Annelies Allain was one of the founders of the International Baby Food Network (IBFAN) in 1979 and started the Geneva office of the network. In 1990, a Dutch foundation, the International Code Documentation Centre (ICDC) was set ut with a project office in Penang, Malaysia. ICDC, coordinated by Allenies, leads the network's activities toward full implementation of the international Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, adopted by the World Healtth Assembly in 1981. Annelies graduated in languages and development studies from Universities in the USA and Switzerland, and, after working in africa for four years, devoted her energies to public advocacy for fair trade and sustainable development. She may not have anticipated that her work with IBFAN would last a generation.

Presenting in session(s):
Fighting Old Battles in a New Word: Civil Society Confronting Corporations

Praful Bidwai is a journalist, social science scholar, and activist in a number of areas including human rights, secular politics, enviromentalism, nuclear disarmament and peace. He is a columnist with more than 25 newspapers and magazines and writes on political economy, development issues, technology and social affairs, and war and peace, among other subjects. He is co-author (with Achin Vanaik, 1999) of South Asia on a Short Fuse: Nuclear Politics and the Future of Global Disarmament. Praful Bidwai is a founding member of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, India, and was awarded the Sean McBride Peace Prize by the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, together with Achin Vanaik. He is also a Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and lectures frequently at universities and academic institutions in different parts of the world. Praful Bidwai has worked closely with the Foundation on a wide range of issues for more than 20 years and is member of the Foundation's Board of Trustees since 2005. He has been active in the What Next project from the beginning and contributed the article 'From What Now to What Next: Reflections on three decades of international politics and development' for the What Next Volume I, and will also contribute an article on 'The convergence of fundamentalisms and new political closures: What Next in the struggle for pluralism?' for Volume II.

Presenting in session(s):
Reclaiming the State: Towards Genuine Participatory Democracy

Patrick Bond is Professor in Economics and Director at the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. As critic of the neo-liberal project currently pursued in the (Southern) African continent he has published several monographs on the effects of the global economy and on South Africa’s socio-economic developments since the mid-1990s as well as The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). He is a scholar activist within the World Social Forum network and was involved in the What Next deliberations on alternative economic approaches.

Presenting in session(s):
The New Scramble for Africa

The World Social Forums and Beyond

Tim Brodhead is President of the J. W. McConnell Family Foundation, based in Montreal. Prior to that, he was Executive Director of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), a national organization representing over 120 non-profit Canadian international development agencies. After five years in Nigeria teaching political science he set up a Euro-Action ACORD, to manage development projects in Africa, and in 1977 co-founded Inter Pares. In a voluntary capacity, he serves on a number of Boards, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), ETC Group, Canada, Calmeadow Foundation, Bishop's University, and is Chair of Private Foundations Canada.

Nicola Bullard works with the organisation Focus on the Global South, Bangkok since 1997 with a particular focus on WTO and issues relating to trade. Before that, she worked in Cambodia, Thailand and Australia with human rights, development, and women's organisations and with trade unions. She has also worked as an editor, journalist and publisher. Nicola studied international relations at the Institute for Social Studies in the Hague, and education, geography and urban sociology in Melbourne. She is Australian.

Presenting in session(s):
Beyond the Bretton Woods Institutions – the Global Economy in Transition

Göran Bäckstrand is a Swedish diplomat, who has been active in this capacity within the Foreign Service and the Swedish Red Cross as well as in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. He is presently Senior Researcher with the Forum for Constructive Conflict Management. He has served at the Embassies in Bonn, Algiers and Colombo. For ten years he was associated with the Secretariat for Futures Studies and its different projects with focus on International Relations. He has published essays in books and journals about the Environment, Futures Studies, NGO-Government Relations, Human Rights and Transforming Conflicts. Göran Bäckstrand played a key role in the preparations for the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972, and contributed the much debated article 'How Much is Enough' for the 1975 What Now Report, together with Lars Ingelstam. The two have also contributed the article 'Enough!: Global challenges and responsible lifestyles' for the first What Next Volume.

