Dr. Hermann Scheer

President of EUROSOLAR
General Chairman WCRE
Member German Bundestag

Derek Satnik

Managing Partner
Mindscape Innovations
Kitchener, Ontario

Derek Satnik is a member of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC)'s Real-Estate Committee and "LEED for Homes" committee, a director at the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA), at Community Renewable Energy Waterloo (CREW) and at Local Initiative for Future Energy (LIFE), and a member of the Net-Zero Energy Home Coalition (NZEHC) and of Conestoga College's Program Advisory Committee supporting the development of a renewable energy trades program. Derek participated in three of the five Ontario design teams that competed in CMHC's national "EQuilibrium" healthy housing competition (including the winning Now House team in Toronto), he has been involved with Natural Resource Canada's "Solar Ready" program, and can speak with authority about emerging trends in "green" construction rating systems, especially for the residential sector, and in the renewable energy industries (especially wind and solar).

Derek is an Electrical Engineer by trade, and has worked in the consulting industry in various roles since 1999, most notably with Stantec Consulting Ltd., Enermodal Engineering Ltd, and now Mindscape. Derek’s personal experience ranges from design of power / lighting / communications / controls systems for the commercial, institutional, and industrial sectors, to more general aspects of sustainable design and energy efficiency as a Sustainability Engineer and LEED Consultant.

Derek is directing Mindscape’s involvements with the residential sector, and is supervising corporate activities within the realm of “green” or “sustainable” design.

Marie Germain

Brand / Marketing Coach To Business Leaders

Marie Germain was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, and educated in both English and French. Later, her studies at McMaster University Social Sciences ended before completion due to the success and demands of her practice. Germain has been a marketing practitioner all of her adult life starting with the founding of an ad agency in the early eighties.

This agency grew to two bi-coastal offices in Canada and became Canada's leading B2B agency. For a time there was a third office in Montreal and affiliates reaching to NYC and London, UK. For several years Germain honed skills to serve consumer markets, adding TV and radio commercials to its fare. At all times, Germain was Creative Director and earned several awards for her work on a variety of campaigns. After thirteen years and worn by the hours required by this business, she entered the loyalty marketing biz with a handful of investors, launching a points-based loyalty program.

In 1997, Germain founded a knowledge corporation, Brainfood, supported by web properties and live events. At all times except during the loyalty years, Germain has continued to serve clients big and small, on everything from developing brand meaning, values and communications initiatives. Germain continues to speak occasionally on the human needs of consumers; however, almost all her time is now delegated to producing cinematic, live and internet productions for the betterment of our global society, resting on creative talent honed over decades and a keen understanding of the emotions that drive human beings.

Kerry Adler

President & Chief Executive Officer
SKY POWER

Kerry Adler is the founding shareholder of SkyPower Corp., Canada's largest renewable energy development company. Before founding SkyPower, from 1999 to 2003, Mr. Adler was co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Webhelp Inc., a leading multi-national, 3,500-employee, business process outsourcing company. Mr. Adler also served in various capacities including Chairman (SITEL Canada) and Senior Vice President of SITEL Corporation, a 20,000-employee CRM company. Previous to SITEL, Mr. Adler served as Executive Vice President, CTC Canadian Telephone Company and President of Corpfon Corp. respectively.

Mr. Adler currently serves on the boards of SkyPower Corp., Newfoundland and Manitoba Wind Energy Partners, SkyCitizens Wind Energy Corp., Ontario Wind Energy Partners, The Argos Foundation, Adler Renewable Energy Fund, The Matthew Coon Come Foundation and acts as an advisor to Mobile Cube Corp., KMX Corp, WiConnect Corp., and the World Wildlife Canada Climate Change Advisory Council. Mr. Adler also is an active member of CanWea and the Québec Caucus. Mr. Adler, a former Director, Baron De Hirsch Foundation, was in addition, named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist in 1998 and winner of UN Global Young Entrepreneur Award at the 2000 United Nations’ 7th World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs.

Mr. Adler is an accomplished speaker and writer in emerging energy, renewable energy, business development, entrepreneurship, marketing, business process outsourcing, and electronic commerce for numerous publications and industry events and is a frequent lecturer at several universities. Mr. Adler was educated in both the US and Canada at Concordia University and Bryant University where he studied Entrepreneurship with Honors in Economics, Marketing and Management.

