The Commission

Co-chairs

Mariana

Mazzucato

Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Ngozi

Okonjo-Iweala

Director-General, World Trade Organization

Johan

Rockström

Professor in Earth System Science at University of Potsdam and Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Tharman

Shanmugaratnam

President,
Republic of Singapore

Executive Director

Henk

Ovink

Executive Director, Global Commission on the Economics of Water

Commissioners

Drawn across regions, backgrounds, and generations, this group of eminent individuals worked with the co-chairs on the report contributing analyses and insights informed by their diverse roles and experiences and reaching out to a broad community of practice.

Yvonne

Aki-Sawyerr

Mayor of the City of Freetown, Sierra Leone , and Co-Chair, C40 Cities

Alicia

Bárcena Ibarra

Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico

Richard

Damania

Chief Economist, Sustainable Development Vice Presidency, World Bank

María Fernanda

Espinosa

CEO of GWL Voices, Former President of the UN General Assembly, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

Daniel

Esty

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University

Arunabha

Ghosh

Founder-CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water, New Delhi, India

Joyeeta

Gupta

Professor, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam

Naoko

Ishii

Professor and Director, Center for Global Commons, The University of Tokyo

Jun

Founder, China’s Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE)

Henk

Ovink

Executive Director, Global Commission on the Economics of Water

Mamphela

Ramphele

Emeritus President, Club of Rome, South Africa; Co-Founder of Reimagine SA, Chair, Global Compassion Coalition; Chair, Archbishop Desmond Tutu Intellectual Property Trust

Usha

Rao-Monari

Former Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

Aromar

Revi

Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements

Martha

Rojas Urrego

Executive Secretary, International Whaling Commission Secretariat, and Former Secretary-General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Abebe

Selassie

Director, African Department, International Monetary Fund

Ismail

Serageldin

Founding Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt

Tyndall

Director for the Environment Directorate, OECD

Elizabeth

Wathuti

Founder, Green Generation Initiative

Disclaimer

The Global Commission on the Economics of Water is an independent commission. The co-chairs and the Commissioners each contributed in their personal capacities. The co-chairs took final responsibility for the contents of the Report, while Commissioners contributed actively with substantive inputs and comments. The outputs of the Global Commission (reports, executive summary, infographics, other communication materials) do not necessarily reflect in their entirety the views of the respective Commissioners or those of their respective institutions.

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