Felix Dodds www.felixdodds.net Twitter:@felixdodds Blog: http://blog.felixdodds.net/ Tel: (+1) 347 2073919 [email protected] Summary "Felix is a genius for convincing the most skeptical legislator of the eminent reasonableness of the sustainable development case." RT. Hon. JOHN GUMMER, MP, former UK Secretary of State for the Environment “Felix has been a passionate campaigner for people’s involvement in the central challenges of our time – how to balance our consumption of natural resources with the earth’s capacity, at the same time as addressing global inequality and poverty. He has enormously enriched the global intellectual debate on sustainability issues, and has been a 'thought leader' of his age.” Dr. CRISPIAN OLVER, former South African Director General for the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism “Felix has been a true global leader, a unique person with the capacity to define global issues, based on an in-depth understanding of the concerns and priorities of stakeholders at all levels. Such a breadth of vision is rare, and we feel privileged to have been able to work so closely with Felix throughout the Rio+20 processes.” PAULA CABALLERO GOMEZ, Director, Directorate of Economic, Social and Environmental of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Columbia “I couldn’t dare to admit to which extent Felix has influenced international sustainable development policy." JORGE LAGUNA CELIS, Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN (More comments by leading advocates for sustainable development are at the end of the CV) Professional Experience Statement of experience Through the nearly thirty years I have been on the forefront of the international sustainable development negotiations, I have: • Been a candidate for Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (2019) • Been a member of the UN Internal Review Team: Leveraging the United Nations Global Compact’s Unique Assets Towards the 2030 Agenda -co-Chaired by Lisa Kingo, Executive Director of UN Global Compact, and Henriette H. Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF • Co-directed the 2014 and 2018 Nexus Conferences on Water-Food-Energy and Climate • Set up global stakeholder coalitions at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, Habitat II, UNECE Health and Environment Conference • Been a member of Christiana Figueres' campaign team for UN Secretary General (2016), writing the background briefing documents for her campaign • Been a member of the President of the UNGA’s Informal Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (2016) 1 | Page • Pioneered stakeholder engagement in the UN and proposed and helped manage the multi- stakeholder dialogues at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, also managing them at the Bonn Water (2001), Bonn Energy (2004) and Bonn Nexus (2011) Conferences • Chaired the United Nations DPI NGO Conference (2011) Sustainable Societies Responsive Citizens – the first event to suggest a set of Sustainable Development Goals • Co-chaired the NGO CSD Steering Committee (1997-2001) • Edited or written 16 books on sustainable development, including: ‘Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals’ and ‘Governance for Sustainable Development’ (edited). In addition, with Maurice Strong (the father of sustainable development) ‘Only One Earth’ (2012). I've also written two books on how to influence multilateral negotiations. My next book, on "Stakeholder Democracy" will be published in July 2019 • Set up and co-directed the Water and Climate Coalition at the UNFCCC and secured water as topic in the climate negotiations within 3 years of lobbying for that • Helped facilitate and train stakeholder engagement for the Sustainable Development Goals, Rio+20 (under contract from UNDESA) and World Summit on Sustainable Development • Helped secure SDG 11 to "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" • Become an International Ambassador for the City of Bonn, Germany • Co-authored in 2016 my first comic with Comics Uniting Nations (UNICEF/PCI Media Impact) called Santa's Green Christmas: Father Christmas Battles Climate Change. August 2012 to date: CONSULTANT, LECTURER, AUTHOR After leaving Stakeholder Forum, I became an Adjunct Professor at the at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health (November 2018 to November 2021) and a Senior Affiliate of the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina. Prior to that, I was a Senior Fellow at the Global Research Institute of the University of North Carolina and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. This enabled me to undertake consultancies for Article 19, Asia - Europe Foundation, AVIVA, Collaborative Institute for Oceans, Climate and Security, Compassion for World Farming, Cynnal Cymru – Sustain Wales, Donkey Sanctuary, Ford Foundation, Futureye, International Renewable Energies Authority (IRENA), Soros Foundation, Stakeholder Forum, Tellus Institute, UNEP, UNDP and UNDESA, World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and Young and Moon. In 2019, with the support of the UK government, I was a candidate for the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. In 2018 and 2019 I was a member of the UN Internal Review Team: Leveraging the United Nations Global Compact’s Unique Assets Towards the 2030 Agenda, co-Chaired by Lisa Kingo, Executive Director of UN Global Compact ,and Henriette H. Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF. In 2017, I was asked to join the Advisory Board for the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s Sustainable Energy Division’s Pathways to Sustainable Energy project. In 2017, I also facilitated the Ministerial Dialogue with stakeholders on pollution during the United Nations Environmental Assembly. In 2016, I was on the Advisory Board for the President of the UN General Assembly Informal Expert Group on Sustainable Development Finance for the Brookings Report ‘Links in the Chain of Sustainable Finance: Accelerating Private Investments for the SDGs, Including Climate’. 2 | Page In 2016 I was asked to join the campaign to make Christiana Figueres the next UN Secretary General. My role was to write the background briefing documents for her campaign. In 2016, I edited The Nexus – Climate-Energy-Water- Food: The challenge for this generation with Jamie Bartram. The foreword was by HRH Prince Charles. Since August 2016, I have written opinion pieces for Inter-Press Service News Agency. In 2014/15, I was an advisor to the UNEP’s Eye on the Earth Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals. Since 2014, I have been secretary of the government Friends of Governance for Sustainable Development group in New York, which is co-chaired by the governments of Germany, Nigeria, Romania and the Republic of Korea. In May 2014, the City of Bonn, Germany announced me as one of their International Ambassadors. In 2013, I set up the multi-stakeholder engagement process for the International Renewable Energies Agency (IRENA). I was co-director of the 2014 and 2018 Nexus Conferences (on climate, water, food, and energy) at the University of North Carolina. I have edited or written 18 books, including ten since the beginning of 2012. I have also contributed chapters and forwards to many other books, the most recent being for ‘Emergence of Environment as a Security Imperative’ in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. My most recent book is Stakeholder Democracy: Representative Democracy in a Time of Fear (July 2019). Other original work includes Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A transformational agenda for an insecure world with Jimena Leiva Roesch of the International Peace Institute and Ambassador David Donoghue of Ireland. That book includes a foreword by former Irish President, Mary Robinson. The SDG book is the third book in the Vienna Café Trilogy, which also includes From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda: Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future with former UN Assistant Secretary General Liz Thompson and Jorge Laguna Celis, former Senior Advisor to the President of the UN General Assembly. Only One Earth, with Michael Strauss and Maurice Strong, the father of sustainable development, is also part of the trilogy. My blog (https://blog.felixdodds.net/ ) is read by 15 to 20,000 opinion makers monthly. JAN 2000 to AUGUST 2012: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, STAKEHOLDER FORUM FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE I established Stakeholder Forum as a leading global multi-stakeholder sustainable development organisation. It played the key role in creating momentum for the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (2012). It also played a similar role for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. My tenure at Stakeholder Forum demonstrated clear leadership, creativity, and management ability on a global scale. In twelve years heading Stakeholder Forum, my achievements included the following: 3 | Page Policy and Advocacy Being a critical leader in the global dialogue between the UN, governments and stakeholders for Rio+20 Chairing the United Nations DPI 64thNGO Conference on Sustainable Societies – Responsive Citizens (2011) and coordinating a chairs text for Rio+20 endorsed by 1,500 NGOs Helping to facilitate the Monaco Sustainable Use of Oceans Conference (November 2011) Actively participating as a member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for Planet Under Pressure– the global scientific conference for Rio+20 Facilitating the first workshop on Rio+20 in November 2008 producing the Donostia Declaration