Bidya Banmali Pradhan

She is Senior Atmospheric Environment at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), based in Kathmandu, Nepal. She has successfully led projects that have helped transform the brick industries of Nepal and Pakistan into cleaner, more energy-efficient, and socially responsible enterprises that continue to remain viable, profitable businesses, thereby ensuring their sustainability.

Grizelda Mayo-Anda

Atty. Mayo-Anda is an environmental attorney with over 25 years of field-based practice in environmental advocacy and community-based resource management work in the Philippines. She established the Environmental Legal Assistance Center (ELAC) in 1990, now one of the Philippines’ most active NGOs working to empower communities and local stakeholders to protect their natural resources. She is currently the Executive Director of ELAC.