Conference Speakers

Ken ALEX, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Office of California Attorney General

Ken is a supervising deputy attorney general in the environment section of the California Attorney General's Office. From 2000 to 2006, Ken also worked on the energy task force, investigating price and supply issues related to California's energy crisis where he lead negotiations resulting in over $5 billion of energy crisis-related recoveries.   He has handled cases under most federal and state environmental statutes, and has negotiated some of the country's largest environmental settlements. Ken represents the State of California in the public nuisance actions filed against power companies and auto companies for emission of CO2 and for global warming.   Ken is a graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz and Harvard Law School, and has taught courses on environmental law and policy at Stanford, Hastings, and Golden Gate University.

Kevin BALL, Director Low Carbon Business Policy, British Petroleum

Kevin is part of BP’s corporate environmental policy team. He currently develops and oversees BP’s internal business response to its external climate change commitments. His current focus is the development of internal policy for the treatment of carbon pricing in investment appraisal, sponsorship of the corporation’s ongoing $450m energy efficiency investment commitment, and “keeping score” on BP’s climate change commitments as reported externally in the annual Sustainability Report.

Between 2001 and 2003, Kevin devised BP’s energy efficiency programme and secured the original Executive commitment to a 5 year investment of $350m, starting in 2004. Due to the commercial and environmental success of this intervention to-date, the corporate commitment has been extended to $450m through to 2010. Before that, following the BP-Amoco merger, he was leading power business development activities for BP’s Global Power business in Europe. Prior to that, he spent 4 years living in Vietnam, leading the development of the country’s first privately financed gas fired power station, Phu My 3.

He originally joined BP in 1990 and spent his first 4 years as head of major projects at BP Energy, where he was responsible for setting up a UK cogeneration business, as part of an energy services offer to 3 rd party industrial customers. Before joining BP, Kevin had 10 years experience as a high voltage power specialist employed by the contracting industry to commission and test large scale power generation facilities across the world. Kevin has an honours degree in power engineering and is a chartered electrical engineer.

Ruth Greenspan BELL, Resident Scholar, Resources for the Future

Bell is the director of Resource for the Future's program for International Institutional Development and Environmental Assistance (IIDEA), an initiative that recognizes the critical role of institutions and practical experience in developing effective environmental protection regimes globally. Bell's work emphasizes the significant domestic legal, institutional, economic, and cultural frameworks within which environmental policies develop, while drawing on the cumulative experience of developed and developing nations. IIDEA helps governments, nongovernmental organizations, development banks, and other institutions implement more effective environmental protection and natural resource management policies and laws.

Bell's emphasis is on developing a culture of compliance with environmental policies and building effective environmental institutions in societies without strong legal systems. Current projects include helping countries in Central and Eastern Europe implement public access to environmental information, developing stronger public participation in Thailand and, as part of an RFF team, advising on the institutional aspects for a demonstration SO2 emissions trading system for Taiyuan, China.

Bell has held management positions in the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and was a senior adviser to the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has chaired the board of the Women's Foreign Policy Group.

J.D., University of California at Berkeley, School of Law, 1967.
B.A. in political science, University of California at Los Angeles, 1964.

Professional Experience

• Resident Scholar/Director, Program for International Institutional Development and Environmental Assistance, Resources for the Future, Risk, Resource and Environmental Management Division, 1996 - present.
• Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, June 1996 - September 1996.
• Senior Attorney, International Activities, Office of General Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), August 1991 - May 1996.
• Senior Fellow, Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (Budapest), Polish Representative, March 1991 - July 1991.
• Assistant and Acting Associate General Counsel, Water, June 1986 - August 1991.
• Assistant and Acting Associate General Counsel, Toxics, November 1979 - June 1986.

Jutta BRUNEE , Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Jutta Brunnée joined the Faculty as Professor of Law in 2000, and holds the Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law. She holds law degrees from both Dalhousie University and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany, and an undergraduate diploma from the Université de Dijon, France. Prior to her appointment at the Faculty of Law, she taught at the law schools of the University of British Columbia and McGill University. During that time, she served for a year as Scholar-in-Residence at the Oceans, Environmental and Economic Law Division of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, advising on matters such as the Biodiversity and Climate Change Conventions. She has also participated in numerous Canadian and international initiatives related to environmental issues.

Professor Brunnée's teaching and research interests are in the areas of international law and international environmental law.  She has recently written on international law and international relations theory, compliance with international law, the use of force, the domestic application of international law, multilateral environmental agreements, and international environmental liability regimes.  She is the author of Acid Rain and Ozone Layer Depletion: International Law and Regulation and is a past editor-in-chief of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law (1997-2001).  She has published numerous articles on topics of international environmental law and international law, both in collections of essays and in journals such as the American Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, the Harvard International Law Journal, the Leiden Journal of International Law, and the International & Comparative Law Quarterly.

