Ambassador Ahmed Nabil El Salawy joined the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an attache in 1957. He has held posts in many countries, including Austria, Angola, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. He has been Deputy Chief of Protocol in Egypt and Head of the African Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cairo, and has also served as Ambassador of Egypt to Greece. He has been awarded the Merit Decoration of the Arab Republic of Egypt, as well as Swedish and German Decorations.

Professor Ahmet Samsunlu studied at Hanover Technical University (B.Sc., M.Sc.) and received his doctorate there in environmental engineering. He worked at the Ege University, Izmir, until 1986 where he became Professor, Chairman of the Department of Environmental Engineering and Dean and Vice-Rector of the University. At present, he is the Chairman of the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul. He has been Turkish representative at the European Council for Environment Group, a member of the Turkish National Research Organisation's environmental group and a Board member of the Turkish State Organisation. As a member of Parliament, he was Minister for Housing, City Planning, Resettlement and the Environment.

Professor Vitaly Samuilov is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Soviet Union and Director of the Biotechnology Center.

George Saridakis, a Greek Supreme Court lawyer, is honorary member of the European Parliament. First elected Euro-Parliamentarian in 1986, he has also been a member of the Mixed Parliamentary Committee, EEC-Turkey, of the Council of the Jean Monnet Institute for Europe (Laussane), Vice-President of the Parliamentary Team of the European Popular Party, Vice President of the Sub-Committee on Monetary Matters of the European Parliament, and a member of the Committee of Agriculture, Fisheries and Open Air Development. In 1993, he received a Recognition of Honour from the Ecumenical Patriarch.

Professor Pavel Sarkisov has been Rector of D.I. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, since 1985. A Chemical Engineer, specialising in silicon industry, he received his Ph.D. from Mendeleyev University and subsequently served as junior and senior scientific fellow and professor on the faculty. He has published over 300 scientific papers and patents in the field of chemical technology and his current scientific interests lie in the fields of physical chemistry, technology of crystal glass materials and industrial environmental problems. Winner of the State Prize of the Republic of Ukraine, Professor Sarkisov is also Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vice-President of the Mendeleyev Chemical Society, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences and Council Member of the American Institute of Chemistry.

Dr. John Sarmas, Counsellor at the National Court of Audits, studied law in Athens and Paris and received a Ph.D. in French law from the University of Paris II in 1985. From 1987-1993, he was an Auditor with the Hellenic Council of State and joined the National Court of Audits in 1993. He is currently President of the section on the control of Community expenses in Greece (IVth section) and the section on the control of public market contracts (VIth section). Since 1988, he has taught finance and administration at the National School of Public Administration and, since 1996, Community and Public Law at the National School of Judges. A Member of the Legislative Council of the Greek Government since 1998, Dr. Sarmas was Auditor at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union from 1989-1997 and at the United Nations World Food Programme in 1997. He has published extensively on issues of constitutional and administrative jurisprudence, as well as on the role of a Court of Audits in matters of the environment.

Zoya Sharikova is a Senior Consultant for the Committee on Legislative Provision and Freedom of Speech and Mass Media of the Supreme Parliament of Ukraine. She graduated from Kiev State University with a degree in journalism and has held several journalistic positions, including Head of the Department of Culture for the Kiev daily newspaper "Kievska Pravda".

Joachim Paul Schaefer, joint General Manager and Co-Founder of WWB WasteWater Biotechnologies GmbH, has over 35 years' experience in sales, investments and asset management with some of the world's leading companies. He has been Assistant Sales Director with Alfred Teves GmbH, Sales Representative and Sales Manager with Airborne Freight Corporation Frankfurt, Purchasing Order Processing Manager with Souriau Electric GmbH, Investment Advisor with Prudential-Bach Securities Inc., Branch Manager Prudential-Bach Securities in Dusseldorf, and Independent Asset Manager in association with PSM Munich. Joining forces with George Kalos in 1998, he brought his considerable expertise and business acumen to the field of biotechnology.

Dolores F. Schell holds a degree in Interior Design from the University of Manitoba, has studied macro- and micro-economics, organisational behavior and administrative law. She has worked at the Grain Marketing Bureau of the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa as a market and policy analyst with specific responsibilities for monitoring the European Comminity and has served on the Board of Directors of the Transformation Research Network.

Professor Michael J. Scoullos obtained an M.Sc. and D.Sc. from the University of Athens and later received a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Liverpool, and a Professorship of Environmental and Marine Chemistry from the University of Athens. He is President of the Greek National Committee of the University of Athens and the Greek National Committee of the European Environment Bureau, and the E.E.B., and a member of the Mediterranean Scientific Association for Environmental Protection, the European Association for Marine Sciences and Technology, the Greek National Commission for UNESCO, and the Environment Group of the Society of Chemical Industry in the United Kingdom.

Professor Constantinos Sekeris, a specialist in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, is currently Director of the Biological Research Center, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Athens and Honorary Professor of Heidelberg. He has published extensively in the fields of hormone action, eukaryotic, molecular and cell biology, and insect developmental biology. He is a member of several professional societies and organisations, some of which are: the Hellenic Bio-Chemical and Biophysical Society, the German Society of Biological Chemistry, the Biochemical Society of the UK, EMBO, and the Hellenic Society of Biological Research.

Dr. Liduvina R. Senora holds a Ph.D. in educational management and supervision. She is Executive Secretary of the UN Association of the Philippines, president of the National Federation of UNESCO Clubs and Associated Schools in the Philippines, and vice-president of the Asian Federation of UNESCO Clubs and Associations in Tokyo, Japan. She has published several books dealing with education and social studies and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of UNESCO Clubs and Associations. In recognition of her efforts for the realisation of world peace, international understanding and co-operation, Dr. Senora has received many national honorary awards.

Ambassador Yuryi Sergeyev, currently Secretary of State, was Ambassador of Ukraine to Greece from 1997 to 2001. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics and has held positions as Lecturer and Associate Professor in Linguistics at Kiev University and at the UNESCO Katibugu Institute in Mali. He has been Deputy Director of the Institute of Ukrainian Heritage, Director of the Press Office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Department of Information at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Embassy of Ukraine in the UK, and has headed governmental delegations at special sessions and conferences of the UN, the Council of Europe, NATO and the OSCE. He has published over 40 scientific articles in the fields of linguistics, history and Ukrainian politics.

