Kit Batten
Kit Batten is the Director of Environmental Policy at the Center for American Progress. Batten joined the Center after working with the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) where she was a Legislative Assistant on climate change, energy, transportation, and agriculture policy. She also served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in the office of Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) where she worked on climate change legislation, energy policy, land conservation and management, fisheries policy, and Endangered Species Act reauthorization. She received a B.A. in chemistry from Oberlin College and a M.S. and Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California, Davis.

Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr.
Dr. Bement was confirmed as the Director for the National Science Foundation on November 24, 2004, after having served as Acting Director since February of that year. He joined NSF from the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), where he had been Director since December 7, 2001. He had previously served both organizations in an advisory capacity, including a term on the NSF's National Science Board from 1989-1995. The board guides NSF activities and also serves as a policy advisory body to the President and Congress. As NSF director, Bement now serves as an ex officio member of the NSB. He currently serves as a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and serves as the vice-chair of the Commission’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Committee. Prior to his appointment as NIST director, Dr. Bement served as the David Ross Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and head of the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University. He had joined the Purdue faculty in 1992 after a 39-year career in industry, government, and academia.

Ambassador Richard Benedick
Ambassador Richard Benedick has played a major role in global environmental affairs as chief U.S. negotiator and a principal architect of the historic Montreal Protocol on protection of the ozone layer, and as Special Advisor to Secretaries-General of both the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) and the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994).After serving several years on Battelle’s International Advisory Board, in 1998 he became Deputy Director in the Environmental and Health Sciences Division at their Washington D.C. office of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and since 2001 is Senior Advisor to Battelle’s Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland. Since 1994 Dr. Benedick has been President of the National Council for Science and the Environment. He has lectured at more than 50 universities and professional bodies, serves on several boards, and is consulted by international agencies, governments, foundations and industry. He has organized and/or presided over numerous international conferences and negotiations.

David Bookbinder
David Bookbinder is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School. After several years of corporate litigation, he practiced public interest environmental law in Boston and in Washington, DC. He has litigated cases under most of the federal environmental statutes, and his current responsibilities at the Sierra Club include global warming litigation.

Andrew Bowman
Andrew Bowman, is a program officer for the environment at the Doris Duke charitable Foundation in New York City. In April of 2007, the Doris Duke Foundation set up a $100 million Charitable Foundation to pay for five years of research into global warming.The aim of the foundation's Climate Change Initiative is to look at policies that can speed the use of new technologies and broaden use of existing ones to reduce carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases from being emitted. Andrew Bowman is charged with directing the $100 million fund.  

Rev. Richard Cizik
The Reverend Richard Cizik is Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals. His primary responsibilities, as the most senior staff member of the Association with 24 years of service, include providing direction over the Association’s public-policy stands and advocacy before the Congress of the United States, the White House and the Supreme Court. Additionally, Rev. Cizik writes and edits his own monthly political newsletter, NAE Washington Insight, and holds leadership training programs. Rev. Cizik has been involved in international religious liberty causes for the Association since 1980, when he urged policy-makers to add "religion" to the annual human rights report. He is regularly called upon to speak on topics as diverse as the Bush Administration’s "Faith-Based & Community Initiatives," Evangelicals and Human Rights, and "The New Evangelicals: Who Are They?" His principled yet collegial manner on behalf of the cause of freedom has earned him a reputation as a diplomat and peacemaker.

Deborah Cowman is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Science, Technology, & Public Policy at Texas A&M University (ISTPP). Dr. Cowman has extensive experience in ecological conservation and ecotoxicology and applies this frame of reference to social science research in environmental policy and decision-making.  As a former biologist with USFWS and USGS, and a visiting scientist with USDA, she is familiar with federal policies, the NEPA process, and has previous experience working with state agencies, environmental groups, and stakeholders.  In her current role at ISTPP, she contributes to climate change interview analyses and literature reviews, and provides the unique perspective of a multi-disciplinary researcher who bridges the biological and social sciences.

