GCSE Lifetime Achievement Award for Science, Service, and Leadership

Rita Mesquita, Ecologist, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia
Carlos Nobre, Scientist and Meteorologist, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia
Dr. José Sarukhán, Emeritus Professor, National University of Mexico, and National Coordinator of Mexico’s National Commission of Biodiversity (CONABIO)

Christiana Figueres, Founding Partner, Global Optimism; Former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | Watch Christiana's remarks.
Warren Washington, Distinguished Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | Watch Warren's remarks.

Michael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University

Paul Hawken, Founder and Writer, Project Drawdown
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Former Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature

Edward Mazria, Founder and CEO, Architecture 2030
Robert B. Semple, Jr., Associate Editor of the Editorial Page, The New York Times

Philip Landrigan, Dean for Global Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Thomas E. Lovejoy, University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University

Rita R. Colwell, Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland and Former Director, NSF
Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Stephen Hubbell, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles                                    
Tom Tidwell,  Deputy Regional Forester for Fire and Aviation Management, Recreation, Engineering, State and Private Forestry

Co-founders, U.S. Global Change Research Program:
Robert Corell, Principal, Global Environment Technology Foundation
J. Michael Hall, Federal Senior Executive Services (Ret.); Former Director, Office of Global Programs, NOAA
Shelby Tilford, Former Chief Scientist, Orbital Sciences Corporation 
Aristides A. N. Patrinos, Deputy Director for Research, Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University’s Polytechnic Institute
Jack D. Fellows, Director, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator, NOAA 

Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and Director-General, World Health Organization

Sylvia Earle, Explorer-in-residence, National Geographic; Founder, Mission Blue; Chairman & CEO, Sylvia Earle Alliance

Herman E. Daly, Vanderbilt University, LSU’s Distinguished Research Master Award Recipient

George Rabb, President Emeritus, Chicago Zoological Society
Peter H. Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden  
Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University 

Robert W. Corell, Global Change Director, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

Theo Colborn, President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
Herbert Needleman, Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Russell Train, Chairman Emeritus, World Wildlife Fund; First Chair, Council on Environmental Quality; Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

William D. Ruckelshaus, First and Fifth Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Ruth Patrick, Francis Boyer Chair of Limnology, Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia; Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania
M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, B. Howell Griswold Jr. Professor of Geography and International Affairs, The Johns Hopkins University

Honorable Gaylord Nelson, Former Governor of Wisconsin and U.S. Senator (Ret.); Founder of Earth Day, Counselor of The Wilderness Society

Maurice F. Strong, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General