Spring 2003 Symposium:The Corporation in Social Context: An Agenda for the Future
Phil Angelides
California State Treasurer Phil Angelides has made his mark in the civic life of Californiaas an effective public leader and as a successful and innovative businessman. Treasurer Angelides has also assumed a national leadership role in advancing corporate reform – using the power of California’s investment portfolio to restore integrity to the financial markets and to protect taxpayers, pensioners, and families. Under Mr. Angelides’ leadership, innovative investment policies and programs have been advanced to bolster California’s long term economic strength. The Treasurer’s nationally acclaimed Smart Investments initiative outlined a fiscally prudent strategy for investing in the infrastructure needed to support environmentally responsible growth patterns for California’s future. In May 2000, Mr. Angelides launched a new initiative, The Double Bottom Line: Investing in California’s Emerging Markets, to target investment capital to broaden economic opportunity throughout the State. Together, the two initiatives have directed more than $12 billion in investments to spur economic progress in Californiacommunities.
Mr. Angelides, 49, is a graduate of Harvard Universityand a Coro Foundation Fellow. He served from 1975 to 1983 in Californiagovernment, gaining a reputation as a leader in the affordable housing, urban planning, and public finance fields. He entered the private sector in 1984 and, in 1986, formed his own investment and management business, which quickly earned a reputation for economic success and innovation. Among his business ventures, the new town of Laguna West was featured in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, and ABC-TV’s “Good Morning, America,” and sparked a national dialogue on how we can plan and build more livable communities.
Mr. Angelides and his wife, Julie, reside in their hometown of Sacramento. They have three daughters – Megan, a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, Africa; Christina; and Arianna.
L. Hunter Lovins
L. Hunter Lovins is the Co-chair of the Natural Capitalism Group of The Global Academy. The Global Academy has worked to generate open and sustained dialogue on such key issues as the implications of genetic technology, sustainable economies, the integration of complementary and alternative medicine into mainstream western medicine, purpose and forms of education needed to meet societal changes, and the opportunities and risk of globalization. In 1982 Ms. Lovins co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute, a 50-person, research center with a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned through programmatic enterprise. Until 2002, when she left to join Global Academy, she was RMI’s CEO for Strategy. Ms. Lovins also helped establish and for six years was Assistant Director of the California Conservation Project, an innovative urban forestry and environmental education group.
Ms. Lovins has co-authored nine books, including Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use (1997) and Natural Capitalism, co-authored with Amory Lovins and Paul Hawken (1999). She has consulted for governments and the private sector, briefing senior management at such groups as Interface, Mitsubishi, Bank of America, and Calvert Social Investment Fund.
Ms. Lovins holds a B. A. from Pitzer College, a J. D. from Loyola University School of Law, and an honorary L.H.D. from the Universityof Maine. In her spare time, she serves on the local fire/rescue service as an EMT, trains horses, competes at polocrosse, and rides rodeo.
Kelliei McElhaney
Kellie McElhaney, one of the nation’s leading thinkers and practitioners in corporate social responsibility, is Executive Director of the Socially Responsible Business Leadership Initiatives, and Whitehead Distinguished Fellow in Corporate Responsibility at Haas School of Business, Universityof California, Berkeley. Established in 2002, the Social Responsibility Business Leadership Initiative coordinates the Haas School’s teaching, research, and public service activities in the areas of corporate social responsibility, ethics, social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and environmental management. It is supported by two gifts of $500,000 each from actor/philanthropist Paul Newman and Haas School alumnus Michael Homer. Professor McElhaney oversees the expansion of socially responsible business offerings throughout the Haas Schoolcurriculum and teaches courses in corporate social responsibility.
Prior to joining Haas, Professor McElhaney was Adjunct Professor and Managing Director of the Corporate Environmental Management Program at the University of Michigan Business School.
Ms. McElhaney received a B. A. from Universityof North Carolina, an M. A. from Ohio University, and a Ph.D. from the Universityof Michigan.
Carl Pope
Carol Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, America’s oldest and largest grassroots sentimental organization, has been with the Sierra Club for the past 20 years. In that time, he served as Associate Conservation Director, Political Director and Conservation Director. During Mr. Pope’s tenure as Executive Director, Sierra Club added 150,000 new members and helped protect nearly 10 million acres of wilderness, including the California Desert, Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and California’s Giant Sequoias National Monument.
In addition to his work with the Sierra Club, Mr. Pope has had a very distinguished record of environmental activism and leadership. He has served on the Board of the California League of Conservation Voters, Public Voter, National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, Public Interest Economics, Inc., and Zero Population Growth. Mr. Pope coauthored California Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic initiative of 1986. He has also written widely for magazines issn the environmental field and is the author of Sahib, An American Misadventure in India, and the coauthor of Hazardous Waste in America.
Mr. Pope graduate from Harvard College in 1967. He then spent two years as a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Barhi Barhi, India, where he helped communities and families address the human and environmental impacts of overpopulation. He now lives with his family in Berkeley, California.