Dr. Michael M. Crow
Michael M. Crow became the 16th president of Arizona State University in 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research universities, one that is directly engaged in the economic, social, and cultural vitality of its region. Under Dr. Crow’s direction the university pursues teaching, research, and creative excellence focused on the major challenges and questions of our time, as well as those central to the building of a sustainable environment and economy for Arizona.
Since Dr. Crow took office, ASU has marked a number of important milestones, including the establishment of major interdisciplinary research initiatives such as the Biodesign Institute; the Global Institute for Sustainability; and MacroTechnology Works, a program integrating science and technology for large-scale applications. Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Crow was executive vice provost of Columbia University, where he also was professor of science and technology policy in the School of International and Public Affairs. He played the lead role in the creation of the Columbia Earth Institute (CEI). He is also the author of books and articles relating to the analysis of research organizations, technology transfer, science and technology policy, and the practice and theory of public policy. 
Dr. Crow is the Chair of the Steering Committee for the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment - a high-visibility effort to address global warming by garnering institutional commitments to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions, and to accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize the earth’s climate. Currently more than 460 college and university presidents have signed the commitment. See http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/

Thomas Dietz
Thomas Dietz is Director of the Michigan State University Environmental Science and Policy Program and Assistant Vice President for Environmental Research. He is also Professor of Sociology and of Crop and Soil Sciences. Dr. Dietz is a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been awarded the Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society of America, the Distinguished Contribution Award of the American Sociological Association Section on Environment, Technology and Society, and the Outstanding Publication Award, also from the American Sociological Association Section on Environment, Technology and Society. He currently chairs the U.S. National Research Council Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making. Dr. Dietz also serves as Secretary of Section K (Social, Economic, and Political Sciences) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is the former President of the Society for Human Ecology. His current research examines the human driving forces of environmental change, environmental values and the interplay between science and democracy in environmental issues.

Dr. Jae Edmonds
Jae Edmonds is a Chief Scientist and Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL) Joint Global Change Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Edmonds is the principal investigator for the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program to Address Climate Change, an international, public-private research collaboration. His research spans more than 25 years and focuses on the long-term effects of climate change.
Edmonds has served as a Lead Author for all three major assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and numerous interim assessment reports. He has frequently testified before Congress and briefed the Executive Branch of the United States Government including the Vice President of the United States and the Cabinet of the President of the United States, and has prepared and conducted numerous briefings and lectures to a wide range of audiences.

Dr. John Ehrmann
Dr. Ehrmann is a founder and Senior Partner of the Meridian Institute. Dr. Ehrmann has pioneered the use of collaborative decision making processes for over two decades at the local, national and international level. He has designed and implemented projects in national and international forums; in public policy arenas involving legislation, negotiated regulations and Federal Advisory Committees; in communities and site specific disputes; and with stakeholder groups advising NGOs and companies. His work has focused on environment, natural resources issues, energy and climate change, health policy, science and technology, and the economic and social challenges associated with developing sustainable practices for communities and industries.

D r. Mohamed El-Ashry
Dr. Mohamed T. El-Ashry currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation, Dr. El-Ashry served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). He served as the GEF Chairman between 1991 and 2002, and was appointed the first CEO and Chairman of the GEF in 1994. Under his leadership, GEF grew from a pilot program with less than 30 members to the largest single source of funding for the global environment with 173 member countries. Dr. El-Ashry came to the GEF from the World Bank, where he was the Chief Environmental Advisor to the President and Director of the Environment Department. Prior to joining the World Bank, he served as Senior Vice President of the World Resources Institute and as Director of Environmental Quality with the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Dr. Paul R. Epstein
Dr. Paul R. Epstein is Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and is a medical doctor trained in tropical public health. Dr. Epstein has worked in medical, teaching and research capacities in Africa, Asia and Latin America and, in 1993, coordinated an eight-part series on Health and Climate Change for the British medical journal, Lancet.
He has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to assess the health impacts of climate change and develop health applications of climate forecasting and remote sensing. He also served as a reviewer for the Health chapter of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, and is coordinating the international project Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions. This project involves scientists, UN agencies, NGOs and corporate/financial sector leaders in the assessment of the new risks and opportunities presented by a changing climate.

