Our global spotter network helps us find and identify the best candidates for award through the Katerva Challenge. With the help of this network and nominations from the general public, we can be confident that the very best sustainability innovations are on our radar. The network is constantly growing, and is too lengthy to list here. But a partial list is provided below.
Adam Aston, Former Energy & Environment Editor at BusinessWeek
Alan Webber, Co-Founder of Fast Company
Alexander Van de Putte, Senior Director and Operating Officer of PFC Energy International
Amanda Wills, East Coast Editor for Earth911.com
Dr. Amit Chakma, President of the University of Western Ontario, Canada
Anant K. Sundaram, Professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Dr. Andrew Hargadon, Founding Director of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center
Andrew Revkin, Energy & Environment Blogger at NY Times
Andrew Winston, Founder of Winston Eco-Strategies
Anita Burke, Founder of The Catalyst Institute
Anthony Kleanthous, Senior Policy Adviser on Sustainable Business and Economics at WWF
Aparecido Carvalho, President and CEO of Ecoagricola
Arnold Wasserman, Chairman of The Idea Factory
Art Kleiner, Editor-In-Chief of Strategy+Business
Dr. Ashok Khosla, President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Ben Chambers, Publisher of New Energy World Outlook
Dr. Bill Chameides, Dean of Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Bob Eckert, CEO of New & Improved
Brenton Caffin, CEO of the Australian Centre for Social Innovation
Brian Halweil, Senior Fellow at Worldwatch Institute
Cameron Sinclair, Co-founder of Architecture for Humanity
Chris Barez-Brown, CEO of Upping Your Elvis
Chris Luebkeman, Director of Global Foresight + Innovation at ARUP
Chris Meyer, Co-Founder of Monitor Talent
Chris Page, Director of Climate and Energy Strategy at Yahoo!
Christopher Walker, Head of The Carbon Trust, North America
Corneliu Bjola, University Lecturer, Diplomatic Studies at St. Cross College, Oxford
Daniar Hussain, President of American Pioneer Ventures
Daniel Magallon, Managing Director of the Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy
David Anthony, Managing Partner of 21 Ventures
David Brent, Head of Business Strategies for Forum for the Future
Dr. David Gibson, Executive Director of The Global Challenge Award
David Stitzhal, President of Full Circle Environmental
David West Smith, Founder of Global Emerging Technologies
Doreen Lorenzo, President of Frog Design
Emily Murgatroyd, Vice President of Operations at EnergyBoom
Ernst Worrell, Professor of Energy, Resources & Technological Change at Utrecht University
Fred Allen, Leadership Editor at Forbes Inc.
Ged Davis, Former Managing Director of World Economic Forum
Geoff Cape, Executive Director of Evergreen
Gerald Barnett, Director of Research Technology Enterprise Initiative at University of Washington
Geraldo Barbosa, CEO of Diagonal Urbana
Göran Nilsson Axberg, Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute
Gordon Feller, Internet Business Solutions Group at Cisco
Graham Terry, Vice President of The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants
Guy Gleysteen, Senior VP of Production for Time Inc.
Hazel Henderson, Founder of Ethical Markets Media
Heather Langsner, Former Director of Sustainability Research at Riskmetrics
Hunter Lovins, President of Natural Capitalism Solutions
James Moody, Executive Director of CSIRO
Janet M. Morgan, President of CSRwire
Jean Brittingham, President at Brittingham Partners
Jeff Lang, President and CEO of Terra Vox Group Inc.
Jennifer K. Woofter, President of Strategic Sustainability Consulting
Jesper Just Jensen, Head of Marketing and Innovation at LEGO Education
Jim Skea, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre
Joachim Monkelbaan, Program Manager of Global Platform on Climate Change at ICTSD
Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead at IDEO
Joel Makower, Executive Editor of GreenBiz.com
John Balbach, Founding and Managing Partner of Global Alliances
John Canning, Head of MediaSherpa Consulting
John Cusack, President of Gifford Park Associates
John Elkington, Executive Chairman of Volans and Founder of SustainAbility
John Harthorne, Founder and CEO of MassChallenge, Inc.
