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Board Members

Bruce Babbitt is Of Counsel in Latham & Watkins D.C. office, where his practice focuses on environmental and natural resources matters. Mr. Babbitt served as United States Secretary of the Interior during the Clinton Administration. During his eight-year tenure, Mr. Babbitt provided exceptional leadership on numerous important environmental initiatives, affecting such areas as restoration of the Florida Everglades and the California Bay Delta, wilderness protection, creation of new national monuments, and protection of wildlife and endangered species. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Babbitt was Governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and Attorney General of Arizona from 1975 to 1978. Mr. Babbitt holds a LLB from Harvard University, a MS from the University of New Castle-Upon-Tyne and a BA from the University of Notre Dame.

Roger Ballentine is the President of Green Strategies Inc., a private consulting firm in Washington D.C., where he advises corporations, investors and non-profit entities on market development and opportunities, public policy issues and business strategies, with a focus on energy and environmental matters. Roger previously served President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. In these capacities, he directed the Administration’s efforts on climate change, represented the President in numerous international meetings and negotiations, participated at the highest levels in the development and implementation of energy and environmental policy, and advised the President on federal lands policy. Mr. Ballentine was previously Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, where he focused on energy and environment issues. Prior to coming to the White House, he was a partner at the Washington law firm of Patton, Boggs L.L.P., and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Ballentine is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the Harvard Law School. He serves on the Boards of the American Council for Renewable Energy, the American Bird Conservancy and the Solar Electric Light Fund, and is a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute.

Carol Browner served as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, a $7 billion, 18,000-employee agency responsible for protecting the public’s air, water, and the health of their communities. She served as a member of the President’s Cabinet for eight years. Ms. Browner, an attorney, is widely recognized for her innovative partnerships with the business community and non-governmental organizations, forging common sense, cost-effective solutions to public health and environmental challenges. Accomplishments during her tenure included enacting the strongest-ever national air pollution standards, creating innovative and flexible alternatives to traditional regulatory programs, and leveraging more than $1 billion in public and private funds to cleanup brownfields.

Nicholas Butterworth was President & CEO of The MTVi Group, the largest interactive music company and a joint venture of Viacom and Liberty Media, from 1999-2002. In this capacity Mr. Butterworth was responsible for the growth and direction of MTV's global Internet properties, including MTV.com, VH1.com, Country.com, and Sonicnet.com, along with over 60 international sites. Prior to the formation of the MTVi Group, Mr. Butterworth was President & CEO of Sonicnet, Inc., a division of TCI Music, Inc. (a Liberty Media company). Mr. Butterworth served two terms as President of the Digital Media Association (DiMA), a trade organization active on intellectual property and technology policy issues. From 1993 to 1994 Mr. Butterworth served as Executive Director of Rock The Vote, an entertainment industry-backed nonprofit group promoting voter registration and political participation to young people. Mr. Butterworth is a board member of the T.J. Martell Foundation and the Music For Youth Foundation and a past board member of the New York New Media Association.

Russ Daggatt is a private venture investor and corporate advisor. He served as president and vice chairman of Teledesic LLC, CEO of New ICO Global Communications Ltd., and CEO and vice chairman of ICO-Teledesic Global Ltd. Previously, Russ served in an executive role at Flying Tigers, prior to its acquisition by Federal Express, and practiced law with Preston Gates & Ellis in Seattle and Anderson Mori & Rabinowitz in Tokyo. Drawing on his active experience as a mountain-climbing and river-rafting guide, Russ earlier led the merger of the top two U.S. international adventure travel companies, Mountain Travel and Sobek Expeditions. Russ is co-author of the book The Global Negotiator: Building Strong Business Relationships Anywhere in the World (1990). He was selected as a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

John P. DeVillars is a Founder and Managing Partner of BlueWave Strategies and Managing Partner of BlueWave Capital where he advises more than a dozen renewable energy companies, environmental companies, and brownfield developers. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. DeVillars served as the Executive Vice President of Brownfields Recovery Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. DeVillars served as the New England Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he directed the operations of 800 employees and a $400 million annual budget. Under his leadership, EPA New England won more awards for successful reform than any other EPA office. Mr. DeVillars previously served as Secretary of Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and Chief of Operations for Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. From 1991 to 1994, he was Director of the Environmental Services Group for Coopers & Lybrand. He received the President's Award of the Nature Conservancy, given annually for national leadership in environmental affairs.

