A Message to all UN Member States and Leaders of the United Nations
From Members of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Members of the SDSN Community [1]
The war in Ukraine threatens not only sustainable development, but the survival of humanity. We call on all nations, operating in accordance with the UN Charter, to put diplomacy to the service of humanity by ending the war through negotiations before the war ends all of us.
The world must urgently return to the path of peace. Blessed are the peacemakers, teaches Jesus in the Gospels. The Qur’an invites the righteous to the Dar as-Salam , the abode of peace. Buddha teaches Ahimsa , nonviolence to all living beings. Isaiah prophesizes the day when nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore.
International peace and security are the first purposes of the United Nations. The world’s nations dare not fail to bring peace to Ukraine in the momentous hours ahead.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is repugnant, cruel, and sacrilegious, in the words of Pope Francis, making the search for peace our most urgent need. This is especially true as an even more devastating military confrontation builds in Eastern Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin has recently declared the peace talks at a “dead end.” The world cannot accept this. All nations and the United Nations must do all in their power to revive the peace talks and bring the parties to a successful and rapid agreement.
Peace requires dialogue and diplomacy, not more heavy weaponry that will ultimately lay Ukraine to utter ruin. The path of military escalation in Ukraine is one of guaranteed suffering and despair. Still worse, military escalation risks a conflict that spirals to Armageddon.
History shows that the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly led to nuclear war even after the leaders of the US and Soviet Union had reached a diplomatic solution. Because of misunderstandings, a disabled Soviet submarine nearly launched a nuclear-tipped torpedo that could have triggered a full nuclear response by the United States. Only the brave actions of a single Soviet party officer on the submarine halted the firing of the torpedo, thereby saving the world.
Russia and Ukraine can certainly reach an agreement that fulfills the two fundamental aims of the UN Charter: territorial integrity and security for both Ukraine and Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has already identified a diplomatic solution: Ukraine’s neutrality – no NATO membership – and its territorial integrity secured by international law. Russia’s troops must leave Ukraine, but not to be replaced by NATO’s troops or heavy weaponry. We note that the UN Charter uses the words “peace” and “peaceful” 49 times, but never once uses the word “alliance” or the phrase “military alliance.”
Escalation of conflicts comes all too easily, while negotiation requires wisdom and willpower. UN members are deeply divided in their understandings of the conflict, but they should be completely united by their shared interest in an immediate ceasefire, halt to attacks on civilians, and return to peace. The war is causing horrific deaths and staggering destruction – hundreds of billions of dollars of damage to Ukraine’s cities, which have been reduced to rubble in mere weeks – and growing economic chaos worldwide: soaring food prices and shortages, millions of refugees, the breakdown of global trade and supply chains, and rising political instability around the world, hitting the poorest nations and households with devastating burdens.
The UN Security Council (UNSC) has the world’s sacred responsibility to keep the peace. Some say that the UNSC cannot play this role with Russia on the Security Council. Yet this view is completely mistaken. The UNSC can secure the peace precisely because Russia, China, the US, France, and the United Kingdom are all permanent members. These five permanent members, together with the other ten members of the UNSC, must negotiate with each other to find a way forward that preserves the territorial integrity of Ukraine while meeting the security needs of Ukraine, Russia, and indeed the other 191 UN member states.
We applaud the bold and creative efforts of President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to help the two parties to find an agreement, yet we bemoan the lack of direct talks within the UN Security Council. We are not calling for more soundbites in which diplomats hurl invectives at each other. We are calling for true negotiations guided by the UN Charter. We are talking about peace through the UN rule of law, not through power, threats, and divisive military alliances.
We should not have to remind the world’s nations of the harrowing fragility of these days. The war threatens to escalate by the hour. And this occurs during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which claims around 5,000 lives each day. Even now, in the third year of the pandemic, the world has failed to provide vaccine doses for the world’s poor and vulnerable and has failed in no small part because of the geopolitical tensions among the vaccine-producing nations.
The massive displacement of refugees and rising hunger worldwide due to the war in Ukraine now threaten an even greater surge of disease, death, and instability and deeper financial hardship for poor nations. And lurking behind the war and pandemic is the slow-moving beast of human-induced climate change, another woe pulling humanity towards the cliff. The most recent IPCC report reminds us that we have exhausted the margin of climate safety. We need immediate climate action. Yet the war drains the attention, multilateral cooperation, and the financing needed to rescue us from our manmade climate emergency.