Julie Gorte, Investment Manager at PAX World
Kartik Shanker, Centre for Ecological Sciences at Indian Institute of Science
Ken Blanchard, Founder of Ken Blanchard Companies
Ken Deemer, Co-Founder of Tech Coast Investors
Sir Ken Robinson, Creativity and Innovation Guru
Ken Rutkowski, Founder and President of METal
Ken Wilson, Executive Director of The Christensen Fund
Kent Knutson, CEO of Energetics
Right Honourable Kim Campbell, Former Prime Minister of Canada
KoAnn Skrzyniarz, Founder and President of Sustainable Life Media
Laurance Allen, Editor and Publisher of Value News Network
Lee Broughton, Director of Sustainability at Enterprise Holdings
Lili Stiefel, Co-Founder of Stiefel Family Foundation
Lynn Price, Scientist for Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
Lynnda Pollio, Chief Consciousness Officer of Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve
Maayke Damen, Policy Manager for Club of Rome
Maithili Iyer, Scientist at Livermore National Labs
Marcelo Vasquez, CEO of Fundacion Chile
Mark Newton, Executive Director of Sustainable Business at Dell
Mariella Vargova, Head of Socially Responsive Investments Group at Rockefeller Financial Asset Management
Mark Prain, CEO of The Hillary Institute
Mark Way, SVP of Sustainability and Emerging Risk Management for Swiss Re America Holding Corporation
Matt Banks, Senior Program Officer of Climate Change at the WWF US
Matthew Ayres, Group Director, Strategy & Innovation Lend Lease Limited
Matthew Bannick, Managing Director of Omidyar Network
Mervyn E. King, United Nations Committee Chair on Governance and Oversight
Mette Laursen, CEO of LinKS
Mette Rotbol, Managing Director of Virgil Wealth Management
Michael Kobori, VP, Supply Chain Social and Environmental Sustainability at Levi Strauss & Co.
Michael Potts, CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute
Michael van Aanhout, President of Stratos
Mike Waller, Co-Founder of Heuris Partners
Mitra Ardron, Founder and CEO of Natural Innovation Foundation
Nadine B. Hack, President of beCause Global Consulting
Nathanael Baker, Manager of Operations at EnergyBoom Media
Dr. Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Prof. Energy Economics, Vienna University of Technology
Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of One Laptop per Child
Nichole Schwab, Co-Founder of The Gender Equality Project
Nick Marsh, Managing Director of Next Corporation
Nick Pennell, VP, Global Low Carbon & Sustainability Lead at Booz & Co.
Niclas Ihren, Climate Policy Expert for Global Utmanning
Nikos Avlonas, CEO of the Center for Sustainability & Excellence
Pablos Holman, Inventor and New Technologies Guru
Paul Dickinson Executive Chairman of Carbon Disclosure Project
Peggy Liu, Founder of the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy
Peter White, Associate Director of Sustainability at Procter & Gamble
Peter Williams, CTO of IBM’s Big Green Innovations
Prof. Pius Z. Yanda, Director of the Institute of Resource Assessment
R. Paul Herman, Founder & CEO of HIP Investor
Ralph A. Thurm, Director of Deloitte’s Sustainability and Climate Change Services
Dr. Robert Pojasek, Sustainability Practice Leader, Capaccio Environmental Engineering, Inc.
Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future
Rolf Butters, Technology Manager for U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program
Ron Nielsen, Founding Director of the ICBIS
Rowan Gibson, Bestselling Author and Global Business Strategist
Roy Andersen, Chairman of Virgin Active South Africa
Roy Green, Dean, Faculty of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney
Roy Marcus, Chairperson of the Da Vinci Institute
Roz Savage, Adventurer and Environmental Campaigner
Sara Boettiger, Founder and CEO of PIPRA Foundation
Scott Fenn, Director of Sustainable Investments Institute
Scott Nyquist, Director and Leader of McKinsey’s Energy Practice
Serjio Abranches, Commentator for CBN Radio, Brazil
Simon Kavanagh, CEO of KaosPilot
Soumitra Dutta, Academic Director of INSEAD’s eLab
Stanley Fields, President of NetGreen News
Sune Skadegaard Thorsen, Partner and Director of Global CSR
Dr. Terry Babcock-Lumish, President of Islay Consulting
Dr. Terry Cutler, Principal of Cutler and Company
Ton Runneboom, Chairman BioRenewables Business Platform
Tony Lai, Former CEO of The Idea Factory
Tom Ewart, Managing Director of the Network for Business Sustainability
Tim Odell, Founder & CEO of Giveall
Timothy Lipton, Founder and Partner of SwitchingGears
Tina Thomson, Global Director of UnitedSucces
Dr. Vinayak Rao, Fellow at Leadership for Environment and Development International
William Brent, Senior Vice President for Cleantech Practice at Weber Shandwick
Wood Turner, Executive Director of ClimateCounts.org
Youngsook Park, CEO of the Global Climate Change Situation Room
Members of our spotter network are expected to act appropriately in regards to any conflicts of interest. In particular, members of our expert panel are not permitted to nominate programs that fall within the area for which they will review candidates for award.