Presenting in session(s):
Enough! Lifestyles, Happiness and Consumption

Otto Cars has spent 30 years talking with patients suffering from infectious diseases and doctors and students trying to care for these patients. As Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Uppsala University Hospital he has researched antibacterial therapy and the problem of antibiotic resistance. His frustration in treating patients with multiresistant bacterial infections and the spread of these bacteria in Sweden led him to set up an effective nationwide network, STRAMA, to contain resistance and encourage proper use of antibiotics. He has since initiated an international network called ReAct to galvanise global action on the problem.

Presenting in session(s):
The Tao of Antibiotic Resistance – Need for a Paradigm Shift

Michael Dorsey is a professor of environment studies at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA and a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. He is a founding member of the San Francisco based Center for Environmental Health. Currently he is working to develop and staff the Environmental Leadership Program. He also sits on the boards of the US based Sierra Club and CorpWatch. He serves as Special Senior Advisor on International Affairs and Policy at the Center for Genetics and Society and served during the Clinton Administration as a Task Force member on President's Council on Sustainable Development.

Presenting in session(s):
Fighting Old Battles in a New Word: Civil Society Confronting Corporations

Eva Friman is Senior Lecturer in Ecological Economics and Director of Cemus, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, at Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her interdisciplinary research is focused on power structures in economic language and practice, as well as on the global development discourse. She is often invited as a guest lecturer and has published a number of articles and books. Her doctoral thesis No Limits: The 20th Century Discourse of Economic Growth is a critical analysis of neoclassical economics, of the discourse of economic growth, and of economics as a science. Friman is also active within civil society, working with the global challenges to environment and development, while envisioning alternative developments.

Presenting in session(s):
Enough! Lifestyles, Happiness and Consumption

Susan George is a writer, researcher and activist on globlisation, development and environment. Her books have been printed in large numbers and translated to many languages. She is one of the most well known and respected writers in her field. Although working independently to a large degree, she has been actively involved in the work of civil society organisations such as Transnational Institute, Greenpeace and Attac, but also working closely with several UN special agencies. Susan George has a long-standing relationship with the DHF. She has followed the work of the Foundation since the 1970s, primarily as reader of development dialogue, but also occasionally in various direct interactions with the Foundation. During the last few years she has collaborated more actively and participated as a member of the Core Group of the What Next Project.

Presenting in session(s):
Beyond the Bretton Woods Institutions – the Global Economy in Transition

Soumitra Ghosh is a social activist, researcher and maker of documentary films. Based in Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, he has been working with NESPON, a community-based NGO, for more than a decade now, and actively campaigning for Indian forest communities' rights to land and forest resources. A member of the central Steering Group of National Forum of Forest People and Forest Workers (NFFPFW), India, Soumitra is actively associated with Durban Coalition for Climate Justice, and just completed a research-paper on Clean Development Mechanism(CDM) and carbon trading in India. He is also researching tenural issues in forest areas.

Presenting in session(s):
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power

Pentti Huovinen talks with microbes all the time as head of the Department of Bacterial and Inflammatory Diseases in the National Public Health Institute in Turku and Helsinki, Finland. While he is an expert on the antibiotic resistance mechanisms of bacteria and how resistant bacteria populate themselves in us, he increasingly is fascinated by human bacterial ecology and how to protect our normal bacteria which protect our health against the harmful effects of antibiotics.

Presenting in session(s):
The Tao of Antibiotic Resistance – Need for a Paradigm Shift

Göran Hydén is Professor in Political Science at the University of Florida and an internationally renowned scholar in African Studies. His monographs on Tanzania as well as several other groundbreaking studies on current African affairs have widely influenced critical African Studies since the 1980s. He had i.a. been the president of the US-American African Studies Association, is the current chairperson of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation’s Board and is a contributor to the first volume of What Next with the article on civil society.

