Sustainable Future

The Board

At least one of the board members shall be affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm (KTH), one shall be affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Solna (KI) and one shall be appointed by Scarab Development AB.

VINAY CHAND

Was born 1945 and Master of Science from London School of Economics, 1968. Advisor in Market and strategic questions for international organizations such as EU, UN (UNDP, FAO and ITC), World Bank and Asian Development Bank and non-state-sector enterprises such as Alfa Laval, BAT, Pfizer and PT Berca. Email: vinaychand@msn.com, Web: www.ruraldevelopment.info

ROLAND MÖLLBY

Roland Möllby, 1944, MD, PhD, is a professor in Medical Bacteriology at the department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet. He has supervised about 25 PhD students and published about 260 scientific papers. He has run scientific projects in Bangladesh for many years and at present he has projects in Mozambique, Nicaragua and in Iran. He has performed research on pathogenic mechanisms in Staphylococcus aureus infections, Urinary tract infections, Diarrhoeal diseases and on complex floras, like the human normal flora. He was a member of the WHO Biosafety committee 1986-2000 and is at present chairman of the Biosafety committee of Karolinska Institutet. He was chairman of the Department of Bacteriology 1990-1993 and vice chairman of MTC 1993-2002. He is one of the founders of the PhPlate Microplate Technologies AB, which developed the PhP biochemical fingerprinting system and has patented the MARA system for testing of environmental toxicity using bacteria.
Email: Roland.Mollby@mtc.ki.se

ELISABETH NORIN

Elisabeth Norin, 1944, Associate professor in Medical Microbial Ecology at Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet. Her main field is intestinal ecology in man and animal, and the background is that she has been working with germfree animals - organisms that can be compared with newborn children or other newborn macro-organisms. She has been working with questions related to microbial functions. As most microbes in the intestine are unknown and difficult to obtain they are difficult to isolate, cultivate and identify. But all microbes are metabolizing substrates, and she has been working with the microbial metabolic products. Thus, she has been working with a complementary microbiological technique - both in man, rodent, pig, horse and fish, reflecting microbial activity .

BJÖRN FROSTELL

Main present focus of work is Industrial Ecology with emphasis on LCA of products, services and systems. During the last few years, Industrial Ecology for sustainable energy and water systems has become the area of main interest. Extensive experience from work in poor countries and has served as a Swedish environmental advisor to Central America for 2 years between 2000 and 2002. Widespread international experience from other countries as well, the last two years from environmental education cooperation between Sweden and Thailand. Besides work, he has served 3 years as a President for the Swedish Research Association for Sustainable Development 2005-2008, with 150 academic members all over Sweden.

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