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Dr. Frederick Dubee, Senior Advisor, Global Compact, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations, USA |
Born in Canada, Fred Dubee was educated in Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Austria; he joined the automotive industry in 1968 where he spent three decades unevenly distributed in North and South America, Europe and Asia In the spring of 2000, Fred Dubee undertook an assignment to support the preparation of the Global Compact launch and in October 2000, he joined the United Nations as Senior Officer, Global Compact, Executive Office of the Secretary-General. He continues to serve the United Nations as a Senior Advisor and works extensively in China and throughout Asia.
Fred Dubee is a professor at the European Peace University, Austria, honorary professor at the Beijing Genomics Institute, China and lectures internationally at academic intuitions and research institutes. He is a frequent contributor at high level national and international corporate, academic and governmental events and acts as an advisor to leaders of government, civil society and industry. |
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Dr. P. H. Liotta, Thomas Hawkins Visiting Scholar, United States Military Academy, USA |
Dr. Peter Liotta is the 2011 Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Scholar at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
The author of eighteen books and numerous articles, Liotta has also published a novel, Diamond’s Compass, about Iran. Recent work includes The Exile’s Return (published in the Macedonian language) and the bestselling The Real Population Bomb: Megacities, Global Security & the Map of the Future. His research interests include the study of geography and geopolitics (particularly in Southeast Europe, the Euro-Mediterranean, and Central and South Asia) as well the re-examination of environmental, human, and demographic security issues in the contemporary environment.
Since 2004, Dr. Liotta has regularly lectured on demographics, migration, and security at the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy. In 2005, he joined Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability of Climate Change) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2008, he served as expert consultant on endemic urban violence for the Canadian Government and Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade’s Human Security and Cities Initiative. From 2008 to 2009 served as a consultant for the ABC News Documentary Earth 2100: The Final Century of Civilization?
As a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he shared in the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. |
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Dr. Bram Prins, President, Global Dairy Farmers, The Netherlands |
Dr. Bram Prins, Male. Together with my younger brothers, son and son in law I am partner in a family SME Prins VOF, with: Dairy farms: Dairy production on 2 locations: Together a 300 cow dairy herd in the northern part of The Netherlands. Energy farm: Producing energy from biogas capacity 530 kWh electricity per hour. (4.0Mw). Consultancy: At the moment I am working in the Consultancy-part of the SME. As former President of European Dairy Farmers I am familiar with the situation over 14 countries of Europe November 2002 I have finished my President time of 12 years from EDF. Global Dairy Farmers: After the period as President of European Dairy Farmers I decided to start with a new group of dairy farmers from all over the world. The objectives are: developing and sharing new strategies for farmers and possible through the whole food chain. By reacting earlier as the average we are developing a pro-active attitude and quick answers on political measures and the strong changing demands of our clients: the consumers. We did have congresses in Australia, Russia, China, Europe and the next congress is foreseen in 2012 in Argentina. In 2004 we have started, as part of Wageningen University Research (WUR) an international AgroCenter for Strategic Entrepreneurship. In 1999 we have started trainees for (farm-) advisors in “Interactive strategic management”. Especial using the qualified methods, maintaining the knowledge and exchange of ideas between international oriented advisors are the key points of the project. In 2004 a global initiative is started in different countries. In 2010 we have started the establishment the Dutch branch of Nuffield International. We offer excellent entrepreneurs in The Netherlands an international year for having a study for own purpose, but for the sector too. See also www.nuffield.com.au/. At last I am coaching SME’s in (international) multi functional farming and different non-agricultural sectors. For this a virtual network of independent advisors was started |
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Dr. Klaus Seeland, Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
Dr. Klaus Seeland, Male, was born in 1952 and graduated from the University of Konstanz in 1976 in Political Sciences and was awarded a Ph.D. in Sociology from the same university in 1980. He joined ETH Zurich in 1985 where he is presently teaching at the Department of Environmental Systems Science and doing social science research throughout Switzerland and in other European countries as well as in some of the Developing Countries of South and Southeast Asia. Professor Klaus Seeland is head of the group Society, Environment and Culture at the Institute for Environmental Decisions of ETH. The main research issues of his group focus on the interactions between culture, society and the environment and their respective impact on each other and cover socio-cultural aspects of forest and landscape management, environmental perception and social integration through human-environment interactions, methods of social empirical research in developing countries, and Indigenous Environmental Knowledge of forests. |
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