Lorraine Elliott is professor of international relations in the Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University (ANU), an ANU Public Policy Fellow, an associate for the Climate and Environment Governance Network (CEGNET) at ANU, and Chair of the Board of Directors for the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS).

Reiko Kuroda is one of the world’s leading chemists, professor at the Research Institute for Science and Technology at Tokyo University of Science and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.

Susan Avery became the first atmospheric scientist and the first woman to hold the position of president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) in 2008.

The second Progress Report for 2014-2015 of the Center for Governance and Sustainability is now available. Three think pieces frame this report.

Stanley Johnson, an Ambassador for the United Nations Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), and he serves as honorary president of the Gorilla Organization.

This brief concerns Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3, Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women, and the corresponding proposed Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls.

John Scanlon entered office as Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) of Wild Fauna and Flora in 2010.

Hayat Sindi is cofounder of Diagnostics For All, a Massachusetts nonprofit that designs low-cost diagnostic devices to improve health services in developing countries

This issue brief examines how the United Nations can most effectively communicate the post- 2015 development agenda in order to catalyze the global movements necessary for its achievement.

This brief lays out the options that are open for UNDP to take on; and concludes by giving inputs towards re-orientation, with implications for its substantive orientation, its funding role, and its country presence.

Gus Speth served as the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (1993 – 1999) and as the Dean of Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (1999 – 2009).

Christiana Figueres is the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. She founded the non-profit Center for Sustainable Development of the Americas, and directed it for eight years (1995 – 2003).