ZEF Advisory Board Meeting 2012
Bonn, September 27 - Emerging development policy issues and implications for development research was the overall topic that three experts' panels discussed at ZEF.
Among the panelists were members of ZEF's International Advisory Board such as Hans van Ginkel (former Rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo), Lisa Sennerby Forsse (Rector of the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden), and Carolina Vera (Director of the Center for Atmospheric and Ocean Research, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Panel 1. Future of development agendas and goals
Chair: Joachim von Braun, ZEF director
Panelists:
- Hans van Ginkel (Former Rector of the United Nations University Tokyo)
- Mohamed Hassan (Former Executive Director of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Trieste, Italy
- Matthias Kalkul (ZEF Senior Researcher)
- Margarita Quiros (ZEF Junior Researcher)
- Grace Villamor (ZEF Senior Researcher)
Panel 2. Land and water use under climate change: from uncertainty to policy advice
Chair: Manfred Denich, ZEF director
Panelists:
- Lisa Sennerby Forsse (Rector of the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden)
- Carolina Vera (Director of the Center for Atmospheric and Ocean Research, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Holm Tiessen (Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil)
- Jakob Rhyner (Director of the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn)
Panel 3. Culture and development: coping with diversity and change
Chair: Conrad Schetter, ZEF director
Panelists:
- Bina Agarwal (Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India)
- Maritta von Bieberstein Koch-Weser (Founder and President of Earth 3000)
- Wolfram Laube (ZEF Senior Researcher)
- Marc Müller (ZEF Senior Researcher)
- Farah Purwaningrum (ZEF Junior Researcher)