Presenting in session(s):
The New Scramble for Africa

Adetoun Ilumoka is currently pursuing her PhD studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is the founder and executive director of the Nigeria-based Empowerment and Action Research Centre, a not-for-profit social change organization. Adetoun is a lawyer by training and taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of Jos (Nigeria) for six years. Over the past 10 years she has been co-ordinating the activities of the Empowerment and Action Research Centre (EMPAC) engaged in research and advocacy on health and social justice in Nigeria. She has especially worked on strategies for promoting gender equity and improving women's sexual and reproductive health in Nigeria. Adetoun Ilumoka was a visiting researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. Her work at NAI focused on analysing and documenting experiences of action research projects, especially on strategies for empowering people and groups to participate in policy making and implementation in Africa. She examined and questioned the utility of the d ominant discourses on human rights in this process, both internationally and locally and has written the article 'Beyond Human Rights Fundamentalism: The challenges of consensus building in the 21st century' for What Next Volume II.

Presenting in session(s):
The Future of Human Rights Activism

Lars Ingelstam is a Civil Engineer, Professor of Mathematics and Professor Emeritus of Technology and Social Change at Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. He has been the Head of the Secretariat for Futures Studies (turned into the Institute for Future Studies). Lars Ingelstam has published at length on mathematics, planning theory, research politics, technology and social change, as well as information technology, society and culture, postindustrial economics, the labour market and the use of time, education and energy systems. He contributed the much debated article 'How Much is Enough' for the 1975 What Now Report, together with Göran Bäckstrand. The two have also contributed the article 'Enough!: Global challenges and responsible lifestyles' for the first What Next Volume.

Presenting in session(s):
Enough! Lifestyles, Happiness and Consumption

Joanna Kerr has been the Executive Director of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) since 2000 and has been part of much of AWID's transformation. Previously she was a Senior Researcher at th North-South Institute in Ottawa where she managed the gender program for almost seven years. She created the Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa (GERA) Program, an African action research initiative to influence economic policies from a gender perspective now hosted by Third World Network Africa. Joanna Kerr holds an MA in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. She has produced several publications related to women's human rights and gender and globalisation. A passionate feminist, she is also advisor or board member to several initiatives and organisations including Gender at Work, Gender and Development Journal, Society for International Development, and Creative Resources for Empowerment and Action (CREA). She has taken active part in the What Next? project from its beginning and has a particular interest in the question, "How does change happen?"

Presenting in session(s):
The Future of Human Rights Activism

Jutta Kill is a social and environmental activist who has campaigned for over 15 years supporting forest peoples' struggles for their rights to forests and exposing the link between Northern consumption and production patterns and deforestation. Based in England, Jutta is coordinating FERN's SinksWatch initiative which has been highlighting the impact of the carbon market on forest communities and how the plantations industry has been using the carbon market as a source to finance the expansion of large scale mononculture plantations. FERN is actively associated with the Durban Coalition for Climate Justice, and has contributed to the Coalition's analysis of the carbon market's limitations to bring about a swift shift to low-carbon technologies.

Presenting in session(s):
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power

Larry Lohmann works with the Corner House, a small research and solidarity organisation in the UK. He is the co-author of Pulping the South: Industrial Tree Plantations and the World Paper Economy (with Ricardo Carrere, 1996) and Whose Common Future? Reclaiming the Commons‚ (with Simon Fairlie, Nicholas Hildyard and Sarah Sexton, 1993), as well as co-editor of The Struggle for Land and the Fate of the Forests (with Marcus Colchester, 1993). He has also published articles and book chapters on climate change, racism, forest confl icts, development and the politics of cost-benefit analysis.

Presenting in session(s):
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power

Stephen Marglin is professor of economics and holds the Walter S. Barker Chair in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His current research focuses on the foundational assumptions of economics, asking to what extent these assumptions are a reflection of the culture and history of the Modern West rather than a set of facts about a universal human nature, and what difference this makes. His research has consistently examined economics and development thinking from a knowledge systems perspective, articulated in for example the book Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture and Resistance. Stephen Marglin is currently leading a project aiming to produce an alternative, pluralistic economics textbook for the commercial market, a project where the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation is playing a catalysing and supportive role.

Presenting in session(s):
Challenging Mainstream Economics and Economics Education

From Knowledge to Understanding: Knowledge Systems, Education and Transdisciplinarity

Firoze Manji is the Founding Editor of Pambazuka News, the authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa providing cutting edge commentary and in-depth analysis on politics and current affairs, development, human rights, refugees, gender issues and culture in Africa. It is published weekly by Fahamu and circulated widely. He is an activist promoting a human rights discourse from an African perspective within global networks.