Ann CARLSON, Professor of Law, University of California-Los Angeles School of Law

David CARON, C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley

David Caron '83 is an expert in international law. He currently teaches public international law, resolution of private international disputes, ocean law and policy, and the advanced international law writing workshop.

Before joining the Boalt faculty in 1987, Caron practiced with the San Francisco firm of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro. From 1985 to 1986, he was a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law. A Fulbright scholar and former navigator and salvage diver in the U.S. Coast Guard, Caron graduated from Boalt in 1983. He then served as a legal assistant to Judges Richard Mosk and Charles Brower at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague.

Among his professional affiliations, Caron is a vice president of the American Society of International Law, chair of the Advisory Board for the Institute of Transnational Arbitration of the Center for American and International Law and a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Public International Law. He is the co-director of Boalt's Law of the Sea Institute, an international consortium of scholars that has played a major part in studies of ocean law since the 1970s. He is a member of the NAFTA Chapter 11 Arbitration Panels in the matters of Glamis Gold v. The United States and Cargill Industries v. The United States of Mexico.

Caron has served as director of studies (1987), director of research (1995) and as a lecturer (2006) at the Hague Academy of International Law. He was a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law from 1990 to 2005 and received the 1991 Deak Prize of the American Society of International Law for outstanding scholarship by a younger academic. He has served as chair of the International Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the precedent panel of the U.N. Compensation Commission for claims arising out of the Gulf War, counsel for Ethiopia before the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, and president of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Tribunal in the matter of Aguas del Tunai v. The Republic of Bolivia. In 2000, he received the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Award of the University of California for outstanding achievement and contribution to the field of international law.

Caron's recent publications include The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Commentary (co authored with Lee Caplan and Matti Pellonpää, 2006); Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters (coedited with Harry N. Scheiber, 2004); "Framing Political Theory of International Courts and Tribunals: Reflections at the Centennial," in Proceedings , 100th Annual Meeting, American Society of International Law (2006); "If Afghanistan has Failed, Then Afghanistan is Dead: 'Failed States' and the Inappropriate Substitution of Legal Conclusion for Political Description," in The Torture Debate in America (2005); "The United Nations Compensation Commission for Claims Arising Out of the 1991 Gulf War: The 'Arising Prior To' Decision," in the Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy (2005); "The Reconstruction of Iraq: Dealing with Debt," in the UC Davis Journal International Law & Policy (2004); and "Does International Law Matter" in Proceedings , 98th Annual Meeting, American Society of International Law (2004).

Education:
B.S., U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1974)
M.Sc., University of Wales (1980)
J.D., UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) (1983)
Diploma, Hague Academy of International Law (1984)
Doctorandus, Leiden University (1985)
Dr. Jur., Leiden University (1990)

Frank CONVERY, President, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists; Heritage Trust Professor of Environmental Studies, University College Dublin

Frank Convery was educated at University College Dublin and the State University of New York and has degrees in forestry and resource economics. Prior to taking up his post at UCD, he was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Duke University, USA and Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland. Frank Convery is active on a number of EU wide investigations and bodies, including membership of the Science Committee of the European Environment Agency and President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. He has written extensively on resource and environmental economics issues with particular reference to agriculture, forestry, energy, minerals, land use, urbanization, environment and development in developing countries. At present, his research relates to European Union Environmental Policy with particular reference to the use, potential and effectiveness of market-based instruments.
BAgrSc, MAgrSc, MS, PhD

Kyle DANISH, Attorney, Van Ness Feldman

He is a frequent speaker and has published numerous articles on global warming and emissions trading issues. Mr. Danish also has authored several commissioned research papers on climate change and energy policy for think tanks. For a comprehensive list of Mr. Danish's presentations and publications, please visit the firm's website.

Relevant Experience

• Analyzed a multinational energy company = s potential exposure to evolving U.S. climate change laws and policies;
• Counseled on emissions trading transactions in South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa;
• Serves as lead counsel to a carbon fund that invests in forest sequestration projects;
• Assisted a U.S. electric power company in development of a shareholder report on the company = s risks and opportunities from climate change laws and policies;
• Advised a multinational energy company on development of a new corporate position on global warming and on a related outreach and advocacy strategy;
• Counseled a multinational chemical manufacturing company on the company = s potential risks and emissions trading opportunities under the Kyoto Protocol;
• Advised a group of electric power companies on a Clean Air Act rulemaking and represented them in litigation challenging aspects of the rule;
• Participated in an Aspen Institute roundtable on the development of U.S. climate change policies.

Mr. Danish is a Professional Lecturer at American University School of Law. From 2001 to 2003, he served as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Committee on Climate Change and Sustainable Development from 2001 to 2003. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the State of New Jersey.  