As educators and university leaders, we also recognize our own heightened responsibilities to our students. We must teach not only scientific and technical know-how to achieve sustainable development, as important as those topics are today, but also the pathways to peace, problem solving, and conflict resolution. We must educate young people so that today’s youth gain the wisdom to respect global diversity and to settle disputes peacefully, through thoughtful negotiation and compromise.
In the spirit of the UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we call on all nations of the UN General Assembly, unanimously and without exception, to adopt a resolution calling for an urgent negotiated peace that meets the needs and security of Ukraine, Russia, and all other nations.
We call on the UN Security Council to meet in an emergency session, for as long as necessary, to ensure that the full weight of the UN Charter is brought to bear to end the war in Ukraine through diplomatic means.
We call on permanent members of the UNSC to negotiate with diplomacy rather than rancor and to recognize that true peace must meet the security needs of all countries. There is no need or room for a veto; a just agreement will be supported by all nations and can be backed by UN peacekeepers.
Ukraine, to its profound credit, has signaled its readiness to meet Russia on reasonable terms; Russia now must also do the same. And the world must help these two nations to accomplish this difficult task
Finally, we call on all governments and politicians to emphasize the cause of diplomacy and to tamp down the vitriol, calls for escalation, and even open contemplation of a global war. Global war today must remain unthinkable, as it would be nothing other than a suicide pact for humanity, or a murderous pact of politicians.
Peace is not appeasement, and peacemakers are not cowards. Peacemakers are the bravest defenders of humanity.
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Signatories
Members of the Leadership Council and Observers
Jeffrey Sachs, President, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN); University Professor, Columbia University
Anthony Annett, Gabelli Fellow, Fordham University
Tamer Atabarut, Director, Bogazici University Lifelong Learning Centre (BULLC); Board Member, Sustainability Academy (SA); High Council Member & Readers’ Representative, Press Council of Turkey; Steering Committee Member & Past President, Council of Turkish Universities Continuing Education Centres (TUSEM)
Ambassador Richard L. Bernal, Professor of Practice, SALISES, University of the West Indies
Irina Bokova, Former Director-General of UNESCO
Helen Bond, University Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, Howard University; Co-Chair of SDSN USA
Jeffrey Cheah, Chancellor, Sunway University | Chairman, SDSN Malaysia
Jacqueline Corbelli, Founder and CEO, US Coalition on Sustainability
Mouhamadou Diakhaté, Professor, Université Gaston Berger
Hendrik du Toit, Founder & CEO, Ninety One
Jennifer Stengaard Gross, Co-Founder Blue Chip Foundation
Pavel Kabat , Secretary-General, Human Frontier Science Program; Former Chief Scientist, WMO-UN; Former Director General, IIASA
Brighton Kaoma, Global Director, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Youth
Israel Klabin, Presidente, FBDS – Fundação Brasileira
Phoebe Koundouri, Professor, School of Economics, Athens University of Economics & Business; President, European Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists (EAERE)
Zlatko Lagumdzija, Professor, Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina; co-chair Western Balkan SDSN
Upmanu Lall, Director, Columbia Water Center; Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate & Society; Alan & Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering, Columbia University
Felipe Larrain Bascuñan, Professor of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Klaus M. Leisinger, President, Foundation Global Values Alliance; Former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the UN Global Compact
Justin Yifu Lin, Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics & Institute for South-South Cooperation and Development, National School of Development, Peking University
Gordon G. Liu, Peking University BOYA Distinguished Professor of Economics at National School of Development; and Dean of PKU Institute for Global Health and Development
