Dr. Robert Goodland

Dr. Robert Goodland is the Independent Environmental Commissioner, for the EIR, a World Mining Commission, for the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002. He is advising H.E. Emil Salim, Chairman of the Summit's PrepCom.

Prior to this position, he was the Environmental Advisor to the World Bank for 25 years, where he promulgated most of their environmental and social policies. He was elected chair of the Ecological Society of America (Metropolitan), and President of the International Association of Impact Assessment.

He is, by profession, a tropical ecologist and specialises in the assessment of social and environmental impacts of development projects and has published more than 20 books on these topics. He won the Millennial Conservation Prize in 2000.