Selected Recent Publications

• The Effect of the Kyoto Protocol on U.S. Companies, @ Trends , Vol. 63(4) (March/April 2005).
• Greenhouse Gas Issues for Oil and Gas Companies, @ 56 th Annual Institute on Oil and Gas Law, Publication 640, Release 56 (2005).
• Global Climate Change, @ in Clean Air Handbook (D. Novello and R. Martineau, eds.), American Bar Association (2004).
• Designing a Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program for the U.S., @ Pew Center on Global Climate Change (2003) (with R. Nordhaus).

David DONIGER, Climate Center Policy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council

Mr. Doniger is the policy director of NRDC's climate center, focusing on policies to cut global warming pollution from power plants, motor vehicles and other major industries. David also leads NRDC's work to complete the phase-out of chemicals that deplete the earth's protective ozone layer. David rejoined NRDC in 2001 after serving for eight years in the Clinton administration, where he was director of climate change policy at the Environmental Protection Agency and, before that, counsel to the head of the EPA's clean air program; he also worked for a year at the Council on Environmental Quality. David first began at NRDC in 1978 and worked on clean air issues for the next 14 years, helping to win adoption of the landmark Montreal Protocol (to stop depletion of the ozone layer) and the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990.

Christopher EDLEY, Jr., Dean and Professor of Law

Christopher Edley, Jr. joined Boalt Hall as dean and professor of law in 2004 after 23 years as a professor at Harvard Law School. He earned a law degree and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard, where he served as an editor and officer of the Harvard Law Review. Edley's academic work is primarily in the areas of civil rights and administrative law. He has also taught federalism, budget policy, Defense Department procurement law, national security law, and environmental law. Edley was co-founder of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a renowned multidisciplinary research and policy think tank focused on issues of racial justice. His publications include Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action, Race and American Values and Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy.

Following graduation, Edley joined President Carter's administration as assistant director of the White House domestic policy staff, where his responsibilities included welfare reform and social security. He served as national issues director throughout the 1987-88 Dukakis presidential campaign, and as a senior adviser on economic policy for President Bill Clinton's transition team in 1992. In the Clinton administration, he worked as associate director for economics and government at the White House Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1995. There, he oversaw a staff of 70 civil servants responsible for White House oversight of budget, legislative, and management issues in five cabinet departments (Justice, Treasury, Transportation, Housing & Urban Development, Commerce) and a diverse group of more than 40 autonomous agencies, including: FEMA, FCC, General Services Administration, SBA, SEC, CFTC, EEOC, and the bank regulatory agencies.

In 1995, he was also special counsel to the president, directing the White House review of affirmative action. He returned to the Clinton White House in 1997 as a consultant to the president's advisory board on the race initiative. From 1999-2005, Edley served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

In 2001, he was a member of the Carter-Ford National Commission on Federal Election Reform. He is currently a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation and The Century Foundation, and a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the executive committee of the advisory board for the Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Academies of Sciences.

In March 2006, Edley was named to a national nonpartisan commission created to conduct an independent review of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. The 15-member Commission on No Child Left Behind has issued recommendations for reforming and improving the legislation as Congress considers reauthorizing the sweeping federal education act in 2007. Co-chaired by former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and former Georgia Governor Roy E. Barnes, the commission is funded by several leading educational foundations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Education:

B.A., Swarthmore College (1973)
J.D., Harvard University (1978)
M.P.P., Harvard University (1978)

Bob EPSTEIN, Co-Founder, E2-Environmental Entrepreneurs

Daniel FARBER, Sho Sato Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley; Faculty Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy

Professor Farber received a B.A. in philosophy with high honors in 1971 and an M.A. in sociology in 1972, both from the University of Illinois. In 1975 he earned his J.D. from the University of Illinois, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, editor in chief of the University of Illinois Law Review , a Harno Scholar and class valedictorian.

After graduating, Professor Farber clerked for Judge Philip W. Tone of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then practiced law with Sidley & Austin before joining the faculty of the University of Illinois Law School.

In 1981 he became a member of the University of Minnesota Law School faculty. During his years there he became the first Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law in 1987, served as a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School, and was named McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law in 2000.

Professor Farber's books include Desperately Seeking Certainty (2002), Eco-Pragmatism: Making Sensible Environmental Decisions in an Uncertain World (1999), The First Amendment and Environmental Law in a Nutshell , Lincoln's Constitution , (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader (West Pub. Co., 5 th ed. 2004)(with J. Garvey and T. Aleinikoff), and Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond (Aspen, 2006)(with Jim Chen).   He has also written many articles on environmental and constitutional law as well as about contracts, jurisprudence and legislation.

Education:

B.A., University of Illinois (1971)
M.A., University of Illinois (1972)
J.D., University of Illinois (1975)

Kevin FAY, Executive Director, International Climate Change Partnership

Kevin Fay serves as Executive Director of the International Climate Change Partnership (ICCP), a global coalition of companies and trade associations from diverse industries committed to constructive and responsible participation in the international policy process concerning global climate change. The ICCP recognizes that the continued growth in emissions of greenhouse gases is an important concern for all nations and that efforts are underway internationally and in national governments to develop policies that address this concern.

