International Jury

Nadia El-Awady

Nadia El-Awady is the president of the World Federation of Science Journalists and the former president of the Arab Science Journalists Association. She is a lecturer of online journalism at the Al-Ahram Canadian University in Cairo, the Middle East regional coordinator of a training project for science journalists in Africa and the Arab world, and she is a freelance science journalist with international media.

Terry Tamminen

Terry Tamminen is an author, Lecturer and strategist on energy and the environment. In April, 2007, he was named the Cullman Senior Fellow and Director of the Climate Policy Program of The New America Foundation. In September, 2007, he was appointed as an Operating Advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors and became a partner in the Pegasus Sustainable Century Merchant Bank in April, 2009. Terry also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Center of Climate Strategies since February, 2009. Through these institutions, Terry provides advice on climate, energy, and sustainability policy to the Obama Administration, several U.S. Governors, Canadian Premiers, Walmart, Netjets, iGPS, and other global leaders, helping them to build a sustainable environment and economy for generations to come.

Wang Yichao

Wang Yichao is News Editor at Caijing Magazine, a leading business and financial publication in China. He covered energy, telecommunication and technology as a senior journalist, and became Editor of an environment and science desk from July 2006. Yichao graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1999 with a master's in physics.

Alex Kirby

Alex Kirby was a BBC News environment correspondent for 15 years, reporting first for radio and then for television, and finally for the BBC News website. He now freelances and works with journalists from the South to develop their skills in reporting on the environment. This has included working with the Climate Change Media Partnership at the UN climate summits in Bali and Poznan, and in preparation for Copenhagen.

Patrick Luganda

Patrick Luganda is the CEO of Farmers Media Link Ltd (FAMELI) in Uganda. He also works as a Science Media Consultant, acts as the Chairman of the Network of Climate Journalists in the Greater Horn of Africa (NECJOGHA) in the Greater Horn of Africa (NECJOGHA) and is the Editor in Chief of the Farmers Voice Newspaper in Uganda. He is an active science journalist with special interest in Climate related issues and agriculture. Patrick is also an award winner of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) A.H. Boerma Award 1998/1999 for global best agricultural journalist in that period.

Valentina Martínez-Valdés

Valentina Martínez-Valdés is an environmental communicator with professional experience in information production and management as well in the development and implementation of communication strategies within different organizations. She has been also involved in promoting environmental reporting through different associations, such as the Mexican Network of Environmental Journalists which she recently presided.

Pavel Antonov

Pavel Antonov is a journalist, media and environment researcher and practitioner, based at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. Currently Antonov researches the ways journalists re-negotiate their professional norms over climate and environmental change, focusing on post-socialist newsrooms. He is the former Editor in Chief of Green Horizon, the magazine of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe. Since 2001 Antonov has trained over 200 journalists and communicators from the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the former USSR, in partnership, among others, with the Guardian and Reuters foundations, UNDP, OSCE, WHO and Bankwatch. Earlier he co-founded BlueLink.net, the e-network of Bulgarian green activists, and worked on internet rights and governance with the Association for Progressive Communications. Parallel to his work as a news reporter for Bulgaria's first private television channel Nova in 1994 - 1999, Antonov anchored a TV magazine on cultural diversity and tolerance. He is the author and producer of documentaries and articles on politics, news and the environment.

Jury Advisor: James Fahn

James Fahn is the Executive Director of Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN), which aims to improve the quantity and quality of environmental coverage around the world. James previously worked for nearly a decade as the environment editor of The Nation, a Bangkok-based, English-language daily newspaper. He has also written articles for The Economist, Jakarta Post, and Newsweek, published a book entitled, A Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian Boom, hosted an environmental feature program on Thai TV, and served as a program associate with the Ford Foundation. James is a recipient of the UN Environment Program's Global 500 award and was pinned by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn for service to the Kingdom of Thailand.

Climate Change & Diplomacy Jury

Mike Shanahan

Mike Shanahan graduated from the University of Leeds (UK) with a BSc in Biology in 1995, followed by an MSc in Biodiversity and Conservation. The MSc led him to the rainforests of Borneo to study plant-animal interactions and this turned into a PhD that took him back to Borneo and Papua New Guinea. After leaving Leeds he worked on environmental and human rights projects in Asia and Latin America for a small charity based in London. Before long he made a jump into science journalism and spent two years as news editor for the SciDev.Net news agency, which covers science news from and about developing countries - issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss. He now works as the senior press officer at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). One of the   highlights of this job is helping to build the capacity of journalists   in Africa, Asia and Latin America to report on big environmental 
threats. He is a co-founder of the Climate Change Media Partnership.

Joydeep Gupta

Joydeep Gupta was moved to specialise on writing about environment and development during his coverage of the December 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India, and has been at it ever since. He has covered the aftermath of the gas leak for years, the 20th century’s worst drought in India in the 1980s and sustainable development issues. In 1992, Joydeep was selected to cover the Rio Earth Summit by the Swedish International Development Agency. In 1993, he got a scholarship to study for a Masters degree in Environmental Economics and Environmental Management in the University of York (UK). After completion of the Masters, he worked as a consultant to NGOs and worked on developing India’s National Biodiversity Action Plan before returning to full-time journalism and starting to concentrate on climate change. He covered the 2007 climate change summit in Bali, during which he wrote 63 stories for his news agency, the Indo-Asian News Service, including a number of special and exclusive stories. He also covered the 2008 summit in Poznan, the meetings leading up to the Copenhagen summit in December 2009 and has been invited to cover the summit itself. Joydeep has earlier worked in a daily newspaper, The Statesman, and two Sunday newspapers - Sunday Observer and Sunday Mail. He is the secretary of the Forum of Environmental Journalists in. He has edited books on biodiversity conservation and co-authored books on pollution control.

MTV Positive Change Award Jury

John Jackson

John Jackson, Vice President for Social Responsibility, MTV Networks International. John develops partnerships and campaigns across MTV International's social responsibility issues, including sexual health, climate change and human rights.

Nicky Wimble

Nicky Wimble is currently Oxfam's Creative Communications Strategist  working on innovative global projects and has 15 years experience in  media and communications, much of it working in humanitarian affairs.  Past projects include Make Poverty History, Health, Education and  Climate Change campaigns. Her most recent online project is Oxfam's  climate gameshow (www.theclimatechallenge.org).

Oscar Soria

Oscar Soria has been Communication Brand Manager for Greenpeace
International since 2007. Prior to this post, Oscar worked as 
Communications Director and campaigner at Greenpeace in Argentina, hand
led several innovation projects which were later implemented in other
 areas of the environmental organization.

 Oscar holds a degree in communications and, before joining Greenpeace,
 worked as a journalist and grassroots environmental activist, dealing
 with issues such as poverty, human and indigenous rights, and water
and land ownership conflicts.