Our Common Humanity in the Information Age. Principles and Values for Development

Tim Naish, Co-Chief Scientist, ANDRILL McMurdo Ice Shelf Drilling Project 
Tim Naish is a New Zealander and Co-Chief Scientist of the multinational ANDRILL 
McMurdo Ice Shelf Drilling Project. He is Deputy Director of the Antarctic Research 
Centre at Victoria University of Wellington and a Principal Scientist at GNS Science. 
His research career has focused on understanding the role of climate change on polar ice 
sheet dynamics and global sea-level held in geological records of Earth's past climate. He 
has worked in Japan, Italy, USA and New Zealand and is now focused on the major 
engine room of global climate - the Antarctic. Tim is collaborating with scientists from 
the USA, NZ, Germany and Italy to understand the past behaviour of the Ross Ice Shelf 
and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from drilling the geological layers under the ice shelf in 
order to better predict future changes as a consequence of global warming. He is deeply 
concerned about the effects human-produced greenhouse gases will have on Earth's 
climate and he regularly speaks on the is topic to community groups and policy makers. 
José Antonio Ocampo, Ph.D., Under-Secretary-General, Department of Economic 
and Social Affairs, United Nations
José Antonio Ocampo has a BA degree in Economics and Sociology from the University 
of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. Former Executive 
Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean 
(ECLAC), he became the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and 
Social Affairs on 1 September, 2003. As such, he heads the UN Department of Economic 
and Social Affairs (DESA), which is responsible for the follow-up to the major United 
Nations Summits and Conferences, and services the UN Economic and Social Council 
(ECOSOC) and the Second and Third Committees of the General Assembly. He also 
chairs the UN Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs.
Prior to assuming his present position in the United Nations, he held a number of posts in 
the Government of Colombia, including those of Minister of Finance and Public Credit, 
Director (Minister) of the National Planning Department, and Minister of Agriculture. As 
an academic, he has been Director of the Foundation for Higher Education and 
Development (FEDESARROLLO), Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes 
and Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Yale and 
Oxford Universities. He is the author or editor of a number of books and monographs, 
and has written several scholarly articles on subjects such as macroeconomic theory and 

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policy, international financial and monetary issues, economic development, international 
trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history.
Mr. Ocampo has received a number of personal honours and distinctions, including the 
Alejandro Angel Escobar National Science Award.