Sara Espinoza
For the past three years, Sara has worked with the National Environmental Education Foundation’s Earth Gauge™ program, a partnership with the American Meteorological Society, working with meteorologists in cities across the U.S. and at The Weather Channel to incorporate environmental information into the weathercast. She has expanded the program from seven to more than 120 participating meteorologists and radio broadcasters, while building partnerships with national, regional, and local agencies and organizations to develop targeted Earth Gauge™ information for various cities. Sara also coordinates the development of online environmental education courses for broadcast meteorologists, including Watersheds: Connecting Weather to the Environment, released in September 2006, and the upcoming Weather and the Built Environment and Weather and the Public’s Health courses. Before joining NEEF, Sara worked with the education programs at World Wildlife Fund and The Jane Goodall Institute. She holds a B.A. in Animal Behavior from Bucknell University, and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University, focused on community-based environmental management and conservation science and policy.

Martha Garcia
Martha Garcia is a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). She began her career with the USGS as a Geologic Field Assistant while in college. She is the current administrator of Priority Ecosystem Science (PES). The mission of PES is to provide science in support of adaptive management of ecosystems that have near-term societal concern and significant long-term societal value. Studies are designed to serve local ecosystem management needs and to provide knowledge and approaches transferable to similar ecosystems across the Nation. PES efforts focus in areas where new integrated science approaches can be developed to address the needs of a diverse group of decision-makers and to meet Department of the Interior's responsibilities to manage the Nation's lands. Martha works on educational outreach programs that promote the geosciences to students and on human resource committees that promote the career development and enhancement of women and minorities in the USGS. She is also an active volunteer and board member of non-profit and civic groups in her local community.

Dr. Peter H. Gleick
Dr. Peter H. Gleick is co-founder and President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources.
Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. In 1999, Gleick was elected an Academician of the International Water Academy, in Oslo, Norway and in 2006 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Gleick received a B.S. from Yale University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the boards of numerous journals and organizations, and is the author of many scientific papers and five books, including the biennial water report, The World's Water, published by Island Press.

Sherri W. Goodman
Sherri W. Goodman is Senior Fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses, a non-profit research organization. She provides strategic advice and counseling on environmental and national security matters including sustainability, long-term stewardship, homeland security, environmental science and technology, risk communication and environmental management systems. From 1993-2001, she served as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security, where, as chief environmental officer, she was responsible for environmental safety and occupational health policies and programs within the Department of Defense. She oversaw an annual budget of $5 billion and set policies for several thousand military environmental professionals. Ms. Goodman has twice received the Secretary of Defense award for Distinguished Public Service, and she has also received EPA’s Climate Change Award. She practiced law at the Boston law firm, Goodwin Procter. She also served on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, 1987-90, working for the Chairman, Senator Sam Nunn, where she oversaw the Department of Energy’s Defense and Environmental Programs, including nuclear weapons research and development production, waste management and environmental remediation. She received her BA from Amherst College, her J.D. from the Harvard School of Law and her MA in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee has served as Representative for the 1st Congressional District of Washington State since 1999.  Since 1992, he has worked at the federal level to protect the environment of Washington state and address the problem of global warming, serving as representative for the 4th Congressional District from 1992-1994. Previously, he was a state legislator and prosecutor in Selah, Wash.
 He fought to restore protections for roadless areas in national forests and led a successful campaign in the House to keep limits on oil-tanker traffic in Puget Sound. Since 2005, Inslee has used his seat on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee to promote his vision for a clean energy future, the New Apollo Energy Act, and to advance other legislation that would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. In March 2007, he was appointed to the 15-member Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Congressman Inslee recently published a new book with co-author Bracken Hendricks, titled Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy.

Sarah James
Sarah James is the board chairperson for the Gwich'in Steering Committee, which works on behalf of the Gwich'in Nation to protect Iizhik Gwats'an Gwandaii Goodlit, sacred territories that are used for caribou calving and act as nursery grounds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In 1988 when the Gwich’in Nation learned of the threat of oil development in the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge, the Gwich’in tribe unanimously agreed to oppose any oil and gas development in sacred territories.In 2002, Sarah was awarded the Goldman Environmental Award for her work to educate the public and decision makers on the need to protect the Gwich’in Nation’s sacred territories, and for upholding the Nation’s human rights.