Professor Necdet Serin was born in Izmir in 1933. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University in 1957, becoming a Full Professor in 1976 and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science from 1982 to 1987. Professor Serin is the President of the Turkish Economic Society and the Turkish Economic Society Foundation, council member of the International Economic Association, member of the administrative board of the European Community Society and member of the administrative board of the Public Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle East. He is also a founder member of the Turkish Marketing Foundation. He has represented Turkey in many meetings as head of the Turkish delegation. He has published numerous articles and four books on Turkey's economic development and foreign trade.

Dr. Guy Sergheraert received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Lille, France. He has been Director-General for Quality Control and Production Director for Groupes Pharmaceutiques. Presently, he directs the Centre de Valorisation des Glucides et Produits Naturels in Amiens, France, whose aim is to enlarge the dimensions of biotechnology and to enhance greater respect of the bio-environment.

The Honorable Ismet Sezgin is Minister of Interior of Turkey. He graduated from the School of Economics and Commerce of Izmir. Being active in politics for several years with the Democratic Party, he was elected Mayor of Aydin province in 1955. In 1961 he was elected Member of Parliament with the Justice Party, of which he was Member of the Board, Member of the Administrative Board, General Accountant and finally Vice-President. He was President of the Planning and Budget Commission of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and served as Minister of Youth and Sports and Minister of Justice in successive Justice Party Governments. He took an active role in the foundation of the True Path Party, being a Member of the Administrative Board, elected Member of the Parliament and Minister of Interior in the new Turkish Government on 20th November, 1991. His publications include articles and books on finance and population growth.

David W. Shapiro is an adjunct faculty member in the graduate program in communications at Simmons College, Boston. A former public school teacher in a variety of multi-cultural settings, he is an educational media producer presently researching Mankind-Media-The Natural World. He is a doctoral candidate in Educational Media and Technology at Boston University.

Professor Anatoliy T. Shishatskiy is Vice-Director of Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Management and Rational Use of National Resources, at the Novorossiysk Branch of Kuban State Technological University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Pedagogical University of Moscow and has served as Head of the Department of Humanitarian Education and Law, as well as Senior Scientific Collaborator at the Scientific Research University.

Professor Alexander Shishkin is Head of the Laboratory on Ecological Standardisation and Monitoring, St. Petersburg State Technological University for Plant Polymers. He is also Co-ordinator for the Coastwatch Europe International Programme in Russia, and Head of the Baltic/Ladoga Ecological Club for Postgraduate Students and Schoolchildren. He has authored over 160 scientific works and his field of research is connected with methods for mathematical modelling processes for environmental quality control.

Dr. A. Shlikov received a degree in metallurgy in 1962 and a candidate of science degree in 1969 and has been a member of the staff of the U.S.S.R. Committee for Science and Technology since 1976. His main field of activity is the management, education and training of scientific manpower.

Dr. Nadezhda Shulenina holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow University. A specialist in "Ecology and the Human Future," her interests also include philosophical aspects and analyses of bios and its preservation, ecological consciousness, culture and tradition.

Professor Mihaly Simai is Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, currently working as a Research Professor at the Academy's Institute for World Economics. He is also Professor of International Economics and Business Studies at the Budapest University of Economics, and Director of the Graduate Program on International Business Strategy. Professor Simai's professional experience includes teaching, research, business consulting and research management. From 1986 to 1992, he was Member and Chairman of the Council of the United Nations University, and from 1993 to 1995, Director of the World Institute for Development Economics of the United Nations University in Helsinki. He is on the Editorial Board of a number of international journals, including Transnational (Geneva), Global Governance (New York), International Affairs (London), Development Studies (Geneva), and Environment and Resource Economics (Amsterdam), and has published more than 240 scientific articles and 36 books in Hungarian, English, French, Russian, Arabic, Korean and Japanese. Professor Simai is Honorary President and former President of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, President of the Hungarian United Nations Association and President of the Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF.

Professor Udo Simonis is a research professor in environmental policy at the Science Centre Berlin and former member of the German Advisory Council on Global Environment Change. He studied economics at the University of Mainz and the University of Freiburg, and received a Ph.D. from the University of Kiel. His previous positions include Personal Advisor to the President of Zambia, Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo, Professor of Economics at the Technical University of Berlin, Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Director of the International Institute for Environment and Society at the Science Centre Berlin. Professor Simonis is the Chairman of the Association of German Scientists and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Development and Peace Foundation.

Nikos Skoulas had been occupied with the trading and distribution of food products in Canada and Greece for a period of twenty-five years. Among others, his activities have included wholesales and retail sales of food products, as well as the supply of, and support to, aggregate feeding locations. For six years he has held various governmental positions in Greece such as Secretary of Problematic Enterprises; Secretary-General of the Hellenic National Tourism Organization; Alternate Minister of National Economy and Minister of Tourism. Today he acts as a business consultant, especially in the food sector and runs the "Leading Executives Workshop Group" which he founded in 1985 with the aim of the organization and execution of pilot management training programs for Greek companies' executives.

Professor Bradley Smith, who holds a Ph.D. from the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, is currently Dean of Huxley College of Environmental Science at Western Washington University and Advisor to the President of the United States on environmental issues. From 1991 to 1994 he served as Director, Office of Environmental Education, United States Environmental Protection Agency, in Washington D.C. He has also served as Member of the US Senior Executive Service, Acting President of the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation and US Representative to, and Chairman of, the Trilateral Committee of the Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Education Among Canada, Mexico and the United States. Internationally, he is continuing advisor to the United Nations Environmental Program, and a member of the International Advisory Council for Education and Communication on Environment and Development, Toronto, Canada, as well as advisor to various important organisations. Professor Smith has authored or co-authored several environmentally related textbooks, including the frequently re-printed "Environmental Science: the Study of Interrelationships." He has been the recipient of numerous environmental awards, including the EPA's own Bronze Medal, in 1993.

