Road to Copenhagen is chaired by Margot Wallström, Mary Robinson, and Gro Harlem Brundtland, three eminent political personalities who provide in depth knowledge on climate change and a large experience in policy development and high-level negotiations. By offering their leadership to the initiative, Road to Copenhagen can benefit from their extensive convening power and access to high level policy makers and UN negotiators. This access is crucial in allowing Road to Copenhagen to fulfill its mission.
Margot Wallström
First Vice President, European Commission, Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy
Chair, Ministerial Initiative Council of Women World Leaders
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Margot Wallström has had a long career in politics and served as a Member of Swedish Parliament 1979-1985. Her ministerial career began in 1988 when she was appointed as Minister of Civil Affairs, prior to becoming Minister of Culture and Minister of Social Affairs.
In 1998, she retired from Swedish politics to become Executive Vice-President of Worldview Global Media – an NGO based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The following year, she was appointed as a Member of the European Commission, under President Romano Prodi, and was responsible for EU environmental policy. During her mandate she developed the EU strategy and action programme for Sustainable Development, with a main focus on human health, chemicals, biodiversity and climate change. She effectively mothered REACH which is a rigorous EU regulation on chemicals.
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Margot Wallström has had a long career in politics and served as a Member of Swedish Parliament 1979-1985. Her ministerial career began in 1988 when she was appointed as Minister of Civil Affairs to be followed by a position as Minister of Culture and then Minister of Social Affairs.
In 1998, she retired from Swedish politics to become Executive Vice-President of Worldview Global Media – an NGO based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The following year, 1999, she was appointed Member of the European Commission, under President Romano Prodi, and responsible for EU environmental policy. During her mandate she developed the EU strategy and action programme for Sustainable Development with a main focus on human health, chemicals, biodiversity and climate change. She effectively mothered REACH which is a rigorous EU regulation on chemicals
Mrs Wallström was also instrumental in concluding the ratification process of the Kyoto protocol. In 2004, when the Barroso Commission took office, she was appointed first Vice-President responsible for Inter-institutional Relations and Communication. Margot Wallström has received several honorary doctorates and awards for her work on Sustainable Development and Climate Change. She has done extensive work to endorse an EU-Africa partnership on renewable energy, champion equal opportunities and to further the CSR agenda in Europe.
Since 2001 Mrs Wallström is the honorary chair of the Business Leaders Initiative on Climate Change (BLICC). In this capacity she has developed an initiative on climate change called Road to Copenhagen together with Mary Robinson and Gro Harlem Brundtland (Club of Madrid).
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
Former Prime Minister of Norway, UN Special Envoy for Climate Change, Member of the Club of Madrid
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Secretary General of the World Health Organisation (1998-2003). In 1983, by petition of the then-Secretary General of the UN, she established and chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission) best known for developing the broad political concept of sustainable development published in its report Our Common Future (1987). Prime Minister Brundtland was also previously Norway’s Minister for the Environment (1974) and is an expert in Public Health.
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On 3 December, 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the seventh President of Ireland, and the first female President. She resigned in 1997 to take up an appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She served as High Commissioner from 1997 until 2002. Mary Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002, and she is also a founding member and Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders. She serves on many boards including the Vaccine Fund.
Mary Robinson’s newest project is the Ethical Globalization Initiative (EGI), which seeks to incorporate human rights into the globalization process and support capacity building and good governance in developing countries.
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Mary Robinson
Former President of Ireland, Vice President of the Club of Madrid
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On 3 December, 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the seventh President of Ireland, and the first female President. She resigned in 1997 to take up an appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She served as High Commissioner from 1997 until 2002. Since 2002, President Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International and she is also a founding member and Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders. She serves on many boards including the Vaccine Fund.
Mary Robinson’s newest project is the Ethical Globalization Initiative (EGI), which seeks to incorporate human rights into the globalization process, and support capacity building and good governance in developing countries.
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On 3 December, 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the seventh President of Ireland, and the first female President. She resigned in 1997 to take up an appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She served as High Commissioner from 1997 until 2002. Mary Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002, and she is also a founding member and Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders. She serves on many boards including the Vaccine Fund.
Mary Robinson’s newest project is the Ethical Globalization Initiative (EGI), which seeks to incorporate human rights into the globalization process and support capacity building and good governance in developing countries.
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