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Keynotes
It is our honor to welcome the following keynote speakers for the 3rd International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development:
The Challenge of Sustainability for Higher Education (Friday, 20th of November)
Prof. Dr. Emil Salim, economist and former Minister for Population and the Environment of Indonesia is a Professor of Economic Development. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Indonesia, obtained a PhD degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and returned to Indonesia to a teaching position at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Indonesia.
Professor Salim has chaired the Foundation for Sustainable Development and the Kehati Foundation, and co-chaired the United States-Indonesia Society. He is a member of the Association of Indonesian Moslem Intellectuals.
Prof. Dr. Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He serves as Chair of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Board of Directors and as honorary vice president of the American Society of International Law. Richard A. Falk also acted as counsel to Ethiopia and Liberia in the Southwest Africa Case before the International Court of Justice. He received his B.S. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; L.L.B. from Yale Law School; and J.S.D. from Harvard University.
His most recent book, The Great Terror War (2003), considers the American response to September 11, including its relationship to the patriotic duties of American Citizens. In 2001 he served on a three person Human Rights Inquiry Commission for the Palestine Territories that was appointed by the United Nations, and previously, on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo.
The vision, the history and the status of higher Education in the context of sustainable development (Saturday, 21th of November)
Prof. Dr. Hans van Ginkel is former of the United Nations University, Tokyo, since September 1997. He was President of the International Association of Universities (IAU, Paris) from 2000 to 2004 and is a member of the Academia Europaea, Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC, Enschede), former Vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT, Bangkok) and Rector of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He holds a Ph.D. cum laude from Utrecht University (1979) and honorary doctorates from Universitatea Babes-Bolyai (1997), State University of California (2003), University of Ghana (2005), Technical University in Zvolen (2006) and McMaster University (2007). He serves as a member and officer in several professional associations and organizations and contributed extensively to the work of various international educational organizations.
Think outside the box: broaden the horizon of education for sustainable development practices (Saturday, 21th of November)
Prof. Dr. Arjen Wals obtained his PhD in 1991 with a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and now works as Assistant Professor at the Communication and Innovation Studies group at Wageningen University. He has (co)published and (co) edited over 150 articles, chapters and books on topics like: action research & community problem-solving, whole school approaches to sustainability, multi-stakeholder social learning, biodiversity as a learning area for environmental education, and sustainability in higher education. He is a past-president of the Special Interest Group on Ecological & Environmental Education of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Wals also is a co-founder and past-president of the NGO Caretakers of the Environment International.
Future challenges of Higher Education in the context of sustainable development (Sunday, 22th of November)
Prof. Dr. Abdul Razak Dzulkifli, Vice Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia, is a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Policies and Management (1995 – present), and was a member of the WHO Scientific Advisory Committee on Tobacco Product Regulation between 2000 and 2002. Currently he is the Chairman of the Malaysian Examination Council; Member of the National Higher Education Council of Malaysia; Board Member of the Open University of Malaysia; Chairman of the Malaysian VC Council; Member of the Committee on Higher Education Policy in Malaysia; and Deputy Board member of the International Association of Universities (IAU).
He has published no less than 500 articles on various topics related science, education, health and also current events. He has authored no less than 20 titles in his area of interest and expertise.
Prof. Dr. Gerd Michelsen is Head of the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication at the University of Lüneburg. He was a joint founder of the Institute for Applied Ecology in Freiburg i.Br. He is the German representative in the UNECE Task Force “Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development”. He is also a member of the UNESCO National Committee for the decade of “Education for Sustainable Development”. Since 2005 he holds the UNESCO-Chair “Higher Education for Sustainable Development.
