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___________________________________ Global Warming Solutions 2005 What’s on the Climate Horizon – June 8 and 9 Roosevelt Hotel, New York City ___________________________________ Speaker Biographies
Michael is a current member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Air Quality Management in the United States. He serves on a variety of advisory committees including U.S. EPA's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee as well as on a variety of other EPA and state advisory groups.
Claire Broido, President of SunEdison, LLC, is currently working on financing and installing large scale solar electricity projects, primarily in New Jersey and California. She has worked in the energy industry as an electricity deal originator at Constellation Power Source, Enron North America, and GE Capital and as a consultant at Deloitte & Touche. She has been involved with portfolio valuations, asset valuations, load serving and load following product sales, non-recourse debt financing deals, and originating new electricity deal structures in New York and NEPOOL. She also has experience both at Enron and Constellation with structuring and managing several long term renewable contracts. Ms. Broido has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, where she helped to create that major.
Dale Bryk is a Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she heads up the organization’s state climate policy work. Her expertise is in the area of state energy and climate policy, including utility regulation, energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, greenhouse gas emission registries and regulation, emissions trading, green building and smart growth. Dale joined NRDC in 1997, prior to which she practiced corporate law at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. Since 2002, she has also taught the Environmental Protection Clinic at Yale Law School. Dale has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Masters Degree in international law and policy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a B.A from Colgate University.
Before his appointment as Commissioner of the DEP, Campbell was a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina's Law School, where he taught classes on natural resources and the environment, property rights and the Constitution, and contracts. In 1999, President Bill Clinton appointed Campbell to work at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as Regional Administrator for the Mid-Atlantic Region, where he was responsible for implementing and enforcing federal environmental laws. During his tenure at the EPA, Campbell addressed lead contamination in Philadelphia schools, worked on smart growth pilot projects and negotiated a new agreement to strengthen protection of the Chesapeake Bay. Earlier, he served as Associate Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he was responsible for all toxic and environmental protection matters from 1995-1999. In that position, he negotiated a 1996 landmark agreement affecting New Jersey that strengthened ocean protection while ensuring that needed port development could move forward. From 1990-1994, Campbell served as an attorney-advisor for the U. S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, where he was responsible for trial and appellate litigation and advised client agencies and the Assistant Attorney General on a range of environmental issues. Campbell earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1987 and his B.A. in history from Amherst College in 1983. He currently serves as Board Chairman of Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc., a nonprofit organization which provides residential environmental education programs to school children in the Chesapeake Bay area. He also is on the Board of Directors of Common Ground Community, Inc., a nonprofit organization which provides housing, social services, and job training to mentally ill, low-income, and formerly homeless persons.
Alice Chamberlin is Special Policy Advisor to Governor John Lynch of New Hampshire on environment, energy and transportation. She was appointed by President Clinton to serve as U.S. Commissioner to the International Joint Commission, United States and Canada from 1994 - 2001, a presidential appointment requiring Senate confirmation. Chamberlin has also served as an Environmental Policy Assistant to the late Governor Hugh Gallen of New Hampshire, as the Executive Director of the Environmental Law Council, Franklin Pierce Law Center, and as an Adjunct, part-time Faculty Member of the School of Environmental Studies, Antioch Graduate School. She has served as Chairman of the Nature Conservancy of New Hampshire and as a member of the Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Citizens Committee. She is a trustee of the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust in NH. She has served on local and regional planning and zoning boards and as a member of her Community Conservation Commission. Chamberlin received her B.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase and her J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center. She is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association.
His current policy interests include: research concerned with both the sciences of global change and sustainability, in particular the interface between science and public policy, as well as developing an international initiative in sustainability science that seeks to integrate at the science-policy interface scientific and technological research, assessments, monitoring/observations, and decision support systems. In addition, he currently serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, an international effort to evaluate the effects of climate variability, change, and UV increases in the Arctic. Prior to coming to the AMS in January 2000, Corell was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation, where he had oversight of the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences and the global change programs of the NSF. While at the NSF, he also served as the Chair of the committee of the National Science and Technology that has oversight of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. He has also served as Chair and principal U.S. delegate to many international bodies with interests in, and responsibilities for, climate and global change research programs. Before joining the NSF, Corell was a Professor and academic administrator at the University of New Hampshire. A native of Detroit, Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training, having received Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees at the Case Institute of Technology and MIT. He has also held appointments at the Woods Hole Institution of Oceanography, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the University of Washington. Corell is an AMS Fellow. He has received an AMS Special Award and the AGU's Edward A. Flinn III Award.
Mr. Crago is a Senior Research Analyst at Innovest, where his primary responsibilities include analysis of the mining, energy and computer sectors. He is also a member of Innovest’s Carbon Finance Practice team, and has been a lead analyst for the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Prior to joining Innovest, he had worked with the United Nations Environment Programme, providing research assistance to the Geneva-based Economics and Trade Unit and to UNEP's Finance Initiatives. Mr. Crago holds a Masters degree in Environmental Studies, with a concentration on sustainable development and the private sector, from York University in Toronto. He also holds a Bachelors degree in History and Economics from McGill University in Montreal where he graduated with distinction. He is based in New York City.
