Food

Frances Vieta, Food Summit Consultant

Religion

Nikoo Mahboubian/Chung Lee/Sue Nichols/George Younger

Mental Health

Nancy Wallace/Gaston Harnois

Women

Sudha Acharya/Charlotte Bunch/Diane Dillonridgely

Children

Mia Handshin (Australia), World Summit for Children

Peace

Cora Weiss

Disarmament

Vernon Nichols/Jonathan Dean

Aging

Jeanne Smith/Helen Hamlin

Employment & Poverty

Fourth World (ATD)

Environment/Sustainable Development

Esmeralda Brown

Disabled

Human Rights

Laurie Wiseberg/Karen Ryan/Techeste Ahderom/Marek Hagmeyer/Iain Levine/Felice Gaer

Substance Abuse

Ronald Brinn/Rosalind Harris

Media

Chair, United Nations Correspondents’ Association

Private Sector

Sylvan Barnet, Rotary International/Lions Club/Chamber of Commerce

Science & Technology

Social Development

Carol Lubin

Family

Dimitra Schoenegger, Vienna

Indigenous Peoples

Carol Kalafatic, International Indian Treaty Council

Minority Rights

Minority Rights Group/Center for Social Research

Education

Chair of UNESCO NGOs, Paris/Indian Council of Education

Culture

Chair, UNESCO Conference in Copenhagen

Water

Richard Jordan/John Tanacredi/Sherrill Kazan

Reproductive Health

Amparo Claro

Migration

Arthur Helton, Open Society Institute

Girl Child

Mary Purcell/Doris Riehm

Citizenship and Governance

Troy Davis, World Citizen Foundation

Habitat

Hans van Putten

Environmental and Health

Claudia Strauss/Christine Durback

Values

Deborah Moldow

International Security

James Paul, Global Policy Forum

Torture

Inge Genefke

International law and legal institutions

Tim Barner

Humanitarian Issues

Gerald Martone, International Rescue Committee

Video and Teleconferencing

Irini Sarlis

UN Funding

1. Globalization and Economics

Chair, NGO-World Bank Group

2. Democratization Process

3. Eradication of Poverty

Igancio Harding, Franciscans International

4. Coordinator, Local MNFs

Susan Zipp

5. Coordinator, New Institutional Arrangements

Bill Pace

6. Coordinator, Continental MNFs

Danielle Bridel

7. Coordinator, National MNFs

Marlene Parenzan

8. Academic and Research Institutions

Yassin El-Ayouty

9. Parliamentarians

Parliamentarians for Global Action, Shazia Z. Rafi/Inter-Parliamentary Union, Andre Varchauer

10. Local Authorities

Ramon Canal/IULA

11. Co-ordinator of Surveys and Research

Selma Sapir

12. Youth

Lesly Bulman

1. Fundraising and Disbursement

Elaine Valdov

2. Coordinator, Venue/Logistics Planning

Robert Wheeler

3. Coordinator, Draft Consolidated Reports

Kay C. Greene

4. Coordinator, Information and Dissemination

Robert Pollard

East Africa

Nicky Nzioki, Research Coordinator, Cohort for Research on Environment Urban Management and Human Settlements, (CREUMHS)

West Africa

Chief Bisi Ogunleye, National Coordinator, Country Women Association of Nigeria

Central Africa

Dr. Tiani Kéou-François, Association internationale pour la protection de l’environnement en Afrique

Northern Africa

Chouika Mustapha, Youth Ending Hunger/Saïda Agrebi, Association Tunisienne des Mères

Southern Africa

Peace Shalom Rudo Mungwashu, Zuna, Women’s Operation Green (ISMUN), Zimbabwe

East Asia

Jaiok Kim, Executive Director, Citizen’s Alliance for Consumer Protection of Korea

Central Asia

Ermentai Sultanmurat, President, Great Worldwide Forum

Southern Asia

Southeast Asia

Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network

South Pacific

Lopeti Senituli, Convenor, Pacific Conarus Resource Center

Central America

Mitzi Barley Gayle, President of FUSCAL

South America

Marlene T. Ortiz-Guadaloupe, Proyecto de Habilitación Urbana y Vivienda

Andean Region

Carmen Yamberla, Federacion Indigena y Campesina de Imbabura

Amazon Region

Miguel Lovera, IUCN (Forest Task Force)

Caribbean

Velda Dhanoolal, Network of NGOs of Trinidad & Tobago for the Advancement of Women

North America

WESTERN EUROPE

Jan-Gustav- Strandenas, Forum Norway

INDIAN OCEAN

Pynee Chellapermal, Maldives Center for Documentation Research and Training on the South West, Indian Ocean

PACIFIC OCEAN

Ang Hefferman, Pacific Islands Association of NGOs, Greenpeace Pacific/Mary Perpinian, Third World Movement against the Exploitation of Women

ATLANTIC & MEDITERRANEAN

Ian Kawaley, Bermuda Legal Institute Association

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Asia Indigenous Women’s Network and Cordilleras Peoples Alliance

SOUTHERN DIASPORA REGION NETWORK

Waldaba H. Stewart, Southern Diaspora Research and Development Center

NORTHERN MULTI-REGIONAL CAUCUS

Gail Lerner, Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches; Jan Lonn, International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations, (ISMUN)

SOUTHERN MULTI-REGIONAL CAUCUS

Pauulu Kamarakafego, Pan African Movement and INSNI

MIDDLE EAST

Farouk Malawi

EASTERN EUROPE

South Asia

Bremley W.B. Lyngdoh, Consortium of Indian Scientists for Sustainable Development

Southeast Asia

Katrun Nada, Green Indonesia Club

West Africa

Oluwole Oshota, All Nigeria UN Students’ and Youth Association

Central Africa

Ngungoh Daniel Junel, NYOH

North Africa

Choika Mustafa, Youth Ending Hunger

Caribbean

Donnalie Edwards, Diocesan Youth Coordinator

South Africa

Nomvelo Thandekile Sibanda, Students Partnership Worldwide

Indian Ocean

Oomar Karbary, Council of Youth Movement

Central America

Alicia Casa, Juventud y Participacion

Western Europe

Pernilla Johanson, Q2000 Swedish Ecodemics/Heikki Pakarinen, World Assembly of Youth

Eastern Europe

Alter Buida, AIESEC

North America

Amadi Ajumu, December 12^th Movement International Secretariat; Gary Pupurs, AIESEC; Rich Ponzio, Young Internationalists

Pacific

Amelita Dayrit-Go

Southern Representatives

Rudo Shalom Peace Mungwashu, Zunas, Women’s Operations Green

Northern Representatives

Jocelyn Dow, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

Energy Caucus

Inrahim Magdi, ENDA Maghreb

Sustainable Communities Caucus

Shanti Sachithandam, Mandru, Centre for Alternative Development

Forest Caucus

Santiago Obispo, Red de Cooperacion Amazonica

Trade Union Caucus

Graham Nesbitt, Bermuda Industrial Union

Finance Caucus

Sander van Bennekon, National Commission on International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCICSD)/Tools for Transition

Barbara Adams

UN-NGLS (Non-governmental Liaison Service)

Hanifa Mezoui

Chief of the NGO Section, DESA (Department of Economic and Social Affairs)

Lyutha Al-Mughairy

Chief of Public Liaison Service of the Department of Public Information

Elsa Stamatopoulou

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Zehra Aydin-Sipos

Major Groups Liaison for the Division of Sustainable Development

Ruth Engo

UNDESA/Office of the Special Coordinator for Africa and LDC