Scientific Committee

of the Starlight Committee
 

Meetings SC
Honorary Board
Scientific Committee
Organising Committee
Partners

 

President

Jafar JAFARI
University of Wisconsin
USA

Members

Tom�s AZC�RATE BANG
President
Responsible Tourism Institute

Pedro BALLESTEROS TORRES

Administrator of the Campaign "Sustainable Energy Europe"
DG TREN - European Commission

Marco BARBIERI
Secretariat of the
Convention on the Conservation
of Migratory Species of Wild Animals

Alexander BOKSENBERG
President of the U.K. National Commission for UNESCO
Professor of Experimental Astronomy at the University of Cambridge

Peter BRIDGEWATER
Secretary-general
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Manuel CENDAGORTA

Director
ITER  (Institute of Technology and Renewable Energy)

David L.Crawford

Executive Director
International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)

Rafael DARANAS HERN�NDEZ
Scientific Committee
La Palma Biosphere Reserve

Maguelonne D�JEANT-PONS

Head of the Spatial Planning and Landscape Division
Council of Europe

Eduardo FAYOS SOLA

Director
Education and Knowledge Management UNWTO - World Tourism Organization

Antonio FERN�NDEZ RODR�GUEZ

Vice-rector for Research
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Manuel Nicol�s FERN�NDEZ RODR�GUEZ
Scientific Committee
La Palma Biosphere Reserve

Javier GALLEGO

Former Director-general of UNWTO-Themis Foundation
University of Valencia

Fernando HIRALDO
CSIC (Higher Council for Scientific Resarch-Spain)
Director of the Do�ana Biological Station

Natarajan ISHWARAN
Director
Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences UNESCO

Hiroji Isozaki
Meiji Gakuin University
Japan

Wolf Michael IWAND
TUI AG, Executive Director
Group Corporate Environmental Management


Lamine KADI
Rector - University of Mostaganem Algeria

�ngel LANDABASO
DG - RTD
European Commission

Pierre LASSERRE

Member of the Academia Europaea Pierre & Marie Curie University

Gloria L�PEZ MORALES
Coordinator of Cultural Patrimony, Development and Tourism
Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes - Mexico

Juan Antonio MEN�NDEZ-PIDAL
Director for Spain
Uni�n Latina

Nigel Pollard

Director
Director: Division 5 (Exterior lighting)
International Commission on Illumination (CIE)

C�sar PORTELA
Architect

Luis RAMALLO
President of the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO

Malcolm G. SMITH

Director
AURA Observatory in Chile President of IAU Division XII

Francisco S�NCHEZ

Director
Instituto de Astrof�sica de Canarias

Arnoldo SANTOS
Scientific Committee of La Palma Biosphere Reserve

Antonio SERRANO RODR�GUEZ

Secretario General para el Territorio y la Biodiversidad
Ministerio de Medio Ambiente

Anna SIDORENKO-DULOM
Coordinator of the Thematic Initiative
�Astronomy and World Heritage�
UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Arthouros ZERVOS
President
European Renewable Energy Council National Technical University of Athens


Coordination:


Cipriano MAR�N

Starlight Initiative

Members of the Scientific Committee  during the sessions held in November 2006, visiting the  Gran Telecopio de Canarias (GTC- Canary Islands Great Telescope - La Palma) that is being finalised. Alec Boksenberg and Francisco S�nchez expound the new windows open to the observation of the Universe to the Committee.

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