The Seed Initiative is grateful to the international expert jury which chose the five outstanding winning partnerships:

Nitin Desai, former Secretary General, World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002 (Chair)

Thais Corral, Executive Director, REDEH, CEMINA, Brazil

Farouk Jiwa, Executive Director, Honey Care, Kenya

Nicolas Kulibaba, ACDI/VOCA, USA

R K Pachauri, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Director General, TERI, India

Sompoad Srikosamatara, Associate Professor, Mahidol University, Thailand

Kaarin Taipale, Immediate Past Chair, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Finland

The Seed Initiative is also grateful to the selection panel which originally chose the twelve finalists:

Malini Mehra, Centre for Social Markets

Ed Mitchell, RWE Thames Water

Paul Osborn, Consultant

Luiz Ros, World Resources Institute

Geneviève Verbrugge, French Environment Ministry

Edith van Walsum, ETC Foundation Netherlands