President of the Chamber of Deputies
Pierferdinando Casini
President of the Council of Ministers
Silvio Berlusconi
Vice President of the Council
of Ministers
Gianfranco Fini
Minister of the Agriculture and
Forestry Policy
Giovanni Alemanno
Minister of the Community Affairs
Rocco Buttiglione
Minister of the Foreign Affairs
Franco Frattini
Minister of the Infrastructures
and Transports
Pietro Lunardi
Minister of the Productive Activities
Antonio Marzano
Minister of the Environment and
Land Protection
Altero Matteoli
Minister of the Education, University
and Research
Letizia Moratti
Minister of the Interior
Giuseppe Pisanu
Deputy Minister of the Education,
University and Research
Guido Possa
Archbishop of Florence
Cardinal Ennio Antonelli
President of the Region of Tuscany
Claudio Martini
Presidency of the Council of Ministers
Head of the Civil Protection Department
Guido Bertolaso
APAT Agency for the Environmental
Protection
and for the Technical Surveys Director General
Giorgio Cesari
Province of Florence
Prefetto Gian Valerio Lombardi
President of the Province of Florence
Matteo Renzi
Mayor of the City of Florence
Leonardo Domenici
Mayor of the City of Bologna
Sergio Cofferati
President of the Accademia Nazionale
dei Lincei
Giovanni Conso
Chancellor of the University of
Florence
Augusto Marinelli
Chancellor of the University of
Bologna
Pier Ugo Calzolari
International
People’s Republic of China
Minister of Land and Resources
Sun Wensheng
Russia Federation
Minister of Natural Resources
Yury P. Trutnev
United Nations - Director of Inter-Agency
Secretariat of the International Strategy
for Disaster Reduction
Sálvano Briceño
European Commission
Head Division Global Change Research
Anver Ghazi
UNESCO - Deputy Director General
for Natural Sciences
Walter Erdelen
UNESCO - Director of Earth Science
Division
Wolfgang Eder
IUGS Past President
Robin Brett
Secrétaire perpétuel
Institut de France,
Académie des Sciences
Jean Dercourt
Director of the U.S. Geological
Survey
Charles G. Groat
Vice-President of the Russian
Academy of Sciences
Nickolay Pavlovic Laverov
ICSU - International Council for
Science Executive Director
Thomas Rosswall
President of EUROGEOSURVEYS
and President of BRG and NLfB
Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer
