As of May 2000, ICTSD’s governance structure has changed to adapt to the changing environment of the trade and sustainable development debate. The new governance structure better reflects ICTSD’s commitment to broader representation and deeper participation by stakeholders, and has been in effect since September 2000. 

Under the new structure, the Executive Board has become a Governing Board (GB) whose members act as individuals and not as representatives of specific organizations. The membership of the GB will observe geographical, issue, gender and other balances. The GB will set broad policy direction, supervise the work programme, approve the annual report and carry out functions of financial oversight. A list of our 12 current GB Members can be viewed by following this link.

The Programme Advisory Board of approximately 30 NGO organisational members and the Trade Advisory Council of approximately 15 individual members will be transformed into the Stakeholder Forum (SF) to advise and assist the Centre in its work.  The SF will be comprised of a diverse range of organisations, and will include at least two representatives from each of the following groups: civil society, business, trade unions, governments, academia, intergovernmental organisations, donors and the media.  Geographical, issue, gender and other balances will be observed in Board selection.  The SF will also represent a majority of developing country interests.  

Once membership has been finalised, contact information will be posted in this section of the website.

Funding 

ICTSD’s work is made possible by the generosity of its donors. We thank them for their contribution to the achievement of our objectives.

2003– 2004 Donors

• Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie
  
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) , Canada
  
• Christian Aid, UK
• Consumer Unity and Trade Society (CUTS), India
  
• Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom
  
• Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), Canada
  
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Germany
  
• English Nature, United Kingdom
• Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Geneva
• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK
  
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada
  
• International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada
  
• IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Switzerland
  
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, United States
  
• Latin American Trade Network (LATN), Argentina
  
• Metanoia Fund, United States
• Ministry of the Environment, Finland
  
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA), Denmark
  
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS), Netherlands
  
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland
  
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden
  
• Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), Netherlands
  
• NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC)
  
• NOVIB, Netherlands
  
• Office Federal de l’Education et de la Science (OFES), Switzerland
  
• Oxfam, United Kingdom
• Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Geneva
  
• Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), Geneva
  
• Quaker International Affairs Programme (QIAP), Ottawa
  
• Rockefeller Foundation, US
  
• Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Sweden
  
• Swiss Agency for Environment, Forests and Landscape (BUWAL), Switzerland
  
• Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland
  
• Swiss Coalition of Development Organizations (SCDO), Switzerland
  
• U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Beijing
  
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD
  
• United Nations Development Programme, UNDP
• World Bank, Washington
• WWF Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Program Office (WWF MPO), U.S.

Previous Donors  

• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• European Commission- DG for External Relations, Commercial Policy and Relations with North America, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand
• European Commission, – DG Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection
• Federal Office of Environment (Germany)
• Government of New Zealand
• MISEREOR
• MS-Denmark
• National Wildlife Federation (USA)
• PSP Publishing Foundation

In-Kind Contributors  

• Aalborg University, (Denmark)
• Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Canada)
• Kent State University, Geneva (Switzerland)
• United Nations Environment Programme

Start-Up Donors  

• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• ChristianAid (UK)
• Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano (Ecuador)  
• Government of Denmark (DANIDA)
• Government of Switzerland (SECO)
• MISEREOR (Germany)
• NOVIB (Netherlands)
• Oxfam (UK)
• Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)
• Swiss Coalition of Development Organisations