Dianne FEINSTEIN, United States Senator, California

As California's senior Senator, Dianne Feinstein has built a reputation as an independent voice, working with both Democrats and Republicans to find common-sense solutions to the problems facing California and the Nation.

Since her election to the Senate in 1992, Senator Feinstein has worked in a bipartisan way to build a significant record of legislative accomplishments helping strengthen the nation's security both here and abroad, combat crime and violence, battle cancer, and protect natural resources in California and across the country.

In the 110th Congress, Senator Feinstein assumed the Chairmanship of the Rules and Administration Committee, where she oversees ethics, campaign and election reform. Senator Feinstein also serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she is the Chairman of the Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security Subcommittee. And she is a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Senator Feinstein is also a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. She currently serves as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Interior Department and Related Agencies, and is a member of the Subcommittees on Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science, Defense, Energy & Water, and Transportation-Housing. She previously served as the Ranking Member of the Military Construction and Veteran Affairs Subcommittee.

Inez FUNG, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth & Planetary Science AND
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California-Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment, University of California-Berkeley

Inez Fung has been studying climate change for the last 20 year. She is the principal architect of large-scale mathematical modeling approaches and numerical models to represent the geographic and temporal variations of sources and sinks of CO2, dust and other trace substances around the globe. Fung’s recent work in climate modeling predicts the co-evolution of CO2 and climate and concludes that the diminishing capacities of the land and oceans to store carbon act to accelerate global warming.

Inez Fung received her S.B. in Applied Mathematics and her Sc.D. in Meteorology from MIT. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1998 as the first Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences and the founding director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center. She is a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Since 2005, she has also been a Founding Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment.

Among her numerous honors are Fellowship of the American Meteorological Society and of the American Geophysical Union, membership of the National Academy of Sciences, and the 2004 Roger Revelle Medal of the American Geophysical Union. She was named one the “Scientific American 50” in 2005 and received the World Technology Network Award for the Environment in 2006.

Fung is a subject in a new biography series for middle-school readers “Women’s Adventure in Science” launched by the National Academy of Sciences. The title of her biography is “Forecast Earth”.

Lorraine HAMID, Senior Economist, Energy markets and policy instruments, HM Treasury; Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change

Lorraine Hamid is a UK Government economic adviser who has spent the last year working with Sir Nicholas Stern on the Stern Review on Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown. The Review was intended not just to inform UK policymaking – UK makes up only 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions – but to underpin discussions about the wider international policy framework. Sir Nicholas Stern’s report was submitted to the Chancellor and the Prime Minister on 30 October 2006. Lorraine was lead author on the framework for mitigation policy, carbon pricing and emissions trading.

Prior to joining Sir Nicholas Stern’s team Lorraine spent a number of years with the Department of Trade & Industry providing advice to ministers on UK Policy on Phase 1 of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and international flexible mechanisms, as well as on the UK Emissions Trading Scheme.

Lorraine has also contributed to regional policy in providing evaluation and appraisal of Regional Development Agency Economic Strategies, Regional Innovation policy and EU Structural Funds spending in the UK. Her work for UK Government has included economic advice on employment relations and sovereign and commercial risk in Asian markets.

Lorraine is a fluent Arabic speaker and has a Diploma in Arabic language and literature from the Fajr Institute in Cairo. She studied economics at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London.

W. Michael HANEMANN, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Agricultural Resource Economics and Policy and Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley

His research interests include: commercial energy consumption, energy consumption in agriculture, energy consumption in industry, energy demand, conservation and investment, energy microeconomics, environmental economics and policy, renewable resources, residential energy consumption and water resource economics.   Michael's research in economics has focused largely on aspects of modeling individual choice behavior, with applications to demand forecasting, inducing conservation, environmental regulation and economic valuation. He is a leading authority on the methodology of non-market valuation using techniques of both revealed and stated preference.

Anne JOYCE, former Senior Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hague

Anne Joyce is a public international lawyer who has recently returned to the United States after serving as General Counsel for the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague. At the PCA, Ms. Joyce managed several major international arbitrations covering a broad range of areas, including the MOX Case involving the Sellafield nuclear facility, the Iron Rhine Arbitration between Belgium and the Netherlands, and a maritime boundary delimitation between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. She also worked with the PCA’s Administrative Council on budget and other matters and negotiated agreements on behalf of the organization. Prior to joining the PCA in 2001, Ms. Joyce held a variety of policy and legal positions at the Department of State. Among other assignments, Ms. Joyce was the lead US negotiator on administrative and financial provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and co-authored numerous submissions to the International Court of Justice. As Special Assistant to Under Secretary for Global Affairs Tim Wirth, Ms. Joyce negotiated on behalf of the United States at the 1996 World Food Summit and coordinated policy initiatives in areas ranging from refugees and the environment to counter-narcotics and international organized crime. She has also served as the State Department’s Senior Ethics Counsel and as its primary lawyer for aviation matters and nonproliferation-related export controls. Since her return to the State Department in the fall of 2006, Ms. Joyce has been working on nuclear nonproliferation matters, including the Proliferation Security Initiative and the implementation of UN sanctions on Iran and North Korea. She is married and has two sons.

