Who are the leading sustainability experts who make up the prestigious Jury of 100? 

Jury

Collectively, their work covers all aspects of sustainability and planetary health. With Johan Rockström as chair, the jury will decide on a National Champion for each participating country, and out of this pool, will then select the International Champions.

The Jury works completely independently from the Frontiers Research Foundation, and values a process that is rigorous, equitable, and transparent, through defining key criteria for evaluation.




Johan
Rockström

Chairperson
Jury of 100

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University.

Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, who led the development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.

Aside from his research helping to guide policy, Rockström consults several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at noteworthy international meetings, such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Supplementary, he chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League.

As Chairperson of the Jury of 100 Johan established the Jury and will manage its operations in full independence.

Jury of 100

The Jury of 100’s composition reflects the full spectrum of expertise needed to judge the multidisciplinary nature of the breakthrough science the Frontiers Planet Prize is looking for.

  • Prof Katharine Abernethy

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Professor, University of Stirling

  • Prof Angela Arthington

    AUSTRALIA

    Emeritus Professor, Adjunct Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University

  • Prof Xuemei Bai

    AUSTRALIA

    Distinguished Professor, Australian National University

  • Prof Govindasamy Bala

    INDIA

    Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  • Prof Rachel Bezner Kerr

    UNITED STATES

    Professor, Cornell University

  • Prof Frank Biermann

    NETHERLANDS

    Professor of Global Sustainability, Governance, Utrecht University

  • Prof Reinette Biggs

    SOUTH AFRICA

    Co-director, Centre for Sustainability Transitions & South African Research Chair in Social-Ecological Systems and Resilience, Stellenbosch University

  • Prof Daniel Blumstein

    UNITED STATES

    Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary, Biology and Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles

  • Mrs Antje Boetius

    GERMANY

    Director,Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

  • Dr Angel Borja

    SPAIN

    Principal Researcher Marine Research Division, Technology Center Expert in Marine and Food Innovation (AZTI)

  • Prof Mercedes Bustamante

    BRAZIL

    Full Professor, University of Brasília

  • Prof Wouter Buytaert

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Professor in Hydrology and Water Resources, Imperial College London

  • Dr Stephen Carpenter

    UNITED STATES

    Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Prof Matthew Collins

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Professor, University of Exeter

  • Prof Robin Craig

    UNITED STATES

    Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law, University of Southern California

  • Prof Wim de Vries

    NETHERLANDS

    Professor in Environmental Systems Analysis, Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research

  • Dr Fatima Denton

    JAPAN

    Director, United Nations University

  • Prof Carlos M. Duarte

    SAUDI ARABIA

    Distinguished Professor Core Labs, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  • Mr Jonas Ebbesson

    SWEDEN

    Professor, Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy, Centre, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University

  • Prof Kristie Ebi

    UNITED STATES

    Professor, Center for Health and the Global, Environment, University of Washington

  • Prof Timothy Eglinton

    SWITZERLAND

    Professor, ETH Zürich

  • Prof Daniel Esty

    UNITED STATES

    Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University

  • Prof James Evans

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Professor, Manchester Urban Institute, The University of Manchester

  • Dr Richard Florizone

    CANADA

    President and CEO, International Institute for Sustainable, Development

  • Prof Carl Folke Director

    SWEDEN

    Beijer Institute of Ecological, Economics

  • Prof Hayley Fowler

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Professor of Climate Change Impacts, Newcastle University

  • Prof Pierre Friedlingstein

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate Systems, University of Exeter

  • Prof Lindsey Gillson

    SOUTH AFRICA

    Professor, University of Cape Town

  • Dr Peng Gong

    SAR CHINA

    Professor of Global Sustainability, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Prof Maja Göpel

    GERMANY

    Professor, Leuphana University Lüneburg,

  • Prof Dr Lisa Graumlich

    UNITED STATES

    Professor and Dean Emerita, College of the Environment, University of Washington

  • Dr Heide Hackmann

    SOUTH AFRICA

    Director, Future Africa, University of Pretoria

  • Prof Andrew Haines

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London

  • Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

    MALAYSIA

    Global Lead, Nutrition and Public Health, WorldFish

  • Prof Bronwyn Hayward

    NEW ZEALAND

    Professor of political science and international relations, University of Canterbury

  • Prof Terry Hughes

    AUSTRALIA

    Professor, James Cook University

  • Prof Maria Ivanova

    UNITED STATES

    Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University

  • Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

    GERMANY

    Director Emeritus, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact, Research (PIK)

  • Dr Mark Jacobson

    UNITED STATES

    Professor,
    Stanford University

  • Prof Kevin Jones

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Distinguished Professor, Lancaster University

  • Prof Sirkku Juhola

    FINLAND

    Professor of Urban Environmental Policy, University of Helsinki

  • Prof Daniel Kammen

    UNITED STATES

    James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Professor of Sustainability, University of California, Berkeley

  • Prof Ravi Kanbur

    UNITED STATES

    Professor, Cornell University

  • Dr Krithi Karanth

    INDIA

    Chief Conservation Scientist, Centre for Wildlife Studies

  • Prof Sir David King

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Founder & Chair, Centre for Climate Repair