Siamak Loni, Director, Global Schools Program, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Gordon McCord, Associate Teaching Professor & Associate Dean, School of Global Policy and Strategy, The University of California, San Diego
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain
Joanna Newman, Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London
Amadou Ibra Niang, CEO, Afrik Innovations
Ngozi Ifeoma Odiaka, Professor, Crop Production Department, College of Agronomy, Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria (Now Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University)
Roza Otunbayeva, Former President of Kyrgyzstan, Head of Foundation “Initiatives of Roza Otunbayeva”
Antoni Plasència, Director General, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Labode Popoola, Professor of Forest Economics & Sustainable Development, Department of Social and Environmental Forestry, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Ibadan
Stefano Quintarelli, Internet Entrepreneur
Sabina Ratti, Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, Laudato Si Action Platform and Fuori Quota executive board member
Irwin Redlener, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Angelo Riccaboni, Professor, School of Economics and Management, University of Siena; Chair, PRIMA Foundation
Katherine Richardson, Professor and Leader of Sustainability Science Centre, University of Copenhagen
S.E. Mons. Marcelo Sánchez, Chancellor, The Pontifical Academy of Sciences
His Highness, Khalifa Muhammad Sanusi II, UN SDG Advocate and 14th Emir of Kano
Marco F. Simoes Coelho, Professor and Researcher, COPPEAD Center for International Business Studies, Rio de Janeiro
David Smith, Coordinator, Institute for Sustainable Development, The University of the West Indies
Nicolaos Theodossiou, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
John Thwaites, Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Rocky S. Tuan, Vice-Chancellor and President, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Albert van Jaarsveld, Director-General, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Virgilio Viana, Director General, Amazonas Sustainability Foundation (FAS)
Patrick Paul Walsh, Full Professor of International Development Studies, University College Dublin
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education and University Professor, New York University
Soogil Young, Honorary Chairman, SDSN South Korea
Members of the SDSN Community
Andrea Vitaliano Maria Bedin, Founder and CEO of Esercizio s.r.l. Italy
June Barbour, Manager, SDSN Caribbean
Daniel Bena, Board, UN Association USA Westchester Chapter; Senior Consultant, Antea Group; Hon Professor, Glasgow Caledonian University
Michele Chesnek
Alkhaly Mohamed T. Conde, Expert in Strategy and Sustainable Development, OSAA - Office of the Special Advisor on Africa, United Nations Under Secretary – General; Lecturer, Université Général Lansana Conté of Lambagny and Sonfonia, Conakry, Guinea; Researcher, Trainer, Consultant, Author and International Speaker
Siri Corsepius, Assistant Professor; High school teacher, Norway
Gordon Dumoulin, Associate Transnational Foundation of Peace and Future Research
Owen Gatehi, CPA, Kenya
Kul Chandra Gautam, Former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations & Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF
Gocha Goguadze, Chairman at Circular Initiatives Roadmap (CIR), Head of SDSN at Tbilisi State University (TSU)
Juan Gomez, Chilean coordinator Mundo sin guerras y sin violencia
Sanjay Gorkhali, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Agnes Imgart, Parent Climate Activist, Parents for Future Global
Tony Jenkins, Managing Director, International Institute on Peace Education; Coordinator, Global Campaign for Peace Education; Lecturer, Justice & Peace Studies, Georgetown University
Exnora Kannan, President, Nilgris Exnora
Mario La Torre, Full Professor, Sustainable Finance and Impact Banking, Sapienza University of Rome
George Lueddeke , Global Lead, International One Health for One Planet Education Initiative (1 HOPE), Southampton, United Kingdom
Shirin Malik, Member Board of Directors UNA-Houston, UNA-USA
Geeta Mehta, Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design; SDSN Affiliation: Columbia University
Carolyne Nyarangi, President ICARE Sustainably International
Emmanuel Olowoyo, Student Coordinator, Development Practice Programme, Center for Sustainable Development; University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Ottavia Ortolani, Head of Communications and Advocacy Projects, ASviS (Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development)