Presenting in session(s):
The New Scramble for Africa

Esperanza Martínez works with the civil society organisation Acción Ecológica, based in Quito, Ecuador. She also coordinates the international network Oilwatch and works closely with local, indigenous communities in the Amazon opposing oil exploration and other destructive development projects.

Presenting in session(s):
Fighting Old Battles in a New Word: Civil Society Confronting Corporations

Antonio Martins, 45, is a journalist and a social activist tied to the World Social Forum. As a journalist, he has worked in many alternative papers in Brazil, and is now responsible for the Brazilian edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. He's also an enthusiast of the possibilities opened by internet for creating a new communications paradigm, where citizens are not just consumers, but also providers of information. Since 1999, he has been one of the facilitators of ATTAC-Brazil. In this capacity he has been, from the year 2000, a member of both the Organizing Committee which founded the World Social Forum and its International Council.

Presenting in session(s):
The World Social Forum and Beyond

Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean economist and former Rector of the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia who has gained an international reputation for his work and writing on development alternatives. Dr. Max Neef has had a long academic career – teaching economics at the University of California (Berkeley) and serving as a Visiting Professor at a number of US and Latin American universities. He is a member of the Club of Rome and has authored a number of books including “From the Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics”.  One important part of his work has been the formulation of 'Human-scale Development' and the articulation ofnine basic human necessities thereby providing considerable guidance for the human side of sustainability. He is currently engaged in issues relating to transdiscipliniarity and the role of universities. His article 'From Knowledge to Understanding' for the forthcoming What Next Volume II will soon be available in electronic format.

Presenting in session(s):
From Knowledge to Understanding: Knowledge Systems, Education and Transdisciplinarity

Henning Melber has been Director of The Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) in Windhoek (1992-2000) and Research Director at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala since then. As of November 2006 he is the Executive Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. He has published mainly on Southern Africa (in particular Namibia) with a focus on the post-colonial experiences under liberation movements in political power and is the co-editor of the annually published Africa Yearbook.

Presenting in session(s):
The New Scramble for Africa

Robert Molteno is from South Africa and has lived outside the country for almost 40 years, fi rst as a political scientist in Zambia and since 1975 as publisher and Director of Zed Books in London. After 30 years at Zed he left the publishing house last year and is now working with the publishing programme of the school of Oriental and African Studies at London University (SOAS).

Presenting in session(s):
Development as a Belief System

Pat Mooney has lived most of his life on the Canadian praries. He has worked with the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), now developed into the ETC Group (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration) since its founding in 1977. Pat Mooney is the author or co-author of several books on the politics of biodiversity and biotechnology and has received the Right Livelihood Award (the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’) and the American ‘Giraffe Award’ given to people ‘who stick their necks out’. He has no university training but is widely regarded as an authority on agricultural biodiversity, biotechnology and the socio-economic implications of new technologies. Pat has played a key role in the What Next project and is the lead author of the What Next 2005-2035 report as well as an article, Stop the Stockholm Syndrome:Lessons learned from 30 years of UN Summits' for the first What Next Volume.

Presenting in session(s):
What Next for Technology: Geo-engineering and New Converging Technologies

Mary Murray encourages people to talk and listen to each other and tackle difficult issues that seem too complex or bogged down in conflict. She has facilitated many dialogues in health and medicines around the world, including new policies in Australia on the use of medicines which continually involve a wide range of actors. She helped organise the first Peoples Health Assembly and now works in her local community on a wide range of issues and with the ReAct coalition on antibiotic resistance.