  • Dr Nancy Knowlton

    UNITED STATES

    Sant Chair of Marine Science Emerita, Smithsonian

  • Prof Louis Kotzé

    SOUTH AFRICA

    Research Professor, North-West University

  • Prof Praveen Kumar

    UNITED STATES

    Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Ms Rachel Kyte

    UNITED STATES

    Dean Fletcher School, Tufts University

  • Prof Rattan Lal

    UNITED STATES

    Distinguished University Professor and Director CFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration, The Ohio State University

  • Dr Miriam L Diamond

    CANADA

    Professor, University of Toronto

  • Prof Eric Lambin

    BELGIUM

    Professor, Catholic University of Louvain and Stanford University

  • Prof Zhu Liu

    CHINA

    Associate Professor, Tsinghua University

  • Prof Diana Liverman

    UNITED STATES

    Professor, University of Arizona

  • Dr Sylvia Lorek

    GERMANY

    Chair, Sustainable Europe Research Institute

  • Prof Katharine Mach

    UNITED STATES

    Professor, University of Miami

  • Ms Julia Marton-Lefevre

    FRANCE

    Chair, Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

  • Prof Mark Maslin

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Professor of Earth System Science, University College London

  • Dr Marcia McNutt

    UNITED STATES

    President, National Academy of Sciences

  • Prof Fiorenza Micheli

    UNITED STATES

    David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, Chair of the Oceans Department, Co-Director of Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University

  • Prof Pilar Moraga Sariego

    CHILE

    Director of Center for Environmental Law, Deputy director of Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2, Faculty of Law - University of Chile

  • Dr Christopher Murray

    UNITED STATES

    Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

  • Prof Nebojsa Nakicenovic

    AUSTRIA

    Emeritus Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

  • Prof Carlos Nobre

    BRAZIL

    Earth System Scientist, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Sao Paulo

  • Prof Kevin Noone

    SWEDEN

    Professor, Stockholm University

  • Prof Chukwumerije Okereke

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Professor, University of Reading

  • Dr David Obura

    KENYA

    Director, Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean

  • Prof Karen O'Brien

    NORWAY

    Professor,
    University of Oslo

  • Prof Taikan Oki

    JAPAN

    Special Advisor to the President, Professor, The University of Tokyo

  • Dr Åsa Persson

    SWEDEN

    Research Director and Deputy Director Stockholm Environment Institute

  • Dr Covadonga Pevida

    SPAIN

    Research Scientist, Team leader Spanish National Research Council

  • Prof Stefan Rahmstorf

    GERMANY

    Department Head, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact, Research (PIK)

  • Prof Ortwin Renn

    GERMANY

    Scientific Director, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies

  • Prof Katherine Richardson

    DENMARK

    Professor, University of Copenhagen

  • Dr Cornelia Rumpel

    FRANCE

    Research Director, UMR7618 Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris

  • Dr Peter Schlosser

    UNITED STATES

    Vice President and Vice Provost, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University

  • Prof Mary Scholes

    SOUTH AFRICA

    Full Professor and Holder of a Research, Chair in Applied Systems Analysis, University of the Witwatersrand

  • Mr Timothy Searchinger

    UNITED STATES
    Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University

  • Prof Karen Seto

    UNITED STATES

    Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Yale University

  • Prof Nathalie Seddon

    UNITED KIGDOM

    Professor, University of Oxford

  • Prof Steven Sherwood

    AUSTRALIA

    Professor, University of New South Wales

  • Prof Martin Siegert

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Professor, Imperial College London

  • Prof Mika Sillanpää

    SOUTH AFRICA

    Professor, University of Johannesburg

  • Dr Mark Smith

    SRI LANKA

    Director General, International Water Management Institute

  • Prof José Antonio Sobrino

    SPAIN

    Head of Global Change Unit, University of Valencia

  • Prof Thomas Stocker

    SWITZERLAND

    Professor, Head of Division, University of Bern

  • Dr Gunhild Stordalen

    NORWAY

    Founder and
    Executive Chair,
    EAT Foundation

  • Prof Sangwon Suh

    UNITED STATES

    Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Prof Rashid Sumaila

    CANADA

    University Killam Professor, University of British Columbia

  • Prof Mark Sutton

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Co-chair, UNECE Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN), Director, International Nitrogen, Management System (INMS)

  • Dr Albertus van Jaarsveld

    AUSTRIA

    Director General, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

  • Prof Jean-Pascal van Ypersele

    BELGIUM

    Full Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain

  • Dr Charles Vorosmarty

    UNITED STATES

    Director,, CUNY Advanced Science, Research Center

  • Prof Rachel Warren

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Professor of Global Change and Environmental Biology, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

  • Prof Ricarda Winkelmann

    GERMANY

    Professor of Climate System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

  • Prof Dr Jemilah Mahmood

    MALAYSIA

    Executive Director and Professor, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Sunway University

  • Prof Dr Kazuhiko Takeuchi

    JAPAN

    President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

  • Prof Dr Daniela Jacob

    GERMANY

    Director, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)