Rino Rappuoli, Extraordinary Professor in Molecular Biology, University of Siena, Italy
Osvaldo Raimondo, University of Minnesota, USA
Betty Reardon, Founding Director Emeritus, International Institute on Peace Education
Dirk Schweitzer
Peter Webley
Anastasia Zabaniotou , Prof Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; President of the Network of Mediterranean Engineering Schools
Augusto Soto , Director, Dialogue with China Project; Professor ESADE, Barcelona, Spain
Reverend DouglasHunt , Climate Action Team, Main Line Unitarian Church
Mitchell Gold , CEO, UN Office of the Future
Andrea Siqueira, Lecturer- Indiana University
Ion Juvina, Associate Professor, Wright State University
Melissa Ceja Covarrubias, Activista feminista
Veronica Schweyen, Maryknoll Sisters
Dr. Candice Amber, Postdoctoral Fellow and Former Assistant Professor Education Faculty
Merve Deniz Hacialioglu, External Affairs Professional
Joseph Kwashie
Henry McGhie, Founder, Curating Tomorrow
Beatrice Ajayi
Eduardo Sojo, SDSN TReNDS
Katsu Masaki , Professor, Konan University
Hasan Noor Ahmed, Chairman Bilan awdal Organization Somaliland
Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
T. Paresh Patel , Founder & CEO
Don Christoff
Dr. Aung Than Oo , Rotary Peace Fellowship
Bruce Stiftel , Professor Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology
Carol henco , Volunteer, Office of the Public Advocate
Juliane Schaible
Youssef Benzekri , Account manager, Salconst
Matthew Nyanplu , The Fletcher School
Thiago Antonio Franco Flores
Rochelle Killingbeck
Dwight Owens , User Engagement Officer, Ocean Networks Canada
Dr. Larry David Wilson
Jesús Martínez-Frias , Senior Editor Research Scientist, Ex-Vice Chair, UNCSTD, Ex-Member UN ECOSOC Natural Resources Committee
Ana Neves , Lisbon University
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Cliff Wallis
Alex Godoy-Faúndez , Associate Professor, Universidad del Desarrollo - Coordinator, UNSDSN Andes
Sophie Christman , Independent Research Scholar, Environmental Humanities
Nikola Biliškov , PhD, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia; McGill University, Canada; Scientists for Climate - Croatia
Jose Rajan , Professor, Universiti Malaysia Pahang
J. Kofa Torbor
El Hadji Malick Pouye , PhD UCAD Dakar Senegal
Karsten Weitzenegger
Susan Shaw , Lawyer, Partner Living law - For a Living Planet
David Berry , CEO, Valo Health
Alan Bernstein , President and CEO, CIFAR; Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Joanna Black
Nikola M. Zivkovic , Assistant Professor of International Relations, School of Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City
Lene Søvold , Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Advisor & Independent Researcher
Lasarus Ndiilenga , Senior NATs, Ministry of Health and social services
Simron Singh , Professor, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
Thomas Wiedmann , Professor of Sustainability Research, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Glory Odu-Oji , Communication for Development Consultant, former C4D Consultant to the United Nations Children Fund ( UNICEF)
Lini Wollenberg , Research Professor, University of Vermont and Associate Scientist, Alliance of Biodiversity International and CIAT (CGIAR)
Toluwase Olaniyan
Peter Boelsterli , Founder, Boötes Cultural Cooperatives
Deborah Hagar , President, The Foundation for Sustainable Communities
Teresa Chan
Jonas Lavilette
Christine Milne AO , Ambassador, ConnectAid and Global Greens
Susanne Moser , Ph.D., Director, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, Research Associate, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Alejandro Espin , CEO, B4Future
Maca Hourihane , Research Officer Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists and Healthcare Professionals in International Health and Development
Godwin Micheal Okoliko
Viveka Anderton , Sustainability consultant
Kamal Bahadar , Professional Volunteer and Pakistan Red Crescent Society
Christian Reichel
James Drury , Marine Technologist
Mahnaz Mazaheri Assadi
Julio Jerison Macrohon , Board Secretary, SDSN Youth Philippines
Kehinde Osadare , Rev. United Against Indigenous Child-trafficking Organization (UNAICO)
Steven Ormenyi , Landscape Architect
Shah Faisal Khan
Harry Mante , Founder and CEO of Philomath Consult, Ghana