Andrew O. Ertel is President and Chief Executive of Evolution Markets LLC, a leading brokerage and advisory-services firm focused on the markets of environmental credits, coal, weather, natural gas, and power. Under Mr. Ertel’s leadership, Evolution Markets has developed one of the leading brokerage operations in global greenhouse gas markets. The firm has achieved some of the most important milestones in greenhouse gas emissions trading, including facilitating the first ever transaction under the Kyoto Protocol’s International Emissions Trading program and many of the first trades under the European Union’s GHG emissions trading scheme. To serve the European carbon market, Mr. Ertel has expanded the company, setting up brokerage operations in London and establishing a Central European joint venture, Evolution Menert, based in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Joyce M. Ferris is a founder and Managing Partner of Blue Hill. She has over 19 years of experience building companies and projects in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industry. She has had principal operating roles as a technology and equipment provider, a financial advisor and as a project developer. Ms. Ferris’ investment experience includes companies and projects in energy efficiency, solar energy, industrial combined heat and power, agricultural waste fired energy, municipal waste to energy, geothermal, and hydroelectric. Ms. Ferris started her career in the energy industry in 1985 as a founding principal of Reading Energy Company where she managed project and corporate financing transactions totaling over $900 million. In 1995 Ms. Ferris lead the acquisition of Energy Products of Idaho, a combustion technology firm active in industrial combined heat and power projects. She became a major shareholder and lead business development activities for the company in the US and Europe through 1998. Ms. Ferris provides strategic, business development and capital raising support for Blue Hill portfolio companies. She sits on the board of Princeton Energy Systems, Encelium Technologies, Acadia Water Technologies and Advanced Renewables. Ms. Ferris has been a speaker at industry conferences in the US and Europe. She holds a B.A. from Reed College and an M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in Energy Management and Policy.
Charles G. Fox serves in the Administration of New York Governor George E. Pataki as Deputy Secretary to the Governor for Energy and the Environment. In this capacity Fox directs and coordinates the development and implementation of environmental and energy policy throughout state government. Fox joined the Executive Chamber in spring of 2001 and served as Special Assistant to the Senior Policy Advisor prior to being named Deputy Secretary in January 2003. As Deputy Secretary to the Governor, Fox has responsibility for the State’s Energy and Environmental Agencies and Authorities, including the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Public Service Commission (PSC), New York State Power Authority (NYPA), Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP), Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), and the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) as well as a number of other state agencies and authorities. Fox previously served as General Counsel to the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) in Ray Brook, NY from March 1999 through April 2001. In that capacity he was responsible for all legal issues confronting the APA including its administration and enforcement of the Adirondack Park Agency Act, the New York Freshwater Wetlands Act, and the New York State Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers Act within New York State’s Adirondack Park. From 1994 through 1999 served as senior attorney at the Department of Environmental Conservation where he handled Air Enforcement cases and served as real property attorney in the DEC’s open space conservation program. Prior to entering state service Fox was an Associate Attorney with the law firm of Andrews & Kurth, L.L.P. in Washington, DC, where he was a member of the firm’s environmental and energy section. Syracuse University College of Law awarded Fox a Juris Doctor cum laude in 1991 and he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts in 1988. Fox currently resides in Delmar, New York.
Robert Fox recently joined with Richard Cook to form “Cook + Fox Architects”, a firm devoted to creating environmentally responsible high performance buildings. Winner of the prestigious Urban Visionary Award from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (2002), Bob’s work has been featured in exhibitions and publications internationally. A founding partner of Fox & Fowle Architects, Bob guided that firm to a prominent position of national leadership in the design of sustainable high-rise buildings and urban design. Bob serves on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. He is a founding member and former Chairperson of the U.S. Green Building Council/NY Chapter, and is a member of the “Green Team” for Interface Corporation. He is the Co-Chair of the Sustainable Design Committee of the Real Estate Board of New York. Robert Fox received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University.
Executive Director National Commission on Energy Policy Jason Grumet was appointed Executive Director of the National Commission on Energy Policy in January 2002. In this capacity, Jason helped design the organization, recruit Commission members and open the Commission’s office in Washington D.C. In concert with Commission Co-Chairs, Jason oversees the organization’s strategic direction, technical analysis, policy development and advocacy. The Commission work is supported by a ten member staff. The Commission released its final report in December 2004 and will spend 2005 advocating for its recommendations. Prior to joining the Commission, Jason served as Executive Director of Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM). He received a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Brown University and a J.D. from Harvard University. Jason lives with his wife Stephanie and daughter Isabella in Washington, D.C.
Ashok Gupta is the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) Air and Energy Program Director. He leads NRDC's advocacy in the Northeast on climate change, electric utility restructuring, clean air issues, energy efficiency, renewables, sustainable building design, reducing petroleum dependence, and low-income energy issues. Prior to joining NRDC in 1991, Ashok worked with the New York City's Department of Telecommunications and Energy. He currently serves on the board of the Hudson River Foundation, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, U.S. Green Building Council- New York, and the Low Impact Hydropower Institute. Ashok also received Environmental Advocates' 2001 Advocate Award for leadership in support of clean air and energy. He holds a bachelor's degree in physics and math from Georgetown University and a master's degree in economics from American University.
In the early days of Stonyfield, Gary wore many hats - from yogurt-maker to bookkeeper. He served as director of the Rural Education Center, the small organic farming school from which Stonyfield was spawned. Before that, he was executive director of The New Alchemy Institute, an ecological institute devoted to organic agriculture, aquaculture and renewable energy systems. Early in his career, he was a water-pumping windmill specialist, an author, environmental education specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a manager of environmental tours to the People's Republic of China Gary is a New Hampshire native and was one of the first graduates of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has received four honorary doctorates. He serves on several corporate and non-profit boards including Homegrown Naturals, Honest Tea, and O'Naturals, a new chain of natural fast food restaurants he co-founded. He co-chaired The Social Venture Network for 5 years and is the Founder of the Social Venture Institute, a "boot camp" for community-minded entrepreneurs. He also coaches three youth soccer teams and is president of the Express Soccer Club. Gary has won numerous awards for corporate and environmental leadership including: the 1999 Global Green USA's Green Cross Millennium Award (inspired by Mikhail S. Gorbachev) for Corporate Environmental Leadership. Gary was named "Business Leader of the Year" by Business NH Magazine and " New Hampshire's 1998 Small Business Person of the Year" by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Prior to serving as president of the Tremaine Foundation, Stewart was the Executive Director of the Jane Goodall Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1986 to 1998 Stewart worked at the National Wildlife Federation, initially in the International Programs and ultimately as Vice President for Educational Outreach. As part of his work with the Federation, he worked on conservation projects and issues in the U.S., Africa, Latin America and Asia, and he was a lead architect of the movement to connect international trade with environmental concerns. Stewart holds a B.A. in American History from Yale University, and a Masters Degree in International Development from American University in Washington, D.C.
Brian F. Keane, named one of Hartford Connecticut’s “Outstanding Forty Under 40” by the Hartford Business Journal, is President of SmartPower, a nationwide non-profit marketing campaign dedicated to promoting clean, renewable energy. With continuously expanding operations, SmartPower seeks to increase the use of renewable energy by 20% by the year 2010 in order to create clean air, healthy communities and energy independence. SmartPower’s award winning non-profit marketing campaign has been credited with creating over 100 GWH of clean energy in the state of Connecticut. In November of 2004, the People’s Action For Clean Energy honored Keane and SmartPower as one of “ Connecticut’s Clean Energy Environmental Heroes”. Similarly, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection recently honored SmartPower with its highly coveted “Green Circle” Award. Keane’s passion and commitment to the environment was nurtured during his tenure as the Director of External Affairs for the Conservation Law Foundation, New England’s leading environmental advocacy organization. Keane is a 1989 graduate of American University in Washington, D.C. where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science.
Donald A. Kirshbaum is Investment Officer – Policy at the Connecticut State Treasurer’s Office. He works on corporate governance and corporate responsibility issues related to the State’s $20 billion pension fund. Connecticut State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier is one of the nation’s leading institutional investors working for corporate reform on issues including executive compensation, independence and diversity of board members, financial reporting and auditing, and disclosure of financial risks of climate change. Treasure Nappier co-chaired Investor Summits on Climate Risk held at the United Nations in November 2003, and May 2005. In the area of climate change, Don Kirshbaum has represented the Connecticut Treasurer’s Office in a number of areas, including the Global Warming Shareholder Campaign, the Electric Utility Dialogue, and the Investor Network on Climate Risk. He has taken the lead in dialogues with companies on the issue of climate risk, leading to the ground breaking report issued in 2004 by American Electric Power, as well as agreements to issue similar reports by Southern Company and Ford. Don has spent his entire career working with the Connecticut public sector, having worked for two previous state treasurers, at the State Department of Education, State Office of Policy and Management, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and Hamden Public Schools. Don has a BA from Syracuse University, and a MA and MPhil from Columbia University.
Kevin Leahy, General Manager – Environmental Economics and Finance at Cinergy Corp, is responsible for policy analysis related to the company’s various environmental initiatives. Prior to this, he was the head of Market Fundamentals for the firm’s trading business, where traders helped motivate him to learn how electricity markets really work. He also worked as Special Assistant to the CEO and the head of strategy for the company’s international division, which included its portfolio of renewable generation. Mr. Leahy’s international experience includes work in Albania and Russia on privatization and small business promotion. He served five years with the Peace Corps in Honduras and Albania and is a Cummins Engine Company alumnus. Mr. Leahy holds an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, an MBA from Indiana University and a degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He used to speak passable Spanish, French and Albanian.
Dr. Lloyd most recently served as the Chairman to the California Air Resources Board by Governor Gray Davis in February 1999 and reappointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in August 2004. The Air Resources Board (Board), a branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency, oversees a $150 million budget and a staff of nearly 1,000 employees located in northern and southern California. As Chairman, Dr. Lloyd was committed to cultivate a mindset and an attitude throughout government, industry and society that zero- and near-zero emission technologies can be put to use now or in the immediate future to help the state meet its air quality goals. He initiated the environmental justice focus within the agency and led the efforts resulting in the adoption of the Environmental Justice Policy and actions to be followed up by the Board. Dr. Lloyd served as the Executive Director of the Energy and Environmental Engineering Center for the Desert Research Institute at the University and Community College System of Nevada, Reno. Previously, Dr. Lloyd was the chief scientist at the South Coast Air Quality Management District from 1988 to 1996, where he managed the Technology Advancement office that funded public-private partnerships to stimulate advanced technologies and cleaner fuels. Dr. Lloyd has given many presentations to national and international audiences, focusing on the viable future of advanced technology and renewable fuels, with attention to the urban air quality challenges faced by California and to the impact on global climate change. He is a major proponent of alternate fuels, electric drive and fuel cell vehicles eventually leading to a hydrogen economy. Dr. Lloyd has also authored many articles on alternative fuels and air pollution control technology, including Fuel Cells and Air Quality: A California Perspective; Electric Vehicles and Future Air Quality in Los Angeles; Air Quality Management in Los Angeles: Perspectives on Past and Future Emission Control Strategies; and Accelerating Mobile Source Emission Reductions: California's Experience and Recommendations to Developing Counties. Dr. Lloyd was the 2003 Chairman of the California Fuel Cell Partnership and is a co-founder of the California Stationary Fuel Cell collaborative. He is a past chairman of the U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel (HTAP). Dr. Lloyd, 63, earned both his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Gas Kinetics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.
Commissioner Lloyd was appointed by the Mayor to the Department of Environmental Protection in February 2005. DEP is responsible for managing New York City’s drinking water supply and distribution and wastewater collection and treatment systems; carrying out Federal Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act regulations; handling hazardous materials emergencies and toxic site remediation; overseeing asbestos monitoring and removal; enforcing the City’s air and noise codes; billing and collecting for 800,000 water/sewer accounts; and managing City-wide conservation programs. DEP is one of the City’s largest agencies and the only one with substantial responsibility outside New York City, managing and protecting 2,000 square miles of watershed land in the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River Valley. DEP’s current 10-year capital budget calls for $19 billion in investments to maintain, enhance, and expand the City’s water and wastewater infrastructure and to further other environmental priorities of the Bloomberg Administration. The Department’s 6,000 employees are committed to protecting the environmental health, welfare, and natural resources of the City and its residents. Prior to joining DEP, Commissioner Lloyd served as Executive Vice President for Government and Community Affairs for Columbia University, and before that she was Columbia’s Executive Vice President for Administration for ten years. Much of the Commissioner’s professional career has been spent in public service. She was Commissioner for Sanitation under Mayor Dinkins, Director of Business Development at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Commissioner for Traffic and Parking for the City of Boston. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, received a Masters of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University. She has served on numerous boards and commissions and is a lifetime Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
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.
David J. Manning joined KeySpan Energy as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs in April 1999. Mr. Manning is the Executive Officer reporting to the Chairman, with responsibility for Public Affairs, Government Relations, internal and external communications, community development and altruism, corporate brand strategy, and environmental policy and operations. Before joining KeySpan Energy, Mr. Manning had been President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) since 1995. From 1993 to 1995, he was Deputy Minister of Energy for the Province of Alberta, Canada, the source of approximately 14 percent of U.S. natural gas demand. From 1988 to 1993, he was Senior International Trade Counsel for the Government of Alberta, based in New York City. Previously he was in the private practice of law in Alberta, Canada. Mr. Manning is eligible for admission to the New York Bar. KeySpan Energy is the 4 th largest natural gas distributor in the United States, serving much of New York City, Long Island, Boston and New Hampshire. It is also the largest investor owned electric power generator in New York State, and operates the LIPA electric system on Long Island under contract. Mr. Manning is past Chairman of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and serves on a number of Boards and Committees, including: New York City Police Foundation, New York Audobon, Prospect Park Conservancy, Long Island Housing Partnership, and co-chaired the working team for the National Petroleum Council Study on Natural Gas.
Before being appointed as CA-CP’s founding Executive Director in February, 2000, Adam directed the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) international climate campaign, based in Washington DC. He spent 12 years with WWF, based in Switzerland and then the US, and in addition to his climate work helped design and manage campaigns on tropical forests and on toxic chemicals. Mr. Markham received his B.Sc. (hons.) from the University of Wales at Swansea, in the UK, where he studied zoology. He worked as a journalist and then on acid rain and ozone layer campaigns for Friends of the Earth in London. He has written and edited several books including A Brief History of Pollution (St. Martins) and Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems (Kluwer). He was a contributing author to the forest impacts chapter of the 1995 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, contributed material on biodiversity impacts of climate change to the US National Assessment and has published on climate change and biodiversity in journals including Bioscience, Climate Research, Climatic Change and Parks.
Commissioner McCarthy received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a joint Master of Science in Environmental Health Engineering and Planning and Policy from Tufts University. She began her career in 1980 as the first full-time Health Agent in the town of Canton, Massachusetts. After starting a family in 1984, she took a part-time position working for the Board of Health in the neighboring town of Stoughton, where she eventually expanded her responsibilities to become the town’s first Environmental Officer – staffing both the Board of Health and Conservation Commission. In recognition of her active efforts at the local level in the management of hazardous waste and the protection of groundwater, Commissioner McCarthy was appointed in 1985 by then-Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis, to represent Boards of Health as a member of the Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council (Council) within the state’s Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA - a secretariat-level agency that houses a similar range of environmental programs as the CT DEP). The Council was created to facilitate the review and permitting of hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities. In 1990, Governor Dukakis appointed McCarthy chair of the Council to oversee the review of a proposed hazardous waste incinerator in the Boston area. During the Weld Administration, Commissioner McCarthy was named Executive Secretary of the Council where she played an instrumental role in developing legislative revisions to the siting process. In 1994, she was chosen to work as the Executive Director of the Administrative Council at EOEA, managing the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Program - the nation’s largest pollution prevention program. Commissioner McCarthy’s knowledge, experience and background in environmental issues led to her appointment in 1999 under the Cellucci/Swift Administration, as the Assistant Secretary of Pollution Prevention, Environmental Business, and Technology. In that capacity, she developed and oversaw the implementation of any number of key initiatives, including brown fields redevelopment, clean-up of coal-fired power plants, innovative environmental technology, mercury reduction and virtual elimination, and environmental justice. In February 2003, Commissioner McCarthy was named Undersecretary of Policy at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs for the Romney Administration. In that senior advisory position, Commissioner McCarthy expanded her oversight to include the preservation and protection of open space, farmlands and forests.
In 1999, Secretary McGinty completed a year stay in India as a Senior Visiting Fellow with the Tata Energy Research Institute. While there, she forged new business ventures between U.S. and Indian advanced energy technology companies, and helped to craft an historic environmental cooperation compact between the governments of the United States and India. Upon her return in 2000, she acted as counselor to Vice President Al Gore during the presidential campaign and served as a senior policy advisor to the Democratic National Committee. Most recently, Secretary McGinty served as vice president for asset management at Natsource LLC, a financial services firm specializing in energy transactions. She also served as director of Proton Energy Systems Inc, a leading fuel cell infrastructure company, and as an advisor for a European venture capital firm interested in clean energy. Secretary McGinty currently serves on the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph’s University. In 2003, Secretary McGinty became the first woman to head the state Department of Environmental Protection, a 3,000-employee agency with a mission to protect Pennsylvania’s air, land and water from pollution and provide for the health and safety of its citizens through a cleaner environment. Secretary McGinty’s emphasis is in creating approaches to environmental problems that generate economic growth and encourage advanced technology development in Pennsylvania.
Prior to founding CEG, Mr. Milford was Vice President of Conservation Law Foundation, New England's leading environmental organization, where he directed the Energy Project. Prior to joining CLF, he was an environmental attorney in private practice, a New York Assistant Attorney General representing the State of New York in the Love Canal hazardous waste case, and a law professor and director of the Public Interest Law Clinic at American University in Washington, D.C. where he represented Vietnam-era military veterans suffering from the effects of Agent Orange exposure. He is co-author of The Wages of War, a social history chronicling America's treatment of its military veterans, published by Simon & Schuster in 1989. His articles on the environment have appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Boston Globe. He has a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers College. He is married with two children. His family lives in Middlesex, Vermont.
Sarah Woodhouse Murdock serves as a Senior Policy Advisor on the Climate Change Initiative team spending her time focused on policy, advocacy, communications, education related activities, and executing projects that inform our policy work. For the past ten years, Ms. Woodhouse Murdock served as a consultant working with environmental and energy clients to develop strategic solutions to government, regulatory, and community outreach challenges. As a consultant working at KEMA-Xenergy and prior to that at Environmental Futures, Inc., Ms. Woodhouse Murdock worked extensively with business associations, public entities, non-governmental organizations and advocacy groups to advance her client’s concerns. Much of her work focused on public education and research related to renewable energy and green power projects. Prior to being a consultant, she served for five years on the staff of United States Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts concentrating on environmental and energy policy. While working with Senator Kerry, Ms. Woodhouse Murdock worked on a range of environmental policy and legislative issues involving air, energy, water, land use planning and fisheries. Ms. Woodhouse Murdock serves as a Member of the Corporation for Sea Education Association and a board member for the Massachusetts Bays Estuary Association. She earned her BA degree in Environmental Science with a concentration in Ecology from Colby College and MA degree in Urban and Environmental Policy with a concentration in Land Use and Resource Management from Tufts University.
Derek is Environment Northeast's Director of Policy Analysis and is based in New Haven, Connecticut office. Derek's primary areas of responsibility are climate change, clean power, and energy efficiency policy development. He is an active advocate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Connecticut climate change stakeholder process, and various efficiency and clean power initiatives. His previous work experience includes: business strategy for hydrogen generation at Proton Energy Systems in Connecticut and six years as an environmental consultant and business manager for Stone Environmental in Vermont where he conducted national field studies, negotiated with EPA on behalf of the agricultural chemical industry, and still serves on the Board of Directors. Derek holds a Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and an undergraduate degree in geology is from Carleton College.
Gareth Phillips is the Global Product Manager for the SGS Climate Change Programme. He has been working in the climate change sector since 1997 and is now responsible for the development and delivery of climate change validation and verification services globally. Gareth is active in obtaining and maintaining accreditation for various schemes including the UK ETS, EU ETS, the CDM, California Climate Action Registry and Chicago Climate Exchange. He has undertaken the validation of numerous voluntary and potential JI and CDM projects and verified emissions from both projects and legal entities. Prior to Climate Change, Gareth worked on Forest Management Certification and forestry.
Chris is responsible for UTC’s Energy, Climate Change Programs as well as Environmental, Health and Safety Initiatives @ UTC’s Suppliers. This includes managing internal energy conservation activities, US EPA’s Climate Leaders participation, and other state, regional, federal and international climate change developments. He is responsible for evaluating the risks and opportunities of climate change with respect to UTC and its facilities, suppliers, products and services. Chris has a bachelors of science in mechanical engineering, a masters of science and an MBA. He is a certified Energy Manager and has had a wide range of roles in the energy and energy management industries.
As Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, Rob brings more than 25 years of experience in renewable energy and energy efficiency project development, policy and advocacy. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the American Council for Renewable Energy (ACORE), a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. focused on bringing renewable energy into the economic mainstream in the U.S. From 1991 – 2001, Rob was the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Energia Global International, Ltd. (EGI), one of the leading renewable energy companies in Latin America. He led the company in developing a 24 MW wind farm in Costa Rica, at the time the largest wind project in Latin America, as well as hydroelectric projects throughout the region producing more than 180 MWs of electricity. Prior to EGI, Rob was the Director for International Trade and Government Relations for Thermo Electron Corporation, where he headed up the company’s China trade program. He founded the International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC) in 1984, serving as its Chairman from 1984-1994, and continues to serve on the Board today. Rob worked on Capitol Hill for seven years, and was Executive Director of the New England Congressional Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977-1981. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), the organization of state funds promoting renewable energy all across the country. Rob received an M.P.A. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.
Mr. Quiniones’ office works closely with other City agencies, such as the City’s Department of Environmental Protection on environmental issues, the Department of Citywide Administrative Services on energy supply purchases and efficiency projects, the Department of City Planning on land-use concerns and the City Law Department on regulatory matters. In addition, the EDC Energy Office participates in State and federal regulatory proceedings such as the pending Public Service Commission utility rate cases, and serves as the principal representative of the City at the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority and the New York Independent System Operator. Prior to EDC, Gil Quiniones held various positions for sixteen years at Con Edison, Inc. in both its regulated and unregulated energy services business units. He was one of the four original founders of Con Edison’s unregulated energy services company – Con Edison Solutions. A graduate of De La Salle University in the Philippines with a BS in Mechanical Engineering, Mr. Quiniones also spent two years studying Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.