Daniel KAMMEN, Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy, Energy and Resources Group, and Goldman School of Public Policy; Co-Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment; founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) .

From 1993 - 1998 Kammen was an Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Kammen played a key role in developing the interdisciplinary Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) Program at Princeton, that awards undergraduate and masters certificates and a doctoral degree. He was STEP Chair from 1997 - 1999 and co-chair before that. In July of 1998 Kammen joined the interdisciplinary Energy and Resources Group (ERG) at the Univeristy of California, Berkeley as an Associate Professor of Energy and Society. Kammen is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Permanent Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Kammen's research interests include: the science, engineering, management, and dissemination of renewable energy systems; health and environmental impacts of energy generation and use; rural resource management, including issues of gender and ethnicity; international R&D policy, climate change; and energy forecasting and risk analysis. He is the author of over 90 journal publications, a book on environmental, technological, and health risks (Should We Risk It? , Princeton University Press) and numerous reports on renewable energy and development. He has been featured on radio, network and public broadcasting television and in print as an analyst of energy, environmental, and risk policy issues and current events. His recent work on energy R&D policy appeared in Science , and Environment , and has been featured on PBS, KQED, CNN, and in many newspapers via the Reuters news service.

Kammen advises the U. S. and Swedish Agencies for International Development, the World Bank, and the Presidents Committee on Science and Technology (PCAST), and is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Working Group III and the Special Report on Technology Transfer). Dr. Kammen serves on the technical review board for the GEF (the STAP), is a lead author for the Special Report on Technology Transfer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and advises the World Bank and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and well as the African Academy of Sciences.

David KEITH, Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment, University of Calgary

Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment
Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at University of Calgary
Professor of Economics at University of Calgary
Adjunct Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Keith works near the interface between climate science, energy technology and public policy. Roughly half of his technical and policy work addresses the capture and storage of CO 2 , including work managing the risks of geologic storage and services as chair of a crosscutting group for the IPCC special report on CO 2 storage. Dr. Keith serves as a member of several advisory boards and panels including Canada's 'blue ribbon' Panel on Sustainable Energy Technology , and the InterAcademy Council study on Transitions to a Sustainable Energy Systems , and as member of US National Academy committees.

Dr. Keith's broader climate and energy related research addresses the economics and climatic impacts of large-scale wind power, the use of hydrogen as a transportation fuel, and the technology and implications of geo-engineering. Dr. Keith has also addressed technical audiences with articles in Science and Nature . He has consulted for national governments, industry and environmental groups and has reached the public through US and Canadian radio and television.

Dr. Keith is trained as a physicist. As a graduate student at MIT, he built the first interferometer for atoms work which was the "hottest topic" in physics according to ISI's citation index. As an atmospheric scientist he worked at NCAR and Harvard, where he served as lead scientist for a new Fourier-transform spectrometer with high radiometric accuracy that flies on the NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft.

Dr. Keith returned to Canada in 2004 taking a position at the University of Calgary where he leads a research group on energy and environmental systems.

Erda LIN, Professor and Ex-Director General, Agro-Environment and Sustainable Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Since 1988, Lin Erda has served as Deputy Director and Director-General of Agro-meteorology Institute and Agro-Environment and Sustainable Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences for 15 years. He also is a Member of Executive Board of Chinese Agro-Environment and Ecology Protection Society, a Member of Scientific Board of Chinese Meteorology Society, a Member of Executive Board of Chinese Sustainable Development Society. Due to the achievements of him and his team, Prof Lin has got three national scientific and technologic progress awards

Professor Lin Erda has Applied Meteorology degrees. Since 1983, he has been an associate Prof. and Professor in the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His current research focus is on climate change both impacts, vulnerability and GHG emission mitigation, including as a project leader of UK/China cooperation on climate change and agriculture, lead authors of National Report on Climate Change Impact and Adaptation, IPCC 1-4 assessment reports, National policy reports, and relevant 8 scientific books and 82 journal publications.

