Olivia la O’ Castillo
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The Holcim Awards jury for region Asia Pacific met in Mumbai, India in July 2011 to select projects using the “target issues” for sustainable construction (l-r): Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Olivia la O' Castillo, Gunawan Tjahjono, Wowo Ding (Head of Jury), Momoyo Kaijima, Valérie Portefaix, Paul Hugentobler, Ashok B Lall, and Uday Athavankar.
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The Holcim Awards jury for region Asia Pacific met in Shanghai, China in June 2008 to select projects using the “target issues” for sustainable construction (l-r): Kazuo Iwamura, Mark Lee, Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Gunawan Tjahjono, Zeenat Niazi, Olivia la O’ Castillo, Hansjürg Leibundgut, Ashok B Lall (Head).
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Global Holcim Awards jury 2006 - Zurich, Switzerland
Members of the Global Holcim Awards jury which met in February 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland (l-r): Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Hansjürg Leibundgut, Claude Fussler, Urs Bieri, Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdellah, Adèle Naudé Santos (Head), Mohsen Mostafavi, Banasopit Mekvichai, Enrique Norten, Kaarin Taipale, Thom Mayne, Olivia la O’Castillo, Tim Macfarlane, Ashok B. Lall.
Olivia la O’ Castillo is a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB) and is the President and a founding member of Sustainable Development Solutions for Asia and the Pacific (SDSAP) based in Manila, the Philippines.
Last updated: August 03, 2010 Manila, Philippines
Olivia la O’ Castillo is a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB) and is the President and a founding member of Sustainable Development Solutions for Asia and the Pacific (SDSAP) based in Manila, the Philippines.
She is a member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) International Environmental Technology Center, Japan and is involved with a number of intergovernmental and business Organizations to implement sustainable production initiatives and sustainable development approaches, particularly within the Asia Pacific region.
Olivia la O’ Castillo holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of the Philippines (1997), and also studied administration and arts at the University of the Philippines (1975) and Maryknoll College (1967).
She is the former president of the Philippine Pollution Prevention Roundtable (P3R), former member of the Board of Trustees of the Asia-Pacific Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (APRSCP), and has been an environmental consultant to projects for the Joanneum Research Institute (Austria), Asian Development Bank (ADB), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
Olivia la O’ Castillo is also a member of the UNEP Life Cycle Impact Assessment Working Group (LCIA), and a guest mentor of the Young Masters Program at the International Institute for Industrial Engineering Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, Sweden.
Olivia la O’ Castillo was a member of the Holcim Awards global jury in 2006 and of the Holcim Awards jury for region Asia Pacific in 2008.