Allappa Ramappa Patil , Director Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Foundation
Paul Adiwu, Director General, Teen Ambassadors Foundation
Arouna Dissa , Research associate, IER
Danny Harvey , Professor, Dept of Geography, University of Toronto
Susan Poats , Project coordinator, Corporacion Grupo Randi Randi, CGRR, Ecuador
Dr. Mohammed Osama
Simona Zykaite
Ugochukwu Samuel
James Boyd Fuller , President CEO World Alliance for Planetary Health nonprofit Corp of Louisiana
Khairul Adzam Mohd Shafie , Manager, Group Sustainability Sime Darby Plantation Berhad
Judith Duncker , Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lehman College
Jose Javier Gonzalez-Garcia , Investigador Titular, CICESE, Baja California, Mexico
Adrian Monjeau , Ph.D, Director of Complex Systems Analytics, Fundación Bariloche & CONICET, Argentina
Robert McLean
Daniel Galpern , General Counsel and Executive Director
Melissa Casacchi Antunes , MSc - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Tomo Kudrich , PhD candidate, UNSW Sydney
Andrew Fan , Analyst
Gabrielle Hildebrand , Small Business Owner, United States
Simone Buechler , Senior Advisor, University Engagement and Research at CRS
Erwin Van der Ham
Tácio M. P. de Campos , Full Professor, Vice-Director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Center of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Co-chair SDSN Brazil
Jenny Goldie , National President, Sustainable Population Australia
Lauren McLeod , Harvard Extension School Graduate Student
Cesareo Hernández , Full Professor. Management Engineering. Univ of Valladolid. Spain
Motaz Abdeen , Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Wealth, and Natural Resources
Namrata Sharma , Faculty State University of New York
Debra Enzenbacher , Associate Professor
Pranata Barua , Development Researcher and Consultant
Jeremy Forkgen
John Ceffrey Eligue , Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Hayato Sakai , PECtoyama, Executive Director
Sandra Zeña Giraldo , Docente en la UNMSM Perú y Directora fundadora del Centro Promotor de Salud y Entornos Sostenible CEPSAE
Catherine Spencer , Head, GEMS International School Cairo, Egypt
Mark Lichtenstein , Principal, Embrace Impatience Associates and Lichtenstein Consulting
Mohamed Ali Bounaouara , Activist Humaine Rights International
Robert Diggs , Retired Instructor College of Business Montana State University Bozeman
Adriana Martinez , Entrepreneur
Mostafa Fawzy Ahmed , Assistant lecturer of Physics, AASTMT
Nina Hjortlund , Founding Director And CEO
Cristina Vallejos Guerrero, Strategy , Sustainability, and Public Policy Consultant
Peter McNally
Leah Knapp , Manager, Sustainability, Murdoch University, Perth Western Australia
Sithi V Muniandy , Universiti Malaya
Stephen J Hall , Dean, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Sunway University
Раиса Бабченко , Adviser to the League of Professional Women
Jonathan Granoff , President Global Security Institute
Jitendra GC , Executive Chairperson, Sajha Foundation Nepal
Arif Budiuntoro
L V Rajan Kolath , Volunteer Kolath Foundation
Sylvia Delpratt , Doctoral Researcher, De Montfort University
Dhivya Kirupa , Head academics (WCIA) India
April Roggio , Researcher, University at Albany
Ernst-Christoph Stolper
Mohammed Alee
Roy Jantzen , Professor, Global and Community Studies, Capilano University
Morel Marly Mensah , Globe Teacher
Joseph Mugo
Jon Constable
Faith Jeptoo
Min-Hye Park , M.S. Student / Disaster Management Engineering, UNIST
Faith Jeptoo
Filipe Duarte , Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Windsor, Canada
Graciel Apolo
Fazrihan Bin Duriat , Senior Lecturer, Pôle Universitaire EUCLIDE
K.F. Chin , Senior Lecturer (National University of Malaysia)
Mary Sancy
Joseph Kato
David Kennett , Elizabeth Stillman Williams Professor
Federica Migliardo , Physicist, University of Messina
Ali Aljane , Associate professor, University of Tunis El Manar
Jens Nyman
Mike Cohen , Director CEN IEM Unit
Samuel Sijuade , Graduate Researcher, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center
Aloka Nanda Dalal , Family Medicine Specialist - Care Continuum
Gurkeerat Gill
Xuan Thu Ly
Linda Bensey
Asmatullah Ghayasi
Deepti Karan Weiss
Preksha Yadav , Christ University
Zachary Gehan
Sue Scott-Gatty
Abdelbagi Ismail , Principal Scientist and Regional Representative for Africa at International Rice Research Institute
Adelowo Adewoyin , Prince and Research Assistant
Annemarie Schallhart , Schallhart Individual- und Unternehmensentwicklung e.U.
