Dr. Swati Save, is a leader fostering use of Science for Sustainability & Healthcare Development. She is trained in Science Public Policy and as Scientist in Natural Product Chemistry. She has fostered internationally, the use of science & engineering in addressing human development. She is the honorary editor of MOSAICQUE magazine and honorary founder of the Future Young Leader’s initiative.

Her first book “My Dreams Are Not For Sale” is an inspirational, literary masterpiece, an humble contribution to the world. The author tries to share her profound experiences in order to achieve her goals in life! An eyeopening, non-fiction, motivational genre book, allows one to understand the virtues behind living the life to its fullest. The book discusses different facets of life vis-a-vis author’s insights on breakthroughs,breakdowns, love, making the right choices, and commitment! Book is sold across United States in Barnes & Noble’s bookstores.

Swati is trained for nine years in Hindustani classical bhatkhande gharana; loves to cook Indian, Mexican,Continental, Italian dishes; known for baked vegan nankhatai and organic jams; and has travelled to more than twenty five countries.

Kyle Gracey, Chairman, SustainUS, United States; North America

Prof. Morakinyo OluFemi, University of Lagos, Nigeria, Africa

Dr. Arnold Angelo Mushongi, PhD

Senior Maize Research Breeder, Southern Highlands Agro-ecological Zone of Tanzania based at Agricultural Research, Africa

Arnold Mushongi has a PhD (Plant Breeding with a bias in maize) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa under the scholarship of the Rockefeller Foundation and an Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). His PhD thesis research was on ‘Genetic studies of secondary traits and yield heterosis in maize under high and low nitrogen conditions, incorporating farmer perceptions and preferences for varieties.’

The traits of interest for his study were, under high and low N conditions: stay-green, leaf chlorophyll concentration, rate of kernel dry-down, effective duration of grain filling period, earliness (calendar physiological maturity), grain yield per se, ear characters (kernel number, ears per plant, health), kernel moisture content at harvest, etc. From 2009 to date, Arnold heads the Tanzania’s biggest Maize Improvement Programme (in terms of activities and geographical coverage) based at ARI-Uyole. It should be worth-noting that maize in Tanzania is synonymous with food security; now the crop is a major source
of income for rural-poor resource farmers who typically produce maize. Dr Mushongi is a conventional maize breeder with additional skills and experience in molecular breeding (from Japan at NIAS and at ILRI-BecA Hub), participatory plant breeding, management of plant genetic resources and biodiversity (from Japan and Addis Ababa University), biometry, environmental impact assessment, phytopathology, ecology, among others.
At ARI-Uyole, Mushongi conducts maintenance breeding, inbred line-hybrid development, population improvement, germplasm management, seed production research, breeder and pre-basic seed production, designing and evaluating hybrid trials.

The germplasm generated and maintained at ARI-Uyole is also used by graduate students in Agriculture for various study objectives. Popular maize hybrids released by the Maize Improvement Programme at ARI-Uyole, include: UH615, UH6303, UHS5210, and UHS5350.

Dr.Rakesh Kumar, Head NEERI-CSIR, India, Asia

Prof.Javier Garcia Martinez

University of Alicante, Spain,
Co-Founder, Rive Technology, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA

Dr. Garcia is Advisor to the Program.

Javier is faculty member and director of the Nanotechnology Molecular Laboratory at the University of Alicante, Spain. He has published extensively in the areas of nanomaterials, catalysis and energy and is inventor of fifteen patents.

Javier is also co-founder of Rive Technology Inc (Boston, MA), a clean energy company, commercializing advanced catalyst technology that has raised $47 million in venture capital funding from leading investors.

Javier is vice-chair of the World Economic Forum General Assembly Council on Emerging Technologies and Titular Member of the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

Javier has been recognized as a leader in nanotechnology and materials science. In 2005, Javier was awarded the Europa Medal, awarded annually to the outstanding European chemist under the age of 35. In 2007, Javier received the TR 35 Award from MIT’s Technology Review magazine, and in 2009 Javier was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Dr. Oswaldo Lucon, Future Young Leaders’ Board of Directors

Dr. Oswaldo Lucon, on the MOSAICQUE’s Board of Director writes a critique about the recent Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. He writes this article in assistance with two brilliant students Rodrigo Messias & Ana Maria Baccarin of International Relations working as trainee at the Foreign Affairs Advisory of the Secretariat for the Environment of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Dr. Lucon is a senior adviser on Energy and Climate Change Policies to the São Paulo State Government, Brazil. He authored the São Paulo Climate Change Policy, the first law in the developing world to have a mandatory, economy-wide and absolute CO2 emission reduction target. Co-author of the book Energy, Environment and Development, he has several published international papers. Dr. Lucon is since 1994 a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, having coordinated the 2006 Emission Inventory Guidelines (Energy), the Special Report on Renewable Energy (Sustainable Development) and presently coordinating the Fifth Assessment Report (Buildings).