These were categorized as: policymakers, researchers, private sector representatives, multilateral agency representatives and nongovernment organization (NGO) representatives.
The Conference convened world leaders and government officials, private sector representatives, heads of global organizations, and representatives of civil society to discuss sustainable development in seven areas: jobs, energy, cities, food, water, oceans, and disasters.
Yet there were no private sector representatives to speak of in these meetings.
Adding the two political board appointees, the private shareholder representatives are outnumbered.
You cannot invite private sector representatives to the party and expect them not to express their views or influence outcomes.
Rather than asserting direct control over business institutions and consumers, American politicians chose to have government officials cooperate with private industry representatives to solve wartime problems.
On a private tour, representatives from developer and majority stakeholder Gale International described Songdo to me as not just a technological project but an "urbanistic" one.
But relatives in New York have said that in private briefings, representatives of the Army have described how he was subjected to a campaign of racial slurs and humiliation that amounted to hazing, which is against Army rules.
Ninety-six couNGOses, NGOs, UN agencies and other international organisations, and private sector representatives took part in several rounds of talks, culminating in a final round of negotiations last week at the FAO's Rome headquarters.
