International Advisory Board

The International Advisory Board

Stakeholder Forum has had a number of Vice Presidents who have helped with advise in a range of international topics, many of these are former Chairs of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development: Henrique Cavalcanti (1995 Brazil), Mustafa Tolba (1997 Egypt), Simon Upton (1999 New Zealand), Juan Mayr (2000 Columbia) and Bedrich Moldan (2001 Czech Republic)

It has been clear throughout that the IAB was there for advice and that the UK Board of Directors of SF took strategic decisions. Financial responsibility for Stakeholder Forum is with the UK Board of Directors chaired at this moment by Andrew Binns.

The IAB members advise Stakeholder Forum on its:

General direction and focus around international sustainable development processes
Production of background policy briefings
Potential members for its project advisory boards
Activities that would benefit stakeholders around intergovernmental processes
How to support stakeholders in the processes around Rio+20, UNFCCC and MDG+10 and MDG+15
Publications eg books, reports – helping to identify potential contributors
Newsletters, Network and Outreach offering contacts within their organisation or stakeholder group who might write for the newsletters
Producing radio programmes

The present IAB Chair is Derek Osborn Stakeholder Forum’s President

The International Advisory Board (IAB) was set up in the winter of 1999 and had its' first meeting in March 2000 at Wilton Park in Kent, England. Further meetings took place in:

May 2009 (New York) minutes
Nay 2008 (New York)
May 2007 (New York)
April 2006 (New York)
April 2005 (New York)
April 2004 (New York)
April 2003 (New York)
September 2002 (Johannesburg)
April 2002 (New York)
April 2001 (New York)
April 2000 (New York)

Stakeholder Forum's International Advisory Board provides guidance to the organisations strategic direction. The Board is comprised of organisations representing all the major groups recognised by Agenda 21, from all regions of the globe.