Ian Dunlop
Ian Dunlop has wide experience in energy resources, infrastructure, and international business, for 30 years on the international staff of Royal Dutch Shell. He has worked at senior level in oil, gas and coal exploration and production, in scenario and long-term energy planning, competition reform and privatization.
He chaired the Australian Coal Associations in 1987-88. From 1998-2000 he chaired the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading which developed the first emissions trading system design for Australia. From 1997 to 2001 he was CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Ian has a particular interest in the interaction of corporate governance, corporate responsibility and sustainability.
An engineer from the University of Cambridge (UK), MA Mechanical Sciences, he is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Energy Institute (UK), and a Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME (USA). He is Chairman of Safe Climate Australia, a Director of Australia 21, Deputy Covernor of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil, a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development, a Member of The Club of Rome and a member of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Climate Change Task Force. He advises and writes extensively on governance and sustainability.
Tapio Kanninen
Tapio Kanninen is Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Project on Global Sustainability at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He was Chief of the Policy Planning Unit in the UN Department of Political Affairs (1998-2005) and Head of the Secretariat of Kofi Annan’s five Summits with Regional Organizations. Kanninen has worked on several UN reforms: as secretary and research focal point of the high-level drafting group of Boutros-Boutros Ghali’s An Agenda for Peace and convener of the interdepartmental task force to implement its recommendations; secretary of General Assembly Working Groups on An Agenda for Peace; of Strengthening of the UN System; and of Security Council reform. He also worked as a team member of the UNEP-funded project in the UN Statistical Office to develop a global framework for environmental statistics.
Previous to an extensive international career, he worked at the Statistics Finland, a state statistic agency, and the Finnish Academy of Science and Letter. He was in charge of the preparations for the Finland’s first social indicator publication Living Conditions in Finland 1950-1975 and the second environmental statistics yearbook. Kanninen holds a M.A. in economics from the University of Helsinki and a Ph.D. in political science from the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His Ph.D. dissertation was based on his work in Javier Perez de Cuellar’s Office on the UN financial crisis and reform and published as Leadership and Reform (1995) by Kluwer. He is also an author of Crisis of Global Sustainability (2013) by Routledge. In 2004, Kanninen was invited to join the prominent Club of Rome, the story of which is described in his new book.
Mika Aaltonen
Mika Aaltonen is a Ph.D. (Econ.), Editorial Board Member of E:CO and European Futures Research journals, Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, and a research director at Aalto University research unit for strategic intelligence and exploration of futures.
He is also the CEO of Helsinki Sustainability Center, and has written 12 books and over 100 articles about sense-making, decision-making, foresight and respective methodologies.
His recent books include The Third Lens, Multi-ontology Sense-making and Strategic Decision-making (Ashgate), Robustness, Adaptive and Anticipatory Human Systems (Emergent Publications), and The Renaissance Society (McGraw-Hill), together with Rolf Jensen.