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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 February 10, 2015
HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT (Current and Former)
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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 Ms Mary Robinson, Former President, Ireland & UN Secretary General's Special
Envoy on Climate Change
HE Mr Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Former President, Republic of Maldives & Leader,
Progressive Party of Maldives
HE Mr Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, Former President of Mexico and Chair, The New
Climate Economy, Mexico
HSH Albert II, Prince of Monaco (via video)
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
Lord John Prescott, Former Deputy Prime Minister & Member of Parliament, House of
Lords, UK
MINISTERS
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HE Ms Lyonpo Dorji Choden, Minister of Works and Human Settlement, Bhutan
HE Mr Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development,
France
HE Ms Ségolène Royal, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy,
France
Mr Piyush Goyal, Hon'ble Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, & New and Renewable
Energy , India
Mr Prakash Javadekar, Hon'ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) Environment,
Forest & Climate Change
Mr Suresh Prabhu, Hon’ble Minister for Railways, Government of India
Mr Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Hon'ble Minister of State, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
(IC) & Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India
Dr Mukul M Sangma, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Meghalaya, 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 Dr Oyun Sanjaasuren, Former Minister for Environment and Green Development,
Member of Parliament of Mongolia & President of UNEA
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
HE Mr Abdulla bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Qatar &
President, Administrative Control and Transparency Authority, Qatar
HE Mr Sergey Donskoy, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Russian
Federation
HE Hon Saviour Kasukuwere, Minister of Environment, Water and Climate, Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT
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Mr Heherson T. Alvarez, Commissioner, Climate Change Commission, Philippines
Mr Idrissa Balde, Technical Advisor to the Hon’ble Minister Mr Abdoulaye Balde,
Minister of Environment, Senegal
Dr Rajiv Kumar Gupta (IAS), Principal Secretary (Water Supply) & Principal Secretary
(Climate Change) Deptt; & Managing Director, GNFC
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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
Dr PC Maithani, Director, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), 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
HE Ms Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture,
African Union Commission, Ethiopia
HE Mr Richard Verma, US Ambassador to India
NOBEL LAUREATES
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Nobel Laureate Mr Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Laureate 2014, Founder of Bachpan
Bachao Andolan and Chairperson of Global March Against Child Labour
Nobel Laureate Dr Yuan-Tseh Lee, President Emeritus and Distinguished Research
Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
INSTITUTIONS
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Mr Yvo de Boer, Director General, Global Green Growth Institute, Republic of Korea
Ambassador C Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, TERI
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
Dr Pavel Kabat, Director General and CEO, International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis (IIASA)
Ambassador Ajai Malhotra, Distinguished Fellow, TERI & Former Ambassador of India to
the Russian Federation
Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI & Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
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
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Dr David M. Malone, Rector and Under Secretary General, UN University, Japan
Dr Jukka Mönkkönen, Academic Rector, University of Eastern Finland
BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL ORGANISATIONS
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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 Sumantra Chakrabarti, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, UK
Dr Jaco Cilliers, Country Director, UNDP, India
Dr Fatima Denton, Director of Special Initiatives Division(SID) and Coordinator of the
African Climate Policy Center (ACPC)
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
Dr Naoko Ishii, CEO & Chairperson, Global Environment Facility Secretariat
Mr Alexander Likhotal, President, Green Cross International, Switzerland
Dr Bindu N Lohani, Vice-President, Knowledge Management and Sustainable
Development, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
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
Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger, Founding Chair, R20 - Regions of Climate Action & Former
Governor, California, USA
Mr Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary General, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK
Prof. Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director,
United Nations Environment Programme, Kenya
Ms Ekaterina Zagladina, President, Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of
Nobel Peace Laureates, Italy
CORPORATE
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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.
Dr Henrik O Madsen, Group President and CEO, DNV-GL
Mr Randal Newton, Vice President Engineering Operations, Ingersoll Rand India
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Mr Glenn Schmidt, Head, Steering Government Affairs, BMW AG
Mr Jeff Seabright, Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever PLC
Mr Venkatesh Valluri, Chairman, Ingersoll Rand India
Ms Namita Vikas, Senior President & Country Head, Responsible Banking, YES BANK
MEDIA
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Mr Nicholas Dawes, Chief Editorial and Content Officer, Hindustan Times
Mr Karma Paljor, Business Editor, CNN-IBN
Mr Nick Perkins, Director, SciDev.Net
FAITH LEADERS
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Dr Kuriakose Bharanikulangara, Archbishop of Faridabad
Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (via video)
Father Dominic Emmanuel, Former Spokesperson for the Catholic Diocese
Diwan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, Head of the Ajmer Sharif (Ajmer Dargah)
Acharya Shri Roopchandra Muniji, President, Manav Mandir Mission
Ven’ble Bhikkhu Sanghasena, Founder and Head of Mahabodhi International
Meditation Centre, Ladakh and Mahakaruna Day
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, President, Divine Shakti Foundation & Secretary-General,
Global Interfaith WASH Alliance
Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, Co-Founder/Chairman of the Global Interfaith
WASH Alliance, President of Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh
Shri Giani Gurubachan Singh, Chief Jathedar of the Golden Temple (Akal Takht)