Sustainable Development Solutions Network

The Leadership Council oversees the work of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. It comprises eminent experts on sustainable development including the Co-Chairs of the Thematic Groups.

The Leadership Council is chaired by

Laurence Tubiana, Founder, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), France

Lan Xue, Cheung Kong Chair Professor and Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China

The members of the SDSN Leadership Council are:

Irene Agyepong, Regional Director of Health for Greater Accra, Ghana

Zubaid Ahmad, Vice Chairman, Citi’s Institutional Clients Group, USA

HE Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy, Minister of State, The United Arab Emirates

Sultan Al Jaber, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Masdar, UAE

HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Head of State, Monaco

Louise Arbour, President & CEO, International Crisis Group, Belgium

Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland

Belay Begashaw, Director, Director, Columbia Global Centers | Africa, Kenya

Frances Beinecke, President, NRDC, USA

David Berry, Partner, Flagship Ventures, USA

Lawrence Burns, Professor of Engineering Practice, University of Michigan, USA

Joshua Castellino, Dean, School of Law at Middlesex University, UK

Madhav Chavan, Co-founder and CE-President, Pratham, India

Paul Collier, Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Blavatnik School of Government, UK

Mark Cutifani, Chief Executive Officer, Anglo American, UK

Gretchen Daily, Director, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University, USA

Alice Dautry, President, Institut Pasteur, France

Bineta Diop, Founder and President, Femmes Africa Solidarité, Senegal

Achim Dobermann, Deputy Director General for Research, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines

Richard Duffy, Executive Vice President – Continental Africa, AngloGold Ashanti, South Africa

Jan Egeland, Europe Director and Deputy Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Christiana Figueres, Executive Director, UNFCCC, Germany

José María Figueres, President, Carbon War Room, USA

Maria Freire, President and Executive Director, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, USA

Helene Gayle, President and CEO, CARE USA, USA

James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA

Thomas Heller, Professor, Stanford University, USA

Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility (GEF), USA

Geoffrey Kent, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Abercrombie & Kent Group of Companies, Kenya

Salman Khan, Founder, Khan Academy, USA

Niclas Kjellström-Matseke, CEO, Novamedia Swedish Postcode Lottery, Sweden

Israel Klabin, Director, Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development, Brazil

Barbara Kux, Chief Sustainability Officer, Siemens AG, Germany

Richard Layard, Director, Programme on Wellbeing, London School of Economics, UK

Frannie Leautier, Executive Secretary, African Capacity Building Foundation, Zimbabwe

Klaus Leisinger, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, Switzerland

Gordon Liu, Director, China Center for Health Economic Research (CCHER), Peking University, China

Arun Majumdar, Energy Initiatives Lead, Google Inc, USA

Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General, IUCN, Switzerland

Vladimir Mau, Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia

Amina Mohammed, Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Post-2015 Development Planning, Nigeria

Romain Murenzi, Executive Director, TWAS, Italy

Shahid Naeem, Director, Center for Environmental Sustainability, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA

Claude Nahon, Executive Vice President for Sustainable Development, EDF Group, France

Rebecca Nelson, Professor, Cornell University, USA

HE Charity Ngilu, Minister of Water and Irrigation, Kenya

Amadou Niang, Director, MDG Centre of West and Central Africa, Senegal

Cherie Nursalim, Executive Director, GITI Group, Singapore

Leslie O’Donoghue, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategy, Chief Risk Officer, Agrium, Canada

Ikenna Onyido, Founder and Director, Centre for Sustainable Development, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria

Rajendra Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, India

HE Mari Pangestu, Minister of Tourism and Creative Industries, Republic of Indonesia

George Papandreou, Former Prime Minister, Greece

Antonio Pedro, Director, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Office in East Africa, Rwanda

Paul Polman, Executive Director, Unilever, The Netherlands

Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India, India

Aromar Revi, Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India

Angelo Riccaboni, Rector, University of Siena, Italy

Johan Rockstrom, Executive Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden

Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA

Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA

Paolo Scaroni, Chief Executive Officer, eni, Italy

Josette Sheeran, Chairman, World Economic Forum, Switzerland

Feike Sijbesma, Chairman of the Board, DSM, The Netherlands

Vania Somavilla, Executive Director of Human Resources, Health and Safety, Sustainability and Energy, Vale, Brazil

Andrew Steer, President, World Resources Institute, USA

Pavan Sukhdev, Founder-CEO, GIST Advisory, India

Carl-Henric Svanberg, Chairman, BP, UK and Chairman, Volvo AB, Sweden

John Thwaites, Chairman, Monash Sustainability Institute, Australia

Lena Trenschow Torell, Chairman, MISTRA, Sweden

Ted Turner, Chairman, Turner Foundation, and Chairman, United Nations Foundation, USA

Hans Vestberg, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ericsson Group, Sweden

Virgilio Viana, Director General, Amazonas Sustainability Foundation, Brazil

Martin Visbeck, Chair in Physical Oceanography, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Germany

Soogil Young, Member, Presidential Committee on Green Growth, Republic of Korea

Zhou Dadi, Director General (Emeritus), the Energy Research Institute (ERI) of the National Development and Reform Commission, China

Hania Zlotnik, Former Director of UN DESA’s Population Division, USA