Thuso Khotso , Program Officer, The Global Fund Supported Program, Ministry of Finance Lesotho
George Halkos , Professor in Economics of Natural Resources, Department of Economics, University of Thessaly
Ahmad Muhammad Abubakar
Apurva Shah
Mohammad Aljaradin , Professor \ Swedish center of science and education
Sampada Kumar Dash , Research Fellow (Trader and Development), India
Niclas Kjellström-Matseke , SDSN Leadership Council Member, Chairman of Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation
Jorge Garcia del Arco
Riccardo Pozzo , Professor of Philosophy, Tor Vergata University of Rome
Sonia Ruiz Conesa , Principal of the Institut Cubelles
Dhritiman Das
Nicolas Moussiopoulos , Professor, Aristotle University Thessaloniki
Shérazade Zaiter , International lawyer
Alicia González , Resident Senior Instructor of Spanish
Luis Manuel Navas , Professor - University of Valladolid (Spain)
Hafiz Hassan , Biology Lecturer
Elizabeth George , Engineering Manager; South Africa Oil and Gas
Mordechai Shechter, Professor University of Haifa
Mohammad Hekmat
Yogesh Gupta , Industry Fellow, UPES
Samir Kumar Das , Chairman of IMAECSED, International Movement for Advancement of Education Culture Social & Economic Development (IMAECSED)
Richard Siren
Frode Neergaard , CEO, Neergaard International Development Cooperation
Artur Kruck , Founding President of the SDG-University Paris
Marina Schmitz , Lecturer/Researcher, IEDC-Bled School of Management
Paul Shaw , Africa Community Engagement
Hesam Aref Kashfi , Chairman and Managing Director, CIEC
Rashida Atthar
Franz Kies , ECG
Bettina Geiken , Dr. Institut for Integral Studies
Senida Mesi , Deputy Prime Minister and MP, Albania (2017-2021)
Trisha Hill
Miljenko Cimesa
Carmelo Marcen Albero , Investigador Asociado Universidad de Zaragoza
Sachin Jose, Tutor , Rajendra institute of medical sciences-ranchi
Chris Dickens
Rebecca Aplehag
Mehrshad Radmehr, Cyprus International University (CIU)
Steven Lee , President, ESG Malaysia
Gabriella Táborossy, Retired Engineer, EU legal expert
Amali Ranavi Thanthrige Saumya , Hankuk University of Foreign Studies-Seoul, South Korea
Jim Craig , Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
Dieter Meissner , Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c., Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Elin H. Wyller , Senior advisor/Sustainability Coordinator, Oslo Metropolitan University
Charis Stavridis , Civil Engineer ME MSc PhDc
Dr Mangesh Kashyap , Dr Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture BNCA Pune
Harriet Zilliacus , Senior lecturer, University of Helsinki
Peter Gringinger , Trainer, Educator, Facilitator, Lecturer for Gaia Education, Plattform Footprint, greenskills, Earthcharter Educator, Global Ecovillage Network Ambassador
Kristine Sørensen , Director
Anne Chemin , Chargée de médiation Scientifique
Günter Schmittberger
Gerd Winter , Professor of Law, University of Bremen
Hannah Jung , Operations & Responsible Business Coordinator
Gregor Torkar
Meike Schützek , Ocean Now!
Omar Santana , Civil Engineer
Ivana Scepanovic
Wolfgang Meyer , Professor for Sociology at Saarland University
Fernando Gutiérrez , Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Anna Dubois , Professor, Chalmers University of Technology
Georgia Vompiri
Geraldine Bridgewater , Freeman of The City of London
Paolo Nota , PhD Candidate in Economics, University of Milan
Gokce Koc
Maria Sillanpaa , Founding Director
Angeles Mendoza Sammet , Lecturer and researcher
Lorcán Hall , Student, University College Dublin
Balqiaz Khan , President
Iyanuoluwa Akinbola , Postgraduate Student, Researcher and practicing Lawyer in Nigeria
Kaneza Théophile
Godelieve Cooymans , Managing Partner Proaxxes Srl
Alexandra Marçal Correia , Dr. Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon
Ndege Ngere Daudi , Founder AMR Now initiative
Adela Acitores Suz
Cleidiane Zampronio , University of Warwick
Argyro Gialamprinou
Nicholas King , Prof; Environmental Futures
Abduba Ali
Kritika Chauhan
Habiba Kunno
Magdalene Charalambous
María Pilar Martínez , Investigadora UCM
Jenny Ritchie , Associate Professor, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Patrick Abal
Roger Worthington , UN SDG Publishers Compact Fellow
Regina Spierings
Ludo Diels , Prof. Dr. at Antwerp University
José Vicente de-Lucio , Professor. Universidad de Alcalá
Maria Lentoudi , PhD Candidate, Communications Manager
Peter Schmidt , President of the NAT Section of the EESC
Klaus Riede , Dr. rer. nat. habil, Global Register of Migratory Species
Petros Kareklas , Dr. / Cyprus SDSN
Maria Concetta , Libero Professionista Italia
Ganna Boltenkova , Deputy Director on Innovations and Investments
