Secretary General and treasurer of the Mohammed VI Foundation  for Environment (Responsible for the coordination of foundation various programs, responsible for the budget, responsible for institutional communication, Responsible for the follow-up of international partners (European Union, FEE, Prince Albert of Monaco Foundation, Issesco), Responsible for projects implementation.

Master’s Degree «Sustainable growth and Organizations» UNIVERISTE PARIS DAUPHINE, part of La Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Certificate in Business Excellence «Senior Leaders Program for Nonprofit Professionals» COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL, New York, United States.

Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (SUS) – Kore University Enna – Italy. Full Professor of Urban and environmental sociology

President of the National Committee for Education to Sustainability - Agenda 2030, instituted by the Italian UNESCO National association.

He taught at the University of Palermo and IULM Milan (Italy). He coordinated the Environment and Lifestyles Research Doctorate of the Kore University Enna (Italy)
Member of several scientific committees and institutions on environmental assessments.
Areas of scientific interest: Urban and environmental sociology, Politics, Ecology, Economics.

Antonella Bachiorri is a Biologist, PhD in Ecology and Master in Education for Sustainability. She teaches "Didactics of Biology and Environmental Education" and "Sustainable Development" at the University of Parma (Italy) where coordinates a laboratory for interdisciplinary research in education for sustainability (CIREA) at the Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability. She is member of Editorial Boards of international Journals and has been involved in many research projects.

Surat Bualert is Dean of the Faculty of Environment at Kasetsart University (Thailand).

Engaged in several research projects, he is an Expert on Training Programs on Air and Noise Quality Modelling.

He holds a Ph.D. on Air Pollution from University of Hertfordshire (United Kingdom), a Master of Science in Environmental Science and a Bachelor in General Science from Kasetsart University.

Brigit Burkard is an Anthropologist. She has been working in the International Development for decades. Environment and Education is her passion. She is now the Programme Director Southeast Asia for the Pestalozzi Children's Foundation, an international NGO, based in Switzerland. 

Together with her Burmese team, she has been initiating Clean&Green (or Eco-) Schools in Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, in collaboration with the respective Environmental Conservation Department and Ministry of Education. She has strongly supported the development of the criteria and indicators for eco schools, as well as the development of a teacher's guidebook for primary schools on Environmental Conservation. She is now leading the process of expanding the development of further schools. Two of the Clean&Green schools have won the national Clean&Green School Award and were nominated for the ASEAN eco-school award.

Brigit Burkard is a member of the Swiss Eco-School Jury. 

Raquel has extensive experience working with civil society organizations both locally and internationally serving vulnerable populations from young adolescent girls to indigenous communities in rural areas.She currently leads the area of Initiatives for the New Economy at Moises Bertoni Foundation, a leading NGO in Paraguay focusing on nature conservation, sustainable development, and education. She designs and implements educational projects focusing on women's empowerment, entrepreneurship, and territory development- integrating social, environmental and economic value.She is co-author of Sustainable Adventures in Mbaracayu, a children’s book for all ages. In 2019, she was recognized by the President of the Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benitez, for her initiative in the agro sector.Raquel holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of East Tennessee State, a Bachelor in International Studies from Old Dominion University, and a Certificate in Sustainable Development and Environmental Conservation from Queensland University of Technology in Australia.

Edgar J. Gonzalez-Gaudiano is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Researches in Education, at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico,where he leads the research line of environmental education for sustainability. A member of the Commission of Education and Communication of IUCN and former Regional President for Mesoamerica (2001-2006). He has been member of Board of Directors at the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) (1992-1997). He also worked with WWF and the UNESCO in projects related to national strategies for environmental education. He is also a member of National System of Researchers in Mexico (level III). He has written twenty-two books and more than 100 articles in several specialized journals in the field of environmental education. He is a Latin American liaison person and was a member of the UNESCO Group of Reference for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He has received a number of awards: The National Award to Ecological Merit (2004), in the scholar category and the UANL Award of Research in Humanities (2007). His current research focus is on social representations of climate change, vulnerability, risk and social resilience.

