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Committee on America’s
Climate Choices
Member Biographical Sketches
Dr. Albert Carnesale (NAE) (Chair) is Chancellor Emeritus and Professor at the Uni-
versity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was Chancellor of the University from
1997 through 2006 and now serves as Professor of Public Policy and of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering. His research and teaching focus on public policy issues
having substantial scientific and technological dimensions, and he is the author or
co-author of six books and more than 100 articles on a wide range of subjects, includ-
ing national security strategy, arms control, nuclear proliferation, the effects of tech-
nological change on foreign and defense policy, domestic and international energy
issues, and higher education. He is a member of the Secretary of Energy’s Blue Ribbon
Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, the Mission Committees of the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the World
Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Board
of Directors of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,
and the Advisory Board of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Global Risk and Security;
and he chaired the National Academies Committees on Conventional Prompt Global
Strike Capability and on Nuclear Forensics. Prior to joining UCLA, he was at Harvard
for 23 years, serving as Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Public Policy and Administration,
Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Provost of the University. Be-
fore that, he served in government and in industry. Dr. Carnesale holds bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering. He is a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dr. William L. Chameides (NAS) (Vice Chair) is the Dean of the Nicholas School of the
Environment at Duke University, a position he has held since 2007. Prior to joining
Duke he spent 3 years as the chief scientist of the Environmental Defense Fund, follow-
ing more than 30 years in academia as a professor, researcher, teacher, and mentor.
Chameides’ research focuses on the atmospheric sciences, elucidating the causes of
and remedies for global, regional, and urban environmental change and identifying
pathways toward a more sustainable future. Specifically his research helped lay the
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groundwork for our understanding of the photochemistry of the lower atmosphere,
elucidated the importance of nitrogen oxides emission controls in the mitigation of
urban and regional photochemical smog, and the impact of regional air pollution on
global food production. He has led two major, multi-institutional research projects:
the Southern Oxidants Study, a research program focused on understanding the
causes and remedies for air pollution in the southern United States; and CHINA-MAP,
an international research program studying the effects of environmental change on
agriculture in China. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, fellow of
the American Geophysical Union and recipient of the American Geophysical Union’s
MacElwane Award. Chameides has served on numerous national and international
committees and task forces and in recognition was named a National Associate of the
National Academies for “extraordinary service.”
Dr. Donald F. Boesch is a Professor of Marine Science and President of the University
of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. He also serves as l Vice Chancellor for
Environmental Sustainability of the University System of Maryland. Boesch is a bio-
logical oceanographer who has conducted research in coastal and continental shelf
environments along the Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, eastern Australia and
the East China Sea. He has published two books and more than 90 papers on estuarine
and continental shelf ecosystems, oil pollution, nutrient over-enrichment, environ-
mental assessment and monitoring, and science policy. Presently his research focuses
on the use of science in ecosystem management and climate change adaptation. He
was a contributing author to the U.S. Global Change Research Program report Global
Climate Change Impacts in the United States. He was appointed by President Obama as
a member of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Off-
shore Drilling. A native of New Orleans, Boesch received his B.S. from Tulane University
and Ph.D. from the College of William & Mary. He was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow
at the University of Queensland and subsequently served on the faculty of the Virginia
Institute of Marine Science. In 1980 he became the first Executive Director of the Loui-
siana Universities Marine Consortium, where he was also a Professor of Marine Science
at Louisiana State University. He assumed his present position in Maryland in 1990.
Dr. Marilyn A. Brown is an endowed Professor of Energy Policy in the School of Public
Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which she joined in 2006 after a distin-
guished career at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
At ORNL, she held various leadership positions and co-led the report, Scenarios for a
Clean Energy Future, which remains a cornerstone of engineering-economic analysis
of low-carbon energy options for the United States. Her research interests encompass
the design of energy and climate policies, issues surrounding the commercialization
of new technologies, and methods for evaluating sustainable energy programs and
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policies. Dr. Brown has authored more than 250 publications including a recently pub-
lished book on Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths and a forthcoming book,
Climate Change and Energy Security. Dr. Brown has been an expert witness in hearings
before Committees of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and
she participates on several National Academies Boards and Committees. Dr. Brown
has a Ph.D. in Geography from the Ohio State University, a master’s degree in Resource
Planning from the University of Massachusetts and is a Certified Energy Manager.