Daniel M. Kammen
Daniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering.  Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL).  Kammen is also the Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment (http://bie.berkeley.edu).  Kammen received his undergraduate (Cornell A., B. ’84) and graduate (Harvard M. A. ’86, Ph.D. ’88) training is in physics After postdoctoral work at Caltech and Harvard, Kammen was professor and Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 1993 – 1998.  Through RAEL (http://rael.berkeley.edu) Kammen works with faculty colleagues, postdoctoral fellows, and roughly 20 doctoral students on a wide range of science, engineering, economics and policy projects related to energy science, engineering and the environment.  The focus of Kammen’s work is on the science and policy of clean, renewable energy systems, energy efficiency, the role of energy in national energy policy, international climate debates, and the use and impacts of energy sources and technologies on development, particularly in Africa and Latin America.  Daniel Kammen serves on the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, on the Technical Review Board of the Global Environment Facility is on the advisory board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and was a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.  Kammen’s website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kammen, documents his teaching, partnerships with developed and developing country partners, and media and educational efforts.

Abigail  Kimbell
Abigail R. Kimbell is the 16th Chief and first female Chief of the US Forest Service. From May 2002 until her selection for this position Kimbell served as the associate deputy chief for the national forest system in the Forest Service. She was the forest supervisor of the Pike and San Isabel National Forests and the Comanche National Grassland, all in Colorado, as well as the Bighorn National Forest, based in Sheridan, Wyoming.
Kimbell received a bachelor's degree in forest management from the University of Vermont in 1974 and later a master's degree in forest engineering from Oregon State University. Kimbell is a member of the Society of American Foresters.
http://www.fs.fed.us:80/news/2007/speeches/09/climate.shtml

Jon Krosnick
In 2004, Dr. Krosnick became Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, where he is also Associate Director of the Social Science Research Institute.  Dr. Krosnick is currently involved in research in two principal areas: (1) the formation and change of political attitudes, and (2) the social and cognitive processes involved in responding to survey questionnaires.
Dr. Krosnick has served as a consultant to such organizations such as the Office of Social Research at CBS Inc., the Socio-Environmental Studies Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health, the Center for Survey Methods Research at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Urban Institute. He has provided court testimony and has served as an on-air election-night television commentator.

Dr. Margaret S. Leinen
Dr. Margaret S. Leinen serves as Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation. In addition to her responsibilities as the Assistant Director, Dr. Leinen is responsible for coordinating environmental science, engineering and education programs within the National Science Foundation (NSF), and for environmental cooperation and collaborations between NSF and other Federal agencies. She also serves as the chair of the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology, the federal interagency committee that coordinates ocean science among the participating federal agencies and she serves as Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Global Change, the federal interagency committee that coordinates global change science among the participating federal agencies.
Dr. Leinen is involved in a wide range of international activities.  She is Chair of the International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research (IGFA).  Dr. Leinen leads NSF cooperation in global change and environment research with the European Commission and with Japan.   She represents the United States in the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), in the APN Conference of the Parties, and has served until recently as Vice-Chair of the IAI Executive Council.

Dr. Jeff Leonard
Dr. Leonard is President, Chief Executive Officer, and a founding partner of the Global Environment Fund. In his current role at the Global Environment Fund, Dr. Leonard oversees technology investments in the fields of energy, environmental infrastructure, intelligent systems engineering, biotechnolgy, and health care.
Dr. Leonard has extensive experience in the field of economic development. As Vice President of the World Wildlife Fund, he served as the leader of their economic development department. He held the same position with The Conservation Fund. Dr. Leonard also has experience working with international finance agencies and governments in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to finance development and environmental infrastructure. Dr. Leonard was educated at Harvard College where he earned a BA magna cum laude, London School of Economics earning a MSc, and Princeton University where he earned his Ph.D.

Dr. Thomas E.Lovejoy
Thomas E. Lovejoy has been President of The Heinz Center since May 2002. Before coming to The Heinz Center, he was the World Bank’s Chief Biodiversity Advisor and Lead Specialist for Environment for Latin America and the Caribbean and Senior Advisor to the President of the United Nations Foundation. Dr. Lovejoy has been Assistant Secretary and Counselor to the Secretary at the Smithsonian Institution, Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior, and Executive Vice President of the World Wildlife Fund–U.S. He conceived the idea for the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems project originated the concept of debt-for-nature swaps, and is the founder of the public television series Nature. In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Dr. Lovejoy served on science and environmental councils or committees under the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. He received his B. S. and Ph.D. (biology) degrees from Yale University.

Mindy S. Lubber
Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices. She also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance that coordinates U.S. investor responses to the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change. Ms. Lubber is the recipient of the Skoll Social Entrepreneur Award. Under her leadership, Ceres was awarded the Fast Company Social Capitalist Award for 2007. She has held leadership positions in government as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; in the financial services sector as Founder, President and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds; in the private sector as the President of an environmental law and policy consulting group; and in the not-for-profit sector for more than a decade leading environmental and public interest law organizations.

Michael C. MacCracken
Michael C. MacCracken is chief scientist for climate change programs with the Climate Institute, a non-partisan, non-governmental organization established in 1986 to heighten national and international awareness of climate change and to identify practical ways for responding. Dr. MacCracken is completing a four-year term as president of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, and serves on the executive committees of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and Scientific Committee for Oceanic Research. He was a lead author of Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable, which was prepared for the UN's Commission on Sustainable Development.Previously, Dr. MacCracken was the leader of climate change research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1968-93) and executive director of the Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (1993-97). Justice Stevens favorably cited his affidavit relating global climate change to impacts on particular regions in his 2007 decision in Massachusetts et al. versus EPA.

Bill McKibben 
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history. Beginning in January 2007, he founded stepitup.org, which is working to organize rallies in hundreds of American cities and towns to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions that would cut global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050. His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006.

Professor Mohan Munasinghe is Vice Chair, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for work on climate change. He was born in Sri Lanka, and earned post-graduate degrees in engineering, physics and development economics from Cambridge University (UK), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and McGill University and Concordia University (Canada). He has also received several honorary doctorates (honoris causa). Currently, he is Chairman, Munasinghe Inst. of Development (MIND); Colombo; Honorary Senior Advisor to the Sri Lanka Govt., and Visiting Professor, United Nations University, Tokyo. During 35 years of distinguished public service, he has served as Senior Energy Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka, Advisor to the United States Presidents Council on Environmental Quality, and Senior Advisor/Manager, World Bank. He has taught as Visiting Professor at a number of leading universities worldwide and won many international prizes and medals for his research and its applications. He has authored 90 books and over three hundred technical papers on economics, sustainable development, climate change, power, energy, water resources, transport, environment, disasters, and information technology. He is a Fellow of several internationally recognized Academies of Science, and serves on the editorial boards of a dozen academic journals.

Mark Myers
Mark Myers is an internationally recognized geologist and head of Alaska's Geological Survey. Mark is an expert on North Slope sedimentary and petroleum geology and served as survey chief for field programs in the MacKenzie Delta, Cook Inlet, and North Slope. He also served as sedimentologist for 13 other North Slope field programs.
Mark is a past president and board member of the Alaska Geological Society; a certified professional geologist with the American Institute of Professional Geologists; a certified petroleum geologist with the American Association of Petroleum Geologists; and a licensed geologist with the State of Alaska.Mark received his doctorate in geology from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 1994, specializing in sedimentology, clastic depositional environments, surface and subsurface sequence analysis, and sandstone petrography. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Frank T. Princiotta
Frank T. Princiotta is Director of the Air Pollution Prevention for Research Triangle Park. He is responsible for research, development and demonstration of methods and technologies for controlling air pollution from stationary sources. Before assuming this position at Research Triangle Park, Frank was Director of the Energy Processes Division in EPA Headquarters in Washington, DC, where he directed EPA efforts to develop and improve technology for controlling pollution associated with the production and use of energy.
Frank has received three EPA bronze medals and a gold medal for management and technical performance. An author of many scientific articles and papers on air pollution control, and energy and environmental issues, Frank has been a frequent speaker before professional and technical societies and conferences. In addition, he has chaired numerous symposiums on air pollution control and energy-related topics and has testified on many occasions before House and Senate Committees on air pollution control.

Roger Pulwarty
Roger S. Pulwarty is a Physical Scientist and the Director of the National Integrated Drought Information System  (NIDIS) Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.  His interests  are on climate, assessing social and environmental vulnerability, and on developing  information services for environmental risk management. Dr. Pulwarty's work focuses on the Western U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean.  From 1998 to 2002 he  directed the NOAA/Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program. He leads the vulnerability and capacity assessments component of the World Bank-funded project on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean. Roger is a lead author on Adaptation Options and Practices in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report Working Group 2, on the forthcoming IPCC Technical Report on Climate and Water Resources, and on the U.S. Climate Science Program Synthesis Report on Climate Change and Extremes. He is Professor Adjunct at the University of Colorado, Boulder and at the University of the West Indies.

Chris Pyke
Chris Pyke is the Director of Climate Change Services for CTG Energetics, Inc., a team of engineers, architects, planners, and ecologists dedicated to integrating sustainability principles with the development of the built environment.  Dr. Pyke helps a wide variety of clients understand and manage greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for changing climatic conditions.  Dr. Pyke is also a Fellow with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s Center for Coastal Resources Management where his research emphasizes intersections between climate change, land use, and decision making.  Prior to joining CTG, Dr. Pyke was an environmental scientist with the US EPA’s Global Change Research Program.  After receiving his Ph.D., he was a fellow with The Nature Conservancy’s David H. Smith research program while in residence at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and Conservation International.  Dr. Pyke received a Ph.D. (2002) and M.A. (1998) degrees in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.S. (1996) in Environmental Geology from the College of William and Mary.

L. Jeremy Richardson
Dr. Jeremy Richardson completed his tenure as a NASA postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, on February 2, 2007. He was recently appointed as the first John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow at the American Astronomical Society. Richardson's research focuses on the characterization of extrasolar planets using spectroscopy and photometry. His doctoral dissertation work was among the first attempts to detect the signatures of transiting extrasolar planets by monitoring the time when the planet disappears behind the star during secondary eclipse. In 2005, Richardson was a member of one of the first teams to use this technique to detect light from an extrasolar planet. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2003, and his bachelor's degree in physics from West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1997.

Jerome Ringo
Jerome Ringo is the president of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of organized labor, environmental, business and civil rights leaders determined to free the United States of its dependence on foreign oil. The alliance is trying to educate the public and lobby the Capitol Hill about the need to invest in alternative clean-energy sources, energy-efficient technology and jobs.
In 1996, Ringo was elected to serve on the National Wildlife Federation board of directors and, in 2005, Jerome became the chair of the board. In so doing, he also became the first African American to head a major conservation organization. Jerome Ringo was the United States’ only black delegate at the 1998 Global Warming Treaty Negotiations in Kyoto, Japan. In addition to being present during Kyoto Treaty Negotiations, Ringo represented the National Wildlife Federation at the United Nations conference on sustainable development in 1999.

David E. Rodgers
David E. Rodgers is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) at the U.S. Department of Energy. As Deputy Assistant Secretary, Rodgers supports the Assistant Secretary in day-to-day management of the EERE portfolio of energy efficiency programs including industrial, buildings, and vehicle technologies.
 Rodgers has been with the U.S. Department of Energy for 16 years and has served in the Department's energy efficiency programs for buildings, industry, and transportation. Previously, Rodgers served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Development. From July 2005 through July 2006, David was Program Manager for the Building Technologies Program.
 During his career at the Department of Energy, David has worked on regulatory development, R&D management, deployment activities, partnership development, business systems, and planning and analysis. David earned degrees in chemical engineering and computer science from Washington University in St. Louis, and a masters in public management from the University of Maryland. He is a former Presidential Management Fellow. In the private sector, he has experience in the chemical, petroleum, and computer industries.

James Rogers
James Rogers is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Duke Energy. He was named chairman in January 2007, following the separation of Duke Energy’s natural gas businesses into a new publicly traded company, Spectra Energy.
Rogers has more than 18 years of experience as a chief executive officer in the electric utility industry. He was named president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy following the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006. In the course of his career, Rogers has served more than 40 cumulative years on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a director of Fifth Third Bancorp and Cigna Corporation.
Rogers currently serves as co-chair of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency and the Alliance to Save Energy. He has testified 15 times on energy and environmental policies before congressional committees. Rogers also serves on numerous civic boards and has published numerous articles on energy and environmental issues.

