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT (Current and Former)   HE Mr Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia and Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University The Hon. Jean Charest, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault & Former Premier, Québec & Former Minister of the Environment, Canada            Nobel Laureate HE Dr José Ramos-Horta, Former President, East Timor & Chair, High Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations, United Nations, New York HE Mr Bharrat Jagdeo, Former President, Guyana HE Mr Michel Martelly, President, Republic of Haiti HE Ms Mary Robinson, Former President, Ireland & UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on Climate Change HE Mr Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Former President, Maldives & Leader, Progressive Party of Maldives HE Mr Felipe Calderon, Former President of Mexico and Chair, The New Climate Economy, Mexico HE Mr Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister, Norway and President, The Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, Norway HE Dr Maciej H Grabowski, Minister of the Environment, Republic of Poland HE Mr José Manuel Barroso, Former President, European Commission & Former Prime Minister, Portugal HE Mr Ruud Lubbers, Former Prime Minister, The Netherlands and Member, Club de Madrid, Spain HE Mr Göran Persson, Former Prime Minister of Sweden & Chairman of the Board, Sveaskog, Sweden  Lord John Prescott, Former Deputy Prime Minister & Member of Parliament, House of Lords, UK MINISTERS                    HE Ms Lyonpo Dorji Choden, Minister of Works and Human Settlement, Bhutan HE Dr Salifou Ouedraogo, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Burkina Faso HE Mr Bienvenu Liyota Ndjoli, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Democratic Republic of the Congo HE Ms Kirsten Brosbøl, Minister of the Environment, Denmark HE Dr Khaled Fahmy, Minister of Environment, Egypt HE Ms Marina Kaljurand, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia HE Mr Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, France HE Ms Ségolène Royal, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France HE Mr Pa Ousman Jarju, Minister of Environment, Climate Change, Water and Wildlife, Gambia Mr Suresh Prabhu, Hon’ble Minister for Railways, Government of India HE Mr Abdullahi Majeed, Minister of State for Environment and Energy, Maldives HE Mr Leo Brincat, Minister for Sustainable Development, Environment and Climate Change, Malta HE The Hon’ble Jayeshwur Raj Dayal, Minister of Environment, National Emergency Centre and Beach Authority of Mauritius HE Mr Juan José Guerra Abud, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico HE Ms Tanya Müller García, Minister of Environment, Mexico City HE Dr Oyun Sanjaasuren, Minister for Environment and Green Development, Member of Parliament, Mongolia and President of UNEA HE Dr Thet Thet Zin, Deputy Union Minister, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Myanmar Mr Lars Andreas Lunde, Vice Minister, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, Norway HE Abg Manuel Gerardo Pedro Pulgar-Vidal Otálora, Minister of Environment, Peru GOVERNMENT  Mr Shankar Agarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India (Accepted In Principle)   HE Mr Abdulla bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Administrative Control and Transparency Authority, Qatar Mr Heherson T. Alvarez, Commissioner, Climate Change Commission, Philippines             HE Madam Marie-Helene Aubert, Advisor to the President on Environment and Climate Change Issues, France The Rt Hon. Lord Deben John Gummer, Member, House of Lords Dr Rajiv Kumar Gupta (IAS), Principal Secretary (Water Supply) & Principal Secretary (Climate Change) Deptt; & Managing Director, GNFC Prof Li Junfeng, Director General, National Center for Climate Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC), National Development and Reform Commission, China Mr Susheel Kumar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, India Mr Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri, Ambassador of India to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg HE Mr Michel Rentenaar, Dutch Climate Ambassador, Government of Netherlands Ambassador Arun K Singh, Ambassador of India to France Dr Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs, India HE Ms Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission, Ethiopia Dr Robert B Weisenmiller, Chairman, California Energy Commission, USA NOBEL LAUREATES   Nobel Laureate Mr Kailash Satyarthi, Chairperson, Globalmarch, India Nobel Laureate Dr Yuan-Tseh Lee, President Emeritus and Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan INSTITUTIONS           Mr Asim Buksh, Chairman, Buksh Foundation Mr Yvo de Boer, Director General, Global Green Growth Institute, Republic of Korea Ambassador C Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, TERI Mr Krishan Dhawan, Chief Executive Officer, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, India Dr Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, TERI Dr Arvid Hallén, Director General, The Research Council of Norway Prof. Hironori Hamanaka , Chair of the Board of Directors, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan Dr Wakako Hironaka, Chair of the Board, Earth Water & Green Foundation, Japan Prof. Jeffrey D Sachs, Director - Earth Institute & Special Advisor to the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, USA Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, President, Divine Shakti Foundation, India  Dr Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Senior Vice-Rector, United Nations University, & Director and Professor, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), University of Tokyo UNIVERSITIES     Prof. Syed Akmal Hussain, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Forman Christian College University, Pakistan Prof. David M. Malone, Rector, UN University, Japan Dr Jukka Mönkkönen, Academic Rector, University of Eastern Finland Prof G.J. (Bert) van der Zwaan, Rector Magnificus, University of Utrecht BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL ORGANISATIONS                  Mr Gyan Chandra Acharya, UN Under Secretary General and High Representative, UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and the Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), USA Dr Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) Sir Suma Chakrabarti, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, UK HE Mr Saber Hossain Chowdhury, President, Inter-Parliamentary Union, Switzerland Dr Fatima Denton, Co-ordinator - African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Mr Hideaki Domichi, Senior Vice President, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan Mr S Richard Fedrizzi, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council, USA Dr Peter Holmgren, Director General, Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia Mr Alexander Likhotal, President, Green Cross International, Switzerland HE Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General, United Nations, USA (via Video) Mr Takehiko Nakao, President, Asian Development Bank, Philippines Prof. Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Deputy Director, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria Ms Tomoyo Nonaka, Chairperson, Gaia Initiative, Japan Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger, Founding Chair, R20 - Regions of Climate Change & Former Governor, California, USA Mr Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary General, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK Mr Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Kenya Ms Laurence Tubiana, Special Representative for COP 21 at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France and Ambassador for Climate Change   Dr Kandeh K Yumkella, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Sustainable Energy for All, United Nations, Austria Ms Ekaterina Zagladina, President, Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Italy CORPORATE       Mr Suman Bery, Chief Economist, Strategy and Business Environment, Shell International Limited, The Netherlands Ms Naina Lal Kidwai, Country Head, HSBC India and Director HSBC Asia Pacific, India Mr Takashi Kiuchi, Chairman, E-Square Inc. Mr Randal Newton, Vice President Engineering Operations, Ingersoll Rand India Mr Masamitsu Sakurai, Executive Advisor, Ricoh Company Ltd., Japan Ms Christiana Wyly, Venture Partner, Consumer Products, Satori Capital, L.L.C., USA MEDIA    Mr Nicholas Dawes, Chief Editorial and Content Officer, Hindustan Times Mr Nick Perkins, Director, SciDev.Net Sir Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director, Forum for the Future