Mr. Jonathan Cannon is Professor of Law and Director of the University of Virginia
Law School’s Environmental and Land Use Law Program. Prior to joining the Law
School faculty in 1998, he was at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where
he served as General Counsel from 1995 to 1998 and as Assistant Administrator for
Administration and Resources Management from 1992 to 1995. He also held senior
management positions at EPA from 1986 to 1990. Prior to his work with the EPA,
Cannon was in the private practice of environmental law. He has written widely in
environmental law and policy, with an emphasis on institutional design and adaptive
management. He received his J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School and his
B.A. from Williams College.
Dr. Thomas Dietz is Assistant Vice President for Environmental Research, Professor
of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy at Michigan State University. His
current research examines the human driving forces of environmental change, envi-
ronmental values and the interplay between science and democracy in environmental
issues. Dietz is also an active participant in the Ecological and Cultural Change Studies
Group at MSU. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci-
ence and has been awarded the Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society
of America, the Distinguished Contribution Award of the American Sociological Asso-
ciation Section on Environment, Technology and Society, and the Outstanding Publica-
tion Award, also from the American Sociological Association Section on Environment,
Technology and Society. He has served on numerous National Academies’ panels and
committees and chaired the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
and the Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision
Making.. He holds a Bachelor of General Studies degree from Kent State and a PhD in
Ecology from the University of California at Davis.
Dr. George C. Eads is a Senior Consultant of Charles River Associates (CRA). Prior to
joining CRA in 1995, he held several positions at General Motors (GM) Corporation, in-
cluding Vice President and Chief Economist; Vice President, Worldwide Economic and
Market Analysis Staff; and Vice President, Product Planning and Economics Staff. Before
joining GM, Dr. Eads was Dean of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Mary-
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land, College Park, where he also was a Professor. Before that, he served as a Member
of President Carter’s Council of Economic Advisors. He has been involved in numer-
ous projects concerning transport and energy. In 1994 and 1995, he was a member of
President Clinton’s policy dialogue on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from per-
sonal motor vehicles. He co-authored the World Energy Council’s 1998 Report, Global
Transport and Energy Development—The Scope for Change. Over the past 4 years, Dr.
Eads devoted most of his time to the World Business Council for Sustainable Develop-
ment’s Sustainable Mobility Project, a project funded and carried out by 12 leading in-
ternational automotive and energy companies. Dr. Eads is a member of the Presidents’
Circle at the National Academies. He is an at-large Director of the National Bureau of
Economic Research. He received a Ph.D. degree in economics from Yale University. He
is currently participating in the Transportation Research Board (TRB) study on “Poten-
tial Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Transportation” and recently completed service
on the TRB study on “Climate Change and U.S. Transportation.”
Mr. Robert W. Fri is a visiting scholar and senior fellow emeritus at Resources for the
Future, a nonprofit organization that studies natural resource and environmental is-
sues. He has served as director of the National Museum of Natural History, president of
Resources for the Future, and deputy administrator of both the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency and the Energy Research and Development Administration. Fri has been
director of American Electric Power Company; vice-chair and a director of the Electric
Power Research Institute; a trustee and vice-chair of Science Service, Inc.; and a mem-
ber of the National Petroleum Council. He is active with the National Academies, where
he is a National Associate, vice-chair of the Board on Energy and Environmental Sys-
tems, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Marion E. Koshland Science Museum.
He has chaired studies for the National Research Council on the health standards for
the Yucca Mountain repository and on estimating the benefits of applied research
programs at the Department of Energy. He currently chairs a study to evaluate the
nuclear energy research program at DOE. Fri received his B.A. in physics from Rice
University and his M.B.A. from Harvard University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa
and Sigma Xi.
The Honorable James E. Geringer received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
Kansas State University, then spent 10 years active and 12 years reserve service in the
U.S. Air Force working on unmanned space programs for both the U.S. Air Force and
NASA. Upon leaving active duty, he served as contract administrator for the construc-
tion of a 1,700 megawatt coal-fired electric power generation plant near Wheatland,
Wyoming, then took up agricultural pursuits along with serving in the Wyoming
Legislature from 1983 to 1994, including 6 years each in the House and the Senate.