Dianne Dillon-Ridgley is a noted international speaker on Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Population, Gender and Justice issues. Ms. Dillon-Ridgley represents the World Y.W.C.A (World Young Women's Christian Association) at the United Nations headquarters in New York, is a former trustee of the Wallace Global Fund and in 1999 was appointed to the Oxford University Commission on Sustainable Consumption.

During the last ten years Ms. Dillon-Ridgley has served on numerous U.S. delegations at the UN. She was commissioned by the White House to serve as an advisor and member of the US Delegation to the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. In 1994, President Clinton appointed her to the President's Council on Sustainable Development where she also served as co-chair of the Council's International Task Force and co-chaired the Population and Consumption Task Force.

From 1994-1997 she was president of Zero Population Growth (ZPG), the nation's largest grassroots organization concerned with rapid population growth and the environment. Currently a trustee of the International Board for Auburn University's School of Human Sciences, she was adjunct lecturer at the University of Indiana School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Since 1991, she has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Aspen Law and Business' Fair Housing and Fair Lending Publications, now a Wolters Kluwer Company. She also serves on the boards of the River Network, Second Nature, Natural Step-US, and the Center for International Environmental Law.

Peter Fox-Penner is the Principal and Chairman of the Board of the Brattle Group, a consulting firm offering advice and expert testimony on economic, financial, regulatory, and strategic issues. His practice centers on energy and environmental policies and electric utility deregulation, where he is the author of several books, including the highly acclaimed Electric Utility Restructuring: A Guide to the Competitive Era. He is a frequent expert witness. He is also experienced in the natural gas, communications, transportation, and environmental industries. Dr. Fox-Penner holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a M.S. and B.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

George T. Frampton joined the law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner in April 2001. His areas of practice include complex litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and environmental and energy corporate strategy. He has been a Visiting Lecturer in Constitutional Law at Duke Law School, and in the fall of 2003 will teach a graduate course in International Environmental Law and Policy at Johns Hopkins' Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. From 1998-2001, Mr. Frampton was Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. As such he was the President's principal advisor on environmental policy matters, and directed the White House environmental policy group of approximately two dozen professionals. In 1997-98, he served as Corporate Advisor to Earth Satellite Corporation, Bethesda, MD and represented Vice President Al Gore as his personal attorney in connection with the Justice Department's preliminary investigation into possible fundraising violations. From 1993-97, Mr. Frampton was Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. In this position, he was responsible for supervising the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; chaired a number of government-wide major regional initiatives within the Clinton Administration including restoration of the Florida Everglades Ecosystem and distribution of funds from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Fund; and led efforts to negotiate land-management agreements with state and local governments and large private landowners to protect sensitive habitats. From 1986-1993, Mr. Frampton was President of The Wilderness Society. From 1976-1985, Mr. Frampton was affiliated with the Washington, D.C. litigation firm of Rogovin, Huge & Lenzner, where he specialized in major litigation. Mr. Frampton was an Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from 1973-75, where he was one of a team of six attorneys under two special prosecutors that conducted the grand jury investigation and trial of the Watergate Cover-up Case. In 1971-72, Mr. Frampton served as Law Clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun. He is a graduate of Yale College, the London School of Economics (M.Sc. Econ.) and Harvard Law School.

David Gardiner is currently President of his own environmental consulting firm, David Gardiner & Associates. The firm provides strategic assistance to for-profit and non-profit clients. It specializes in strategies that integrate environmental and economic concerns to address global warming, clean air, and clean energy. Prior to founding his firm, Mr. Gardiner was Executive Director of the White House Climate Change Task Force, the group established by President Clinton to coordinate the U.S. government’s domestic and international policies on climate change. In that capacity he led the development of the Administration’s climate change budget and tax credit proposals, and provided strategic advice on the international climate change negotiations. Before coming to the White House, Mr. Gardiner served for six years as Assistant Administrator for Policy at the Environmental Protection Agency. As Assistant Administrator, he led EPA’s climate change efforts, as well as programs to reinvent EPA’s approaches to key sectors, such as transportation, agriculture, metal finishing, and real estate development. He directed EPA’s planning, environmental economics, sustainable development and information policy efforts, as well as a major regulatory reinvention effort, Project XL. Prior to joining EPA, he was the Sierra Club’s Legislative Director in Washington, DC, overseeing their efforts on clean air, climate change, land protection, and international issues. Mr. Gardiner has a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Harvard College.

Donna Gerstenfeld has come out of retirement after a career in corporate law and finance in Washington, DC, and New York City because she strongly believes that another four years of the Bush Administration poses a great danger to our environment, our health, the economy and the safety of all Americans. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Environment2004 and Vice Chair of its Finance Committee. During her legal career, Donna practiced corporate litigation, financial regulatory and merger/acquisition law with the firms of Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, and Battle & Fowler, New York City, and with the US Treasury Department, Office of Thrift Supervision. In addition, Donna provided financial markets regulatory advice to The Hon. Charles E. Schumer, and to capital markets clients, Morgan Stanley Group and Bankers Trust (BC Securities) New York, in the capacity of corporate counsel.

Nancy Gibson has won two Emmys for appearances and contribution to the award-winning PBS show Newton’s Apple. Her proudest achievement is co-founding the International Wolf Center that opened its doors in 1993 after raising close to $2 million dollars of public and private funds. That effort was noted by then Governor Arne Carlson who appointed her as chair to the Minnesota Citizen Advisory Committee of the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, a position she has held for 13 years. Nancy led the successful statewide constitutional campaign to re-dedicate lottery funds for 25 years to this Trust Fund beginning in 2000. She also makes regular appearances as the naturalist for the NBC affiliate KARE TV, is a consultant for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, a spokesperson on national and local media and a variety of jobs with wildlife-related organizations and issues. A close associate of wolf expert, Dr. L. David Mech, Nancy travels around the U.S. and abroad to work on and speak about wolf and other wildlife issues. She spent the summers of 1992 and 1993 in Ellesmere Island observing and living with wild Arctic wolves and has been guiding wolf trips in the Arctic and Yellowstone for the past several years. Nancy writes for International Wolf, wrote her first book in 1996 titled, Wolves, and has been a national guest columnist and book editor. She raised the two yearling Arctic wolves now residing at the International Wolf Center.

David Foster Hales is the President, DFH Global, a multi-purpose sustainable development and environmental consulting firm that focuses on environment and security issues, and on sustainable urban development. He also serves as Chair of the Stakeholder Forum. From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Hales served as Deputy Assistant Administrator and founding Director of the Global Environmental Center at USAID. Mr. Hales led the development and implementation of USAID climate change, biodiversity, environment and natural resource, and urban programs operating in more than 80 countries worldwide. Mr. Hales served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior for Fish and Wildlife and National Parks during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, and was Director of the State of Michigan's Department of Natural Resources from 1988 - 1991. From 1980 - 1987, he was the Samuel Task Dana Professor of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan. From 1994 - 1996 he was a member of the 56th College of National Lecturers for Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. He was one of the primary legislative architects behind a number of public lands initiatives. He led Carter Administration efforts leading to the passage of the National Parks and Recreation Omnibus Act of 1978. He is a co-founder of the Society for Conservation Biology, and the first American to serve as the President of the World Heritage Convention. In 2000, he authored the definition of Water Security adopted by consensus at The Hague International Conference on Fresh Water. Mr. Hales has also served as Trustee or on Boards of Directors for various scientific and conservation organizations, including the Organization for Tropical Studies, the United States International Committee on Monuments and Sites, The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Commission on Protected Areas, Species Survival Commission, and Working Group on Environmental Ethics), Society for Conservation Biology, The School for Field Studies, the Lake Michigan Federation, The Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism, the Michigan Chapters of The Nature Conservancy and The American Farmland Trust, the United States-Central and Eastern European Environment Foundation, the United Nations Environment and Development Forum, and the Smithsonian Institute for Sustainable Development.

Peter Horton is a director, actor, writer, and producer. He has worked in feature film, network television, commercials and public service production, with such acting credits as "thirtysomething", The Geena Davis Show, Brimstone, Singles, Where the River Runs Black and Side Out. Directing credits include, pilots for the series Birdland and Class of '96, "thirtysomething", The Shield, Once and Again and the feature film, The Cure for Universal. Peter created and produced the highly acclaimed film for NBC called Murder Live. Peter has directed a Public Service Announcement for Amnesty International, he is a board member of the Los Angeles based Jobs For a Future, and is a member of the Executive Forum of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Mr Horton is a partner at Practical Matters, an environmental communications project of Cucoloris Films. Practical Matters is a communications firm that promotes non-profit and public sector environmental initiatives.

Howard A. Learner serves as the President and Executive Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center the Midwest's leading environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. Mr. Learner previously served as the General Counsel for Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, where he specialized in environmental, energy and community economic development litigation and policy development. He also served as the founding President and Chairperson of the Illinois Citizens Utility Board, a 175,000-member consumer advocacy organization, and as Legal Counsel to the Chicago Energy Commission, a private group studying the impact of energy expenditures and policies for the City of Chicago. Mr. Learner serves on the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Institute, as Chair of the Grantmaking Committee of the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, as Director of the Jewish Fund for Justice, and was the founding Chair of the new Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance. Mr. Learner is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Law School, teaching environmental law. He serves on the City of Chicago’s Green Principles Advisory Committee and on the Calumet Sustainable Development Initiative Advisory Committee. Mr. Learner received a J.D from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Frank E. Loy was Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs from 1998 to January 2001. His responsibilities included the environment and science, human rights, the promotion of democracy, refugees and humanitarian affairs, counter-narcotics and international law enforcement. During his tenure he served as chief U.S. negotiator for a number of treaties, including those on climate change and on trade in genetically modified agricultural products. He served in the Department of State in two previous administrations. During 1979-1981 he served as Director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs, with personal rank of Ambassador, and from 1965 to 1970 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs. Mr. Loy has spent a number of years in the business sector. He was a partner in the firm engaged to bring the bankrupt Penn Central Transportation Company out of bankruptcy, and in that connection served for five years as the president of the Penn Central subsidiary that owned all the non-railroad businesses. Subsequently he was president of the solvent corporation emerging from that bankruptcy. Earlier he served as Senior Vice President for International Affairs of Pan American World Airways, and practiced corporation law with the Los Angeles firm of O’Melveny & Myers. From 1981 to 1995 he was President of The German Marshall Fund of the U.S., an American foundation both conducting and funding others in programs concerning US/European political, economic and environmental relations. In 1996 he was a visiting lecturer in International Law and Policy at the Yale Law School.

Mr. Loy has served on numerous corporate boards of directors and has served as chairman of numerous non-profit boards, including the League of Conservation Voters. He is at present a member of the boards of Environmental Defense, the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, Resources for the Future, Population Services International, The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, as well as the International Advisory Council of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships.

He received his B.A. from UCLA and L.L.B. from Harvard.

Mary D. Nichols has served as California’s Secretary for Resources since 1998. As head of the Resources Agency, Ms. Nichols oversees the budgets, policies and activities of 31 departments, commissions, boards and conservancies, including the Departments of Conservation, Fish and Game, Forestry and Fire Protection, Parks and Recreation, Water Resources, the California Coastal Commission and the California Energy Commission. Secretary Nichols serves as the Chair of the California Climate Action Registry’s Board and is taking a lead role in coordinating the State’s response to projected impacts of Climate Change on California’s ecosystems, species, agriculture, water supplies and coast. Nichols' present appointment builds on a 30-year legacy of public service that has been instrumental in helping forge the nation’s approach to environmental issues and establishes California as the environmental benchmark for the rest of the world. Just prior to her appointment as Secretary for Resources, Ms. Nichols served as the Executive Director of Environment Now, a private foundation dedicated to the protection of the California environment. In 1993, she was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the US Senate to be the Environmental Protection Agency's Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation. Nichols served as a senior staff attorney and director of the Los Angeles office of the Natural Resources Defense Council from 1989 to 1993. She was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. to the attorney seat on the California Air Resources Board in 1975, and was named its chair in 1978. She also served as Secretary for Environmental Affairs, the cabinet-level agency responsible for air, water, and solid waste management that later became the California Environmental Protection Agency. Ms. Nichols received her B.A. from Cornell University and J.D. from Yale Law School.

Nigel Purvis joined The Brookings Institution as a senior scholar in 2003. He currently directs Brookings’ Environment and Development Project, a new institution wide effort to bring environmental issues into the mainstream of international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Purvis is the first Brookings scholar to receive appointments to each of the institution’s three principle research programs – foreign policy, economics and governance. Previously, Mr. Purvis served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. In that capacity he oversaw U.S. environmental diplomacy regarding climate change, biological diversity, forests, toxic chemicals, coral reefs and endangered species. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Purvis also served as a senior U.S. negotiator on global climate change, biotechnology and environmental aspects of trade policy. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Purvis served as an international lawyer at the State Department advising on such diverse topics as the Dayton peace process for Bosnia, human rights, humanitarian affairs, economic sanctions and U.S. law on foreign relations. Early in his career, Mr. Purvis worked as an attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He also taught graduate courses in government and law at Georgetown University. Mr. Purvis has published numerous works on foreign policy, international law, globalization and environmental challenges. His book The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account will be released by The Brookings Press in June 2003. Mr. Purvis graduated with honors from Harvard Law School in 1990, where he received the Laylin prize for work on international law. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Minnesota in 1987.

Rhone Resch has 15 years of experience working closely with both the EPA and industry to develop and implement clean energy solutions. He is the Senior Vice President of the Natural Gas Supply Association, which represents integrated major and independent companies that produce and market natural gas. He formerly worked as a Program Manager in the EPA's Climate Protection Division in the Office of Air and Radiation, where he developed and implemented energy efficiency programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and hazardous air pollutants from the petroleum industry. As a Senior Analyst with the Project Performance Corporation, he supported the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Environmental Management Program, evaluating the energy efficiency of industrial operations associated with the DOE's nuclear weapons facilities and reviewing regulatory compliance of several DOE facilities with respect to Superfund, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substance Control Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Occupational Safety and Health Act. He holds an MPA in Management from Syracuse University's Maxwell School, a Master of Environmental Engineering from SUNY Syracuse, and a B.A. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Simon Rich, formerly CEO of Louis Dreyfus Holding Co and Chairman and CEO of Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas, has 20 years of experience in all aspects of the energy industry in North America and Europe. Louis Dreyfus has operations in oil refining, petroleum product storage and distribution, natural gas production and distribution and the distribution and merchandising of electricity in North America and Europe as well as its traditional agricultural merchant business encompassing all of the cereal grains, oil seeds and cotton. During Mr. Rich's tenure as CEO the company, he created EDF Trading which currently dispatches the electric generation system of France. Mr. Rich is Chairman of Carolina Green Energy, a company designed to bring renewable power alternatives to North Carolina consumers. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Visitors of The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University and as an Adjunct Professor at the school. Mr. Rich is a 1967 graduate of Duke University. Mr. Rich lives in Edenton and Durham, NC.

Bud Ris served as the chief executive officer of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) from 1984 through 2003, first as Executive Director, and then as President. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Ris chaired a coalition of sixteen national organizations founded to support international and domestic action on climate change. He led the delegation of US NGO’s to the international negotiations that culminated in the Kyoto Protocol. He served on the Energy and Transportation Task Force of President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development and was a member of the Energy Future Coalition’s advisory council from 2002-2003. He is a trustee of The Keystone Center and the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, both of which are focused on fostering collaboration between corporations, NGOs, and government. He is an advisor to the Henry Luce Foundation and, until December 2003, was a member of the advisory board of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network. She brings with her over 15 years of experience as an environmental attorney. Previously, Kathleen served as the Chief Wildlife Counsel for the National Audubon Society, where she directed its biodiversity and international trade programs, among others. She served as an Environmental Representative on the U.S. Delegation - Free Trade Area of the Americas. She was also responsible for bringing the first citizen complaint before the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the tri-national agency formed to oversee North American environmental issues. Kathleen has held senior positions with the Environmental Law Institute, Piedmont Environmental Council, two U.S. Olympic Organizing Committees, and United Nations Conference on Women.

Prior to joining UCS in 1981, Mr. Ris directed the Hydroelectric Power Program at the New England River Basins Commission. From 1976-1978, he was a senior policy analyst in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, where he had major responsibility for preparing the state’s first Coastal Zone Management Plan. Before then he was a Senior Associate with Roy Mann Associates, a private consulting firm specializing in environmental impact assessments. Mr. Ris also served on the board of Ris Paper Company, Inc. Mr. Ris has appeared as a keynote speaker before many of the nation’s leading civic forums and often represented UCS as its senior spokesperson before the news media.

Mr. Ris received his B.A. in mathematics from Duke University in 1970 and a M.S./M.L.A. in landscape architecture and environmental planning from the SUNY College of Environmental Science at Syracuse University in 1974. He attended the Duke University School of Forestry (now the Nicholas School for the Environment) from 1971 to 1972. He resides with his spouse and three college-age daughters in Lexington, Massachusetts.

David Sandalow is a Guest Scholar at The Brookings Institution, where he writes on conservation and global environment issues. Prior to his appointment at Brookings, Mr. Sandalow was Executive Vice President at World Wildlife Fund, where he helped manage World Wildlife Fund's conservation, advocacy and research programs around the world. During the Clinton administration, Mr. Sandalow served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment and Science and served jointly as Senior Director for Environmental Affairs, National Security Council and Associate Director for the Global Environment, White House Council on Environmental Quality. In these positions, areas of emphasis included global warming, marine conservation, biotechnology, environmental standards of export credit agencies, and environmental events in connection with the President's foreign travel (including Africa, China, India and Latin America). Prior to his work at the White House, Mr. Sandalow was with the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Before working at EPA, Mr. Sandalow was in the private practice of law. Mr. Sandalow has been a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Environmental Law, and co-chair of the ABA's Annual Conference on Environmental Law, a member of the Sustainable Development Roundtable at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and a Stimson Fellow at Yale University. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (JD 1982) and Yale College (BA Philosophy 1978).

Roger W. Sant of Washington, D.C. is co-founder of The AES Corporation and currently serves as a Director and Chairman Emeritus of the Board. He was Chairman of the Board and a Director from its inception until May 2003. Prior to starting AES, Mr. Sant was Assistant Administrator for Energy Conservation and the Environment of the Federal Energy Administration and the Director of the Energy Productivity Center, an energy research organization affiliated with The Mellon Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University. Mr. Sant currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Summit Foundation, is a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and serves on the Boards of Directors of Marriott International, The National Symphony Orchestra and The World Wildlife Fund. Mr. Sant received a B.S. from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.

Karen E. Skelton provides companies and individuals strategic counsel on complex projects involving a combination of political, legal, financial and communication issues on behalf of the Dewey Square group. Until June 2000, Ms. Skelton served as the Chief Counsel of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Department of Transportation. Her responsibilities included providing legal counsel on environmental, civil rights and contract issues, ranging from “sprawl management” to innovative finance. Prior to the Federal Highway Administration, she served as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs at the White House. There she coordinated California’s policy and political issues in the White House and advised the President and Vice President on general political matters. She was Vice President Gore’s first Director of Political Affairs. Prior to her White House tenure, Ms. Skelton served as the Deputy Counsel to the Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, where she helped establish the first office of tribal justice. She also served as a trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division and as a special Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. Before coming to Washington, Ms. Skelton worked for the law firm of Morrison & Foerster in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Skelton has also worked on behalf of four Presidential campaigns, including Mondale 1983-84, Dukakis 1987-88, Clinton-Gore 1992 and 1996. Ms. Holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley Law School and a Master’s Degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Beth A. Viola is managing director of Holland & Knight Strategic Communications Group. Ms. Viola's practice areas include environmental consulting, appropriations work and public relations. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Viola served as a senior advisor to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In this capacity, she served as a senior member of a team responsible for advising the president and the vice president on environmental and energy issues including climate change, natural resources and smart growth. She served as the primary White House liaison on these issues to elected officials, industry, environmental, religious and labor leaders as well as the media. During the last year of her tenure, she was one of Vice President Gore's chief environmental advisors and served as a senior policy advisor to him during his presidential campaign. Before joining the White House in 1994, Ms. Viola worked in government affairs for Matsushita Electric Corporation of America. She is also a former congressional staff member for U.S. Representatives John Edward Porter of Illinois and Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island. Ms. Viola received a bachelor's in political science from Providence College in 1990, and attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government Program for senior managers in government in 1995.

Wesley Warren is a Senior Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council where he serves as the Deputy Director of the Advocacy Center. His work focuses on regulatory reform and federal budget matters. During the Clinton administration, Wesley served as Associate Director of the Natural Resources, Energy and Science Division of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and as Chief of Staff at the Council on Environmental Quality. Mr. Warren also served as the Director on the White House Task Force on Livable Communities. From 1991-1994, Wesley worked on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, and from 1988-1991, he worked on the House Science, Space & Technology Committee. He currently serves on the Board of the Environmental Integrity Project and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.


