SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Strategic Complements: Adaptation and Reducing Greenhouse Gases
Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Tom Athanasiou
Lara Whitely Binder
Jacob Werksman
Jim Williams

Keynote Speaker
Mary Nichols

Impact of Climate Change on Development and Human Rights
Luke Cole
Edward Cameron
Martin Wagner
Tseming Yang

Financing Adaptation and Innovation
Lyuba Zarsky
Daniel Farber
Alan Miller
David Takacs
Kate Raworth

Building Resiliency
Hari Osofsky
Bonizella Biagini
Peter Hayes
Lyuba Zarsky

Acting Locally
John Leshy
Nikki Roy
Tony Brunello
Steve Goldbeck

Urban Strategies for Coping With Climate Change
Mayor Gavin Newsom

Private Market Responses
William Dodge
Wiliam Boyd
Alberto Monti
Judah Schiller
William Sloan

Nell Jessup Newton became Chancellor & Dean and William B. Lockhart Professor of Law in August, 2006 at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Previously, Dean Newton served as dean of the law schools of the University of Connecticut and the University of Denver. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1973 and from Hastings in 1976. After graduation from law school, Dean Newton moved to Washington, D.C., to take a one-year position teaching at Catholic University and ended up living and working in D.C. for 22 years: first at Catholic University Law School (1976-1992) and then at American University Law School (1992-1998). From 1990 to 1997 Dean Newton also taught at the Pre-Law Summer Institute for Native American Students (PLSI) at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

For the past 30 years Dean Newton has focused her scholarship in Indian law and on her second academic love, constitutional law, writing frequently cited law review articles on tribal property rights and rights to self-government. She was the co-author of the third edition of one of the leading textbooks on Indian Law, Cases & Materials on American Indian Law, and is the editor-in-chief of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, the only treatise on the subject. In addition, she is the author of nearly 60 articles, ranging from newspaper editorial opinion articles to law review articles. Her law review articles have been reprinted in scholarly books on Indian law, race law, the law of reparations, and legal philosophy.

Professor Laurance is the Dean of the Graduate School of International Policy Studies. His expertise is in Global Governance, International Organizations, Proliferation of Conventional Weapons and Small Arms, Security and Development, Program Evaluation, and Project Management.

Prof. Laurance has served as a consultant to the United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs from 1992-2002. He is a member of the advisory board of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch, and Small Arms Survey in Geneva. He was one of the co-founders of the International Action Network on Small Arms, the largest transnational NGO dealing with this issue. He is the coordinator of the program on Security and Development at the Monterey Institute.

His current research focues on the effectiveness of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants as part of the UN peacekeeping process. He has published articles in The Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Armed Forces and Society, Orbis, Political Science Quarterly, Washington Quarterly and Policy Sciences. He is the author of four books on conventional weapons proliferation and a leading international expert on the global problem of small arms and light weapons proliferation and misuse.

Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Professor Paul teaches international law, international trade, foreign relations and constitutional law courses at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is also the Director of the LL.M. and International Programs at Hastings.

Professor Paul has written about international trade, globalization, regulatory competition, private international law, and the president's foreign relations powers. Among other works, he is the co-author of Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy, and he is currently writing a history of U.S. foreign relations and international law in the eighteenth century. He was a member of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the editorial board of the Global Jurist, an online publication. He has previously served as the chair of the ASIL International Economic Law Group and on the boards of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educators' Network of Connecticut (GLSEN-CT), the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford and the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF) among other organizations.

Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Naomi Roht-Arriaza grew up in Queens, New York, Chile and Costa Rica. She taught school on a banana plantation and helped set up a field hospital in a Guatemalan village before settling down in the Bay Area in 1978 and finally finishing a B.A. at U.C. Berkeley.

She then worked for eight years as an organizer, journalist and paralegal in immigration law before returning to Berkeley to complete a law degree at Boalt Hall and a Masters at the Graduate School of Public Policy. She graduated first in her class at Boalt, where she was a Note & Comment Editor of the law review, Order of the Coif and a member of the Boalt Hall Group in International Studies. After graduation she clerked for Judge James Browning of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. During 1991-92, Professor Roht-Arriaza was the first Riesenfeld Fellow in International Law and Organizations at Boalt Hall. In the summer and fall of 1995, she was a European Community Fulbright Scholar in Spain. In 2001-02 she received research grants from the United States Institute of Peace and the MacArthur Foundation.

Professor Roht-Arriaza teaches in the areas of international human rights, torts, and domestic and global environmental law and policy. She is the author of The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (2005) and Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice (1995). A third book, on post-2000 transitional justice initiatives, will be published in 2006. She is an associate editor of the Yearbook on International Environmental Law.

Tom is a long-time left green, a former software engineer, a technology critic, and a climate justice activist. He is the author of dozens of essays and several books focusing on the politics of technology, science, and the ecological crisis. These days, he focuses most of his effort on the development and promotion of climate strategies that are fair enough to actually work.

Tom's long-term focus is injustice as, in itself, a wellspring of ecological crisis. This focus led him, inevitably, to the climate crisis. His first major essay on the subject, Greenhouse Blues, was published in 1991. In 1996, his first book, an exploration of global environmental justice, was published: in the U.S. as Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor, (Little / Brown), and in England as Slow Reckoning: The Ecology of a Divided Planet, (Secker and Warburg). It was indifferently reviewed in the US but well reviewed in England, which was notable because the two books contain exactly the same words.

In the late 1990s, Tom began to concentrate on the climate crisis. In 2000, with Paul Baer, he founded EcoEquity, an activist think tank focused on the development and promotion of global climate frameworks that are fair enough to actually work. He has been extremely active in the global climate justice movement and was one of the organizers of the Climate Action Network’s 2002 Climate Equity Summit. Since then, EcoEquity has become a small force within the climate movement. Last year, for example, it was hired by Friends of the Earth International to evaluate its global climate campaign.

Most of Tom’s time in the last few years has gone into Greenhouse Development Rights, a “reference framework” that’s designed to be both fair and politically relevant, and thus to help break the North / South impasse and, beyond that, support a global emergency mobilization to stabilize the climate.

In his spare time, he’s developing a new book on inequality and the climate crisis, the official title of which is A New Deal for the Greenhouse Century.

Jacob Werksman is an international lawyer, specializing in international environmental law and international economic law. He directs the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute. WRI’s governance team leads networks of researchers and advocates around the world to develop strategies that strengthen the relationship between citizens and their governments by promoting greater transparency and accountability in environmental decision-making.

From 1991-2002 Werksman served as a lawyer, programme director, and, for four years, as Managing Director of the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) where he provided legal advice and assistance to governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations. Two of his main areas of practice at FIELD were representing the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in the course of the negotiations of the Kyoto Protocol, and assisting both governments and NGO coalitions to represent their views to the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement process. Prior to joining WRI, Prior to joining WRI, Mr Werksman served as an Associate Director in the Global Inclusion Program of the Rockefeller Foundation, where he led the Foundation’s grant making strategy in the area of international intellectual property rights policy and international trade policy. From 2002-2004, he was Environmental Institutions and Governance Adviser to the United Nations Development Programme, in New York where he provided policy advice to UNDP’s headquarters and country offices.

He is currently an Adjunct Professor of law at New York University, and at Georgetown University, and an active Member of the State Bar of California. He holds degrees from Columbia University (A.B. 1986, English Literature); the University of Michigan (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1990); and the University of London (LLM, Public International Law, with merit, 1993).

Jim Williams is an associate professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he teaches energy and climate change policy. For the last year, he has worked as a consultant to state agencies modeling the implementation of AB32, California’s greenhouse gas law, in the electric utility sector. Other consulting experience includes renewable generation, demand-side management, transmission and resource planning, and rate design. In the past he has worked as an oil exploration field engineer, directed the Native American Renewable Energy Education Project, and installed a village wind energy system in North Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from U.C. Berkeley in 1994, and has a background in physics, engineering, and Asian studies. His academic research interest is the international political economy of energy. Recent publications include “International Energy Assistance Needs and Options for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” Energy Policy (2008), “A Northern California-British Columbia Partnership for Renewable Energy,” Energy Policy (2007), “Electricity Reform in Developing Countries: A Reappraisal,” Energy (2006) and "Asian Electricity Reform in Historical Perspective," Pacific Affairs (2004).

Mary D. Nichols was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as Chairman of the California Air Resources Board in July 2007. She returns to the Air Board 30 years after serving as the Chairman under Governor Jerry Brown from 1978 to 1983. Nichols has devoted her entire career in public and private, not-for-profit service to advocating for the environment and public health. In addition to her work at the Air Board, she has held a number of positions, including: assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air and Radiation program under the Clinton Administration, Secretary for California's Resources Agency from 1999 to 2003, and Director of the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of the Environment.

In her return as Chairman, Nichols' priorities include moving the state's landmark climate change program ahead, as well as steering the Board through numerous efforts to curb diesel pollution at ports, and continuing to pass regulations aimed at providing cleaner air for Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley.

As one of California's first environmental lawyers, she initiated precedent-setting test cases under the Federal Clean Air Act and California air quality laws while practicing as a staff attorney for the Center for Law in the Public Interest. Nichols holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Yale Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University.

Luke Cole is the Director of the Center on Race Poverty & the Environment. He represents low-income communities and workers throughout California who are fighting environmental hazards, stressing the need for community-based, community-led organizing and litigation. Through the Center, he also provides legal and technical assistance to attorneys and community groups involved in environmental justice struggles nationwide.

Cole has worked with dozens of community groups in local struggles across the United States. He represented Kettleman City residents in their successful efforts to stop Chemical Waste Management from building California’s first toxic waste incinerator in their community. Current cases include representing residents of the Inupiaq Village of Kivalina in northwest Alaska in a suit against the world’s largest zinc and lead mine, which has polluted the village’s water supply for years.

Cole was appointed by EPA Administrator Carol Browner to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), where he served from 1996 through 2000 (including chairing NEJAC’s Enforcement Subcommittee from 1998 through 2000). He also served as a member of EPA’s Title VI Implementation Committee.

In 1997, The American Lawyer magazine named Cole to the Public Sector 45, one of “forty-five young lawyers outside the private sector whose vision and commitment are changing lives.” Berkeley’s Ecology Law Quarterly awarded Cole its 1997 Environmental Leadership Award for “outstanding contributions to the development of environmental law and policy,” and the American Bar Association’s Barrister magazine named Cole one of “20 young lawyers making a difference” for his pioneering legal work. Community organizations have also honored Cole for his contributions to the environmental justice movement.

Cole is the co-founder and editor emeritus of the journal Race, Poverty & the Environment. He recently published, with Professor Sheila Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (NYU Press, 2001). He has taught as a visiting professor at UC-Hastings School of Law, and also taught seminars on environmental justice at Stanford Law School, UC-Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, and U.C. Hastings. Cole graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and with honors from Stanford University.

Edward Cameron is a specialist in climate change, sustainable development, and governance reform. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Government of the Maldives, a role that involves preparing the Maldives Foreign Ministry’s climate change strategy and leading the international initiative entitled “the human dimension of global climate change.” This has already resulted in the adoption of the Male’ Declaration in November 2007. Edward spent the first ten years of his professional career in Brussels in various posts including Director of the European Regions Research and Innovation Network; Senior Consultant to the European Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign; Director of European Commission DG Environment’s Environmental Governance Initiative; and as a European Commission TAIEX expert on environment.

Edward has managed his own sustainable development consultancy for four years advising a diverse range of clients including national, regional and local government; NGOs; European Institutions; international organizations; and multinational corporations. Edward is also an active academic. He teaches courses on governance, sustainable development and European integration at four universities (in Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States) and has published works on environmental policy in English, French, German and Japanese. In 2006, he was the recipient of the International Teacher of the Year Award at Åbo Akademi University in Finland.