Geringer served two terms as Wyoming Governor. While in office, he chaired the
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Western Governors’ Association, the Education Commission of the States and served
on a variety of national and regional education and technology initiatives. He served
on the Mapping Sciences Committee under the National Research Council; Commu-
nity Resilience Committee under Oak Ridge National Laboratories; Western Interstate
Energy Board ; Vice-Chair of the Association of Governing Boards for Colleges and Uni-
versities; Operation Public Education; the Board of Governors of the Park City Center
for Public Policy; Board member of NatureServe and, co-chair of the Policy Consensus
Initiative. He is the current Chair of the Board of Trustees, Western Governors Univer-
sity. Jim joined Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in the summer of
2003 as Director of Policy and Public Sector Strategies to work with senior elected and
corporate officials on how to use geospatial technology for place-based decisions in
business and government.
Dr. Dennis L. Hartmann is currently Interim Dean of the College of the Environment,
Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Senior Fellow and Council
Member of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the
University of Washington. His research interests include dynamics of the atmosphere,
atmosphere-ocean interaction, and climate change. His current research includes the
study of climate feedback processes involving clouds and water vapor, which is ap-
proached using remote sensing data, in situ data and models, and attempts to take
into account radiative, dynamical, and cloud-physical processes. Dr. Hartmann is a
fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on numer-
ous advisory, editorial and review boards for NSF, NASA, and NOAA and on multiple
NRC committees, including the Committee on Climate Change Feedbacks (chair),
Climate Research Committee, and Committee on Earth Sciences. He currently serves
on the Board of Reviewing Editors for the magazine Science and is co-editor of the
International Geophysics Series of Academic Press. Dr. Hartmann received his Ph.D. in
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics from Princeton University.
Mr. Charles O. Holliday, Jr. (NAE) is chairman of the board of directors of Bank of
America. He has served as a director since September 2009. He is the former chairman
of the board of directors of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., a position he had held for
approximately 10 years. He served as chief executive officer of DuPont from 1998 until
2008. He joined DuPont in 1970 as an engineer and held various positions throughout
his tenure. Since 2007, Holliday has served as a member of the board of directors of
Deere & Co. and as a member of the board’s audit and corporate governance com-
mittees. He is chairman emeritus of Catalyst, a leading nonprofit organization dedi-
cated to expanding opportunities for women and business, and chairman emeritus
of the board of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, a nonpartisan, nongovernmental
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organization working to ensure U.S. prosperity. Holliday is a founding member of the
International Business Council and a member of the National Academy of Engineer-
ing. He also previously served as chairman of the following organizations: the Business
Roundtable’s Task Force for Environment, Technology and Economy, the World Busi-
ness Council for Sustainable Development, The Business Council, and the Society of
Chemical Industry—American Section. He received a bachelor’s degree in industrial
engineering from the University of Tennessee and received honorary doctorates from
Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York, and from Washington College in Chester-
town, Maryland.
Dr. Diana M. Liverman holds joint appointments between Oxford University (as
Senior Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute—ECI) and the Univer-
sity of Arizona (where she co-directs the Institute of the Environment). Her research
has focused on the human dimensions of global environmental change, including
climate impacts, governance, and policy; climate and development; and the politi-
cal ecology of environment, land use, and development in Latin America. She has
current projects on climate vulnerability and adaptation, climate impacts on food
systems, and carbon offsets and has interest in connecting research to stakeholders
and climate science to the arts and creative sector. She has led or coordinated major
research programs for the Tyndall Center for Climate Change, the James Martin 21st
Century School at Oxford, the Global Environmental Change and Food Systems project
(GECAFS), the UK Climate Impacts Program, and the Climate Assessment for the South-
west (CLIMAS). Her advisory roles have included the NRC Committee on the Human
Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (chair) and the scientific advisory com-
mittees for the InterAmerican Institute (IAI) for Global Change (co-chair). She has a B.A.
in Geography from University College London, an M.A. from the University of Toronto,
and a Ph.D. from UCLA.