Recent commendations include President & Chief Executive Officer Canada’s Hot 50 Companies (Profit Magazine, September 2003 Edition), Canada’s Hottest CEO (Growth Camp Profit 2002) as well as Chief Executive Officer of Canada’s Hottest Startup in 2002 (Profit Magazine, September 2002 Edition)

Michael Richards

Inventor, Iowa, USA

Michael Richards is a lifelong entrepreneur and innovator.

Richards' entrepreneurial ventures have included the acquisition and restoration of historic properties, artistic production of music and theatre. With his current venture, Soyawax International, Richards has invented a new biobased replacement for petroleum wax that is bringing about a major revolution in the global candle industry. This venture had its genesis with Candleworks in New York City.

Employment Positions
City Quadrant Director, Community Education, Des Moines School System State Education Field Director, Planned Parenthood of Iowa Executive Director, Jane Boyd Community House, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Business Administration Manager, Tavern on the Green, New York City General Manager, The Boathouse Café, Central Park, New York City General Manager, Cabaret/Off Broadway Theatre, 72nd Street, New York City Administrator, Stoneyard Institute, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City Executive Director, The School of Sacred Arts, New York City

Entrepreneurial Endeavors

• City Vision, Des Moines, Iowa
• The Inns of Iowa
• Candleworks
• SoyaWax International

Candleworks
In 1991, Richards founded a street level work project called Candleworks. With a $200 start up budget he launched a candle making enterprise that hired homeless families off of the streets of New York City to work toward economic self sufficiency. This social and economic experiment resulted in a viable business operation that grew to employ scores of people and build a strong market position in the national candle industry, including custom manufacturing contracts for The Body Shop, Urban Outfitters, Linens and Things, Estee Lauder, Clairol and Biolage/Matrix. This entrepreneurial phenomenon was described in feature magazine articles in the "New York Times," "Success," "People" and was featured on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Good Morning America." The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development cited this project as the National Best Practice in Community Economic Development at the National Conference of Mayors. This award was presented by President Clinton. One Year later Candleworks was cited by Vice President Al Gore as the National Business of the Year for Welfare to Work. Millions of dollars in payroll were paid to scores of people in need over ten years. Many worked their way off of the street into permanent homes.

SoyaWax International
With his work at Candleworks Richards was aware of an economic problem to solve: Consumers were demanding a clean burning/non toxic alternative to petroleum wax candles. Beeswax, a natural non toxic clean burning wax had a cost 8 to 10 times the price of petroleum wax. Richards invented Soyawax to meet this consumer need: A clean burning wax produced from Soybean Oil. SoyaWax is now selling 3 million pounds of wax annually in 22 nations.

The conversion from petroleum wax to Soyawax is now the strongest trend in the Global Candle Industry. Soyawax is the catalyst for this paradigm shift.

Future Plans
The plans for SoyaWax are to utilize the economic base of the company to build a full array of post-petrol biobased goods to replace the petro-chemical products that dominate the present consumer product and energy sectors. Formulas and product designs are tested and ready to go for many of these products.

Our plan is to incorporate biobased energy, photovoltaics and small scale permaculture to have our own business headquarters serve as a model of the post-petrol paradigm.

Publications
"Light One Candle, The Handbook for the Bootstrap Entrepreneur" This practical business book was featured in Entrepreneur Magazine The first two printings were totally sold out by Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble.

"Sustainable Operating Systems, The Post Petrol Paradigm," released in December 2006. This book can be ordered on line at Amazon.Com

Jeremy Leggett

Founder & Chairman, Solar Century
Founder & Chairman, Solar Aid

Social entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett is founder and Chairman of Solarcentury, the UK’s largest solar solutions company, and SolarAid, a charity with part of Solarcentury’s profits. He is author of The Carbon War and Half Gone.

In the first of three careers, while on the faculty at Imperial College (1978-89), Jeremy worked as a geologist with the oil industry, among other things researching oil source rocks funded by BP and Shell. Increasingly worried by global warming, he left to become an environmental campaigner with Greenpeace International (1989-1996), during which time he won the US Climate Institute’s Award for Advancing Understanding.  Coming to the view that successful green businesses were badly needed in the global fight to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, he set up Solarcentury, currently the UK's largest solar solutions company (1997-present). Solarcentury has won multiple awards for innovation and sustainability, including the 2006 Sunday Times / Microsoft TechTrack 100 R&D Award and the FT / Treasury Inner City 100 Greenest Company Award. It is the only renewable energy company in the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For list (2007). SolarAid (2006-present) teaches young Africans to make, sell, and use solar lanterns. It has raised several million pounds from individuals and organizations, and its Patron is Cate Blanchett. Jeremy is also a founding director of the world’s first private equity fund for renewable energy, Bank Sarasin’s New Energies Invest AG (2000-present), and is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Unit (1998-present). He was a member of the UK Government’s Renewables Advisory Board from 2002-6.  He has been appointed a CNN “Principal Voice” (2007) and described by the Observer as “the UK’s most respected green energy boss.” In the 1980s, while at Imperial College, he set up VERTIC (the Verification Technology Information Centre), and served part-time as its first executive director for four years (1985-1989) during the tail end of the Cold War, during which time he served on the board of Pugwash UK.

CNN film viewable HERE
CNBC debate on peak oil with the head of exploration at Shell and others in the oil industry viewable HERE
click on "watch the TV programme"

Bianca Jagger

Chairman, World Future Council
Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador
Chair, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation

She was born Bianca Perez-Mora Macias in Managua, Nicaragua in 1950. As a teenager, Ms. Jagger observed the terror Somoza’s National Guard inflicted on the civilian population. She felt powerless, since all she could do was participate in student demonstrations to protest against these massacres. From a young age, she witnessed what John F Kennedy defined as the harshest “common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war”. In the mid-sixties, she left her native country armed with a French Government scholarship to study Political Science in Paris.

In 1971, she married Mick Jagger. A year later she returned to Nicaragua to look for her parents after a devastating earthquake, which destroyed Managua, the capital, leaving 10,000 people dead and further tens of thousands homeless. Although the country received millions of dollars of relief aid from the international community - including $60 million from the US government - thousands were left without medical assistance, food or shelter. Instead, the funds ended up in President Anastasio Somoza’s private bank accounts. It was this ruthless act of pillage that eventually fuelled the Sandinista Revolution.

1979 was the year of her divorce. It coincided with the fall of Somoza. The Sandinistas succeeded in ousting the tyrant. Ms. Jagger joined forces with the British Red Cross to raise funds for the victims of the conflict and flew to Nicaragua to join the International Red Cross and help on the ground.

Two years later, in 1981, Ms. Jagger travelled to Central America, as part of a US Congressional fact-finding mission to visit La Virtud, a UN refugee camp in Honduran territory close to border with El Salvador . During her visit, an armed death squad from El Salvador crossed the border, entered the camp and rounded up about 40 refugees. The refugees’ thumbs were tied behind their backs and they were taken across the border to El Salvador, with the Honduran army’s blessing. Ms. Jagger, the delegation and the relief workers decided to follow the death squads. The families of the hostages joined them and together they ran along a dry river bed for about half an hour, armed only with cameras. During the chase, they were taking photographs.
They all feared that the death squads were going to kill the hostages once they arrived in Salvadorian territory. Finally, they came within earshot of the death squads and the hostages. The death squad turned around and brandishing their M-16's. Fearing for their lives, Ms. Jagger and the relief workers began to shout, “You will have to kill us all,” and, “We will denounce your crime to the world.” There was a long pause. The death squads talked among themselves and, without explanation, turned away, leaving their hostages behind - released and unharmed.

This suspended moment in time was a turning point in Ms. Jagger’s life. She realised the importance of being a witness when innocent people’s lives were at stake and how a small act of courage can save lives and make a difference.

Upon her return to the US, Ms. Jagger testified before The Congressional Subcommittee on Inter American Affairs, to bring attention to the atrocities committed by the Salvadorian government and its paramilitary forces, with the complicity of the Honduran Government.

During the eighties, Ms. Jagger began her long association with several international human rights organisations, most notably with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Washington Office for Latin America. She was awarded an honorary Humanities Degree by Stone Hill College, Massachusetts in 1983, for her work on behalf of human rights in Latin America.