Stacy Rosenberg
Stacy Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor of Politics and Environmental Studies at SUNY Potsdam. Dr. Rosenberg’s research interests focus on the human dimensions of global climate change, environmental policy, collaborative environmental governance, water resource management, and human-environmental relations. Prior to joining the faculty at SUNY Potsdam, Dr. Rosenberg was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Texas A&M University. Her work focused on the use of scientific information on global climate change and water resource management.

Rebecca Romsdahl
Rebecca Romsdahl is an Assistant Professor with the Earth System Science & Policy program at the University of North Dakota.  She joined the faculty at UND in 2006 after completing an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellowship working with the US EPA's Global Change Research Program and the US Climate Change Science Program office in Washington, DC. Her research interests focus on the human dimensions of global environmental change and government interaction with stakeholders in developing environmental policies. Some of her recent publications examine such topics as: decision support for climate change adaptation planning, challenges for collaboration between government agencies and stakeholders, evaluating Internet-based deliberation for environmental policy-making, and challenges to the use of social science research in environmental policy-making.

Dr. Peter Saundry
Peter Saundry is the Executive Director of the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nonpartisan organization of scientists, environmentalists, business people, and policy makers working to improve the scientific basis of environmental decision making. He has served as Executive Director since 1993. Dr. Saundry provides day-to-day leadership to the organization and responsible for overall program, financial and staff management, strategic planning, and development.
Dr. Saundry works closely with, and is accountable to, NCSE's Board of Directors which is drawn from the research, business, academic, and policy communities and state and local government. He leads the organization's diverse development activities with foundations, universities, corporations and individuals. Dr. Saundry is a frequent speaker, particularly at universities and colleges.
Dr. Saundry is also Treasurer of Global Children's Health and Environment Fund (GCHEF), a non-profit international organization based in Washington, DC. Dr. Saundry received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Southern California in 1991, an M.S. in Physics from Adelphi University in 1984, and a B.S. in Physics, with honors, from Southampton University, U.K., in 1982.

Lynn Scarlett
Lynn Scarlett was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior on November 2005, after 4 years as the Department's Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget. She served as Acting Secretary of the Department upon the resignation of former Secretary Gale Norton effective April 1, until the confirmation of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on May 26, of 2006. She serves on the Executive Committee of the President's Management Council.
 Ms. Scarlett coordinates Interior's environmental policy initiatives to implement the President's executive order on cooperative conservation, serving on the White House Cooperative Conservation Task Force. From June 2003-2004, she chaired the federal Wildland Fire Leadership Council, an interagency and intergovernmental forum for implementing the National Fire Plan and 10-Year Implementation Plan. She co-chairs the President and First Lady's Preserve America initiative on historic preservation and heritage tourism. She also co-chairs the Recreation Fee Leadership Council, a federal interagency group to coordinate recreation fee policy and practices on federal lands. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Udall Foundation as the Department of the Interior representative.
 Prior to joining the Bush Administration in July 2001, she was President of the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation, a nonprofit current affairs research and communications organization.

Stephen H. Schneider
Stephen H. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biological Sciences and (by courtesy) of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Plasma Physics from Columbia University in 1971, followed by post-doctoral fellowships at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He was a member of the scientific staff of NCAR from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project.
Internationally recognized for research, policy analysis and outreach in climate change, Dr. Schneider focuses on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions. He has consulted with federal agencies and/or White House staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton and G.W. Bush administrations.
Actively involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr. Schneider co-authored “Uncertainties in the IPCC Third Assessment Report: Recommendations to Lead Authors for More Consistent Assessment and Reporting” and the cross-cutting theme paper #4: “Assessing the Science to Address UNFCCC Article 2.” He has contributed to all four Assessment Reports and is currently a Coordinating Lead Author of Working Group II Chapter 19, "Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change." He is also part of the Core Writing Team for the Third and Fourth Assessment Synthesis Reports, which integrate the contributions of Working Groups I, II, and III. After decades of work, Dr. Schneider, along with four generations of IPCC authors, received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for their joint efforts in 2007.
Elected to membership in the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2002, Dr. Schneider is the recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/ Westinghouse Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology, a MacArthur Fellowship for his ability to integrate and interpret the results of global climate research through public lectures, classroom teaching, environmental assessment committees, media appearances, Congressional testimony and research collaboration with colleagues, and the Society of Conservation Biology’s Edward T. Law Roe Award. He is founder and editor Climatic Change and has authored or co-authored several books, over 345 scientific papers, proceedings, legislative testimonies, edited books and book chapters, and145 book reviews, editorials and other pieces for popular media.
Currently, Dr. Schneider is counseling policy makers about the importance of using risk management strategies in climate-policy decision making, given the uncertainties in future projections of global climate change and related impacts. In addition, he consults with corporate executives and other stakeholders in industry and the nonprofit sectors regarding possible climate-related events and is actively engaged in improving public understanding of science and the environment through extensive media communication and public outreach.