Dr. Pamela A. Matson (NAS) is Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sci-
ences at Stanford University. She is also the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor
of Environmental Studies and senior fellow in the Woods Institute of Environment
and Sustainability. Her research focuses on biogeochemical cycling and biosphere-
atmosphere interactions in tropical forests and agricultural systems. Together with
hydrologists, atmospheric scientists, economists, and agronomists, Matson analyzes
the economic drivers and environmental consequences of land use and resource use
decisions in developing world agricultural and natural ecosystems, with the objective
of identifying practices that are economically and environmentally sustainable. With
her students, she also evaluates the response of tropical forests to nitrogen deposition
and climate changes. Matson joined the Stanford faculty in 1997, following positions
as professor at UC Berkeley and research scientist at NASA. She is a past President
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of the Ecological Society of America, currently serves on the board of trustees of
the World Wildlife Fund, and until recently was the chair of the National Academies’
Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. She was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and to the National Academy of Sci-
ences in 1994. In 1995, Dr. Matson was selected as a MacArthur Fellow and in 1997 was
elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2002
she was named the Burton and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate
Education at Stanford. She earned her B.S. at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire,
M.S. at Indiana University, and Ph.D. at Oregon State University.
Dr. Peter H. Raven (NAS), President of the Missouri Botanical Garden, is one of the
world’s leading botanists and advocates of conservation and biodiversity. He received
the National Medal of Science, the highest award for scientific accomplishment in the
United States in December 2000. Raven has also received numerous other prizes and
awards, including the Society for Conservation Biology Distinguished Service Award
and the Peter H. Raven Award for Scientific Outreach, which was created to honor him.
He also received the prestigious International Prize for Biology from the government
of Japan; Environmental Prize of the Institute de la Vie; Volvo Environment Prize; the
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Sasakawa Environment Prize, and has
held Guggenheim and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowships.
Described by Time magazine as a “Hero for the Planet,” Raven champions research
around the world to preserve endangered plants and is a leading advocate for con-
servation and a sustainable environment. For three decades Raven has headed the
Missouri Botanical Garden, an institution he nurtured to a world-class center for bo-
tanical research, education, and horticulture display. He is also the Engleman Professor
of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis, Chairman of the National Geographic
Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration, and previously served as President
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as a member of the
President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. He served for 12 years
as Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, is a member of the academies
of science in Argentina, China, India, Italy, Russia, and several other countries; belongs
to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and was inducted into the American Academy
of Achievement. He was first Chair of the U. S. Civilian Research and Development
Foundation, a government-established organization that funds joint research with the
independent countries of the former Soviet Union. Raven received his Ph.D. from the
University of California, Los Angeles, in 1960 after completing his undergraduate work
at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received honorary degrees from univer-
sities in this country and throughout the world.
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Dr. Richard Schmalensee is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and
Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. He served as the John C.
Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He
was a Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through
1991. Professor Schmalensee is the author or co-author of 11 books and more than
110 published articles, and he is co-editor of volumes 1 and 2 of the Handbook of
Industrial Organization. His research has centered on industrial organization econom-
ics and its application to managerial and public policy issues, with particular emphasis
on antitrust, regulatory, energy, and environmental policies. Professor Schmalensee is
a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served
as a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy and of the Executive Com-
mittee of the American Economic Association and as a director of the International
Securities Exchange and other corporations. He is currently a director of the Interna-
tional Data Group and of Resources for the Future. He received his S.B. and Ph.D. in
Economics at MIT.
Dr. Philip R. Sharp became President of Resources for the Future on September 1,
2005. His career in public service includes ten terms as a member of the U.S. House
of Representatives from Indiana, beginning in 1975. He was a driving force behind
the Energy Policy Act of 1992. He also helped to develop a critical part of the 1990
Clean Air Act Amendments, providing for a market-based emissions allowance trad-
ing system. After leaving Congress, he served on the faculty of the John F. Kennedy
School of Government and the Institute of Politics at Harvard University from 1995
to 2005. Sharp was Congressional chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy
(2004), the National Research Council’s Committee on Effectiveness and Impact of
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards (2001), and chair of the Secre-
tary of Energy’s Electric Systems Reliability Task Force (1998). Sharp is co-chair of the
Energy Board of the Keystone Center and serves on the Board of Directors of the Duke
Energy Corporation and the Energy Foundation. He is also a member of the Cummins
Science and Technology Advisory Council and serves on the Advisory Board of the
Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) and on the MIT Energy Initiative External
Advisory Board. He served on the Board of Directors of the Cinergy Corporation from
1995–2006, on the Board of the Electric Power Research Institute from 2002–2006, and
on the National Research Council’s Board of Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES)
from 2001–2007. In addition, he chaired advisory committees for the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology studies on the future of nuclear power and the future of coal.
Before accepting the RFF presidency, Sharp was senior policy advisor to the Washing-
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ton law firm of Van Ness Feldman, and a senior advisor to the Cambridge economic
analysis firm of Lexecon/FTI. Prior to his service in Congress, Sharp taught political
science at Ball State University from 1969 to 1974. Sharp graduated cum laude from
Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1964 and received his Ph.D. in
government from Georgetown in 1974.
Ms. Peggy M. Shepard is executive director and co-founder of WE ACT for Environ-
mental Justice. Founded in 1988, WE ACT was New York’s first environmental justice
organization created to improve environmental health and quality of life in communi-
ties of color. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her leadership and advocacy,
including the 10th Annual Heinz Award for the Environment and the 2008 Jane Jacobs
Medal for Lifetime Achievement. She is a former Democratic District Leader, who rep-
resented West Harlem from 1985 to April 1993, and served as President of the National
Women’s Political Caucus-Manhattan from 1993–1997. From January 2001–2003, Ms
Shepard served as the first female chair of the National Environmental Justice Advisory
Council (NEJAC) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and is co-chair of the
Northeast Environmental Justice Network. She is a former member of the National Ad-
visory Environmental Health Sciences Council of the National Institutes of Health and
a member of the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee to the NYS Department
of Environmental Conservation. Ms. Shephard is a former journalist and was a reporter
for The Indianapolis News, a copy editor for The San Juan Star, and a researcher for
Time-Life Books. She has served as an editor at Redbook, Essence, and Black Enterprise
magazines. Ms. Shepard began a career in government as a speechwriter for the New
York State Division of Housing & Community Renewal and Director of Public Informa-
tion for Rent Administration. She served as the Women’s Outreach Coordinator for the
New York City Comptroller’s Office. Ms. Shepard is a board member of the national and
NYS Leagues of Conservation Voters, Environmental Defense, NY Earth Day, Citizen Ac-
tion of NY, the Children’s Environmental Health Network, and Healthy Schools Network,
Inc. She is an advisory board member of the Bellevue Occupational and Environmental
Medicine Clinic, the Harlem Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and
Mt. Sinai’s Children’s Environmental Health Center. She is a graduate of Howard Univer-
sity and Solebury and Newtown Friends Schools.
Dr. Robert H. Socolow is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at
Princeton University, where he teaches in both the School of Engineering and Ap-
plied Science, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and
co-director of the University’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative. He was the Director of
the University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Studies from 1979 to 1997. His
current research focuses on the characteristics of a global energy system that would
be responsive to global and local environmental and security constraints. His specific
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areas of interest include the capture of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and its storage
in geological formations, nuclear power, energy efficiency in buildings, and the accel-
erated deployment of advanced technologies in developing countries. He was editor
of Annual Review of Energy and the Environment from 1992 to 2002. He is a National As-
sociate of the U.S. National Academies and a Fellow of the American Physical Society
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was awarded the
2003 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award by the American Physical Society and received the
2005 Axel Axelson Johnson Commemorative Lecture award from the Royal Academy
of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden; the 2009 Frank Kreith Energy Award
from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; and the 2010 Leadership in the
Environment Award from Keystone Center. Socolow earned a B.A. in 1959 and Ph.D. in
theoretical high energy physics in 1964 from Harvard University.