In the nineties, as part of her continuing human rights and environmental efforts, Ms. Jagger began to campaign on behalf of indigenous populations in Latin America. She declared a commitment to help save the tropical rain forests of the Western Hemisphere. Her efforts brought her to Nicaragua, Honduras, and Brazil. In 1991 she proved instrumental in stopping a logging concession that would have endangered the Miskito Indians’ habitat on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. A few years, later Ms. Jagger petitioned the Brazilian Federation Courts to demarcate and protect the lands of the Guarani peoples of Brazil.
In 1994, she participated in a similar effort to protect the Yanomami people of Northern Brazil from invasions of their lands by the influx of gold miners, who were polluting the water and causing many deaths among this ancient tribe. The Yanomami are often threatened by rich and unscrupulous land-owners who covet their land. In recognition for her efforts, she was presented the 1994 United Nations Earth Day International award. In 1997, she was the recipient of the Green Globe award by the Rain Forest Alliance, “for her extraordinary conservation efforts and achievements over the past ten years”.

In 1993, Ms. Jagger travelled to the former Yugoslavia to document the mass rape of Bosnian women by Serbian forces, as part of their ethnic cleansing campaign.
In July 1995, the United Nations “safe area” of Srebrenica in Bosnia was overrun by Bosnian Serb troops. Some 8,000 civilians (virtually the entire male population) were systematically massacred. Since then, Ms. Jagger has spoken on behalf of the survivors. For many years she campaigned to stop the genocide taking place in Bosnia and, later, to make the perpetrators accountable before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). She has testified on this issue before the Helsinki Commission on Human Rights, the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus, the International Operations Subcommittee on Human Rights, and the British and European Parliaments.
From 1993 to 1996, she evacuated 22 children out of Bosnia to receive medical care in the United States. She personally evacuated two gravely ill children, Sabina and Mohamed. Sadly, Sabina did not survive the evacuation trip and died in Croatia. Mohamed underwent a successful heart operation in New York; he lived with Ms. Jagger in the US for a year and then returned to his parents in Bosnia. She wrote a decisive essay J’accuse: the Betrayal of Srebrenica, a detailed account of the massacre, which was published world-wide, by The European in the United Kingdom, Courier International and Juriste International in France and Panorama in Italy, among others.

In July 1998, Ms. Jagger travelled to Kosovo with a BBC Newsnight crew. Their aim was to record war crimes perpetrated against the ethnic Albanians, or ‘Kosovars’, who lived in the province and constituted 90% of its population. Repression was the Kosovars daily reality at the time of Ms. Jagger’s visit. Serbian military and paramilitary troops had been uprooting them, leaving over 300 towns and villages destroyed. Over 2,500 ethnic Albanians were killed. Thousands had disappeared. Houses had been burned down and buildings had been gutted by fire. Crops were destroyed, livestock slaughtered. Serbs had systematically raped Kosovar women. Old people and children had been massacred.

Ms. Jagger reported for Newsnight on a pattern of “apartheid” reminiscent of the darkest days of the war she had witnessed in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Serbian and Yugoslav security forces separating men from women and children throughout the province, just as they had done in Srebrenica. Most international organizations and foreign NGOs were withdrawing their staff for “security reasons”.

Ms. Jagger went on to decry the plight of the Kosovars through several articles and lectures; she spoke at the House of Commons in the UK and the European Parliament. She campaigned for the indictment and arrest of President Milosevic and continues to urge the arrest of General Mladic and Radovan Karadzic.

Her work on behalf of the countless victims of conflicts throughout the world, and her campaign to evacuate 22 terminally ill children from Bosnia, earned her several awards, among them Amnesty International/USA Media Spotlight Award for leadership “in recognition for her work on behalf of human rights around the world, exposing and focusing attention to injustice”.

