1 - Unemployment, decent work and migrations:

. Dr. Aderanti Adepoju (Nigeria) - Coordinator, Network of Migration Research on Africa (NOMRA)

. Ms. Carmen Helena Ferreira Foro (Brazil) - Secretary for Women Rural Workers, National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (CONTAG)

. Ms. Deborah Wince-Smith (United States of America) - President, The Council on Competitiveness

. Dr. James K. Galbraith (United States of America) - Professor, Texas University

. Dr. Lu Hulin (China) - Professor, Beijing University

. Ms. Nana-Fosu Randall (Ghana) - Founder and President, Voices of African Mothers (VAM)

. Ms. Sharan Burrow (Australia) - Secretary-General, International Trade Union Confederation

. Mr. Wang Shi (China) - Director, China Vanke Co. Ltd.

2 - Sustainable Development as an answer to the economic and financial crises:

. Mr. Caio Koch-Weser (Germany) - Vice-Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group

. Dr. Enrique V. Iglesias (Uruguay) - Secretary-General, Iberoamerican General Secretariat (SEGIB). Former President, Interamerican Bank (1988-2005)

. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (United States of America) - Professor, Columbia University

. Dr. Herman Mulder (Netherlands) - Chairman, Global Reporting Initiative (RPI)

. Ms. Kate Raworth (United Kingdom) - Researcher, Oxfam

. Dra. Marcela Benítez (Argentina) - Founder, Director, RESPONDE Association

. Dr. Maria da Conceição Tavares (Brazil) -Professor, UFRJ

. Dr. Yilmaz Akyuz (Turkey) - Chief Economist, South Centre

3 - Sustainable Development for Fighting Poverty:

. Dr. Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Portugal) - Professor, University of Coimbra

. Dr. Judith Sutz (Uruguay) - Professor, University of the Republic

. Ms. Lourdes Huanca Atencio (Peru) - President, National Federation of Women Rural Workers, Artisans, Indigenous and Wage Workers of Peru (Femucarinap)

. Dr. Manish Bapna (United States of America) - President, interim, World Resources Institute (WRI)

. Dr. Márcia Lopes (Brazil) - Professor, Brazilian Former Minister for Development and Fight against Hunger

. Mr. Marcos Terena (Brazil) - President, Intertribal Committee;

. Dr. Pavan Sukhdev (India) - Special Advisor, Green Economy Initiative, UNEP

. Ms. Severn Cullis-Suzuki (Canada) - Board of Directors, David Suzuki Foundation

. Dr. Yang Tuan (China) - Director, Center for Study of Social Policies, Chinese Academy for Social Sciences

4 - The Economics of Sustainable Development, including sustainable patterns of production and consumption:

. Dr. Elisabeth Laville (France) - Director, UTOPIES

. Dr. Enase Okonedo (Nigeria) - Dean, Lagos Business School

. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norway) - Former Prime Minister of Norway

. Mr. Helio Mattar (Brazil) - President, Akatu Institute. Co-founder of the Ethos Institute

. Dr. Ignacy Sachs (France) - Professor, Centre de Recherche sur le Brésil Contemporain (CRDC), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

. Mr. Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio (Peru) - CEO, Planetary Skin Institute

. Dr. Kelly Rigg (United States of America) - Founding Director, Varda Group

. Dr. Mathis Wackernagel (Switzerland) - Co-Founder, Executive-Director, Global Footprint Network

. Ambassador Rubens Ricupero (Brazil) - Former Secretary-General, UNCTAD

5 - Forests:

. Mr. André Giacini de Freitas (Brazil) - Executive-Director, Forest Stewardship Council

. Dr. Bertha Becker (Brazil) - Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ

. Mr. Christian Del Valle (United Kingdom) - Founder, Manager, Althelia Climate Fund

. Mr. Estebancio Castro Diaz (Panama) - Executive-Secretary, Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Tropical Forests

. Dr. Julia Marton-Lefevre (France) - Director-General, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

. Dr. Klaus Töpfer (Germany) - Founder, Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment (1998-2006)

. Dr. Lu Zhi (China) - Director, Center for Nature and Society, Beijing University

. Dr. Yolanda Kakabadse (Ecuador) - President, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

6 - Food and nutrition security:

. Mr. Carlo Petrini (Italy) - Founder, President, Slow Food

. Ms. Esther Penunia (Philipines) - Secretary-General, Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)