Dr. Stanislav I. Sokolenko, currently Chairman of the Board of UKRIMPEX Joint Stock Company, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the All-Union Marketing Institute, Moscow. From 1975-1981, he was Senior Advisor at the Council of Ministers of Ukraine, responsible for strategic planning, economic development and foreign trade development. From 1981-1986, Dr. Sokolenko was Senior Officer at UNIDO, Austria, and supervised programmes for developing countries. Following a one-year appointment with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, he became Director General of UKRIMPEX, the first foreign trade association ever in operation in Ukraine. In 1993, he was appointed the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Ukraine, focusing his efforts on the improvement of foreign trade structure, capital market development and the attraction of foreign investments to Ukraine. In order to more effectively follow through on his ideas, he returned to UKRIMPEX, which was subsequently privatised, under his leadership, in 1994. Dr. Sokolenko is a member of a number of inter-governmental bodies, has more than 60 articles on macro- and microeconomics published in Ukrainian and foreign journals, and has recently written a book on Modern World Markets and Ukraine.

Rabbi Dr. Norman Solomon, previously Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Judaism and Jewish/Christian Relations at Selly Oak College, Birmingham, is currently a Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought on the Faculty of Theology, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford. He has also been Lecturer in the Department of Theology, University of Birmingham and Visiting lecturer to the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Dr. Solomon is Advisor to the International Council of Christians and Jews, and a regular participant in major international Jewish/Christian consultations, including the 1993 Athens Conference on Orthodox Christianity and Judaism.

A graduate of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Professor Ladislav Somsak worked as Assistant and Associate Professor at the Department of Geobotany, before becoming full Professor of Botany in 1984. He has served as Head of the Department of Geobotany and Director of the Botanical Gardens of Comenius University, and is, presently, Professor of Botany at the Department of Soil Sciences. His main scientific activities are in the field of phytocoenology and nature preservation, and he lectures on geobotany, dynamics of vegetation, and basic problems of forests.

Professor Vlassios Sotiropoulos studied chemistry and engineering before becoming a lecturer at Carlsruhe University, Germany. He subsequently collaborated extensively, in Germany, with large German companies, and was involved with the construction of several industrial plants. In 1978 he was appointed Professor in the Department of Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is currently Head of the Energy Department of the Physical Process Laboratory, President of the Institute of Solar Technology and President of the European joint venture company MISCANTHUS. Professor Sotiropoulos has published extensively.

Dr. V.L. Souponitsky graduated from Moscow State University in 1968 (biological faculty, department of biophysics), and has been working there, first at the laboratory of bionics where he examined problems of sensory physiology and modelling of receptors' functions, and later at the department of hydrobiology, where he headed a research team charged with monitoring of aquatic ecosystems. He is doctor of biophysics and has 60 scientific publications and 12 patents to his credit. In 1982, V.L. Souponitsky was awarded the USSR Council of Ministers Prize for research into ecology of aquatic ecosystems. He participated in complex expeditions to the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic and Arctic oceans, and in research programmes carried out by research vessels and various underwater devices. At the present, Dr. Souponitsky heads a laboratory of complex ecological investigations and ecological expertise and is General Director of the consortium EcoAqua.

Professor Antonio Manuel de Sousa Otto teaches at the University of Algarve. As Director General Adjoint for Development in Mozambique, and as General Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Portugal, he has had numerous responsibilities relating to industrial and environmental development both in Portugal and in Mozambique. He has published articles on land survey and agronomy.

Professor Nur Sozen completed her doctoral studies at Ankara University. In 1988, she became full professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture and, from 1988-1992, also co-ordinated the university's international relations activities. Since 1993, she has been Local Director of the Med-Campus project on "Masters Degree Courses on Environmental Management." She is also on the steering committee of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agricultural Studies. Professor Sozen has published extensively and her area of expertise includes all aspects of environmental issues.

Since 1989, Professor Nurettin Sozen has been elected Mayor of the Greater Municipality of Istanbul. In his academic life, he has become research assistant, specialist, associate professor and finally professor at the Medical School of Istanbul University. While studying at the university, he became actively involved with student unions and served as the President of the Turkish Federation of Student's Associations, General Secretary and President of the Turkish Progressist Union. In his political life, he served as Secretary of the Basic Unit of Beyazit District, member of the Istanbul's Executive Committee of the Republican's Peoples Party, and founder and director of Taksim Meetings, which have been the most efficient and democratic forum in Turkey since 1977.

Peter Stavroulakis obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from New York University. He has worked at Bell Laboratories on new telecommunications services. He spent three years at Oakland University and two years at the University of Athens. He has been managing director of ATT International (Greece) Ltd., and is presently marketing the entire NYNEX product/services portfolio in Europe. He serves on the Board of Editors of the Journal of the Society for Machine Intelligence. He has prepared and edited two special issues in the Benchmark Book series and co-edited a special issue of the Journal of the Franklin Institute. His publications include a book on satellite intersystem interference and numerous technical papers and journals.

Dr. Jaroslav Stoklasa, member of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Honorary Advisor to the Czech Minister of Environment and member of the Steering Committee of the Society for Sustainable Living, has also held the post of Vice-Director for Economy and Management at the Czech Institute for Biology and Genetics and was involved in research at the Institute for Architecture, Human Environment and Landscape Ecology. During his tenure at the latter institute, he developed the principle of "anthropoecology" and later became head of the Department of Anthropoecology. Dr. Stoklasa has been very active in non-governmental environmental movements, prior to the velvet revolution, and published classified information on the state of the environment. A working member of the ECO Group at the Vienna Centre, he has also co-operated with the IIASA in Laxenberg, Austria, and served as Advisor to the Minister of Environment and Member of the Czech Commission for Co-operation with the IIASA. Author of over 150 papers and articles and guest lecturer of many European Universities, Dr. Stoklasa is currently retired and works as a private environmental consultant.

Iason Stratos is President of the Federation of Greek Industries and Elanet. He studied engineering in the National Metsovion Polytechnic, Greece. He has been Advisor and Director of Piraiki-Patraiki, Chief executive Officer of Biex S.A., President of the Greek Airline Industry and ICAP S.A., and Chief Executive Officer of Aspioti-Elka S.A. and Sudan Textile Industry. He is a member of the Hellenic Red Cross and the Hellenic Business Administration Company.

