Advisory Council
Roles and Responsibilities of the Advisory Council
The Advisory Council gives strategic advice and guidance to the Supervisory Board.
John D. Liu
Co-Chair; Founder of the ERC Movement; Ecosystem Ambassador – Commonland Foundation
Chris Gates
Co-Chair; Founder & Former CEO: Mainsprings, Tanzania, and Janada L. Batchelor Foundation for Children
Mark Shepard
Founder & Lead Consultant: Restoration Agriculture Development
Maddy Harland
Editor: Permaculture Magazine
May East
UNITAR Fellow and Director of Cities Programme: UN House Scotland Director
Dr. John Todd
Principle: John Todd Ecological Design
Patrick Worms
Senior Science Policy and Communications Advisor: World Agro-Forestry Center (ICRAF)
Martien Lankester
Founder and CEO: Avalon Foundation; Founder: Foundation Soune Groun (Healthy Soil); Ambassador for IFOAM-Organics International
Joseph M. Sandri
CEO: Thought Delivery Systems, Inc.; President: National Spectrum Management Assoc; Board member: Archangel Ancient Tree Archive
Andre Leu
International Director: Regeneration International
Albert Bates
Director: Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology; Director: The Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee
Charling Tao
Professor Emerita of Physics, Tsinghua University, China and CNRS, France
Warren Brush
Co-Founder: Quail Springs Permaculture
Michael “Skeeter” Pilarski
Founder: Friends of the Trees Society; Founder: Global Earth Repair Foundation
Daniel Wahl
Author: Designing Regenerative Cultures
Leo Van der Vlist
Director: Netherlands Institute for Indigenous People
Professor Li Rui
President: World Association for Soil and Water Conservation
Rob Wheeler
Main Representative to the United Nations, Global Ecovillage Network
Willem Ferwerda
CEO: Commonland Foundation
Bela Hatvany
Chairman: Mustardseed Trust
Brock Dolman
Co-Founder & Program Director: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Alan Watson Featherstone
Founder: Trees for Life
Andrew Langford
Co-founder: Gaia University, and permaculture expert
Vandana Shiva
Founder: Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology, the Navdanya movement, and the Bija Vidyapeeth international college.
Amory Lovins
Co-founder: Rocky Mountain Institute
Mark Cohen
Co-founder: Far Valley Farm Community Land Trust; Founder: Belize Agroforestry Research Center
Misha Teasdale
Founder: Greenpop
Chandrashekhar Biradar
Research Team Leader and Principal Scientist: Sustainable Agroecosystems ICARDA – A CGIAR Research Center (Global)
Leo Horn
Head: World Resources Institute, UK Office
Walter Jehne
Co-Founder: Regenerate Earth and internationally recognised soil microbiologist and innovation strategist
Helmy Abouleish
CEO: SEKEM Initiative
Li An Phoa
Founder: Drinkable Rivers
Tom Duncan
CEO: Earthbanc; Co-Founder: Liquid Token; Research Fellow CRDC George Mason University (Earth Back to Eden Project)
John Button
Permaculture Designer & Co-Founder: GreenGaiaProject
Wouter van Eck
Designer & Co-Farmer: Food Forest Ketelbroek; Chair of Voedselbosbouw Foundation
Sonne Copijn
Director: Bee Foundation
Ben Falk
Founder: Whole Systems Design