Participants
This Symposium gathered some 50 of the world’s most renowned thinkers and experts on global sustainability to discuss new and innovative approaches to the way we govern the world’s social and ecological systems.
See list of all the Nobel Laureates that have signed the Stockhlom Memorandum
Peter C. Agre
Awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Roderick MacKinnon for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels and for the discovery of water channels proteins.
Werner Arber
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology in 1978 for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics.
Hans Martin Blix
Swedish Diplomat (former President of the International Atomic Energy Agency).
Paul J. Crutzen
Awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry 1995 for his work on atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.
Peter C. Doherty
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence.
Carl Folke
Chair of the Symposium Scientific Committee, Professor in Natural Resource Management, and Director of Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics and Science Director at Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Murray Gell-Mann
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1969 for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.
Nadine Gordimer
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 because "her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity".
David J. Gross
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 jointly with H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
Peter Grünberg
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007 together with Albert Fert for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance.
Ashok Khosla
President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Chairman of the Development Alternatives Group and President.
Richard J.T. Klein
Senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute and adjunct professor at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research of Linköping University.
Walter Kohn
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 "for his development of the density-functional theory" together with John A. Pople "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry".
Harold Kroto
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 together with Robert F. Curl Jr., and Richard E. Smalley "for their discovery of fullerenes".
Sander E. van der Leeuw
Director, School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Dean, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University.
Jacqueline McGlade
Professor University College, London and Director of the European Environment Agency.
James Mirrlees
Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic sciences 1996 along with William Vickrey, for his work on information asymmetry as it relates to taxation and moral hazard problems.
Mario J. Molina
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 jointly with Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.
Douglass C. North
Awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1993 jointly with Robert W. Fogel "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"
Douglas Osheroff
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 jointly with David M. Lee and Robert C. Richardson "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3".
Elinor Ostrom
Awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009 "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons".
V. Ramanathan
Director, Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate, University of California.
Martin Rees
Former President, The Royal Society and observer to the Symposium Executive Steering Group.
Johan Rockström
Chair of the Symposium, Professor in Natural Resource Management, Executive Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre and Stockholm Environment Institute.
Carlo Rubbia
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1984 together with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.
Marten Scheffer
Professor in Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University.
Amartya Sen
Awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 was awarded to Amartya Sen "for his contributions to welfare economics".
Will Steffen
Professor and Director Climate Change Institute, Australian National University.
John Sulston
Awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death".
Frances Westley
Professor of Social Sciences and the J.W. McConnell Chair of Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Anders Wijkman
Former EU parliamentarian, Associate Senior Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute.
