Honorary Board
Ruth Dreifuss, President of the Swiss Confederation, Swiss Federal Minister of
the Interior, responsible for Research, Higher Education and Culture, Berne

Alex Krauer, Chairman of the Board of Directors Union Bank of Switzerland
and member of the Swiss Council for Sustainable Development, Zurich

Augustin Macheret, State Councillor and President of the Conference of
Swiss Universities, Fribourg

Eckard Minx, Daimler Chrysler AG, Berlin, Germany

Christian Smoliner, Ministry of Science and Transport, Vienna, Austria.
Conference Board
Dr. Rudolf Häberli, Conference Chairman, Director of the Swiss Priority Programme
Environment, Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne, Prof. Roland W. Scholz,
Natural and Social Science Interface(ETH-UNS),Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich,
Dr. Tony Kaiser, Chief Technology Officer,ABB ALSTOM Power Ltd,
Brussels, Belgium.

Dr. Philipp W. Balsiger, Interdisciplinary Institute for Philosophy and the History of
Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, Prof. Hans Beck, Président de
la commission de planification universitaire suisse, Neuchâtel, Britt Marie Bertilsson,
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research MISTRA, Stockholm,
Sweden, Dr. Roman Boutellier, President and Chief Executive Officer, SIG Swiss In-dustrial
Company Holding Ltd., Neuhausen,
Dr. Alain Bill, ABB Corporate Research, Daryl E. Chubin,
United States National Science Foundation, Arling-ton,
Virginia, USA, Prof. Heidi Diggelmann, President of the Swiss National Science
Foundation, Lausanne, Rainer Gerold, Director XII B.I – Life Sciences and Quality of
Life, Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, Belgium, Prof. Michael
Gibbons
, Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, London,
United Kingdom, Prof. Bernard Giovannini, Département de Physique de la
Matière Condensée, University of Geneva, Kirsten Hollaender, M.A., Research Institute
for Sociology, University of Cologne, Germany, Sunita Kapila, IDRC Branch Office,
Nairobi, Kenya, Prof. Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Interdisciplinary Centre for General
Ecology, University of Berne, PD Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, President of the Swiss
Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology, Zurich, Prof. Pieter Leroy,
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Mag. Marie Céline Loibl, Austrian Institute
for Applied Ecology, Vienna, Austria, Prof. Hansjürg Mey, President of the Swiss
Federal Commission for Universities of Applied Sciences, Berne, Dr. Basarab Nicolescu,
University of Paris, President of CIRET – International Center for Transdisciplinary
Research, France, Prof. Jürgen Mittelstrass, University of Constance, Germany,
Sybille Oetliker, Cash, Zurich, Jan-Eric Sundgren, President of Chalmer University,
Göteborg, Sweden, Dr. Johannes R. Randegger, Head of Infrastructure, Basel Works,
Novartis Services Ltd, and member of the Swiss Parliament, Basel, Dr. Michel Roux,
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Prof.
Julie Thompson Klein, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA, Prof. Albert
Waldvogel
, Vice President Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich,
Prof. Jörg Winistörfer, Vice Chancellor University of Lausanne, Betty Zucker, Head of
the Department for Corporate Development and member of the Executive Management,
Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI), Rüschlikon.