The Asia Pacific MDG Community of Practice (AP-MDG-CoP) kicked off its query service
with a Series of Queries on Hunger from eminent MDG practitioners. Distinguished contributors included:
Professor M S Swaminathan has been acclaimed by TIME magazine as one
of the twenty most influential Asians of the 20th century and one of the only
three from India, the other two being Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath
Tagore. He has been described by the United Nations Environment Programme
as "the Father of Economic Ecology" and by Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary
General of the United Nations, as "a living legend who will go into the annals of
history as a world scientist of rare distinction". He was Chairman of the UN
Science Advisory Committee set up in 1980 to take follow-up action on the Vienna Plan of Action. He has also served as Independent Chairman of the FAO Council and President of the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. He is past President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet
Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and
Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of
the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-
General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally
agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty. He is widely considered to be the leading international economic advisor of his generation.
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Honorable Nerissa Corazon Soon Ruiz, MD is a member of House of
Representatives, Congress of the Philippines since 2005 (13th Congress up to
present). She is Chairperson of the Special Committee on MDGs at the House of
Representatives and has authored MDG supportive measures such as Republic
Acts on Anti Trafficking in Persons, Anti-Violence Against Women and Children,
Juvenile Justice, Abolition of Death Penalty, Dangerous Drugs, Expanded Anti-
Counterfeiting Drugs. Representative Soon Ruiz is now actively pushing and
advocating for the passage of close to fifty priority measures constituting its Legislative Agenda for the 14th Congress encompassing poverty reduction, lowering the cost of medicines, education, population, health and reproductive health, gender equality, environmental protection, trade, good governance and social justice. She is Commissioner of the UN Commission on HIV and AIDS for Asia and the Pacific and member of ASEAN Inter Parliamentary Organizations (AIPO), as well as Chairperson for the House of Representatives’ Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development Foundation (PLCPD) for the 14th Congress.
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