Jane LONG, Associate Director for Energy and Environment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dr. Long is currently the Associate Director of Energy and Environment for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The Energy and Environment Directorate includes programs in Earth System Science and Engineering, Nuclear System Science and Engineering, National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center, and the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. In addition, the directorate includes 12 disciplinary groups ranging from Earth sciences, to energy efficiency to risk science. From 1997 to 2003 Dr. Long was the Dean of the Mackay School of Mines. The Mackay School of Mines had departments of Geological Sciences, Mining Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering as well as the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and the Keck Museum. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Long worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for 20 years. She served as Department Chair for the Energy Resources Technology Department including geothermal and fossil fuel research, and then, the Environmental Research Department. Dr. Long has conducted research in nuclear waste storage, geothermal reservoirs, petroleum reservoirs and contaminant transport. She has been internationally involved in the issue of how to characterize fractured rock systems and incorporate interdisciplinary information. For the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Long was chairman of the US National Committee for Rock Mechanics, the Committee for Fracture Characterization and Fluid Flow and a committee to recommend a research program for the Environmental Management Science Program for DOE. She served on the NAS/NRC Board on Radioactive Waste Management, as well as several study committees under the aegis of this board, and had been a member of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. She is a member of the Stanford University College of Earth Sciences Advisory Board, 2001-2003, the American Geological Institute Foundation Board and an Associate of the National Academies of Science. In 2001, she was appointed as a member of the State of Nevada Renewable Energy Task Force and was the chair from 2003 to 2004. Dr. Long led the University of Nevada, Reno’s recent initiative for renewable energy projects and is currently the Director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy.

Education

Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley, CA,  1983
Investigation of Equivalent Porous Medium Permeability in Networks of Discontinuous Fractures
M.S.: Geotechnical Engineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA,  1975
Sc.B.: Bio-Medical Engineering, Brown Univ., Providence, RI ,  1970

Kenneth MARKOWITZ, President, Earthpace LLC

Kenneth Markowitz, the President and founder of Earthpace LLC, has provided legal and consulting services to governments, industry, and civil society clients to achieve environmental policy objectives and legal requirements through strategic planning and partnership building. Prior to founding Earthpace in January 2000, Ken achieved success both domestically and internationally. Ken served as a senior counsel to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, where he received several national honors for the implementation of innovative approaches to rapid, legally defensible responses to environmental emergencies. He also practiced law in private firms, counseling corporate and municipal clients in over 30states on air, water and most other major federal environmental regulatory programs. 

Ken manages the work of the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement on both emission trading and performance measurement, in addition to being intimately involved in all aspects of the Network's strategic planning, partnership building, regional network development, and capacity building efforts. He has assisted environmental decision makers in applying technologies, including the Web, geographic information systems, and satellite remote sensing in planning, response, assessment, and enforcement contexts. He published "The Legal Challenges and Market Rewards to the Use of Satellite Remote Sensing as Evidence in the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum and currently is teamed with the University College of London to explore ways to use satellite remote sensing data as a tool to monitor compliance with environmental laws.

Ken earned a BBA in finance from Emory University's Goizueta Business School (1985) and a JD from the Washington College of Law, The American University (1989), serving as an editor of the Journal of International Law and Policy and a dean's fellow in tax law. As a member of the Adjunct Faculty at WCL, Ken teaches environmental law and policy, and currently is the alumni advisor for the school's Law and Sustainable Development Journal. Ken is also a Senior Fellow at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ken is a member of District of Columbia Bar Association and IUCN's Commission on Environmental Law.

David MOWERY, Professor of New Enterprise Development, Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley

Positions Held
1988 - present Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
- Present Director, Ph.D. Program Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
- Present Deputy Director, Institute for Management, Innovation, and Organization
- Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

1982 - 88 Assistant and Associate Professor, Social and Decision Sciences Department, Carnegie-Mellon University
1987 - 88 Assistant to the Counselor, Office of the United States Trade Representative
1987 - 88 Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow
1986 - 87 Study Director, Panel on Technology and Employment of the National Academy of Sciences
1984 - 86 Visiting scholar, Center for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University
1981 - 82 Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School

External Service and Assignments
- Expert Witness, Congressional hearings on science and technology policy issues
- Member, National Research Council panels, including Competitive Status of the US Civil Aviation Industry, Causes and Consequences of the Internationalization of US Manufacturing, Federal Role in Civilian Technology Development, US Strategies for the Children's Vaccine Initiative, and Applications of Biotechnology to Contraceptive Research and Development
- Member, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997-2003· Member, Presidential Commissions on Offsets in International Trade, 2000-2001
- Co-Editor, Industrial and Corporate Change, "Special Issue in Honor of Richard Nelson," 2001
- Co-Editor, Management Science, "Special Issue on University Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship," 2001
- Adviser, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and various federal agencies and industrial firms

Current Research and Interests
- Impact of technological change on economic growth and employment
- Management of technological change
- International trade policy and US technology policy, especially high-technology joint ventures