George Strongylis' academic background in physics and astronomy includes working as a Research Assistant at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre. In 1981, he joined the European Union Directorate General XI on the Environment, and was involved in the preparation of the Montreal Protocol, as well as the 1987 Task Force for the European Year of the Environment. Within the Global Environment Unit, he has managed a team working to implement the Montreal Protocol, through European Union regulations. Mr. Strongylis is also managing a team involved with economic and regulatory EU measures, participating in the International Panel on Climate Change, implementing the Climate Change Convention, monitoring the mechanisms of EU CO2 and other greenhouse emissions, and evaluating member state national programs for control of these emissions.

Professor Charles Susanne is Professor of Human Genetics and Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the Free University, Brussels. He is President of the European Association of Faculties of Sciences, Director of the Erasmus and Tempus Programme Biology, President of the European Association of Human Ecology, Secreatary General of the European Anthropological Association, Director of the Centre of Bioethics (VUB), Member of the Belgian Academy of Overseas Sciences and associate editor of the American Journal of Human Biology and the International Journal of Anthropology. He is also a member of numerous international learned societies and has been involved as referee and editor in the publication of many newsletters and journals on human evolution, anthropology and human biology. He has organised congresses and colloquia, presented papers and participated in conferences all over the world.

Professor Anna Szaniawska has been Head of the Laboratory of Invertebrate Eco-physiology, at the Institute of Oceanography at Gdansk University, Poland, since 1992. In 1993, she was appointed Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanography. Her research activities have included specialised work on the Baltic, and Gdansk Bay.  

Aleksandra Szewczyk is a graduate student in Philosophy at Jagiellonian University, Krakow. In 1996 she won a scholarship from the Fondazione Lanza, Italy, to prepare a paper on environmental ethics, which was presented at an international conference in Bratislava. In 1990, she won fifth prize in the Philosophical Olympic Games for secondary schools.

Dr. Karoly Szoke completed his doctoral studies at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Godolo. He later worked at the Animal Husbandry Department at the same university, before becoming Main Sector Manager at the Co-operative Agricultural Farm in Maglod. He was Chief Engineer at the AGrober-Agroinvest Foreign Trade Company, and served as Deputy Secretary of State at the Hungarian Ministry of Culture. He is currently Chief Expert at the Institute of Environmental Management, Service for Nature Conservation.  

Professor Wieslaw Sztumski is Head of the Department of Philosophy of Nature and Ecology at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He studied physics at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and received a Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw. From 1955 to 1965 he worked as a physicist in industry, in secondary schools and in the Academy of Medicine in Krakow. He lectured on philosophy at the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow (1966-1976), at the Technical University in Czestochowa (1976-1985) and at the University of Silesia in Katowice (1986). He is the author of about 130 publications on the philosophy of nature, philosophy of science, and on the methodology and philosophy of ecology. He is Member of the Commission for Philosophy at the Polish Academy of Sciences Department in Katowice and Member of the Polish Philosophical Society.

Professor Chee Seong Tham is a world expert on sociology and anthropology, with special reference to the Malay-Indonesian culture. He is currently teaching at the National University of Singapore's Department of Malay Studies, of which he was Departmental Head from 1989 to 1997. Other positions previously held include membership of the Board of Trustees at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies from 1971 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1995, of the Board of Advisers at the Singapore National Library from 1971 to 1979, of the Board of Advisers at the Ford Foundation Regional Advisory Committee on Southeast Asian Studies from 1971 to 1983, and of the MENDAKI Social and Cultural Affairs Committee, in 1990. Furthermore, he was Vice-Chairman of the UNESCO Advisory Committee on the Study of Southeast Asian Cultures from 1981 to 1983, Vice-President of the Singapore Association for the Advancement of Science as from 1983, and President of the UN Association of Singapore from 1980 onwards. He has seen several of his articles, papers and book reviews published in international journals, and has himself been Editor of the Review of Southeast Asian Studies from 1969 to 1975, and a Member of the Regional Advisory Board at the Southeast Asian Journal of Social Change (SOJOURN) from 1985 onwards. He has published widely on the topic of the Malay and Singapore societies and has been a member of the International Board of Trustees of the Biopolitics International Organisation from 1987 to this day

Dr. Erich Taubert studied biology, pedagogics and psychology at the Universities of Vienna, Jena and Leipzig. He is currently a Professor of Physiology and Health Education at the Teachers Training College at Erfurt, an active member of the UNA, and a leading member of the National Health Education Committee.

Dr. Robert T. Taylor is the British Council representative in Greece. He holds a B.A., M.A. and D.Phil. from Oxford University. He has been a research associate and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan, and ICI Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He has travelled to India, Spain and Mexico as the British Council representative, has contributed to Chambers Encyclopaedia and has published many papers in scientific journals.

Alexis Theodossiadis studied Architecture and Planning at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and later became assistant lecturer in Architecture at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. He is currently vice-President of the Association for the Protection of the Cyprus Environment. He was appointed by the Environment Office of the European Economic Committee to chair the working sessions of the International Conference for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea and is also a founding member and Secretary of the Association for the Protection of Old Nicosia. He served as board member for Tourist Planning and was recently appointed member of the Planning Board in Cyprus.

Bryan M. Thomlison is Director of Public Affairs and Envi-ronmental Management for Church & Dwight Co., Inc., the manufacturer of ARM & HAMMER branded products. He is responsible for corporate pollution prevention programs, envi-ronmental outreach programs, constituent relations, employee communications, and corporate giving. Mr. Thomlison directs Church & Dwight’s external outreach programs through the "Multi-stakeholder Partnerships for Environmental Education" theme, which is often cited as a model for public/private-sector coalitions. These have included: Church & Dwight’s annual Earth Day campaign, the co-production of environmental education radio series, environmental educa-tion programs for students and educators, and the co-sponsorship of many envi-ronmental conferences and fund-raising events. During his tenure as Director of Public Affairs and Environmental Management, the company has received numer-ous environmental awards, including the United Nations Environmental Pro-gramme’s Corporate Achievement Award for environmental responsibility, the Council on Economic Priorities Corporate Conscience Award for Environ-mental Stewardship, the American Rivers’ Corporate Achievement Award, and the American Marketing Association’s Edison Achievement Award. In 1993, Church & Dwight was also recognized by Fortune magazine as a Top Ten Corporate Leader in the Environment.