He is principal of the Amaroo Environmental Education Centre – Queensland, Australia and is Vice President of the Australian Association of Environmental Education (AAEE) and Treasurer of the Queensland Chapter of AAEE. He is also the immediate past President of the Darling Downs Environment Council and currently Treasurer. He has been involved in environmental education since 1980 and has been a principal advisor - environmental sustainability for the Department of Education in Queensland. He represented Australia on the Environment and Schools Initiative, a network of environmental educators based in Europe, and the Queensland representative on the National Environmental Education Council, National Environmental Education Network and Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative working group. Cam was a judge for the Queensland Premier’s Sustainability and Australian Banksia Foundation Environmental Awards. In 2011 he was awarded the Australia Day Medal for his service to environmental education in Queensland as well as Environmental Educator of the Year Award from the Australian Association for Environmental Education.

Safa’ Obeid is an English teacher from Jordan and the winner of the Earth Prize “Educator of the Year 2022”. Safa’ teaches elementary and preparatory students at Sweileh Prep Coed School/UNRWA. She is the students’ parliament, peer mediation and human rights coordinator in the school, her performance is evaluated as” The Best-Performer” a long her professional path. Safa’s long term goal is to make learning a pleasant, self- driven mission to her students and to create opportunities for them to develop their skills, confidently participate and positively contribute in the world. 

Safa’ participated in creating UNRWA’s toolkit for peaceful conflict resolution: peer mediation in schools and is a member of UNRWA’s North Amman Area human rights committee.

Safa’ created a toolkit called” Environment-Based Enrichment Activities Toolkit”. This toolkit helped other teachers integrate environmental topics in their lessons smoothly and effectively. 

Safa’ is spreading awareness and promoting environmental education among teachers and educators and is helping educational institutions to activate environmental education practices through activities, task-based learning and critical thinking strategies and techniques

As Safa’ works with Palestine refugees within camps, she is interested on organizing and implementing projects for empowering women and young people. In her free time, she likes writing.

David W. Orr is Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and senior adviser to the president of Oberlin College. He is a founding editor of the journal Solutions, and serves as the executive director of the Oberlin Project, a collaborative effort of the city of Oberlin, Oberlin College, and private and institutional partners to improve the resilience, prosperity, and sustainability of Oberlin.

Orr is the author of seven books, including Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse (Oxford, 2009) and coeditor of three others. He has authored nearly 200 articles, reviews, book chapters, and professional publications.

In the past 25 years, he has served as a board member or advisor to eight foundations and on the boards of many organizations, including the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Currently he is a trustee of the Bioneers, the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, and the Worldwatch Institute.

He has been awarded seven honorary degrees and a dozen other awards including a Lyndhurst Prize, a National Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation, and a Visionary Leadership Award from Second Nature. Orr is a frequent lecturer at colleges and universities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

While at Oberlin, he spearheaded the effort to design, fund, and build the Adam Joseph Lewis Center, which was named by an AIA panel in 2010 as “the most important green building of the past 30 years,” and as “one of 30 milestone buildings of the twentieth century” by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Entrepreneur and author of books (e.g. The Blue Economy translated in +50 languages) and 324 fables used as educational tools in all Chinese schools. He is expected to complete the series of 365 by end 2023.

Designer of a pedagogy that combines nature-based science learning, emotional intelligence, expressions through arts, 

connecting the insights and strengthening the capacity to implement

Thakur S Powdyel is an educator by choice, conviction and passion. As the country’s first democratically elected Minister of Education, he moved Bhutan towards fulfilling the MDGs and the country’s constitutional mandate for education. His major interests include institutional integrity, national self-respect, moral literacy and gross national happiness. 

Powdyel’s vision of holistic education as expressed in My Green School has been translated into several languages. He is a recipient of the Gusi Peace Prize, the Global Education Award, and the Distinguished Service Award for his pioneering work in Education as well as the Coronation Gold Medal 2008 and the Institutional Award: The Honour of Druk Thuksey 2012. 

Thakur S Powdyel invested his public office with a rare and chastening quality of integrity, service and selflessness in the evolving Bhutanese democratic landscape in honour of his country and fellow-citizens, born of his deeply-held beliefs and convictions.  Professor Powdyel was often described as the most widely foot-travelled education minister in the world.

Mario Salomone has a master degree in Theoretical Philosophy. He is an environmental sociologist, former university professor at the University of Bergamo and Milano (IULM), is teaching Environmental sociology at the University of Milano Bicocca and Torino. Journalist, lecturer in hundreds of conferences, author or co-author of handbooks, papers and book chapters on environmental education, environmental communication, ecological economics and other environmental issues, and writer of novels and tales.