Shawn REGAN, Partner, Hunton & Williams

• Directs the firm's work for California-based Aruba Wireless Networks, Inc. across several teams and offices, including counseling and representation in litigation, employment matters, establishment of foreign representative offices and significant third-party discovery obligations.
• Obtained dismissal in highly publicized nuisance lawsuits brought by New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer, other state Attorneys General and several private land trusts alleging that various utilities substantially contribute to global warming:  State of Connecticut, et al. v. American Electric Power, et al . and Open Space Institute, Inc., et al. v. American Electric Power, et al., 406 F.Supp.2d 265 (S.D.N.Y. 2005), appeal pending .  Mr. Regan was the principal liaison with the court and with all Attorneys General.    He also presented oral argument on jurisdictional issues on behalf of several defendants in the case.
• Defending putative statewide class action lawsuit seeking compensation under theories of nuisance, negligence, trespass and fraudulent concealment for all damages arising from Hurricane Katrina on the ground that defendants' emissions of carbon dioxide contributed to global climate change and thereby intensified the storm and its resultant damage.
• Prevailed for energy industry client in first-impression matter involving applicability of federal filed-rate doctrine to deregulated wholesale energy market, achieving significant stay of federal court case under the primary jurisdiction doctrine.
• Defended claims and prosecuted counterclaims for national hotel chain against Fortune 100 telecom provider, defeating motion to dismiss under filed-tariff doctrine by showing that services had been "de-tariffed" by the FCC.
• Member of team that obtained dismissal, under the act-of-state doctrine, of putative action against underwriters challenging terms of a domestic bond offering available exclusively to India foreign nationals.
• Prosecuted patent infringement actions in federal courts concerning one of the world's most successful prescription pharmaceuticals.
• Part of team investigating, counseling and defending claims arising from the alleged Black Market Peso Exchange and related legal issues including extraterritorial application of the RICO Act and the federal Revenue Rule.
• Successfully defended internet search engine in challenge under the Lanham Act to advertising program, obtaining dismissal on the ground that engine's internal use of trademarked names -- allowing competitors to use trademarked names as triggers for their own advertising -- did not constitute a "trademark use" because such use was not visible to the public. ( 2006 WL 2811711 (N.D.N.Y) )
• Part of team of attorneys who prosecuted constitutional and statutory challenge under CPLR Article 78 to arbitration procedures established by NYCTA with respect to contract disputes, resulting in vacatur of penalties and liquidated damages.
• Obtained summary judgment in multi-plaintiff action alleging sexual harassment, pregnancy and disability discrimination and other improprieties, establishing several points of first impression under Nevada law. ( 2001 WL 681782 ( Nev. Dist. Ct. )).
• Led team of attorneys obtaining summary judgment to defeat contract and tort claims related to software licensing agreement and prevail on counterclaims for payments due.
• Tried multi-week bench trial concerning implementation of federal energy tariffs governing allocation of project development costs for new power generation facilities.
• Litigated customer and broker disputes before NYSE and NASD arbitral panels, including trial of brokerage customer claim arising from portfolio liquidation and margin calls on commodity futures account during October 1998 market crash.
• Second-chaired trial arising out of novel tax-advantaged, REIT property exchange program involving sophisticated hedging vehicles, resulting in dismissal of adversary's claims and pre-verdict settlement payment to client.
• Prepared and counseled witnesses before state and federal grand juries, including In re Tyco Grand Jury.
• Defended telecom industry dispute involving breaches of alleged exclusive national distributor and maintenance agreement, misappropriation of intellectual property and tortious interference with third-party contracts.
• Among team of attorneys advising public directors with respect to settlement in In re IPO Securities Litigation.
• Won summary judgment in long-running multi-plaintiff case alleging same-sex harassment, retaliation and assault ( NYS Sup. Ct. Onondaga Co., Case No. 98-0413 ).
• Successfully prosecuted case before WIPO to recapture celebrated athlete's domain name from cybersquatter, a result highlighted in Sports Illustrated ( WIPO, No. D2000-0598).
• Mr. Regan's diverse pro bono practice has included:
• Achieving political asylum for two Tibetan refugees
• Successfully prosecuting action under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction
• At the request of SDNY judge, representing elderly woman swindled from her home in a 20-year fraud, resulting in return of her property by settlement
• Obtaining appointment of guardian for incapacitated adult under Article 81 of NYS Mental Hygiene Law
• An annual service commitment to the Pro Se Mediation Program run by the USDC, SDNY
• After law school Mr. Regan served as a law clerk to Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy, during which he worked on a broad range of civil and criminal matters, including several terrorism cases such as the trial of the mastermind of the first World Trade Center Bombing and aspects of The Manila Bombing conspiracy and In Re Marzook .

Education
J.D., The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Editor-in-Chief, Law Review , 1996
B.A., College of the Holy Cross, 1993

Manik ROY, Director of Congressional Affairs, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Manik Roy is the Director of Congressional Affairs for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, where he manages communication between the Center and the U.S. Congress. Dr. Roy has twenty-four years of experience in environmental policy, having worked, before coming to the Pew Center, for Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Representative Henry A. Waxman, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental Defense Fund.