Professor Alexander Tkac holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Comenius University, Bratislava, and a Doctor of Sciences degree from Charles University, Prague. In 1965 he was nominated for the Czechoslovak State Prize for Sciences. In 1989 he became Vice-Rector for Sciences and Foreign Affairs at the Slovak Technical University, and, in 1992, he received the "Gold Medal of Jaroslav Heyrovsky" from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the "Medal of Emil Votocek for Merit in Science and Technology" from the University of Chemical Technology in Prague. Professor Tkac was also elected President of the Slovak Group of the Society of Arts and Sciences at the International Centre in Washington, USA.

Professor Spyros Troianos studied law in Athens and Byzantine history and philology in Munich. He collaborated with the Bavarian Academy of the Sciences and with the Center for Research of the History of Greek Law at the Academy of Athens and served as General Director of Religious Affairs for the Greek Ministry of Education. Professor Troianos became lecturer, Associate and Full Professor of the University of Athens and, since 1984, a member of the Board of Administration of Ionian University. He is primarily concerned with Byzantine law, in Athens as well as in Frankfurt, as permanent collaborateur of the research programme for the re-publication of Byzantine legal sources. Professor Troianos publishes the scientific series Forschungen zur Byzantinischen RechtesgeschichteoAthener Reihe. He has authored approximately ten books and 100 studies in Greek and foreign periodicals, honorary tomes of conferences.

Dr. Angelos K. Tsichrintzis, Attorney at law was admitted to the New York Bar, USA in 1988 and the Athens Bar, Greece, in 1989. He studied at the University of Athens Law School (LL.B. 1984), Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1985), Harvard Law School (S.J.D., 1986). He is author of numerous articles mainly on the legal aspects of banking and trade. Dr. Tsichrintzis is a Member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Athens Bar Association. He is a General Consultant in Violex-Bic S.A., a Member of Board of Directors of National Securities Company S.A. and a Member of the Hellenic Center for Banking Research and Education.

Professor Christos Tsiliyannis gained his diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, (1981) his M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 1982; his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics & Operations Research in 1985; and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1986, all from the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He taught Chemical Engineering as invited lecturer at the University of South Florida and as assistant Professor at the City University of New York (1986-1990). He has held engineering and management positions with MOBIL USA, and with PepsiCo Foods International. He joined Waste Management International as Technical Manager in 1991.

Dr. Ayse Gulgun Tuna is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Florida State University, USA. Her research interests include international environmental diplomacy and patterns in international co-operation over global environmental problems, an area on which she has published several articles. She has also been involved with the publication of a monthly journal on environmental protection, in Turkey.

Mehmet Tuncer, an urban/regional and conservation planner, is currently an instructor of the Department of City Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, Gazi University. Holder of an M.S. degree, he is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University. In addition to his involvement in several conservation and urban planning projects, he has participated in numerous conferences and workshops.

Dr. Jozef Turcan holds a Ph.D. in hydrology from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and is a specialist in scientific and engineering hydrology,. He has extensive experience in hydrological and environmental monitoring network design, data development and interpretation, mathematical modelling, water management hydrological forecasts and environmental impact assessment in civil engineering, and has been involved in national and international projects related to the Danubian environment. Author of about 180 professional publications, research reports and technical studies, Dr. Turcan is currently Management Advisor and Assistant to the Team Leader at the Danube Program Co-ordination Unit.  

Ioannis N. Tzen is President and Managing Director of the Hellenic Foreign Trade Board. After pursuing studies at the Economic University of Piraeus, the University of Thessaloniki, and the Universita Cattolica de Sarco Cuore in Rome, he served as Secretary to the Economic and Commercial Office at the Greek Embassy in Paris, Attache in Belgium and Luxembourg, and Counsellor in Paris, Rome and Tirana. He was President and Managing Director for the Hellenic Export and Countertrade Company, and Head of the Investments in Albania Working Group for the Ministry of National Economy. He is Vice President of the Euro-Business Association, President of the Hellenic Scouts Board, Member of the Institute of Hellenic Civilisation, and Member of the Istame Institute. He has more than 150 publications in the Greek and Foreign Press, and has won several distinctions, including Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite de la Republique Francaise, Commandeur de l'Etoile Polaire du Royaume Suedois, Commandeur de l'Ordre du Roi Leopold 2eme du Royaume de Belgique, and Commandeur de l'Ordre "Ordo Sancti" du Patriarcat d'Alexandrie.

Jakob von Uexkull holds an M.A. degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Christ Church College, Oxford. He is a professional philatelist and recognised authority on the postal history of Arabia. In 1980, he sold his holdings of rare postage stamps to endow the Right Livelihood Awards, which aim at complementing the Nobel Prizes by rewarding people who come up with practical answers to such challenges as the pollution of the air, soil and water, the danger of nuclear war, the abuse of basic human rights, the destitution and misery of the poor, and the overconsumption and spiritual poverty of the wealthy. The Foundation's initial endowment was US$1 million, but additional funding from private individuals allows it to donate annual Awards, now worth US$250,000, which are presented in the Swedish Parliament. In recognition of his initiative, the German Green Party has repeatedly nominated Jakob von Uexkull for the European Parliament elections. As a Member of the European Parliament, he served on the Political Affairs, Science, and Technology Committees. Between 1987 and 1989, he was a member of the Delegation for Relations with the Supreme Soviet, and of the Baltic Intergroup. Jakob von Uexkull co-founded The Other Economic Summit (TOES) in 1984, and founded The Estonian Renaissance Award. He is a Trustee of The New Economics Foundation, a member of the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations, and has served on the Board of Greenpeace, Germany. His publications include Projekte der Hoffnung and Il Premio Nobel Alternativo.

Dr. Juha Ilari Uitto is Academic Officer at The United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan. He studied Social and Economic Geography at the University of Lund in Sweden, and Geography at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and subsequently worked as a Consulting Manager for Finnconsult, where he dealt with population and rural development projects. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies in Uppsala, Sweden, and an Associate Expert at the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome, Italy. He has produced over 30 publications, including books, monographs, chapters in books as well as original and review articles in scientific journals. His main fields of interest include: regional development, population, natural hazards and sustainable development. He is a Member of the Board of Directors at the World Seismic Safety Initiative, Vice-Chairman of the Japan-Finland Science Club, and a Visiting Lecturer at Nagoya University.