Juan Antonio , Buendía Sánchez, Professor, University of Murcia (Spain)
Mariska van der Stigchel , Project Manager Accessibility
Ineke Ravesloot , Assistant Editor, Springer Nature
Saa Fillie Wangoh , Dynamics Technologies Inc
Tolulope Kolade Adeyele , Health Educator, Postgraduate Student at Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria
Michelle Safady , Professor and researcher in the field of Sociology, PhD in Sociology and Master in Educational Sociology
Ayodeji Idowu
Ken Kim , Technologist at Barnard College
Marielle Metzger
Sabina DSilva
Hans Martin , Seip Professor Emeritus, University of Oslo
Enda Murphy , Professor of Planning, University College Dublin
Maria Jesus Montes Perez , Coordinadora Agenda 2030 de Alcaldia
Frans Lenglet
Maria Cullinane , Course Coordinator, Sustainable Energy Engineering, Munster Technological University
Lidia Rahal
Michael Jabot , SUNY Distinguished Professor
Tim Mock , Co-Chair, Houston Climate Protection Alliance
Paraclete Ugwu , Dr. Enugu State Civil Servant
Thiago Galvao , Professor at the University of Brasilia, Coordinator of the Strategic Program
Claerwen Howie , Retired university lecturer
Majdi Alnajjar
Evangelos Afendras , Educational Consultant & Trainer
Shoaib Muhammad Bhat
Ekaterine Otarashvili , Environmental Lawyer
Christos Mavroeidis
Volodymyr Matiushko
Ana Torralba , Systems innovation for sustainability Entrepreneur, SDG educator and coach
Gianluca Ragusa , International independent consultant
Carla Furtado MSc , Universidade Católica de Brasília Instituto Feliciência
Eddie Streng, Business Development Officer, Joule Assets
Peter Nicholas Lazanis
Neil Katz , Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University and Professor Nova Southeastern University
Andrew Josef Deutsch
Rubin Nyandwi
Linda LaViolette , Voice of Gowanus
Natalia Ramirez Talero
Teresa Kotturan , Main NGO Representative at the UN for Sisters of Charity Federation
Patrick Sharrock , Professor Emeritus
Kathleen Kanet , Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Harald Heinrichs , Prof. Leuphana University Lüneburg
Catherine Wilkins , Director, Communications & Advancement, Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Scott Franklin , Professor, University of Northern Colorado
Carrie Anne Tocci , Doctor of Education
Jessika Tsubakita , Student, Berlin Free University
Martha Harkness , Rev., Minister, Presbytery of Hudson River, NY
Ken Giller , Professor of Plant Production Systems
Kelly Thompson
Noel Jesudas
Margaret Leonard , Strategic Advisor: Project Hope
Carol Schommer
Sophia Calvi , Director of programs, Franklin Environmental Center
Clevie Youngblood , RSHM
Matthew Jarvis
Brooke Hansen , Director, Sustainable Tourism, University of South Florida
Michelle Loisel , NGO Rep. for the Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
Colleen Mills , President Emeritus of the Citizens for Peace
Alkhaly Mohamed Condé , Expert in Strategy and Sustainable Development, Lecturer, University Général Lansana Conté de Lambagny
Paul Wilson , Director, PLW Partnerships
Patricia Busch , Sr. of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Lila Gardner
Greg Lopez, Murdoch University
Kevin Cawley , Main UN Representative Edmund Rice International
Ben Calvi
Sister Simone Campbell , SSS, Catholic Sister, Auburn Seminary Senior Fellow
Carol Coston , Adrian Dominican Sisters
Kevin Cawley , Director of Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue at Iona College
Edith Hart
John Mullan, Edmund Rice International
Princesster Aflakpui , Miss, Student at the University of health and allied sciences
Dr. Joseph Fahey , Chair, Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice
Ismael Bachirou , Responsable du département Environnement
Nicola Casagli , President of the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS
George Stonbely , Founder, TSQ Ventures
Kesinee Dulyarat , Representative to the UN
Marie Lindemann , Sisters of Social Service
Mary Fishman
Ann Moore
Diego De La Merced , CEO, Sustainable Strategic Solutions
Diana Sabia , Sisters of Social Service
Carroll Beegan Follas
Raymond Voith
Phui Yi Kong, Outreach and Education, Sunway University
Katherine Montserrat , Sisters of Social Service Associate
Maria João Filgueiras Rauch
Deborah Peters , Sister of Saint Martha of Prince Edward Island
Bernice Steele , Sister of St. Martha of PEI-Canada
Susan Leslie
Mary Lichtenstein
Peter Spain
Anne Macksoud , Old Dog Documentaries, Inc.
Ellen Vaughan , Higher Education Sustainability Professional
Emilie Matjasic , Biodiversity and Environmental Justice Referent
Nuno Silva , International Human Rights Advisory Council Chairman for Portugal
Moses Calouro , Ocean State Therapy Associates, LLC.