Dr. Roy holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering, both from Stanford University.

Hemant SAHAI, Principal, Hemant Sahai Associates Advocates, New Delhi

Hemant’s current practice spans a wide spectrum and he is actively engaged in areas such as Infrastructure including Public Private Partnerships, Banking and Finance (Corporate Finance, Project Finance, Structured Finance), Policy and Regulatory, Institutional Reform and Deregulation, Pensions and Capital Markets, including overseas listings and Listings on the AIM Exchange – London Stock Exchange, Foreign Investment and Technology Licensing and Environmental laws with a focus on CDM Projects under the Kyoto Protocol.

Hemant regularly speaks in diverse forums and seminars, conducts workshops and authors papers and articles on subjects in areas including Infrastructure, Banking and Finance, Regulatory and Policy. Hemant has been involved in the drafting of several regulatory and policy documents as well as legislations, notably the Pensions legislation for India that provides for the regulation and development of the pensions sector in India, as well as provides the sector architecture.

Dan SKOPEC, Undersecretary for California Environmental Protection

Dan Skopec was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as Undersecretary for the California Environmental Protection Agency in March 2006. As Undersecretary, Skopec is chief adviser to the Secretary on all environmental issues. He acts and represents the Secretary in her absence, and oversees the functions and operations of the Office of the Secretary.

Skopec has extensive experience dealing with environmental and energy policy issues. As former deputy cabinet secretary for Governor Schwarzenegger, he served as the Governor’s primary advisor on environmental and energy issues. In addition, Skopec was responsible for overseeing policy initiatives at the state’s environmental agencies, including the California Environmental Protection Agency, Resources Agency, Department of Food & Agriculture, and the California Public Utilities Commission.

Prior to joining the Schwarzenegger Administration, Skopec was Staff Director for the Congressional Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs in Washington D.C. As the lead consultant on energy issues, he managed the oversight committee, leading investigations on the California electricity crisis, skyrocketing gasoline prices, natural gas supplies, and other issues related to the Federal Energy Regulation Commission.

Skopec also served as Congressman Doug Ose’s (R-CA) Legislative Director where he oversaw legislative strategy. He was responsible for implementing Congressman Ose’s legislative agenda including enhancing flood control, improving public health and safety, and curbing llegal drug abuse. Skopec advised the congressman on all legislative actions and managed staff. Using his expertise in economics and international trade policy, he accompanied the congressman to Seattle, Washington during the World Trade Organization talks, advising negotiations on agriculture trade policies. Prior to working for Ose, Skopec was Legislative Assistant for Congressman Jack Quinn (R-NY), consulting on various issues including foreign affairs and agriculture.

Skopec began his career in the nation’s capitol working for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s top business advocate, and served as a member of the Committee on Small Business for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Mr. Skopec has a M.A. in International Economics from George Washington University and a B.A. in Political Science and European History from the University of California, San Diego. He is married with three children.

Charlotte STRECK, Director of Climate Focus B.V., Rotterdam

She was educated in both Law and Biology at the Universities of Berlin, Regensburg and Freiburg, Germany, and Cordoba, Spain. Before she joined the World Bank in 2000, she cooperated with the "Global Public Policy Project", which provided strategic advice for the Secretary General of the UN.

She is a founding and Board member of the ‘Global Public Policy Institute’ and authored and co-authored several books and a series of articles on environmental governance, law and policy.

Margaret TAYLOR, Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley

Her research has won awards from the Academy of Management and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis. Her background includes legal and Capitol Hill experience in the areas of international trade, energy, and the environment, as well as consulting experience for government agencies. Her education was at Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University.

Stacy D. VANDEVEER, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of New Hampshire  

David VICTOR, Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development; Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

David VOGEL, Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley

Vogel is co-editor (with Chris Ansell) of W hy the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety (MIT Press forthcoming). He is currently writing a monograph on corporate social responsibility and a book comparing trends in risk regulation in the EU and the US.

His newest book is The Market For Virtue: The Potential And Limits Of Corporate Social Responsibility , published in 2005 by Brookings Institution Press.

Martin WAGNER, Managing Attorney, EarthJustice International Program

Diane WITTENBERG, President, California Climate Action Registry

Some current and past board affiliations include: EV Global Motors Company, a Lee Iacocca enterprise; TransMag, a motor manufacturer; Board of Trustees, Thunderbird School of International Management; and The Women's Leadership Board, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

The California Climate Action Registry is a non-profit public/private partnership that serves as a voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) registry to protect, encourage and promote early actions to reduce GHG emissions. Two hundred major companies, cities, government agencies and NGOs measure and publicly report their California, U.S. and international GHG emissions through the Registry. The Registry works with agencies and other NGOs to create and standardize measurement protocols for GHG emissions internationally.