Presenting in session(s):
The Tao of Antibiotic Resistance – Need for a Paradigm Shift

Ravi and Thelma Narayan are co-initiators of the Community Health Cell (CHC), the functional unit of the Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA), India. This is a health policy and training resource group actively involved with community health action, challenges and issues with the governmental and non-governmental sector in India for nearly two decades. Prior to that they were faculty members of the department of Community Medicine at St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India. The Narayans and CHC as a centre is well known for its contribution to the evolution of a social/community model of Health that goes beyond the dominant bio-medical model and promotes a paradigm shift from people as patients to people as participants; from providing of services to enabling and empowering strategies; from preoccupation with drugs, technology, vaccines to focus on health awareness and social processes; from over professionalisation to demystification; and from intracellular molecular biology to a community oriented socio-epidemiology in research and action. The Narayans have worked closely with the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in connection with the People's Health Assembly and as coordinators of the People's Health Movement nationally and globally and also promote these new paradigms in mainstream institutions and with the government locally.

Presenting in session(s):
Health for All in a Borderless World

Anita Nayar is pursuing doctoral research on the impact of the commercialisation of indigenous medicine in India on the social structure and political economy of herb gathering communities. She is a member of the Southern feminist network, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era's (DAWN), research and advocacy team and a co-founder of Strategic Analysis for Gender Equity (SAGE), a consulting company engaged in providing gender analysis to NGOs, governments and UN agencies. Prior to this, Anita was the Associate Director of the Women's Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO) where she spearheaded the Women's Caucus initiative, advocating a gender perspective at five major UN development conferences in the 1990s.

Presenting in session(s):
The Future of Human Rights Activism

Cyril Obi is Coordinator of the Programme Post-Conflict Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. He was a Post-Doc Visiting Fellow at St Anthony’s College Oxford, an Associate Research Professor at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs and the Claude Ake Visiting Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. He has published widely on West African and Nigerian affairs and particularly on the Niger delta.

Presenting in session(s):
The New Scramble for Africa

Khin Ohmar is a Burmese democracy activist and leader of Women’s League of Burma, the main umbrella organisation for women’s organisations in exile and within the ethnic minorities of the country. She is also spokesperson for the Burmese government in exile in e.g. the UN General Assembly. She is one of the primary counterparts in the DHF-project ‘Another Development for Burma’.

Presenting in session(s):
Avoiding Others’ Mistakes: Another Development for Burma

Oduor Ong'wen is one of the key organisers of the World Social Forum to be held in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2007. He is also currently Country Director, Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI), Kenya. He has formerly worked with EcoNews Africa, the World Bank Monitoring Unit, National Ecumenical Civic Education Programme and Africa Watch (now Human Rights Watch Africa). He also has high school teaching experience, and holds several public positions, including Membership of the African Social Forum Council, the Chair of the Social Development Network and Membership of the National Selection Committee of UNDP Africa 2000 Network. Oduor holds degrees from the University of Nairobi (BSc) and the Americas University (MSc - Development Economics).

Presenting in session(s):
The World Social Forums and Beyond

Arturo Quizhpe Peralta is a lecturer and medical doctor at the university hospital in Quito Ecuador, and directed the organisation of the second People's Health Assembly, held in Quenca, Ecuador in July 2005. He is working closely with social movements and indigenous groups in Ecador and Latin America. He has recently collaborated with the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation both in relation to the What Next project and the work on antibiotic resistance.

Presenting in session(s):
Health for All in a Borderless World

Majid Rahnema has a background serving as the as ambassador for Iran at the UN, and the in the Executive Board of UNESCO for most of his working life. In 1967 he was asked to form his country's first Ministry of Science and Higher Education, a post from which he resigned in frustration four years later. He subsequently foudned and Institute for Endogenous Development Studies, which, inspired by the educational ideas of Paulo Freire tried to discover alternatives to the authoritarian and top-down development pursued by the Shah. He later became the first UNDP special advisor for Grassrooots and NGO Matters, in which role he sought to open a window on the concerns of the drop-outs in the development process. Since retiring he has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Pitzer College (Claremont University) and several other universities. Books published by him include "The Post Development Reader" (1997) and "Quand la Misère chasse la pauvreté" (2003/5). Rahnema took active part in the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation work on What now: Another development in 1975.