Mary Mechow , Sister of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Deisi Noeli Kusztra , President World Family Organization
Gerald Grudzen , President, Global Ministries University
Stephen Hamann , International Affairs Consultant, Tobacco Control Research and Knowledge Management Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Franco Gamboa-Rocabado , Expert in education at Save the Children, Bolivia
David Stang
Louise Deutsc h, Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict (oblSB)
Elaine Donovan , Social worker
Wayne Jacoby , Director Global Education Motivators
Jedidah James , Lawyer
Marie Foley , PhD, retired professor of English
Joe Houde , NCCCA
Barbara A Coe Consultant , Barbara A Coe & Assoc
Alejandro Adler , International Consultant
Kevin Stack , Principle, Northeast Green Building Consulting LLC
Youssef Benzekri , Account manager, Salconst
Mary Keenan , Religious, Little Sister of the Assumption
Kianna Bader , Sisters of Social Service
Bob Gedert , Adjunct Professor, Sustainability Department, Xavier University
Haris Melendez , President, United Nations Association - Northern New Jersey Chapter
Luis Reyes , Director of the MSc Sustainable Finance
Dorothea Cappadona
Adriana Pérez Amador , Deputy Director of Research at National Statistics Office (México)
Ellen Hunter , Sisters of Social Service
Sr. Gemma Dunn , Congregation Leader of Sisters of St. Martha of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Rita Kelly , Justice Committee
Volney Camara , Full Professor, PhD from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Fathima Firoz Ali
John Connor , Partner, Connor and Connor Gas
Sergio Mattos , PhD
Evangelia Savvidou , Medical Student, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Olga Hoja , Associate, Sisters of Social Service
Mahnaz Mazaheri Assadi , Adjunct, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins
Patricia Latona
Erwin Medina , Red Agenda 2030 MX
Carmen Marques Ruiz , EU Climate Pact Ambassador
Patricia McGowan , Finance Manager, Los Angeles House of Ruth
Frank Mulligan , Writer / WAC member
Elly Ochieng , Teacher, CITAM School
Selin Ismen , European Climate Pact Ambassador
James Bela , Member International Seismic Safety Organization
Zé Alves-Pereira , Climate Pact Ambassador
Anders Paulsson , Master of Music
Robert Clark , Chair, Petersham Conservation Commission
Patrick Thomas McGuire , Member, Maryknoll Affilicate Chicago Chapter
Karen Dotson , Concerned Citizen of the USA
Carlos Alberto Bocuhy , Presidente do PROAM-Instituto Brasileiro de Proteção Ambiental
Lamija Ćeremida , Network Manager Sdsn Western Balkans
Raquel Cruz
Kathleen Uhler , Franciscan Sister, former NGO for Franciscans International
Trish Gough , Director, Volunteer Services, LSA Family Health Services
Robert Thames , FACHE, FHFMA, Director, Global Health Administration Partners
Megan Evans , Communications Specialist, University of Saskatchewan
Bride Counihan , Member of the Little Sisters of the Assumption
Andrew Eichmann , Retired Clinical Psychologist
Brian Bond , Executive Director, Edmund Rice International
Shannon Stowell , CEO, Adventure Travel Trade Association
Aminah Aminah , MS.i
Sr. Angela Milioto , Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Cathron Brooks
Loreta Castro , Founding Director, Center for Peace Education, Miriam College
Laura Del Rosario , President Miriam College, Philippines
Gail Galang , Associate Director, Miriam College
Francisco Moreno
Deo Damian Msilu , Managing Director, DVM GEOSPATIAL PLANNING Ltd, Tanzania
Jasmin Nario-Galace , Faculty, Miriam College
Arianne Garra , Research Analyst
Yolanda Vega , Sister with the Sisters of Social Service
Tom Head , Professor of Economics Emeritus, George Fox University
Alison Beer , Murdoch University
Joerg Hofstetter , Professor, KEDGE Business School; President, International Forum on Sustainable Value Chains
Annette Bos , Associate Professor /Director of Education - Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Ibrahima Kampo
Simone Cresti , University of Siena
Michael Christides , Ambassador a.h.
Narayan Joshi
John Russel Panotes , President - Miriam College High School Faculty Club
Richard Cummings , Emeritus Professor, Public Policy
Bernadette Crewe-Brown
Rhys Mader , Student Ambassador: Murdoch University
Evarist Ndyamuhaki
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[1] The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) is a worldwide network of universities, scholars, politicians, business leaders, and faith leaders operating under the auspices of UN Secretary General António Guterres. Our mission is to help identify pathways to sustainable development.