Since 1994, Professor Slobodan Unkovic has been the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Technology of the Republic of Serbia. An Elected Member and Chairman of the People's Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, he has also held professorial and administrative positions in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Belgrade, serving as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of the University of Belgrade. Author of many scientific and scholarly works in the domain of economics and tourism management, he has taken prominent part in numerous international symposia in the field of economics, tourism marketing, university administration and scientific research. Dr. Unkovic is also member of the Scientific Committee of the European Association of Universities, representative of Yugoslavia in the Organisation of Universities of the Council of Europe, member of the scientific section of the Association of Economists of Yugoslavia, honorary professor at Lomonosov University in Moscow, expert of the World Tourism Association and member of the World Association of Tourism Experts.

Professor Sergei A. Ushakov is Director of the Educational and Research Museum of Earth Sciences, at Moscow State University, as well as Professor of the Chair of Geomorphology and Paleogeography and member of the Sciences Council. His research areas include marine geophysics and tectonics, gravity fields, earth evolution, and environmental issues. He has participated in several Russian Antarctic and Arctic expeditions, and authored over three hundred scientific books and papers. He was Chief of the UNESCO/UNEP project on Ecological Education by Museum Methods, and is currently participating in a Russian-Italian working group on European Ecological Problems. He has been visiting professor in many universities, most recently including the University of Southern California.

The principal Administrative Officer in the Federal Civil Service of Nigeria, Justina Nkiru Uwechue is a barrister-at-law of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She is also Vice-President of the UN Association of Nigeria, a member of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, and an ex-member of the Board of Trustees of Southern Africa Relief Fund (SARF).

Efstathia Valiantza is a leading consultant on environmental matters in Greece, currently with the Ministry of Environment and Public Works. Her areas of expertise include environmental engineering design and project management, environmental impact assessment and occupational health and safety design. She has been Advisor to various governmental departments and international organisations, Head of the Environmental Pollution Control Project - Athens, and General Director of the Occupational Health and Safety Sector of the Greek Ministry of Labour. She has also given many seminars on environmental issues.

Tjaco T. van den Hout, Secretary General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, was educated in The Netherlands and the USA, studying law at the University of Leiden and economics at Harvard University. He graduated from Leiden University in 1973 and joined the Dutch Foreign Service the following year. He has served at various posts abroad, such as The Netherlands Delegation to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in Geneva, and at Embassies of The Netherlands in Africa and Asia. He was subsequently assigned to the Permanent Mission of The Netherlands to the United Nations in New York. During the earliest part of this assignment he was on the Governing Council of UNDP and the Executive Board of UNICEF. He returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague in 1989 to take up the position of Deputy Director of the Foreign Service. In January 1994 he took up the post of Consul General in New York, representing Dutch interests in the North-eastern part of the USA. After completion of this assignment in December 1996, Mr. Van den Hout returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was subsequently appointed Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry, a post he held until January 1999. In May 1999 he was elected to the post of Secretary General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration for a five-year term.

His Eminence the Metropolitan of Chalcedon Mr Vartholomeos was born on the island of Imvros, Turkey, in 1940. In 1961, he graduated from the Theological School of Halki. Soon later he was ordained to the Holy Diaconate. He continued his studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute of Rome (Ph.D), the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, Geneva and the University of Munich. From 1968 to 1971 he served as Assistant to the Dean of the Theological School of Halki. He was ordained to the Holy Priesthood in October 1969 and was elevated to the rank of archimandrite four months later. In 1972, he was appointed administrator of the newly established Patriarchal Office by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios. He maintained this position until elected Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, in January 1990. As member of the Holy Synod, he participated in numerous Synodical Commissions. He is one of the founders of the Society of Canon Law in the Oriental Churches. He participated in the Official Theological Dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church, the 4th, 6th and 7th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches. He has been called to represent the Ecumenical Patriarchate in various delegations.

Androulla Vassiliou, barrister-at-law, has studied law and international relations at the Middle Temple Inn of Court and University College London. She has organised numerous UN meetings in Cyprus, and served as vice-Chairperson of the Executive Committee of WFUNA and as Secretary-General of the UNA of Cyprus. She is a member of the Cyprus Association for Equal Rights and Duties for Men and Women and vice-Chairperson of the Committee for the Restoration of Human Rights Throughout Cyprus.

Professor Laszlo Vermes heads the Department of Soil Science and Water Management at the University of Horticulture and Food Industry in Hungary; he is also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main interests lie in Water Management in Agriculture, Renovation and Reuse of Wastes, and in Environmental Protection. His previous positions include Scientific Consultant and Section Head of the Institute for Technical Development at the Budapest Research Centre for Water Resources Development, Assistant Professor, Departmental Head, and Deputy Dean at the Department of Water Management and Land Reclamation, University of Agricultural Sciences, Godollo, Section Head at the Environmental Protection and Co-operation Section of the Ministry of Agriculture, Vice-Rector of the University of Horticulture and Food Industry, and Head of the Department of Agrometeorology and Water Management. Professor Vermes has also been part of several societies; he was Section Chairman of the Hungarian Society of Agricultural Sciences in 1982, and Chairman of the European Regional Work Team on Drought in 1995. He is a member of the Hungarian Hydrological Society, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Commissions of Agricultural Water Management and of Microelements, the Society of Animal Hygienic and Environmental Protection, the Society of Biomass Utilisation, the Hungarian National Committee of FAO and of ICID WG on Environmental Impacts of Irrigation, Drainage and Flood Control Projects, of Sustainable Crops and Water Use, and of ICID European Regional WG. Professor Vermes was also Vice-Chairman of the FAO/ECE Working Party on Relations between Agriculture and the Environment from 1991 to 1994. He has published extensively, including nine books, some of which have been translated into English.

