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• Mon

  16

  Sep

  2019

  Meet the World Future Councillors

  14:30Ibn Rushd Hall

  We have the pleasure to invite you to meet World Future Councillors

  Thais Corral,
  Co-founder, Women's Environment and Development Organization and founder of Sinal Do Vale,
  Anna R. Oposa,
  Co-Founder, Save Philippine Seas and Global Shaper, Manila Hub, World Economic Forum, and
  Helmy Abouleish,
  CEO of Sekem Group, and Chair of the Board of Trustees, Heliopolis University

  Thais Corral
  As part of the Women’s Global Movement, Thais Corral was one of the leaders who actively participated in the Earth Summit in 1992. Together with American Congress representative, Bella Abzug, and Nobel Award winner, Wangari Mathaai, she founded WEDO (Women’s Environment and Development Organization). Ms. Corral is the founder and current director of two established and nationally recognized non-profit organizations in Brasil, REDEH (Network of Human Development) and CEMINA (Communication, Education, Information and Adaptation). Her current most important initiative is SINAL do Vale, a 400 acres agro-forestry farm, near Rio de Janeiro. SINAL is a platform which encompasses several initiatives geared to educate young entrepreneurs to embrace resilience at the local level. SINAL Retreat is also a space where leaders from around the world come to cultivate their wellbeing and refine their strategies.

  Anna R. Oposa is the Co-Founder and Chief Mermaid of Save Philippine Seas (SPS), to conserve and restore the Philippines’ coastal and marine resources through information, education, and communication activities and community-based projects. In 2012, Anna founded the Shark Shelter Project, which builds the capacity of local communities in Daanbantayan, Cebu, to protect thresher sharks and their coastal and marine resources. In 2015, she founded the Sea and Earth Advocates Camp in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines, an environmental education and leadership program that empowers young Filipinos to be leaders in conservation. To date, the SEA Camp has trained over 200 youth leaders in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

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