Peter Michael Senge
Peter Senge is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants committed to increase collective action. His special interest is on decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations so as to enhance the capacity of all people to work productively toward common goals.
Senge is the author of several books, including the widely acclaimed, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990). This book, which provides the knowledge for organizations to transform rigid hierarchies into more fluid and responsive systems, is widely credited with creating a revolution in the business world. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools to create economic and organizational change. He has worked with leaders in business, education, health care and government.

Ray Suarez
Ray Suarez is a Senior Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Suarez joined the NewsHour in October 1999 from National Public Radio (NPR), where he hosted the nationwide call-in news program Talk of the Nation since 1993. Suarez brought almost twenty years experience in the news business to his daily broadcast. During his seven years as a reporter with NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Suarez covered local, national and international stories. Before going to Chicago, he was a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, a producer for the ABC Radio Network in New York, a reporter for CBS Radio in Rome and a reporter for various London based American and British news services.
Suarez is currently a contributing editor for Si Magazine, a new national magazine for Latinos. The Utne Reader named him one of its “Visionaries” for 1996 and Hispanic business called him one of the “100 Influentials” among American Latinos. Suarez’s essays and criticisms have been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune, among other publications.

Margaret Carol Turnbull
Margaret Carol Turnbull is an American astronomer and a NASA astrobiology Institute postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institute of Washington. She received her PHD in astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2004. Turnbull is an authority on "Habstars," solar twins and planetary habitability.
In 2002, Turnbull developed the HabCat along with Jill Tarter, a catalog of potentially habitable solar systems. The following year Turnbull went on to further identify 30 particularly suitable stars from the 5,000 in the HabCat list that are within 100 light years of Earth.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the Global Correspondent for The Economist, covering developments in politics, economics, business, and technology as they relate to energy issues. He joined the magazine’s staff as the London-based Latin America Correspondent in 1992. Two years later, he opened its first bureau in that region in Mexico City. He wrote about political, financial and cultural developments in that part of the world until 1997, when he returned to the editorial headquarters in London.
He is a commentator on NPR and Marketplace radio, and a regular guest on the BBC, PBS’s NewsHour, ABC’s Nightline and other television programs. He is also the author of a book on the future of energy, “Power to the People: How the Coming Energy Revolution will Transform an Industry, Change our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet.” Harvard’s John Holdren, reviewing the book in Scientific American, called it “by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available.” Vijay holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in New York.

Felipe Adrián Vázquez-Gálvez
Mr. Felipe Adrián Vázquez-Gálvez became the new executive director of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation Secretariat, in Montreal, in September 2006. A chemist by trade, Mr. Vázquez brings a strong background in environmental science and enforcement to the Commission, having worked for more than 15 years in such areas as industrial air pollution, wastewater treatment, hazardous waste management, environmental audits, and occupational exposure. His environmental activities have focused on the US-Mexico border region, particularly related to environmental law in Mexico and the United States. Throughout his career, he has assisted firms (including several Fortune 500 companies) interested in environmental compliance in Mexico and abroad, as well as compliance with corporate environmental policies. At the Packard Electric group of companies, he spent nearly three years designing and consolidating the group’s environmental program.

Kathleen Welch
Kathleen currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Environment Program at the Pew Charitable Trusts, where she is involved in the management of programs to protect ocean life and wilderness and to advance solutions to global warming. She also oversees the Trusts’ strategy to secure mandatory limits on global warming pollution in the United States. Before joining the Trusts in 1999, Welch worked as a management consultant for non-profit organizations, served as government relations and managing program counsel for the Legal Services Corporation, was the executive director of the National Association for Public Interest Law, and coordinated energy policy for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and NYPIRG.