In the mid-nineties, Ms. Jagger began campaigning against the death penalty. In 1996, Ms. Jagger filed a clemency petition on behalf of Guinevere Garcia who had been sentenced to death in the state of Illinois, at the request of Amnesty International and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Ms. Jagger made a personal plea to Governor Jim Edgar to commute Guinevere Garcia’s death sentence even though she had waived her right to further appeals after the Illinois Supreme Court upheld their verdict. She fought for Guinevere Garcia’s life, because she believed the question was not whether her wish should be granted, but whether the state of Illinois was justified in carrying out her execution. Guinevere Garcia’s decision to accept her execution was entirely consistent with a pathology born from mental disorder and from physical and sexual abuse; thus Guinevere Garcia’s execution would have constituted nothing less than an act of state sponsored homicide.
Ms. Jagger’s petition called for an act of executive mercy. She gave countless speeches and interviews on the case, using her voice to speak on behalf of Guinevere Garcia. She filed a clemency petition before Governor Edgar and testified before the Penitentiary Review Board. A few hours before the scheduled execution, Governor Edgar announced that he had commuted Guinevere Garcia’s sentence to life imprisonment. Guinevere Garcia “thanked God” and her attorney stated “you could tell that a weight had been lifted from her shoulders”.

On 29 June 1996, Bianca Jagger was made recipient of the “Abolitionist of the Year Award” by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty for “her tireless efforts and heroic dedication in achieving clemency for Guinevere Garcia”.

Since then, Ms. Jagger has campaigned on behalf of many capital punishment cases and she continues to campaign against the death penalty throughout the world.

In 1998, she fought in vain for the clemency of Sean Sellers and Karla Faye Tucker. Sean was the first person in forty years to be executed for a crime committed at age 16. Ms. Jagger continues to urge the US Government to shift its focus away from execution to “the prevention and treatment of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children, in order to prevent them from succumbing to a life of crime”.

Karla Fay Tucker’s childhood had been one of abuse and forced prostitution. Karla never denied the atrocity of her crime. When Ms. Jagger met her she was 38, and had spent 14 years behind bars. She was no longer the woman who had been sentenced to death in 1984; during her time in prison she underwent a remarkable transformation. She educated herself, became deeply religious and began ministering to others. Karla Fay Tucker was fully rehabilitated. She worked assiduously on the Scare-straight programme to help adolescent drug abusers. She no longer posed a threat to society. All appeals failed: Governor George Bush refused to grant clemency to Karla Fay Tucker and she was executed on 3 February 1998.

In light of these cases, Ms. Jagger continues to this day to denounce the lack of meaningful appellate review in commutation proceedings. She continues to denounce defendants’ poor access to executive clemency and the State’s lack of recognition for the defendant’s capacity for change, rehabilitation and remorse.

In June 2000, Ms. Jagger travelled to Texas to meet with Gary Graham and plead on his behalf with Governor George W Bush. Gary Graham was 17, a minor when he was sentenced to death. He spent 19 years on Death Row for a crime he time and again denied that he committed. He was sentenced to death on the strength of one eyewitness testimony. Evidence, subsequently uncovered, calls into serious question this witness identification. Six other witnesses signed affidavits stating that the killer was not Gary Graham. He could have been saved by The State Board of Pardons and Parole and yet they denied clemency. Gary Graham was executed on 22 June 2000. His final words proclaimed his innocence and the injustice of his sentence: “I am an innocent black man that is being murdered ... It is lynching, what is taking place in America tonight”.

In November of that same year, Ms. Jagger received a Champion of Justice Award, naming her as a “steadfast and eloquent advocate for the elimination of the death penalty in America”. Her articles, lectures and press conferences on the subject continue to challenge a penal system that is unfair, arbitrary and capricious, and jurisprudence fraught with racial discrimination and judicial bias.

Ms. Jagger has also been a strong advocate for Arms Control and Gun Control campaigns. She is committed to supporting women’s rights in the face of prejudice and domestic violence. Her work with former Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger was instrumental in establishing Iris House - the East Harlem facility dedicated to providing health and social services to women, which has been a critical component of New York’s response to the AIDS crisis.

In May 2001, Ms. Jagger travelled to Zambia, under the auspices of Christian Aid, to document a devastating tragedy that has left more than 12 million children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic in the Sub-Sahara region. She launched Christian Aid’s report on the effect of HIV/AIDS in Africa, urging industrialised nations to fulfil the pledge they had made 30 years ago to donate 0.7% of their Gross National Product to the developing world: “Unless the Industrialized nations come to their rescue, HIV/AIDS will decimate the African Continent.”

