Selection Committee 2012

The Humanitarian Water and Food

Award 2012

Professor, Ashok Swain

Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University Sweden. Director of the Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development. PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1991, and since then he has been teaching at the Uppsala University, Sweden.He has been a Mac Arthur Fellow at the University of Chicago, visiting fellows at UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva; University Witwatersrand, South Africa, University of Science, Malaysia, University of British Columbia and University of Maryland. He has written extensively on environmental security and international water sharing issues. He has also worked as a consultant for various UN agencies, OSCE, NATO, EC, IISS, Government of Singapore and Government of Sweden.

Competencies: Environmental security, Peace and Conflict Resolution

I am happy and honored to be part of this noble and important effort

Engineer, Amer Kamal

Competencies: Finance, Project Management, Civil Society

“I am motivated by the fact that it’s important to award work that also serves the mankind and that has a goal-

set of becoming valuable for everybody. It is a motivating factor to award a behaviour and history

shows that you get back what you give.”

Amer Kamal is a Civil Engineer, DTU – Denmark’s Technical University. He runs his own business retail branch with several business concepts, and is a business concept developer. He carries out Leadership education; Crisis management and Change management within project organization. He is head of building projects at the largest entrepreneur company in Denmark. Amer Kamal is also a member of Rotary, Water and Food Award board.

Consultant Ellen Buch-Hansen

Ellen Buch-Hansen has a M.Sc. Human Geography, Sociology and Anthropology. She has a broad experience record working with development issues in very different contexts: in a Danish NGO, in a local Kenyan NGO, as consultant and advisor and in Danida/Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from which she recently retired. Ellen Buch-Hansen is also member of Roster for Peace and Stability Response. She has working experience from a range of countries in Africa and Asia. Her areas of experience include Civil Society development, Water and Sanitation, Agricultural Sector, Natural Resource Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Gender, Human Rights & Democracy, Disaster Response and finally Sustainability as a cross cutting issue in all activities.

Competences: Water and Sanitation, Agricultural Sector, Monitoring and Evaluation, Civil Society, Human Rights and Democracy, Gender, Sustainability

I am pleased to be able to support this very worthwhile initiative promoting vision and inspiration for people

world-wide to improve their conditions.

Director, Jørgen Schlundt Jørgen Schlundt is Director at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark. He has a Veterinary degree as well as a Ph.D. from the Copenhagen University, Denmark. Jørgen Schlundt has worked at the Bacteriology Department in the Veterinary Research Laboratory, Harare, and at the Environmental Protection Agency laboratories in the Research Triangle Park, USA.

He was Director of the Department of Food Safety and Zoonosis at the World Health Organization, Geneva for more than 10 years, and has participated in a number of international scientific bodies, including OECD expert groups, WHO and FAO Expert Consultations, EU Scientific Committees, and the FAO/WHO Codex alimentarius Commission. In 2007-2012 Jørgen Schlundt was acting as well as the Deputy Director for the WHO Department of Nutrition. Competences: Environment and Food Security, Management, Research, International Development

Director, Jonas Christoffersen

Jonas Christoffersen is Doctor of Law and Executive Director, Danish Institute of Human Rights. He has a background as an associate professor in human rights and specialized in national and international human rights.

From 2006-2007, Jonas Christoffersen was an acting judge at the Eastern High Court. Previously he was employed as a deputy judge at the Supreme Court of Denmark.

Jonas Christoffersen has also been a member of the board of DIHR and has for years been very active in the public debate on human rights.

Competences: International Human Rights; Rights Based Development

Consultant Henning Saaboell

Henning Saaboell is managing consultant at Alectia A/S and is former managing director at a water supply company. His competences built up over the years are within Water Management, Water Supply, Management, Economy and Strategy.Henning Saabøll is also Chairman for Water and Sanitation, Rotary District 1470.

Competences: Water Management, Water Supply, Management, Economy and Strategy

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Consultant, Steve Pickering

Steve Pickering is a management consultant with B-innovation Renewables in Copenhagen, Denmark engaged in establishing international co-operation in the field of marine renewable energy. He is from London, England and is bank-educated. He is vice-chairman of ShelterBox Denmark, the Danish affiliate of a leading disaster relief NGO and is a Past President of Copenhagen International Rotary Club.

Competences: Relief, Disaster Response, Renewable Energy

Food and water security is a crucial problem that has to be solved to maintain peace and prosperity in the world. By identifying and promoting the best projects, we can

help broadcast the messages to a global audience and in this way contribute to providing practical and sustainable

solutions to food and water supply