Dr. Klaudius Vicenik holds a Ph.D. in bionics from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and specialises in the design of physiological and bio-feedback experiments, analysis and modelling of bio-processes, artificial neural networks and neuro-technologies. He was leader of the Project and Laboratory of Neural Networks and Nonlinear Dynamics at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and is currently with the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences, where he is President of the Slovak Chapter.

Ambassador Panayotis Vlassopoulos, a graduate in Law from the University of Athens, joined the Diplomatic Corps in 1973. He served at the General Consulate of Greece in London (1976-1980) and the Embassy of Greece in Damascus (1980-1983), and held positions as Consul General of Greece in Alexandria (1983-1987), Cabinet Director of the General Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1987-1989), Deputy Permanent Representative of Greece to UNESCO (1989-1991), Head of the Greek Delegation to the European Commission Monitoring Mission in Yugoslavia (1991-1993), and Minister Counsellor of the Greek Embassy in Ankara (1993-1994). He is currently Ambassador of Greece to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Panayotis Vongas holds a B.Sc. and M.B.A degree from the Economic University of Athens Business Administration Department, and works as an Environmental Marketing and Management Consultant. He has been extensively involved in a number of European Union projects on Technology Transfer, Management Procedures, Total Quality Management, Cleaner Production, Human Resource Management Consumer Surveys and Training Programs, in association with several leading Greek enterprises. Mr. Vongas is the editor of Recycling and Cleaner Production, a volume on environmentally-compatible industrial practices, recently published by the Biopolitics International Organisation.

Valentina Mileusnic Vucic is the Economics Advisor of the Serbian Minister of Environmental Protection. She is also Co-ordinator of the Environmental Management Programme of the Republic of Serbia, a National Expert for the Study of Economic Instruments in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and a National Expert on Financial Mechanisms for the UNDP/GEF Programme on Environmental Pollution Reduction in the Danube Basin. She is a Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resources Economists, and of the European Association of Applied Econometricians, and her previous posts include a research fellowship at the Foreign Trade Institute. Ms. Vucic is the co-author of Economics of Natural Capital – Valuation and Conservation of Natural Resources; she has also published papers on the Environmental Aspects of World Development, the Green Business Policy of Leading Chemical Companies, Eco-Industry Expansion, Environment at Entrepreneurship, Conflicts and World Trade Environmental Problems, the Environmental Effects of Economic Sanctions on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a Comparative Study of EMS Selected Financial Mechanisms of Environmental Investments, Debt for Nature Swaps, Economic Instruments in Environmental Policy in the Republic of Serbia, the Interaction of Economic and Environmental Goals, Corporate Environmental Management and Economic Performance in Transition Economies.

Dr. Konrad Waloszczyk, Ph.D. in theology and philosophy, is Senior Lecturer at the Technical University of Lodz, where he teaches eco-philosophy. He is author of two books in Polish: The Taste of Life and Ecological Crisis in the Light of Eco-Philosophy.

Melchior Wathelet, Vice-Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Justice, former Minister-President in charge of New Technologies and External Relations for the Walloon Government (Belgium), received Economic and law degrees from the University of Liege, and a Master of Law from Harvard University. He has been a City Council member, a member of the Belgian Parliament and a guest Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain.

Dr. David Watts, Dean of the School of Earth Resources at the University of Hull, is the founder-editor and chairman, Board of Advisors, of the Journal of Biogeography. He is chairman of the First International Congress of Biogeography (1989) and has published articles and books, including: Man's Influence on the Vegetation of Barbados, Principles of Biogeography and Development, Culture and Environmental Change in the West Indies. He is currently a Consultant for the Seeds of Change Program at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Professor David R. Weinberg, Director of the Montessori Teacher Education Center, received his Master's degree from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Michigan State University. He is a translator of Modern Greek literature, publishing criticism on Alexandros Papadiamandis and is currently translating the scholarly essays of Nikos Kazantzakis. He is a board member of the Hellenic Heritage Foundation, New York, and co-founder and board member of the American-Hellenic Alliance in Washington D.C.

Dr. Peter Weingarten, a graduate of the University of Bonn, is a specialist in environmental economics and agricultural policy. He has worked as a Research Associate at the University of Bonn and was a freelance expert at the Statistical Office of the European Communities in Luxembourg. He had a temporal assignment at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture as an expert in the field of food and forestry and, in 1995, he obtained his current position as Research Scholar at the Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe. He has authored a number of publications.

Professor Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker is the Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, with branches in Bonn, Paris and London. He has received the Diploma of Hamburg University for his studies in Chemistry and Physics, and the Dr. rer. nat. from Freiburg University in Biology. He continued with interdisciplinary research in Heidelberg, and served as Full Professor for Interdisciplinary Biology at Essen University. He was Founding President of the University of Kassel, and Director at the United Nations Centre for Science and Technology for Development. His numerous publications are in the fields of environmental policy, the theory of open systems, technology policy and university education.

Stef Wertheimer has devoted much of his time to upgrading technical education by co-founding the apprentice training school Zur and chairing the board of Bosmat Technical High School, affiliated with the Technion, for eight years, and the Education Committee of the Nahariya Municipality for two. Apprenticed in optics and fine mechanics and having worked in the military industry, he has been involved in the establishment of manufacturing plants for aeronautic devices. He was a member of the 9th Knesset and is heading the project to establish Israeli industrial parks, and is responsible for the actualisation of the concept of planned residential living in Israel with the creation of Rose Town in Western Galilee.

Dr. Georg Winter is a member of the Board of Management of Ernst Winter & Sohn (GmbH & Co), where the intergrated system of environmental management (Winter Model) was developed and on which the book Business and the Environment is based. He is also a founding member and Chairman of the Board of the Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis fIr Umweltbewu?tes Management (B.A.U.M.), the German Environmental Management Association. He belongs to the environmental committees of the Federation of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHT) and the German Machinery and Plant Manufacturers' Association, and also sits on the jury for decision on the "European Better Environment Awards" of the EC Commission.

Dr. Richard Witt read classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, undertook post-graduates studies at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and earned his doctorate for a dissertation on ancient Greek music at the University of Reading. He has done post-doctoral research at the University of Birmingham and has worked for the Classics Department of King's College, Wimbledon. Dr. Witt is also a consultant on rare books and special collections.