She is responsible for developing a Shared Service for Environmental Remediation and Compliance for United Technologies Corporation worldwide operations. Ms. Quinn also directs development of corporate conservation. She was formerly Vice President of Administration for Yankee Energy Systems, Inc., the parent of Yankee Gas Services Company. She was responsible for human resources, information systems, purchasing, facilities management, environmental management and safety activities. Ms. Quinn graduated from Franklin and Marshall College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Geology from Harvard University and a Master of Science degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic University. She is on the regional board of directors of the Trust for Public Land. She serves on the Governor’s Long Island Sound Program Oversight Committee and in 2004 the Governor’s Steering Committee on Climate Change. She has served as a technical advisor on panels for the Electric Power Research Institute, the Gas Research Institute, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, and on an advisory board for the National Research Council.
Mr. Rowe is a member of the Boards of Unum Provident Corporation, The Northern Trust Company and Sunoco, Inc. He has previously served on the Boards of Fleet Boston Financial Corporation, Wisconsin Central Transportation Company and MidSouth Corporation. His civic and professional commitments include serving as Vice Chairman of the Chicago Historical Society and as a member of the boards of the Chicago Urban League, the Field Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, the Edison Electric Institute, the Chicago Club and the visiting committees of the Oriental Institute and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. He has previously been Chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, President of the USS Constitution Museum, and Chairman of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable. His civic activities emphasize cultural diversity and historical education. Mr. Rowe holds BS and JD degrees from the University of Wisconsin and its law school, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif and is the founder of the Rowe Professorship in Byzantine history. He is a member of the Board of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and has received the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award. He holds honorary doctorates from Illinois Institute of Technology, Bryant College, Drexel University, and the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Mr. Rowe is a champion of workplace diversity and has received numerous awards, including the Anti-Defamation League's World of Difference award in 2000, the Corporate Leadership Award from the Spanish Coalition for Jobs in 2002, and the Diversity Best Practices Leadership Award in 2003. He has chaired fund raising events for the Urban League of Chicago, The Spanish Coalition For Jobs, El Valor and the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce. He received the City Club of Chicago's Citizen of the Year award in 2002. Mr. Rowe is married to Jeanne M. Rowe and has one son, William. The Rowes reside in Chicago.
Helen is currently with Bank of America as Senior Vice President in Bank of America’s Environmental Services Department. She is responsible for assisting the bank in fulfilling its publicly declared environmental commitment. One of her main responsibilities as it relates to the commitment is the benchmarking of the Bank’s greenhouse gas emissions in its lending portfolios. Most recently, Helen was Managing Director of Corporate Environmental Affairs at FleetBoston Financial (now Bank of America). She was responsible for determining the direction of the bank with respect to issues that pertain to sustainable development and finance and has worked within the finance industry for the past 12 years. During her tenure at the bank, Helen was responsible for spearheading Fleet and its Chief Executive Officer’s commitment to both the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) and the United Nations Environment Program Financial Initiative (UNEP FI). Helen has significant experience in developing strategy and positioning related to sustainable development. Helen has broad experience in convening stakeholders from business, civil society, and the private/public sector at large. Helen has also held various leadership roles, including president, within the US-based organization, the Environmental Bankers Association (EBA). The EBA is responsible for promoting ways to protect and preserve bank net income and assets through environmental risk management as well as promoting the notion that sound fiduciary activities includes the promotion of innovative ways to finance environmentally sound projects. Helen sits on the GRI stakeholder council. Helen is chair of the UNEP FI North American Task Force.
Robert Semple, associate editor at The New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his editorials on the environment. He graduated from Yale College in 1959 and joined The New York Times in 1963, where he served as White House correspondent under Presidents Johnson and Nixon. He was the London bureau chief in the mid-1970s and foreign editor from 1977 to 1982. Semple then took over responsibility for the Times' op-ed section for six years and, in 1988, became associate editor of the paper's editorial page. In addition, he carries the title of chief editorial writer, with the specialties of politics and the environment.
During the course of his twenty year congressional career, Mr. Sharp played a leading role in enacting legislation to: deregulate natural gas prices; unravel the regulatory complexities associated with transporting Alaskan natural gas to the lower 48 states; set Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for passenger vehicles; stimulate competition in the electric wholesale market; boost the use of energy efficient technologies and renewable and alternative transportation fuels; expand the nation’s crude oil stockpile; reauthorize the program for nuclear plant accident insurance; and dispose of nuclear waste. Two of his most notable achievements include:
From 1997 to 2001, he served on the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board. During this time, he chaired the Secretary’s Task Force on Electric Systems Reliability which published its final report, Maintaining Reliability in a Competitive Electric Industry, in September 1998. Mr. Sharp also served on the National Academy of Sciences panel that published a July 2001 report on the effectiveness of the nation’s CAFE standards. Mr. Sharp is currently a Senior Research Fellow with the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. From 1995 to 2001, he served in several other capacities with the school, including Director of the Institute of Politics and Lecturer in Public Policy.
Ms. Sheehan joined DEC in April 1998 as a Special Assistant in the Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act Office. In that position, she helped coordinate the successful implementation of the Bond Act's many programs. In March of 2001, she was appointed Assistant Commissioner for Administration, responsible for the Divisions of Operations, Management and Budget, Information Services, Environmental Permits, and Public Affairs and Education. Prior to joining DEC, Ms. Sheehan worked at the NYS Division of the Budget for nearly 11 years, where she was responsible for overseeing the budgets of the State's environmental, recreational, and energy agencies. In that capacity, she also worked on legislation to establish the Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act and the Environmental Protection Fund. Ms. Sheehan earned a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and she holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Political Science from the State University of New York College at Oneonta. She resides in Niskayuna, New York with her husband, Michael Miller.
Under Jeff’s leadership, Timberland has grown rapidly, from $156 million in 1989 to nearly $1.3 billion in 2003. Timberland today competes in countries around the world, designing, manufacturing and marketing footwear, apparel and accessories for men, women and children. Today, Jeff leads an organization that believes that doing well and doing good are inextricably linked. Timberland struggles every working day to demonstrate that the business of business is to deliver extraordinary, sustainable results for shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, and consumers worldwide. Being accountable to a whole range of stakeholders, from shareholders to community activists, has made Timberland a better company. Since Fortune magazine began publishing the index, Timberland has consistently been one of the 100 Best Companies To Work For in America. In 2002, Timberland received the Ron Brown Award, a Presidential award recognizing outstanding corporate leadership in social responsibility. Jeff received an MBA from Dartmouth in 1984, and a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown in 1982. He is on the Boards of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute, Share Our Strength, Harlem Children’s Zone and is a member of the Congregation Shaarei Tefillah in Newton, MA.
Sue serves as Chair of Clean Air-Cool Planet’s Board of Directors. She is a Managing Principal with The Analysis Group, a national firm specializing in economic consulting services; her area of expertise is with economic, environmental, regulatory and policy issues affecting clients in the electricity and natural gas industries. Previously, Sue held the post of Senior Vice President of Lexecon Inc, where she also provided business consulting, litigation support, and policy advice and analysis to such clients. Before Lexecon, Sue was Assistant Secretary for Policy in the U.S. Department of Energy, where she was involved in national energy policy and climate change issues; Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs, where she was involved in the Boston Harbor Clean Up, Clean Air Act implementation, emissions trading regulations, environmental impact reviews, and energy facility siting; and Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. Currently, Sue serves as Chairman of the Board of the Energy Foundation and Chairman of the Energy Innovations Institute.
Bruce Usher is CEO of EcoSecurities Group Limited, the world’s leading climate change advisory firm. EcoSecurities advises renewable energy project developers on financing their projects through emissions reductions credits. EcoSecurities has worked on over 70 projects in more than 30 countries, in addition to providing services to many of the world’s leading governments, multilateral organizations, NGOs and corporations in the climate change field. Prior to EcoSecurities, Mr. Usher was co-founder and CEO of TreasuryConnect LLC, which provided electronic trading solutions to banks, investment banks and Global 1000 corporations. TreasuryConnect was financed by investment subsidiaries of AIG Financial Products Corporation and Enron Corporation. TreasuryConnect was sold to eSpeed Inc, developer of the world’s largest electronic financial marketplace, in 2001. For the previous six years, Mr. Usher was responsible for managing sales, trading and administration as COO of The Williams Capital Group, a boutique institutional investment bank specializing in capital markets activities for major corporations and institutional investors. During that time Williams Capital grew from a start-up to 55 professional employees with offices in New York and London. Prior to that he spent four years as a Vice President and trader of structured derivative securities at Lehman Brothers in both New York and Tokyo. Before joining Lehman, he worked for several years trading derivatives at the Chuo Trust & Banking Company in Tokyo. Mr. Usher received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and is an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School, where he teaches a course on Finance & Sustainability.
An attorney, Mr. Walker , was appointed to the California Climate Change Advisory Commission, and is a member of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) , on the board of advisors for The Climate Group, the Global Development Bonds initiative of the UN Foundation, the Panama Canal Watershed Business Plan project at Yale University and the Climate Change Futures Study with Harvard University/ UNDP.
Mr. Walker received his BA in Government from St. John’s University, and is also a graduate of the St. John's School of Law.
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Keynote speakers
Tom Boucher, President and Chief Executive Officer of 
Michael, a Clean Air-Cool Planet founder and board member, commands a national reputation for strategic environmental policy development, use of innovative market systems and for having an in-depth understanding of environmental regulatory and legislative issues. He is also the founder and Principal of M.J. Bradley and Associates, a firm providing private industry, nonprofit organizations and government agencies with insightful advice on air quality and climate change policy. Michael provides assistance in establishing and meeting environmental goals and in developing business strategies to take advantage of emerging market opportunities. He also is known for successfully facilitating discussions among key stakeholders to achieve common objectives. In addition, Michael works with various advanced technology firms, assisting with the development of business plans to achieve successful market entry.
Commissioner Bradley M. Campbell has used his post as Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection to strengthen New Jersey’s environmental laws and improve the quality of our natural resources. Under Commissioner Campbell’s leadership, the DEP has taken unprecedented action to safeguard our precious drinking water supplies, protect our communities from toxics, combat sprawl and overdevelopment, preserve the state’s dwindling open space and expand public access to parks and other recreational resources. He also has reinvigorated the department's enforcement division and led a reorganization of the site remediation program to accelerate the redevelopment of the state's brownfields.
Robert Corell has been a Senior Policy Fellow with the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society since January, 2000. He is also currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. 
Gary Hirshberg is the husband of Meg Hirshberg, and the father of three teenage yogurt-eaters. He is President and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world's largest manufacturer of organic yogurt. Gary has overseen the company's growth from infancy as a 7-cow organic farming school in 1983 to its current $200 million annual sales run rate. This growth has been built with innovative marketing techniques that often combine the social, environmental, and financial missions of the company. One of the company's five missions is "to serve as a model that environmentally and socially responsible businesses can also be profitable." 
Stewart Hudson has been active in the public policy arena for close to twenty years. Since April 2001 he has served as president of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. The Tremaine Foundation is a family foundation based in Meriden, Connecticut. Established in 1993, the Foundation makes grants in the areas of art, environment, and learning disabilities.
