PRESENTERS: 5th GNH
CONFERENCE
Lyongpo Jigme Thinley
Prime Minister of
Bhutan
“The Importance of Gross National Happiness in Today’s World”
Dasho Karma Ura
President, Centre for
Bhutan Studies, Bhutan
“The Application of Gross National Happiness in Bhutan”
Leonardo Boff ( to be confirmed )
Liberation theologian
and Professor
of Ethics, Ecology and Philosophy of Religion at Rio de Janeiro
State University, Brazil
“Education for a New Humanity”
John Helliwell
Professor Emeritus of
Economics, University of British Columbia, Canada
“Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being”
Jon Hall
Coordinator, Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies,
OECD, Switzerland
“Measuring True Progress in Societies”
Michael Pennock
Co-Director of the
Public Health Observatory in British Columbia, Canada
“GNH in Canada – A Practical Case”
Nic Marks
Founder, New Economics Foundation, UK
“New Indicators of Progress and Human Well-being”
Diego Zavaleta
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative , UK
“The Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Measure: Applications in Latin
America”
Nelton Friedrich
Director for Sustainability, Itaipu Binacional, Brazil
“GNH - A New Approach to Sustainability”
Alejandro Camino
Director do Programa Perú, Global Heritage Fund
(Fundo para o Património Global), Peru
“Felicidade Interna Bruta: Um modelo alternativo para o diálogo
intercultural entre as culturas das montanhas?”
Saugata Bandyopadhyay
Assets Reconstruction Company, India
“Role of Non-Governmental Initiatives and Governance in Education in
practicing GNH”
Michita Champathes Rodsutti
Management Psychology Institute, Thailand
“Holistic Management of People”
Takayoshi Kusago
Professor of Social System Design at Kansai University, Japan.
“Change for Happiness and Hope in Japan: Practice toward the Post
GDP-driven Society”
Piotr Michon
Professor of Economics, Poznan University, Poland
“Time as a Barrier for Growth of National and Individual Happiness”
Eric Zencey
Professor of Political Studies, State University of New York, USA
“The Financial Crisis is an Environmental Crisis: An Introduction to
Ecological Economics”
Ross McDonald
Professor of Political Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand
“Teaching for Genuine Happiness: Practical Strategies for Liberating
Human Potencial in the Classroom”
Vicki Robin
Best-selling author and co-founder of the Voluntary Simplicity
Movement, USA
“Your Money or Your Life” – a New Approach to Voluntary Simplicity”
John
de Graaf
Documentary filmmaker and Executive Director of Take Back Your Time,
USA
“Reducing Work-Time as a Path to Sustainability”, with scenes from
his award-winning film, “Affluenza: the All-Consuming Epidemic”
Mohamed Habib
Rector, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
“GNH in University Education”
Marcelo Cardoso
Vice-President,
Natura Cosmetics, Brazil
“GNH in Business – A Practical Case”
Ladislau Dowbor
Professor of
Economics, PUC-SP, Brazil
“Economic Democracy as a Base for Gross Nacional Happiness”
Susan Andrews
Coordinator, Future
Vision Institute, Brazil
“GNH in Brazil: A Practical Case”
André Feitosa de Sousa
Professor of
psychology, Facultades Nordeste
Francisco Silva Cavalcante, Jr.
Professor of
Psychology of Education, F0ederal University of Ceará, Brazil
“GNH: An Ecological Transition to Social Well-Being”
Henriqueta da Silva
Coordinator, Human
Networks Program, State Government of Santa Catarina, Brazil
"GNH in Public Service: Mobilizing Happiness and Well-being among
Police (Segurança Pública?)
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