Bianca Jagger was in New York on September 11th, 2001. Three days after the terrorist attacks, she visited Ground Zero and paid public tribute to the firemen, policemen and rescue teams who had worked 24/7 to find life amid the rubble. She decried the attacks as crimes against humanity. She cautioned against revenge rather than justice and urged President Bush to act in accordance with International Law. She called for a justice found not in the killing fields of Afghanistan, but in front of an International Court.

In March 2002, Ms. Jagger travelled to Afghanistan with a delegation of fourteen women, organised by Global Exchange to support Afghan women’s projects.
Bianca Jagger in Afghanistan

That same year, in December 2002, Ms. Jagger travelled to India on a Christian Aid mission to shed some light on the HIV/AIDS situation and on the trafficking of children and child prostitution. She visited grassroots organisations in Delhi and Calcutta where she learned about their programmes to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and care for those infected. Speaking to many women and children in the red light district, she learned that for them, safe sex is simply not an option. In Delhi, she met the voluntary Health Association of India, which works with the Indian Government to develop policy on HIV/AIDS. In Calcutta she visited Sanlaap, where she met children who had been trafficked and forced to become sex workers. At Sanlaap Ms. Jagger heard first hand of the stigma faced by people - even children - infected by HIV/AIDS. She visited a shelter called Sneha, which means “affection”, set up by the organisation for children who have been rescued from trafficking. She met 48 girls, from ages 10 to 18, who had been rescued by the police. At the shelter, the girls were living together, learning skills to equip them to earn a living away from the red light districts.
Children who are rescued have to undergo a mandatory HIV/AIDS test. 28 of the 48 girls were already infected with the virus. During her visit, Ms. Jagger listened to horrific stories some of the girls live through in the brothels: stories of unspeakable abuse, cruelty and betrayal. One of the girls was visibly upset, and, after much hesitation, described how men who looked sick, emaciated and who were often covered in with scabs would come to solicit their services at the brothel.
Today, in many countries throughout the world, many believe in the absurd myth that HIV/AIDS can be cured by having sex with a virgin. One of the girls was sobbing inconsolably when she described how the children would beg the madam not to have to sleep with these men, because they believed that they would contract HIV/AIDS. The madam wouldn’t hear their pleas. If they refused to work, they would be abused, beaten and burned with cigarettes. She was talking about herself but she didn’t dare to say it, because she would have had to admit that she had contracted HIV/AIDS. If any of the girls succeeded in escaping and went to the police to seek protection, they were likely to be returned to the brothel by an officer bribed by the madam, and if they returned to their villages their fathers would refuse to take them back.

Ms. Jagger believes governments are failing to address the real ‘terror’ which millions of girls and women face every day.

In January 2003, Ms. Jagger travelled on a fact finding mission to Iraq with a delegation of 32 academics from 28 US Universities. She has been one of the leading voices of the movement against the war in Iraq and was a keynote speaker at the anti-war demonstration 15 February 2003 in Hyde Park. The march that day was the largest political gathering in British history, it was attended by approximately 1,500,000 people.

Ms. Jagger is deeply concerned by the erosion of civil liberties and human rights in the US, the UK and many other nations where anti-terror legislation allows for indefinite detentions without trial and where judges are been excluded from the legal process.

She has denounced George W. Bush’s administration for developing a parallel justice system, circumventing decree by decree the oversight of Congress and the Courts; Secret Military Commissions allow a death sentence without right to appeal. Such proceedings, she has noted, “violate the fundamental rights guaranteed under the US Constitution” and “any curtailment, suspension or elimination of these constitutional liberties weaken rather than strengthen the war on terror”.

Ms. Jagger is a staunch supporter of the International Criminal Court of Justice and the upholding of the rules of the Geneva Convention with regards to the treatment of prisoners. She has participated in numerous television and radio debates related to the war on terror, its victims and its future: most notably on the BBC’s Question Time and Panorama and CNN’s Crossfire. The Bar Human Rights Committee for England and Wales made her their 2001 keynote lecturer at St Paul’s Cathedral, where her speech on the subject of Justice vs. Revenge was widely acclaimed by the media and public alike.