Presenting in session(s):
Development as a Belief System

Gilles Raveaud has a PhD in economics from the Université Paris-X Nanterre (France), and is currently a post-doctorate fellow at Harvard University. He was in June 2000 one of the founders of the Post-Autisitic Economics Network (PAEN) which mobilised both students and lecturers to challenge the hegemony of neo-classical economics at the universities. He had his first contact with the Foundation at the seminar What Next in Economics, 2004. He has written a contribution on economics teaching for a forthcoming What Next Volume and is involved, together with Stephen Marglin and Tariq Banuri, in a the production of a new, pluralistic economics textbook aimed for the commercial market.

Presenting in session(s):
Challenging Mainstream Economics and Economics Education

Gilbert Rist is Professor emeritus of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED) in Geneva, Switzerland, where he taught History of Development, Anthropology and Intercultural Relations. He started his career as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law in Tunis and later on became Director of the Europe-Third World Centre (Centre Europe-Tiers Monde / CETIM) in Geneva. After having obtained his Ph.D. at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, he worked as a Senior Researcher at the United Nations University, running a project on Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development, before joining IUED. His main fi elds of interest and research are the anthropology of modernity and the critique of Western society. Gilbert Rist has published The History of Development. From Western Origins to Global Faith (1997) and, more recently, Les mots du pouvoir. Sens et non-sens de la rhétorique internationale(2003). Gilbert Rist has taken active in the What Next core group since the very beginning of the project and is the author of the article 'Before Thinking about What Next: Prerequisites for alternatives' in the first What Next volume.

Presenting in session(s):
Development as a Belief System

Mike Rowson is a managing editor of Global Health Watch 2005-2006: An Alternative World Health Report, stemming from the People's Health Assembly/Movement process. He was formerly Executive Director of international health charity Medact and now writes on international health issues. He is also Honorary Lecturer at the International Health and Medical Education Centre, University College London. Mike Rowson has collaborated with the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation primarily thorugh the work on the People's Health Movement and is currently writing a contribution for a forthcoming What Next Volume on the commercialisation of health care.

Presenting in session(s):
Health for All in a Borderless World

Ignacy Sachs is a socio­economist and honorary Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and co-director of it's Research Center on Contemporary Brazil. He is also the Chairman of the Advisory Research Group, Biofuels Initiative at UNCTAD. He served as UNESCO adviser for the preparation of the World Summit on Social Development and is co­editor of Global Ecology: Transition Strategies for the Twenty­first Century, London New Jersey, 1993 and of Brazilian Perspectives of Sustainable Development of the Amazon Region, Pantheon 1995.

Presenting in session(s):
Enough! Lifestyles, Happiness and Consumption

Hope Shand is Research Director of the ETC Group (formerly known as RAFI). Working with both the ETC Group and with RAFI over the past 20+ years, Hope has conducted extensive research and writing on the topics of agricultural biodiversity and intellectual property, as well as the social and economic impacts of biotech and new, nano-scale technologies. She is co-author of a chapter, “Introducing Nanotechnology,” in the 2006 State of the World, published by WorldWatch Institute. Hope is editor of the ETC Communiqué, a newsletter produced by the ETC Group that provides research and analysis on the development of emerging technologies, and their impacts on farmers and marginalized peoples. The ETC Communiqué also monitors corporate concentration and the impacts of intellectual monopolies.

Presenting in session(s):
Brave New World: The Enhancement of Humans and Implications on Society

Satya Sivaraman is a journalist, writer and videomaker based in New Delhi and back in India after 13 years in Thailand. He works on public health and community media issues. Above all he likes to tinker with established concepts, institutions and systems to see how they can be dismantled in a manner beneficial to everybody and without collapsing on his or anyone else's head!

Presenting in session(s):
The Tao of Antibiotic Resistance – Need for a Paradigm Shift

Lawrence Surendra is a Chemical Engineer turned Environmental Economist. He is the Founder Director of the Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA) which at the time it was founded was one of the first Asian networks/forums bringing together scholar activists in the whole of the Asian Region. ARENA has now completed 25 years and is now launching on a new future (around the same time as the Dag Hammarksjold Foundation!) from Seoul, South Korea. Lawrence Surendra is well know in the region as a writer, academic and citizen-activist and as someone involved in concrete projects of ecological recovery. His research work has included areas relating to plant biodiversity and local knowledge and on the politics of knowledge systems on which he has written and taught both within the region and globally. He has been involved with several initiatives related to grass roots democracy and issues of transition politics in several countries in the Asian region that have gone through processes of democratic transition or are currently emerging from situations of conflict. He lives with his wife Pushpa as an organic horticulturalist in Mysore in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka.

