World Student Community for Sustainable Development

Dr. Thomas Andersson

President of Jönköping University, Sweden.
Professor of International Economics at Jönköping International Business School

Thomas Andersson, Professor of economics with specialisation in international economics and industrial organisation at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), was President of Jönköping University over the past five years and currently holds a number of international board and advisory positions.

He is Senior Advisor of science, technology and innovation policy in the Sultanate of Oman, project leader for the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi on the development of an innovation policy, Chairman of the International Entrepreneurship Academy (Intentac), President of the International Organisation of Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED), and Vice Chairman of Division XI of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA) on education and research policy. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Swedish Agency for Higher Education, board member of the Swedish Programme on ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER), member of the high-level expert group convened by the European Commission on Scientific Data e-Infrastructures, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Forum.

Among previous assignments, Thomas Andersson has been Deputy Director of Science, Technology and Industry at the OECD where, among other responsibilities, he headed the technology part of the OECD Jobs Study and co-coordinated the OECD Growth Study. Prior to the OECD he was Assistant Under-secretary and head of the Structural Policy Secretariat in the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Commerce. He obtained his PhD and became Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University, Bank of Japan, Hitotsubashi University, and the University of Sao Paulo. He was awarded the Annual Lifetime “Distinguished Scholar Award” at Innovations ‘07 in Dubai.

Dr. Jeffrey I. Steinfeld

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

His research has been focused on molecular spectroscopy, molecular energy transfer, laser applications to chemistry, and “green chemistry”. Current focuses on introducing concepts of sustainability and environmental responsibility across the educational curriculum. Dr. Steinfeld served as a co-editor of Spectrochimica Acta, Part A from 1983-98; he is currently a member of the International Advisory Board of Progress in Natural Science: Communications from State Key Laboratories in China.

Since 1995, Dr. Steinfeld has been affiliated with M.I.T.’s Laboratory for Energy and Environment (LFEE), the M.I.T. Council on the Environment, and the Alliance for Global Sustainability. He has served as Education Program Director at LFEE and Education Coordinator in the AGS. At LFEE, he directed the Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows Program in the Environment and Sustainability and the Environmental Fellows Program. Since their establishment Dr. Steinfeld has been an instructor at the Youth Encounter on Sustainability (Y.E.S.) courses organized by the ETH-Zürich and the AGS, and the “Educators’ Seminar on Teaching Sustainability” in May 2005.

Among other commissions Dr. Steinfeld has  served as chairman the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Environmental Improvement. He also serves on the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Chemical Demilitarization, and co-chaired a recent NSF Workshop on “Instrumentation for Environmental Science”. In 1999 he received the ACS Director’s Award for Advancing ACS Public Policy in Environment, for work to encourage the use of sound science in global climate change policy, and in 2004 the “Prophetic Voice for Sustainability Award” from Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light.

Mr. Philip Osano

PhD Candidate in Geography at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Studies in Environmental Science at Egerton University in Kenya, and Conservation Biology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.
Philip’s research is on payments for ecosystem services (PES) targeting biodiversity conservation in Kenya. He previously worked at BirdLife International African Partnership Secretariat co-ordination livelihoods and conservation projects several African countries, and also providing support to BirdLife’s environmental policy work with Multilateral Environmental Agreements.

As a Co-Chair of the Borgholm Youth Conference on Environment and Development held under the auspices of the Swedish Presidency of the European Union in 2001, he guided over 200 participants from 90 countries to prepare a youth resolution to the United Nations on sustainable development. He is also involved in research for the Global Higher Education for Sustainability Partnership (GHESP) and Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in African Universities (MESA) Partnership. Among his other responsibilities include roles as African Regional Project Manager for the World YES Forum, a global education project of ETH-Zurich, a stint in the Youth Advisory Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 2001 – 2003, and member of the Government of Kenya delegation to the 10th Meeting of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-10) in Indonesia, 2002.

Philip is a member of the World Conservation Union, Commission on Education and Communication (IUCN-CEC). He is an alumni of the Sauvé Scholars Program of the Jean Sauvé Foundation in Canada and has co-edited a book titled, “Young People, Education and Sustainable Development: Exploring Principles, Perspectives and Praxis” (Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2009), as part of the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD 2005-2014).

Mr. Steven Millman, S.M., M.A.

Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Co-founder of WSC-SD
Martin Sustainability Fellow

Mr. Millman is a Senior Associate with Booz Allen’s Organization and Strategy Team focused on quantitative/statistical analysis, survey design, research design, and other applied research techniques. Steven previously served as the Lead Quantitative Researcher at BearingPoint, providing social science solutions in support of a wide variety of Federal and private clients, including the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury, TRICARE Health Program Analysis & Evaluation Division, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Centers for Disease Control.

Along with Yasuhiro Fukushima, Mr. Millman co-founded what is now the WSC-SD. Mr. Millman served as the WSC-SD’s Inaugural President and the Chair of its first Annual Meeting in Costa Rica. He is an Alumni of the Martin Fellowship for Sustainable Development and has given a variety of presentations on Climate Change and Sustainable development including two presentations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC COP4 and COP5), the Columbia Earth Institute, the Alliance for Global Sustainability, and as an invited lecturer at the University of Tokyo. Mr. Millman also served as the Program Manager for the Global System for Sustainable Development, a knowledge networking system organizing and distributing sustainability information globally in multiple languages.

Mr. Millman is ABD in MIT’s PhD program in Political Science where he also holds a Master of Science degree. He also holds a Master of Arts in American Politics and Public Policy from Western Washington University.

Dr. Greg Morrisson

Professor, Department for Water Environment Transport at the School of Civil Engineering Chalmers University

After an environmental education at the University of Plymouth (B.Sc hons 1981) and the University of Southampton (MSc 1982), he joined a research project between Chalmers and the University of Middlesex. The research dealt with metal speciation, transformations and transport in urban runoff and resulted in the presentation of his PhD in 1985. He continued this research at the CSIRO Division of Fuel Technology, Sydney (1987 and 1988) and returned to Chalmers in 1989 as Assistant Professor. He became “docent” in 1990 and “biträdande professor” in 1995. Gregory Morrison is director of Chalmers International Master’s Programme in Applied Environmental Measurement Techniques and Vice Dean of the School for Environmental Sciences. With responsibility for new environmental profiles in Chalmers undergraduate education, he also wrote Chalmers Environmental Initiative (six new environmental professorships funded by the Chalmers Foundation). Since January 1, 2000 he has been Head of Department for Water Environment Transport at the School of Civil Engineering.