Government Members

ALBANIA

Gani Deliu

Vice Chairman

Committe of Environment Preservation and Protection

AUSTRIA

Hugo Haider

Director

Federal Ministry for Environment, Youth and Family

BULGARIA

Yordan Uzunov

Deputy Minister

Ministry of Environment

CANADA

Brian Emmett

Director

Environment Canada

CROATIA

Viktor Simoncic

Deputy Minister

Ministry of Civil Engineering and Environment Protection

CZECH REPUBLIC

Vladislav Bizek

Deputy Minister

Ministry of Environment

DENMARK

David Rehling

Director

Danmarks Naturfredningsforening

EUROPEAN UNION

Robert de Bauw*

Advisor in Affairs

FINLAND

Leena-Kaisa Mikkola

Second Secretary

Embassy of Finland, Budapest

GERMANY

Karl Tietmann

Head of Department

Federal Environmental Agency

HUNGARY

Gyula Bandi

President

Environmental Management and Law Association

JAPAN

Hiroyuki Ishi

Editor

Asahi Shimbun Newspaper

FYR MACEDONIA

Aleksander Nastov

Senior Advisor on Ecology

Ministry of Urbanism, Construction, Traffic and Environment

THE NETHERLANDS

Hubert Menalda Van Schouwenburg

Head of the Bilateral Cooperation,

Eastern Europe Division

Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment

NORWAY

Richard Fort

Special Advisor

Ministry of Environment

POLAND

Krzysztof Sobkow

Deputy Director

Ministry of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry

ROMANIA

Ioan Jelev

Secretary of State

Ministry of Water, Forests and Environmental Protection

SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Jan Smolen

State Secretary

Ministry of the Environment

SLOVENIA

Dusan Pichler

Advisor to the government

Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning

UNITED STATES

Rafe Pomerance

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment

U.S. Department of State

NGO Members

BULGARIA

Krassen Stanchev

Member of the Council

The Borrowed Nature Association

FRANCE

Brendab Gillespie

Head, Non-member countries Branch

OECD, Environmental Directorate

GERMANY

Helmut Roescheisen

Director

Deutscher Naturschutzring

HUNGARY

Tibor Kertesz

President, General Manager

Lehel/Electrolux

ROMANIA

Valentin Popescu

President

ECOSENS

SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Mikulas Huba

Chariman

Society for Sustainable Living

* President of General Assembly