On 16 December 2003, Bianca Jagger was appointed Council of Europe’s Goodwill Ambassador “For the Fight against the Death Penalty”.

On 9 December 2004, Bianca Jagger received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, for “long-standing commitment and dedicated campaigning over a wide range of issues of human rights, social justice and environmental protection, including the abolition of the death penalty, the prevention of child abuse, the rights of indigenous peoples to the environment that supports them and the prevention and healing of armed conflicts.”
On 12 July, Bianca Jagger was elected chair of The World Future Council.

Bianca Jagger is a member of the Executive Director’s Leadership Council for Amnesty International USA and of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch America. Ms. Jagger also serves on the Advisory Board of the Coalition for International Justice. She is a member of the Twentieth Century Task Force to Apprehend War Criminals; a Board member of People for the American Way and the Creative Coalition.

Ms. Jagger has written articles for the op-ed pages of the New York Times(USA), the Washington Post (USA), The Dallas Morning news (USA), the Columbus Dispatcher (USA) the Observer (UK), The Guardian (UK), The Independent (UK), The Mail on Sunday (UK), The Sunday Express (UK) The New Statesman (UK), the European (UK),Liberation (FR), Le Journal du Dimanche (FR), Le Juriste International (FR), Panorama (IT) to name a few.

Andrew Bowerbank

B.Ed, OTC, D.Ind, NCCP, CCEP, LEED AP
Executive Director of the World Green Building Council

Andrew Bowerbank B.Ed, OTC, D.Ind, NCCP, CCEP, LEED AP is the Executive Director of the World Green Building Council, where he regularly draws from his diverse background to engage international leaders and encourage sustainable development strategies. Prior to his 2007 appointment to the World Green building Council, Mr. Bowerbank was the Manager for Sustainable Development for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and the Executive Director for the Greater Toronto Chapter of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). He has been directly involved in the development of the CaGBC since 2003 through various responsibilities, and has acted as a green building consultant for a number of high profile projects. He is also a professor of design certified by the Ontario Ministry of Education and a member of the Ontario College of Teachers. As a published author, Mr. Bowerbank has had two of his books on Canada’s “best sellers” list. In 2007, he received the Leader of the Year award by Enerquality Corporation and the Ontario Home Builders Association for his contributions to sustainable community development and green home design.

Kathleen Law

State Representative
Michigan House

Elected to the Michigan House in 2002, State Representative Kathleen Law has brought her extensive experience in local government and her background in science and research to make her mark as one of Michigan's most authoritative voices on protecting the state's land, air and water. She is leading the fight against Canadian and out-of-state trash, sponsoring legislation that attacks the economics of the trash trade. She is a lead sponsor of legislation that will boost the use of renewable energy in Michigan through allowing citizens and businesses to produce renewable energy and feed it in to the power grid. She is also a tireless fighter for working class families and seniors supporting legislation to: extend unemployment benefits, raise the minimum wage and create programs to bulk purchase prescription drugs. Rep. Law is a former research scientist, retired in 1988; and former mayor pro tem for the city of Gibraltar. She lives in Gibraltar. She and her husband, Richard, have one son and two grandsons.

Hon. George Smitherman

Deputy Premier, Ontario
Minister of Energy and Infrastructure
Ontario, Canada

George Smitherman was first elected to serve the diverse communities of downtown Toronto in 1999, but his interest in politics was sown over 20 years earlier. Inspired by the life and politics of Pierre Trudeau, he gained experience at all three levels of government, working in support of several senior political leaders.

From his home base in Toronto’s gay community, where he owned and operated a small business for nearly a decade, Smitherman launched his campaign for public office. He is Ontario’s first openly gay MPP and cabinet minister. He married his partner, Christopher, in the summer of 2007 north of Elliot Lake, Ontario. They live in Cabbagetown.

In the community, Smitherman is well known for his advocacy in areas such as housing, heritage preservation, community economic development, protection of pension rights, efforts to combat guns and drugs, and human rights issues.

Smitherman was appointed Minister of Energy and Infrastructure in June 2008. He previously served as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care since 2003.

As the longest-serving Ontario Minister of Health in the last quarter century, Smitherman strongly led key McGuinty government initiatives, including the effort to reduce wait times and enhance access to nurses and doctors.