. Ms. Hortensia Hidalgo (Chile) - Indigenous Women Network of Latin America and the Caribbean for Biodiversity (RMIB)

. Ms. Josette Sheeran (United States of America) - Vice-President, World Economic Forum

. Dr. Luísa Dias Diogo (Mozambique) - Former Prime Minister of Mozambique

. Mr. Marco Marzano de Marinis (Italy) - Executive Director, World Farmers Organisation

. Dr. Martin Khor (Malasia) - Executive-Director, South Centre

. Dr. Mary Robinson (Ireland) - Director, International Institute for the Environment and Development (IIED)

. Dr. Renato S. Maluf (Brazil) - Coordinator, Center for Food Security, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ)

. Dr. Vandana Shiva (India) - Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology

7 - Sustainable energy for all:

. Mr. Brian Dames (South Africa) - CEO, Eskom

. Ms. Changhua Wu (United States of America) - Director, Greater China - The Climate Group

. Ms. Christine Lins (Austria) - Executive-Secretary, REN21

. Mr. José Antonio Vargas Lleras (Colombia) - President, CODENSA

. Dr. Kornelis Blok (Netherlands) - Founder, Ecofys Group

. Dr. Luiz Pinguelli Rosa (Brazil) - Director, COPPE-UFRJ; Executive-Secretary, Brazilian Forum on Climate Change (FBMC)

. Ms. Sandrine Dixson-Declève (Belgium) - Director, EU Office, University of Cambridge, Program for Sustainability and Leadership;Vice-Chair, European biofuels technology platform

. Mr. Vasco Dias (Brazil) - President, Raízen Energia

8 - Water:

. Mr. Albert Butare (Rwanda) - CEO, Africa Energy Services Group

. Dr. Ania Grobicki (Sweden) - Executive-Secretary, Global Water Partnership (GWP)

. Dr. Benedito Braga (Brazil) - President, International Water Resources Association (IWRA). Vice-President, World Water Council (WWC)

. Mr. Dyborn Chibonga (Malawi) - CEO, National Smallholder Farmer´s Association of Malawi (NASFAM)

. Mr. Jeff Seabright (United States of America) - Vice-President, Environment and Water Resources - Coca-Cola Co.

. Dr. Loïc Fauchon (France) - President, World Water Council Board of Governors

. Dr. Muhammed Yunus (Bangladesh) - Founder, Grameen Bank

. Ms. Myrna Cunningham Kaim (Nicaragua) - Director, Permanent Forum of the United Nations of Indigenous People (2011-2013)

. Dr. Santa Sheela Nair (India) - Former Secretary, Department of Fresh Water, Ministry of Rural Development, India

9 - Sustainable cities and innovation:

. Dr. Alejandro Aravena (Chile) - Architect, CEO, Elemental

. Dr. Barry Bergdoll (United States of America) - Chief Curator, Architecture and Design, MoMA

. Mr. David Cadman (Canada) - President, Local Governments of Sustainability (ICLEI)

. Dr. Enrique Ortiz (Mexico) - Former President, Habitat International Coalition (HIC)

. Mr. Jaime Lerner (Brazil) - President, Jaime Lerner Institute. Former Mayor of Curitiba and former Governor of Paraná

. Dr. Janice Perlman (United States of America) - President, Mega Cities Project

. Mr. Oded Grajew (Brazil) - President Emeritus, Ethos Institute

. Ms. Nawal Al-Hosany (United Arab Emirates) - Director for Sustainability, Masdar

. Dr. Shigeru Ban (Japan) - Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects

10 - Oceans:

. Mr. Arthur Bogason (Iceland) - President, Icelandic National Association of Small Boat Owners

. Ms Asha de Vos (Sri Lanka) - Marine biologist, Western Australia University

. Dr. Biliana Cicin-Sain (Italy) - President, Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands

. Dr. Jean-Michel Cousteau (France) - President, Ocean Futures Society

. Ms. Margareth Nakato (Uganda) - World Fishermen Forum

. Dr. Robin Mahon (Barbados) - Professor, University of West Indies

. Dr. Segen Farid Estefen (Brazil) - Professor, COPPE, UFRJ

. Mr. Shaj Thayil (Singapore) - Vice-President, Technical Services and Ship Management

. Dr. Sylvia Earle (United States of America) - Founder, Mission Blue Foundation

. Dr. Ussif Rashid Sumaila (Nigeria) - Director, Fisheries Centre and Fisheries Economics Research Unit, British Columbia University