The Jury
Dr. Cathy A. Enz
Professor and associate dean at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University and an expert on the hospitality industry.
Erika Harms
Director of environment at the United Nations Foundation and coordinator of UNESCO's World Heritage program for natural sites.
José Koechlin
Founder of Inkaterra, a Peru-based luxury-hotel chain that has been at the forefront of ecotourism in South America since 1975.
Sven-Olof Lindblad
President and founder of Lindblad Expeditions, a leading tour operator with an exceptional commitment to conservation and sustainable tourism.
DR. Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel Prize–winning economist who served as an advisor to the Clinton administration and as chief economist of the World Bank from 1997 to 2000; now a professor at Columbia University and author of, most recently, Making Globalization Work.
Jamie Sweeting
Director of the Travel and Leisure program at Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business and coordinator of ecotourism projects in more than a dozen countries.
Dr. Kent R. Weeks
Director of the Theban Mapping Project's management and preservation plan for Egypt's Valley of the Kings, where he uncovered the monumental tomb of Ramses II, in 1988.