Phil’s forty years in education span the breadth of formal and non-formal education: schools, TAFE, community colleges, universities and a wide range of community settings. He has held leadership roles in schools, government agencies, a national professional association and local and international NGOs. He has worked overseas in education, training and evaluation. His experience includes advocacy and community campaigning at local, state and federal levels; education in a humanitarian environment (Nauru); sustainability leadership courses for young people; professional development for teachers and trainers; and conference facilitation. Phil currently teaches in two teacher-training programs at Western Sydney University, and he runs his own program for schools, Speaking 4 the Planet, which is an Arts-based approach to sustainability education.

Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Associate Professor
Centre de recherche en éducation et formation relatives à l’environnement et à l’écocitoyenneté (Centr’ERE)
Université du Québec à Montréal

Doctor in Education and Public Health from the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Université de Louvain, Étienne van Steenberghe is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the research Journal Éducation relative à l’environnement : Regards – Recherches – Réflexions. While working for the journal, he developed an editorial expertise and a critical approach to peer review process.

His research interests include issues of health territoriality in an ethnographic approach, socio-environmental health inequalities, health promotion and environmental health education.

His doctoral research focused on social representations of the links between health and the environment for disadvantaged populations in urban areas.

Mercedes Varela is a PhD and lecturer in didactics of experimental sciences and environmental education at the University of Vigo (Spain) in the Faculty of Educational Sciences. She has been doing research in the field of Sustainability for more than 10 years and her research interests are focused on Environmental Education for Sustainability and teacher training in Higher Education, especially in relation to transformative learning, development of action competence and climate education. In addition, in recent years we have begun to investigate perceptions of teachers about Global Environmental Change

He is University Professor at the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of A Coruña in Didactics of Experimental Sciences and Environmental Education. His current research interests are focused on teacher training in Environmental Education and Sustainability, especially in relation to transformative learning, development of action competence and climate education, Ecological Footprint and implementation of Agenda 21 in the University and Municipalities (LA21).

Professor and postdoctoral researcher at the Postgraduate Program in Science Teaching at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. He is the manager of the coordination of Policies for Elementary Education of the State Department of Education of Mato Grosso do Sul and President of the State Commission for Environmental Education of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Professor of Transformative Learning for Socio-Ecological Sustainability at Wageningen University and a Guest Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). He also holds the UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development. Furthermore, he is a senior advisor at the Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development (GMV) His work focusses on transformative social learning in vital coalitions of multiple stakeholders at the interface of science and society. His teaching and research focus on designing learning processes and learning spaces that enable people to contribute meaningfully sustainability. A central question in his work is: how to create conditions that support (new) forms of learning which take full advantage of the diversity, creativity and resourcefulness that is all around us, but so far remain largely untapped in our search for a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect? Arjen was the Co-Chair of the WEEC 2015 conference which was held in Gothenburg, Sweden. He writes a regular research blog that signals developments in the emerging field of sustainability education: http://www.transformativelearning.nl A short video on his drive and mission can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqB4ryiS4cY

David Zandvliet is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) and Director of the Institute for Environmental Learning. He holds additional appointments as the Faculty teaching fellow for Faculty of Environment (SFU) and is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Universitas Sam Ratulangi (Indonesia).

An experienced teacher and researcher, he has published numerous articles in international journals and presented refereed conference papers on six continents and in over 15 countries. His career interests lie in the areas of science, technology and environmental education.

As a former director of the Faculty’s Centre for Educational Technology, he has considerable experience in the design and evaluation of classrooms and in the provision of teacher professional development. He has conducted research and development on learning environments in Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

She is Economist, PhD in Environmental Education, Master's in Visual Arts and Art Sciences. Based in Greece, she has been coordinating, since 1994, numerous international projects on Environmental Education and Communication and has been involved in various research and action networks and in civil society organizations. She has held leadership roles in national and international environmental and educational NGOs, as well as in regional authorities' agencies implementing and managing regional development projects. She is the author / co-author of several articles and editor of books and periodicals on Environmental Education, pedagogy, and the ethics of responsibility. Her areas of expertise include environmental communication, environmental education in non formal education settings, education through art, educational projects' management and the development of educational material.