David Taw is active within the Burmese democracy movement and senior leader in the Karen National Union. He is Chair and leader of several umbrella organisations unifying the Burmese democracy movement. He is one of the primary counterparts in the DHF-project ‘Another Development for Burma’.

Presenting in session(s):
Avoiding Others’ Mistakes: Another Development for Burma

Jim Thomas is a Research Programme Manager and Writer with ETC group, based in in the United Kingdom. His background is in communications, writing on emerging technologies and international campaigning.

For the seven years previous to joining ETC Group Jim was a researcher and campaigner on Genetic Engineering and food issues for Greenpeace International - working in Europe, North America, Australia/New Zealand and South East Asia. He has extensive experience on issues around transgenic crops and nanotechnologies has written articles, chapters and technical reports in the media and online.

Trained as a historian to look back at the history of technology, Jim is now busy communicating the future of technology. He's a big fan of storytelling, slam poetry and sushi.

Presenting in session(s):
What Next for Technology: Geo-engineering and New Converging Technologies

Hilary Wainwright is the editor of Red Pepper, a regular commentator on radio and television, and a contributor to the Guardian. She is also a fellow of the International Labour Studies Centre at Manchester University, the Change Centre a the Manchester Business School, the Centre for Global Governance at the London School of Economics and the Transnational Institute of Amsterdam. She has toured the world extensively to gather material on popular democracies for her book "Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy" (2003). Her other books include "Arguments for a New Left", "Labour: A Tale of Two Parties" and "Beyond the Fragments".

Presenting in session(s):
Reclaiming the State: Towards Genuine Participatory Democracy

Anders Wijkman has worked on humanitarian, development and environment-related issues for the last thirty years. Focusing on the inter-linkages and interconnections between the various sectors in society, he has been a vocal critique of conventional economics and conventional growth models of being both too short term in nature and failing to assign a correct value to ecosystems and ecosystem services. Mr Wijkman has been a member of several government task forces in Sweden on issues related to environment, sustainable development, energy, development cooperation etc. In the European parliament Mr Wijkman has given priority to climate change mitigation, development cooperation and humanitarian issues. He is chairman of Globe EU, a cross-party network of parliamentarians promoting sound environment policies. He is the author of several books on disaster prevention, sustainable development, HIV/Aids etc. and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Art and Science and the Club of Rome.

Mariama Williams, Ph.D. is an international economics consultant and an Adjunct Associate at the Center of Concern, Washington, D. C. She is the Research Adviser for the International Gender and Trade Network, Co-research Coordinator, Political Economy of Globalisation (Trade) - Development Alternative with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and a Director of the Institute for Law and Economics (ILE-Jamaica), Consultant adviser on Gender and Trade to the Commonwealth Secretariat. She also serves on a number of international bodies including the Steering Committee of the International Forum for Development and member of the Director General's Advisory Council (WTO).

Gregor Wolbring, PhD, is a biochemist, a bioethicist, an ability studies, health policy and sociology of Nano-, Bio-, Info-, Cogno- (Neuro-engineering) and Syn-bio researcher. He is a Biochemist at the Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics and Adjunct Assistant Professor Dept. of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor Dept. of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada, founding member and affiliated scholar at the Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, USA, member CAC/ISO ( Canadian Advisory Committees for the International Organization for Standardization section TC229 Nanotechnologies), member of the Executive of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Chair: Disabled People's International Bioethics Taskforce and member of the board of ETC. His webpage is the International Center for Bioethics, Culture and Diversity and his biweekly column "The Choice is Yours" can be found here and his blog here. His is contactable at gwolbrin [at] ucalgary.ca

Presenting in session(s):
Brave New World: The Enhancement of Humans and Implications on Society