Catherine A. Lee provides and coordinates legal services in the firm's Augusta, Maine office. She has experience in environmental, regulatory and business matters as well as government affairs. She has represented clients at the Maine Public Utilities Commission, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, the Land Use Regulation Commission, the Maine Human Rights Commission and other regulatory bodies. She has overseen independent engineers' reports, negotiated business transactions, and lobbied at the Maine State Legislature on a wide range of issues. 
Alan C. Lloyd, Ph.D. was appointed as the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in December 2004.
Commissioner - New York City Department of Environmental Protection
Commissioner Gina McCarthy is new to the state of Connecticut and its Department of Environmental Protection, but is no stranger to New England or the environmental field. She comes to Connecticut from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts where she has been in public service for the past 25 years working on environmental issues at the local and state level. Just prior to joining CT DEP, she served as the Deputy Secretary of Operations within Governor Mitt Romney’s Office for Commonwealth Development.
A native of Philadelphia, DEP Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty earned a chemistry degree from Saint Joseph’s University and a law degree from Columbia University School of Law. Since then, her career has taken her to the White House and around the world. Between 1989 and 2001, Secretary McGinty served in various capacities in national and international public policy leadership. In the U.S. Senate, she worked to promote U.S. leadership in the manufacture of advanced technologies while also serving on U.S. delegations negotiating global environmental treaties. She chaired the White House Council on Environmental Quality and acted as Deputy Assistant to President Bill Clinton. She also created and headed the first-ever White House Office on Environmental Policy. In this capacity, and as the senior U.S. government official on environmental matters, Secretary McGinty worked to create a new approach to these issues that bring together environmental and economic interests. 
Lewis Milford is a lawyer and President of Clean Energy Group, a non-profit organization he founded in 1998. CEG’s mission is to increase the use of cleaner energy technologies in the U.S. and abroad through creative financing, business partnerships, public policy and advocacy. He is also the Executive Director of Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), a nonprofit organization that represents all the major state clean energy funds in the United States that work together through CESA to create and expand clean energy markets. (www.cleanenergystates.org),
Richard Morgenstern's research focuses on the economic analysis of environmental issues with an emphasis on the costs, benefits, evaluation, and design of environmental policies, especially economic incentive measures. His analysis also focuses on climate change, including the design of cost-effective policies to reduce emissions in the United States and abroad. 
Rafe Pomerance is chairman of the Climate Policy Center and a founder and chairman of Americans for Equitable Climate Solutions. From 1993-1999, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Development. Prior to joining the State Department, he spent eight years as a Senior Associate at the World Resources Institute. From 1975 to 1984, Mr. Pomerance was on the staff of Friends of the Earth, including four years as President. He began his work on climate change in 1978 while at Friends of the Earth. From 1973-1977, Mr. Pomerance was the coordinator of the National Clean Air Coalition. He was a founder and Chairman of the Board of American Rivers, and has also served as Chairman of the Board of the League of Conservation Voters. Mr. Pomerance earned a BA in History from Cornell University.
Gil C. Quiniones is the Senior Vice President of Energy & Telecommunications of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC). He is also the Chair of the New York City Energy Policy Task Force and acts as the City’s chief consultant on energy policy issues. Such issues include planning for both short and long-term energy resources, advocating for competitive energy prices for all City consumers and supporting the City’s response to proposed energy projects such as power plants, electric transmission lines and natural gas pipelines.
Ellen J. Quinn was made Director of Environmental Programs for United Technologies Corporation on June 1, 1999.
John W. Rowe is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Exelon Corporation – one of the nation's five largest electric utilities which has 5.1 million customers and revenues of about $15 billion. Exelon was named the outstanding energy company in the nation by Forbes in December of 2002. Mr. Rowe has led electric utilities since 1984, consecutively serving as Chief Executive Officer of Central Maine Power Company, the New England Electric System, and Unicom Corporation (one of Exelon's predecessors). Mr. Rowe is a lawyer, and was General Counsel of Consolidated Rail Corporation and a partner in the firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale. Mr. Rowe's business activities have been marked by his attention to balance sheet strength, earnings consistency, service reliability and environmental performance. Exelon has sponsored environmental improvement programs totaling $350 million.
Phil Sharp represented the Second District of Indiana in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1995. In 1987, he became Chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a position he held until he retired from Congress. In this position, he had oversight responsibility for much of the energy-related legislation introduced during this period. From 1981 to 1987, Mr. Sharp chaired the Fossil and Synthetic Fuels Subcommittee. Mr. Sharp’s involvement in the nation’s energy policy debates began in the 1970s when he helped usher through the House energy proposals from Presidents Ford and Carter. 
Denise Sheehan was named Acting Commissioner New York State Department of Environmental Conservation effective February 3, 2005. Ms. Sheehan has held the position of Executive Deputy Commissioner since January 2002 where she was responsible for providing policy direction to the Department's executive staff and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Department.
Jeff is the third generation of the Swartz family to lead Timberland. His grandfather Nathan started the predecessor company to Timberland in 1952. Jeff’s father Sidney and his uncle Herman launched the Timberland brand in the early 1970s. Jeff was promoted to President & CEO in 1998, after working in virtually every functional area of the company since 1986.
Chris Walker is head of Swiss Re's Environmental/Greenhouse Gas/Renewable Solutions (GHGRS), the unit charged with developing commercial applications to Swiss Re Sustainability commitments and in particular business opportunities in the emerging Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction and renewable areas. The unit consists of specialists who examine business opportunities across a wide spectrum of financial service products including insurance, trading, structured finance, third-party asset management and investments as well as the identification of risks to Swiss Re’s (re)insurance and investment activities. This unit also serves as a North American and European government affairs liaison on climate change/GHG emissions issues.