Nobel Laureates

Prof. Zhores Alferov (Nobel Prize in Physics 2000), Russian Academy of Sciences & Foundation Alferov, Russia

Prof. Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel Prize in Physics 1969), Santa Fe Institute

Prof. David Gross (Nobel Prize in Physics 2004), University of California, Santa Barbara

Prof. Theodor Hänsch (Nobel Prize in Physics 2005), Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich

Prof. Alan Heeger (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000), University of California, Santa Barbara

Prof. Sir Antony Hewish (Nobel Prize in Physics 1974), University of Cambridge

Prof. Klaus von Klitzing (Nobel Prize in Physics 1985), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Prof. Walter Kohn (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998), University of California, Santa Barbara

Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai (Nobel Prize in Peace 2004), Green Belt Movement

Prof. Rudolph Marcus (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Prof. Sir James Mirrlees (Nobel Prize in Economics 1996), University of Cambridge and Chinese University, Hong Kong

Prof. Mario Molina (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995), University of California, San Diego (revised)

Prof. Carlo Rubbia (Nobel Prize in Physics 1984), CERN, Geneva

Prof. Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize in Economics 1998), Harvard University

Prof. Sir John Sulston (Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine 2002), Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge

Confirmed Contributors

(Status: October 2, 2007)

Dr. Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor

Matthias Platzeck, Minister President of Brandenburg

Sigmar Gabriel, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Dr. Annette Schavan, Federal Minister for Education and Research

Prof. Johanna Wanka, Minister for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg

Prof. Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Prof. Mohamed Hassan, President, African Academy of Sciences and Executive Director, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World/ TWAS, Trieste

Barbara Hendricks, opera singer, Honorary Ambassador For Life for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Founder of the Barbara Hendricks Foundation for Peace and Reconciliation

Prof. Sir Brian Hoskins, Former Head of the Meteorological Department, University of Reading

Prof. Daniel Kammen, Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), University of California, Berkeley

Prof. Paul Klemperer, Edgeworth Professor of Economics, Oxford University

Jim Leape, Director General, World Wide Fund for Nature, Gland

Prof. Diana Liverman, Director of Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute

Prof. Joachim Luther, Former Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Advisor to the German Government on research and innovation

Ian McEwan, English novelist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Prof. Volker ter Meulen, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Virology and Immunology, University Würzburg; President of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, Halle/Saale

Prof. Jürgen Mlynek, President, German Helmholtz Association, Berlin

Prof. Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Professor of Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology

Dr. Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi

Prof. Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University

Prof. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change); Director General, TERI, New Delhi

Prof. Kirit Parikh, Member, Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi; Professor Emeritus and Founding Director, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai

Prof. George Poste, Director, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University

Ambassador William C. Ramsay, Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency, Paris

Prof. Johan Rockström, Director, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

Dr. Karsten Sach, Director, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Berlin

Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nairobi

Prof. Matthias Steinmetz, Director, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP)

Prof. Sir Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor and Director, India Observatory and Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science

Prof. Klaus Töpfer, Former Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi

Prof. Robert Watson, Chief Scientist and Director for Sustainable Development at the World Bank

Prof. Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, Director emeritus of the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne; Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn

Prof. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Dean, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara

Prof. Geoffrey West, President, Santa Fe Institute

Anders Wijkman, Member of the European Parliament; Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science

Convenor

Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); Chief Climate Advisor to the German Government