Staff

Aimée Christensen has worked for over a decade on energy and environmental matters, bringing a broad perspective from her time in government, in the private sector, and in non-governmental organizations. Ms. Christensen joined Environment2004 from the global law firm of Baker & McKenzie where she served as a member of the Global Climate Change and Clean Energy Practice Group, advising clients on energy and environmental matters, including renewable energy project development, global climate change, and corporate responsibility. Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie, she worked on trade and environmental issues for the International Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development during the 1998 and 1999 World Trade Organization Ministerial Meetings. From 1993 to 1998, Ms. Christensen served in the Clinton-Gore Administration, including four years at the Department of Energy where she advised Energy Secretaries Hazel O'Leary and Federico Peña on Latin American energy policy. Before her tenure at the Department of Energy, Ms. Christensen worked on international environmental issues at the White House Office on Environmental Policy, on Environmental Protection Agency matters for the Clinton-Gore Transition Team, and for the American Bar Association's International Law Section. A life-long Democrat, Ms. Christensen worked with the 1992 and 1996 coordinated campaigns and has been active in politics in her home state of Idaho. She is a Board member of the American Council on Renewable Energy and the National Association of Environmental Law Societies, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Member of the Environmental Law Institute's Council of Partners. She received her B.A. from Smith College and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Miranda A. Anderson specializes in strategic and operational non-profit management, corporate responsibility, and organizational development. Her career has spanned both the non- and for-profit sectors, holding management positions in such industries as energy and environmental development in emerging markets, international development, and wireless telecommunications. Prior to joining the E’04 team, Miranda served as the Operations Director for the Solar Electric Light Fund, and provided independent consulting services to a number of private and public organizations. Miranda holds a Bachelor of Science from Colorado State University, and a Masters of Business Administration from George Washington University, specializing in Environmental Management and Policy, with particular research on multi-sectoral partnerships, market-based environmental solutions, and organizational policy at the business, NGO, and government levels.

Leanne Farrell is the Web and Program Coordinator at Environment2004. She graduated with a B.A. in International Relations with honors from Stanford University in June 2002. With a strong interest in sustainable development, she wrote her honors thesis on rural development and natural resource management strategies for indigenous communities impacted by natural gas development in Bolivia. Since moving to Washington, DC, Leanne has worked as an advocate for high standards of environmental sustainability, respect for human rights, and local accountability in the policies and operations of international financial institutions and multinational corporations. She has worked for both Environmental Defense and the Bank Information Center, monitoring publicly-financed projects and supporting advocacy efforts to improve environmental and social policies at the multilateral development banks. At Earthworks (formerly the Mineral Policy Center), she authored public education materials for the launch of a new consumer-based campaign aiming to improve the standards of the gold mining industry to better protect communities and the environment from mining's negative impacts. At Stanford, she co-founded the Stanford Community for Peace and Justice following September 11, 2001, and edited Womenspeak, a campus women's art and literary journal. In her spare time, Leanne enjoys hiking, running, swimming, cooking, and salsa dancing.

Chris Murray is an attorney specializing in environmental issues. He comes to Environment2004 from the Minority Committee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce where he researched toxics and air issues. Prior to joining the Committee, Mr. Murray served as the Deputy Media Relations Director for the National Environmental Trust where he helped develop and execute successful legislative campaigns around the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. He is a veteran of electoral campaigns, having served as the Field Director for a successful U.S. Congressional race and as a GOTV coordinator for a coordinated campaign. Chris was trained as a chef at the Natural Gourmet Cookery School and holds a J.D. from the University of California.

Christine M. Stackpole is the Development Director for Environment2004. Previously, Ms. Stackpole worked on a number of Massachusetts political campaigns, including volunteering as a fundraiser and on field strategy for Robert Reich’s gubernatorial campaign. She comes to Environment2004 from Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) where she served as an Associate Director on the Global Oil team. She consulted to companies on air, fuel quality, alternative vehicle, and energy policy issues. She also served as a key research contact to several of CERA’s government clients. While in graduate school, Ms. Stackpole worked with the US Environmental Protection Agency on several projects involving effective and efficient management of enforcement and voluntary programs. She holds a B.A. from Lehigh University and an M.P.P. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.