Dr. Susan Solomon (NAS) is a Senior Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmo-
spheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado. She made some of the first measurements
in the Antarctic that showed that chlorofluorocarbons were responsible for the strato-
spheric ozone hole, and she pioneered the theoretical understanding of the surface
chemistry that causes it. In March 2000, she received the National Medal of Science,
the United States’ highest scientific honor, for “key insights in explaining the cause of
the Antarctic ozone hole.” She is also a recipient of the Blue Planet Prize, the Lemaitre
prize, the Rossby Medal of the American Meteorological Society and the Bowie Medal
of the American Geophysical Union. Her current research focuses on chemistry-climate
coupling, and she served as co-chair of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, which seeks to provide scientific information to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Solomon was elected to the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences in 1992. She is also a foreign associate of the Academie des
Sciences in France and the Royal Society of London. She received her Ph.D. degree in
chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981.
Mr. Björn Stigson is visiting professor holding the Assan Gabrielson chair in Applied
Corporate Management at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the Univer-
sity of Gothenburg. He has extensive experience in international business. He began
his career as a financial analyst with the Swedish Kockums Group. From 1971-82 he
held various positions in finance, operations and marketing with ESAB, the interna-
tional supplier of equipment for welding. In 1983-91 he was President and CEO of
the Fläkt Group, a company listed on the Stockholm stock exchange and the world
leader in environmental control technology. Following the acquisition of Fläkt by
ABB, in 1991 he became Executive Vice President and a member of ABB Asea Brown
Boveri’s Executive Management Group. In 1995 he was appointed President of the
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a coalition of some
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200 leading international corporations. Stigson has served on the board of a variety of
international companies and organizations. He is presently a member of the follow-
ing boards/advisory councils: Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation; China Council for
International Cooperation on Environment and Development; Energy Business Council
of the International Energy Agency (IEA); America’s Climate Choices Initiative of the US
Congress; the Veolia Sustainable Development Advisory Committee and the Siemens
Sustainability Advisory Board.
Dr. Thomas J. Wilbanks is a Corporate Research Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Lab-
oratory and leads the Laboratory’s Global Change and Developing Country Programs.
A past President of the Association of American Geographers, he conducts research on
such issues as sustainable development, energy and environmental technology and
policy, responses to global climate change, and the role of geographical scale in all of
these regards. Wilbanks has won the James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied
Geography, has been awarded Honors by the Association of American Geographers,
geography’s highest honor, was named Distinguished Geography Educator of the year
in 1993 by the National Geographic Society, and is a fellow of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Co-edited recent books include Global
Change and Local Places (2003), Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (2003), and Bridg-
ing Scales and Knowledge Systems: Linking Global Science and Local Knowledge (2006).
Wilbanks is Chair of the National Research Council’s Committee on Human Dimensions
of Global Change and a member of a number of other NAS/NRC boards and panels. In
recent years, he has been Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment
Report, Working Group II, Chapter 7 (Industry, Settlement, and Society), Coordinating
Lead Author for the Climate Change Science Program’s Synthesis and Assessment
Product (SAP) 4.5 (Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the
United States), and Lead Author for one of three sections (Effects of Global Change
on Human Settlements) of SAP 4.6 (Effects of Global Change on Human Health and
Welfare and Human Systems). Wilbanks received his B.A. degree in social sciences from
Trinity University in 1960 and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geography from Syracuse
University in 1967 and 1969.
Dr. Peter Zandan is chairman of EarthSky, a digital media company advocating sci-
ence as a vital voice in 21st century decision making. He is also senior advisor for
Public Strategies, Inc., where he directs strategic initiatives and the research practice
group. Peter has helped to launch, lead, and fund numerous business and nonprofit
ventures including IntelliQuest Information Group (IQST NASDAQ), the world’s fastest
growing market research firm in the 1990s; Zilliant, a venture-backed software com-
pany; and Evaluation Software Publishing, a K–12 education data analysis software and
consulting firm. Peter has also served as a faculty member at the University of Texas at
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Austin, where he is a lifetime member of the advisory board of the McCombs Graduate
School of Business. He has been selected by Interactive Week as one of the “Unsung
Heroes of the Internet” and awarded Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year.” He also
serves on the management committee of the Explorers Club in New York City. He has
been active in community organizations including Austin’s public television station,
St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, and Austin’s 360 Summit. For his community activities,
he has been recognized by the Austin American Statesman as a “Hero of Democracy,”
by the Austin Chronicle as “Best Local Visionary,” and by Austin’s leading environmental
group as “Soul of the City.” Peter received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of
Texas at Austin.
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