The Istanbul Declaration - Statements of support

Statements of support from the floor were made by the following:

• Ana Isabel Leiva Deiz, Spanish Secretary of State of Territorial Co-Operation, Minister of Public Administrations
• François Bourguignon, Senior Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist, World Bank
• Claes Johansson, United Nations Development Program
• Dae You Kim, Commissioner, Korean National Statistical Office
• Pahli Lehola, Chief Statistician, South Africa - on behalf of Africa
• Ricardo Santiago, Inter American Development Bank
• Charlotte Kahn, Director, Boston Indicators Project, the Boston Foundation
• Luay Shabaneh, President, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
• Ken Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia Univeristy, USA
• Alex Michalos, Chancellor, Director of the Institute for Social Research and Evaluation and Professor Emeritus, University of Northern British Columbia
• Lazlo Pinter, Director, International Institute for Sustainable Development