Roland Werdel holds a degree in economic science from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and is a chartered financial analyst. He received his training at financial institutions in Luxembourg, New York, London, Frankfurt and Munich. In the last ten years, he has held senior positions with major banking groups, including Credit Suisse (Luxembourg), where he was Senior Portfolio Manager and, later, Vice Chairman of the bank's Investment Committee. In 1998 he was appointed Head of Institutional Asset Management for Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat, in charge of marketing, research and asset management activities for inhouse and external institutional clients.

Usha Wright is Vice President and Director of Environment and Safety at ITT Corporation. She is responsible for develop-ing policies, leading the corporate E&S Steering Council, inter-facing with appropriate committees of the Board of Directors, and conducting duties of Chief Environmental Officer. She is also responsible for representing ITT in trade association pro-fessional organizations, and legislative and regulatory proc-esses. From 1977 to 1993 she held positions at CIBA Pharma-ceuticals, including Director of Occupation Safety and Indus-trial Hygiene, as well as Executive Director of Environment Health and Safety, where she set up the compliance strategy for the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act of New Jersey. During her tenure at CIBA Pharmaceuticals, she worked as an attorney in the Environmental Law section of the CIBA-GEIGY legal department, primarily focusing on superfund RCRA and Due Diligence for business acquisi-tion. Ms. Wright has also been a member of the Stanford Research Institute, where she was responsible for developing criteria for risk assessment of exposure to chemicals.  

Ivan Yanchev studied landscape planning and management of recreational areas at the Forestry Research Institute of Sofia. From 1980 to 1983, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Conservation Bulletin issued by the Department of Scientific Information at the Forest Ministry. From 1983 to 1996 he worked as an expert in landscape design and nature protection for the Department of Biodiversity and Protected Areas at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has participated in several scientific research programmes, and was appointed Member of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. He obtained scholarships at the Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, the Department of Agricultural Economics, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA, as well as at the Department of Estate Management, University of East London, UK. He is Member of the Bulgarian Society for the Conservation of the Rhodopes, the Bulgarian Society for Bird Protection and the Bulgarian Union for Nature Conservation.

Professor Constantine Yapijakis teaches Environmental Engineer-ing and is Director of Environmental Research at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in Manhattan, New York. He has over 20 years of international experience, both academic and industrial, in all aspects of environmental engineering. He has taught in several universities in the New York metropolitan area, and has been involved in all the major projects for New York City. These include drinking water treatment and regional resources, quality management, solid waste management, industrial waste pre-treatment, and toxic waste minimisation programs. In 1997, from early May to mid-June, he was invited to visit the Universities of Beijing, Xian and Heifei, and Tongchi University in Shanghai, where he gave seminars to top management from industries on pollution prevention, waste minimisation and the ISO 14000 certification. He was also invited to visit the gigantic construction site of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River - fenced and guarded by the Army - where he discussed the environmental and socio-economic impacts of this unprecedented water resources project.

Dr. Reguina A. Yavchunovskaya holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and specialises in Social Ecology and National Relations. She is currently with the Academy of Creative Endeavours, in Moscow, Russia.

Lin Chun Yu took a degree in Chemistry at Heilongjiang University, China. He directed the Chemistry Department of the Anshan Iron and Steel Research Institute in China, served as assistant pollution control officer at the Environmental Health Department of the City Council of Sheffield, U.K., and was deputy director and senior engineer on environment protection for the Environmental Protection Agency of the Anshan Municipal Government. Currently, he is deputy director of the Pollution Control Department of the National Environment Protection Agency of China.

Dr. Rudolf Zahradnik, President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, graduated from the Prague Institute of Chemical Technology and received his doctorate from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He is Professor of Physical Chemistry at Charles University in Prague and President of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has been head of the Group of Applied Quantum Chemistry and of the Chemical Reactivity Theory Group of the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague. He was also Director of the same Institute. Dr. Zahradnik has lectured and been visiting professor at twelve universities in Europe, the United States of America and Japan. He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences and of the European Academy of Arts, Science and Literature. He acts as a member of the editorial boards of six international journals. He has been awarded many honours including degrees from Universities in Dresden, Fribourg, and Pardubice. Dr. Zahradnik has authored or co-authored over 340 papers, a number of textbooks, and 9 books.

Ivan Zavadsky is a graduate of the Technical University of Bratislava. He is the Director of the Department of Environmental Protection and Risk management of the Slovak Ministry of Environment.

Ambassador George Zavvos has been the first European Commission Ambassador to Bratislava. He has been Member of the European Parliament in the European Peoples Party (EPP) Group, and Substitute Member of Budgets, Legal Affairs and Citizens Rights and Budgetary Control Committees. He has also been Member of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Delegation for Relations with the US, as well as Member of the EPP Group for Central and Eastern Europe. He was elected Member of the Board and the Investment Committee of the European Parliament's Pension Fund and has served as Chairman of the Committee for the Reform of the Greek Financial System. Before his election to the European Parliament, he was an official at the Commission of the European Communities at the Directorate General for Financial Institutions and Company Law (DG XV), whose responsibilities included the preparation of 1992 EC Banking Strategy and the Second Banking Directive (March 1981-April 1990). He has lectured on EC Banking Policy at the Solvay Business School, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and, in 1988, he was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School. Ambassador Zavvos is an Attorney at Law, and has studied at Athens University Faculty of Law and at the College of Europe in Bruges. He is the author of The Banking Policy of the EC for 1992, and has published over 45 articles on EC banking, securities, pension funds and European geopolitical issues. He is presently with the European Commission in Brussels.

Dr. Aija Zobena is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Latvia University of Agriculture, and the Department of Sociology, University of Latvia. A specialist in rural sociology, she is Member of the Board of the Latvian Sociological Association and the European Society for Rural Sociology. She is Co-ordinator of the Social Aspects of Structural Changes of the Family Farms Project, funded by the Latvian Research Council, and has additionally co-ordinated and participated in research funded by the Commission of European Communities and the Danish Research Council.

Dr. Anastasios Zouboulis graduated in Chemistry and obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Technology and Environmental Engineering at the University of Thessaloniki, where he is now a lecturer at the Laboratory of General and Inorganic Chemical Technology. He is the author of many articles and papers in this field.