The Great Transition Initiative (GTI) is a global network for elaborating visions and strategies for a future of enriched lives, human solidarity and a healthy planet. By addressing the need for a coherent, plausible, and shared vision, GTI complements the many admirable, but fragmented, efforts to shape our common future. GTI's vision of hope challenges conventional thinking, counters pessimism, and inspires effective action and new values. The initiative builds on the work of the Global Scena ... (Full Bio)

Paul Raskin is President of the Stockholm Environment Institute. He founded Tellus in 1976, the U.S center of the Stockholm Environment Institute in 1989, the Global Scenario Group (GSG) in 1995, and the Great Transition Initiative (GTI) in 2003. The overarching theme of his work has been envisioning and analyzing alternative scenarios of development, and identifying the strategies, policies and values for a transition toward a future of environmental sustainability and human justice. Toward t ... (Full Bio)

Dr. Tariq Banuri is the Director of the Asia Centre of the Stockholm Environment Institute. His work focuses on conceptual as well as practical issues in development policy-including the integration of environmental, social, and economic dimensions into the policy framework, the analysis of the growing contribution of "knowledge institutions" (higher education, research, industrial R&D) in creating wealth, the role of institutions and governance, and the challenge of poverty eradication. He ... (Full Bio)

Gilberto Gallopín is Regional Adviser on Environmental Policies at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology from Cornell University in 1969 and is an ecological systems analyst and sustainable development expert. He has worked on ecological systems analysis, food chain and niche theory, global modeling, environmental modeling, environmental impact assessment, environmental and land use prospective, the envir ... (Full Bio)

Pablo Gutman is Senior Policy Advisor at the Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office (MPO) of the World Wildlife Fund and manages the Payment for Ecosystem Services Program. Before joining the MPO he worked for over 20 years in environmental and development issues in more than a dozen countries, and with a variety of institutions, including universities, NGOs, governments, regional and international agencies, development banks and private business. Mr. Gutman holds a degree ... (Full Bio)

Al Hammond is VP for Innovation and Special Projects for the World Resources Institute, charged with catalyzing and sometimes leading development of new projects, initiatives, and tools. He also directs WRI's Development Through Enterprise project, which works with foundations, development agencies, and a number of major corporations to further the use of pro-poor business strategies and digital technologies in development. Dr. Hammond has published extensively in the scientific, policy researc ... (Full Bio)

Robert W. Kates is a geographer and independent scholar in Trenton, Maine, and University Professor (Emeritus) at Brown University. His current research focuses on long-term trends in environment, development, and population. He is Co-Convener of the international Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability, an Executive Editor of Environment magazine, and Visiting Scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. I ... (Full Bio)

Dr. Rob Swart graduated from Delft University of Technology in 1980 as an environmental engineer. He received his Ph.D. on climate change risk management in 1994 at Amsterdam Free University, Earth Sciences Department. He has worked on international environmental problems since 1990, primarily at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) (apart from 1983-1985 on natural hazards management in the Caribbean for the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1990 on climate chang ... (Full Bio)