About 25 distinguished persons, among them decision makers from national and international institutions as well as opinion leaders from media, civil society and scientific organizations, have agreed to become members of the International Consultative Board to the EcoFair Trade Dialogue. This board follows the dialogue closely and is asked to give feedback on the ideas and proposals that emanate in the course of the project. The intention is that members to the board serve as constructive commentators, but also as multipliers of the project’s results. On the occasion of the 6th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Hong Kong, a first meeting with members of the Board took place; in addition, board members joined the respective Regional Consultations of their region.

 

Members to the International Consultative Board are:

 

Cruz López Aguilar 
Member of the Mexican Congress, Member of the National Farmers’ Confederation (CNC)

 

Heladio Ramírez López 
Secretary General of the National Farmers’ Confederation (CNC)

 

Yeidckol Polevnsky
former president of the Mexican National Chamber of the Processing Industry, PRD-candidate for the Mexico State Government elections from July 2005.

 

Mark Halle 
European Representative and Director, Trade and Investment, IISD Geneva

 

Bill Vorley
at IIED London office of IIED, working with the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods programme.

Brother David Andrews 
CSC Executive Director The National Catholic Rural Life Conference

Dr. C. Robert Taylor 
Alfa Eminent Scholar and Professor

 

Alan Guebert 
Agricultural Economist and Journalist

 

Dr Abhijit Sen 
Member of Indian Planning Commission

 

Dr Biswajit Dhar 
Prof and Head, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

 

Dr Panos Konandreas 
Senior Liaison Officer, FAO Geneva Office

 

Ibrahim Assane Mayaki 
Directeur Executif, Plate-forme pour le Développement rural, Afrique de l' Ouest et du Centre

 

Jesus Anton 
OECD/Spanish Ministry of Ag.

 

Jose Maria Alvarez Coque 
Universidad de Valencia

 

Caio Galvão de França 
Special Adviser of the Minister of Agrarian Development, Coordinator of Agrarian And Rural Development Studies Center

 

Lorenzo Tanada III 
House of Rep, Republic of the Philippines

 

Mario Aguja 
AKBAYAN Party-List

 

Christiane Grefe 
Journalist, DIE ZEIT

 

Michael Windfuhr 
Secretary General of FIAN International

 

Ulrike Höfken 
Member of the German Parliament, The Greens

 

Benedikt Härlin
Foundation for the Future of Agriculture, Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft

 

Frances Moore Lappé 
Former Director of Institute for Food and Development Policy

 

Marek Poznanski 
Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires

 

Laura Carlsen 
Director of the Americas Program of the International Relations Center (IRC)

 

Bruce Saunders 
Chair, Dairy Farmers of Ontario

 

Bernward Geier 
Director of "COLABORA - let's work together"