Some of Edward’s recent and forthcoming publications include:

• Cameron, E (2003) The Governance Dividend – improving environmental governance in the European Union. In Strategies for Sustainable Development – roles and responsibilities along the global-local axis. Barcelona, Advisory Council on Sustainable Development of the Government of Catalunya.
• Cameron, E. (2002) Local Innovations in the field of Environmental Communications. Brussels, European Commission DG Environment.
• The Human Dimension of Global Climate Change Project (Maldives Government)
• Existential Crisis: The human face of global climate change (working title 2008)
• Rhetorical Commitments or Real Action - the future of climate change policy (working title 2008)

Martin Wagner is the director of Earthjustice's International Program, which is based in Oakland, CA. I grew up backpacking with my father in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California and those experiences formed my understanding of my place in the world. After earning a degree in geology at Whitman College, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a small village in Senegal, West Africa. There, as he watched friends' children die of drought-induced malnutrition and disease made worse by economic policies that forced family farmers to abandon traditional drought-resistant crops in favor of fragile export crops, he began to appreciate the intricate relationship among a healthy environment, social justice, and human rights. These experiences motivated Martin to study law as a tool for guaranteeing the basic rights of all people.

He attended the University of Virginia Law School, where he was Executive Editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law and graduated in the top ten percent of his class. Before coming to Earthjustice in 1996, Martin was a law clerk for Judge Robert Beezer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and spent five years litigating environmental citizen suits in U.S. courts and representing victims of human rights violations in international institutions.

His docket at Earthjustice includes using U.S. courts and international institutions to defend the environment from harm arising from unregulated international trade and to promote and protect the human right to a healthy environment. Martin also teaches International Environmental Law and International Trade and the Environment at the Golden Gate University School of Law.

Tseming Yang is professor of law and director of the U.S. AID-funded Vermont Law School – Sun Yat-sen University Partnership for Environmental Law in China. Professor Yang’s research and teaching focus on U.S. and international environmental law, including environmental justice, global climate change and China’s environmental laws. From 1998 to 2003, he served as a member of EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and chaired the International Subcommittee. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School and a Fulbright lecturer at the Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, China.

Professor Yang received his B.A. degree in biochemistry, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and his J.D. degree from Boalt Hall School of Law of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as articles editor on the California Law Review. Prior to joining the Vermont Law School faculty in 1998, he clerked for the Honorable Rudi M. Brewster of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, practiced law with the firm of Latham & Watkins in San Francisco, and served as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. He received tenure in 2003.

Lyuba Zarsky is Associate Professor in the International Environmental Policy Program of the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. Her research focuses on policy-relevant studies of globalisation, sustainable development, and market governance, with a particular focus on the role of foreign investment in promoting sustainability, including climate change mitigation and adaptation. In the 1990s, she co-founded and co-directed the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, based in Berkeley, California. She has also worked for the Government of Australia in designing a national sustainable development strategy and has consulted with a wide range of international organizations, including the OECD, Asian Development Bank, and UN Development Program. Her recent books include Enclave Economy, Foreign investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley, MIT Press 2007 (with Kevin Gallagher); International Investment for Sustainable Development: Balancing Rights and Rewards, Earthscan Press 2005; and Human Rights and the Environment: Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World, Earthscan Press, 2003. She is a Senior Research Fellow with the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University in Boston; and an International Research Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and her MA in Political Economy from the New School for Social Research in New York. With her husband Peter Hayes and two children, Nadia and Benjie, she lives in Berkeley, California.

Sho Sato Professor of Law and the Director of the Environmental Law Program at the University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law. 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.

Professor Farber has published several books and articles on environmental and constitutional law. Most recently, Professor Farber co-authored the book "Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond" (2006). He is a pioneer in the emerging field of Disaster Law, which analyzes the legal issues related to society's ability to deal effectively with the aftermath of catastrophes, the risk of future disasters, and gaps in the legal system's ability to respond to events similar in magnitude to hurricane Katrina.

Alan S. Miller is a Principal Project Officer in the Environment Department at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group. He heads the IFC Climate Change Policy unit and is also an active member of the sustainable energy practice managing donor funded, clean energy projects in developing countries. Prior to joining the IFC in October 2003 Mr. Miller was Team Leader for Climate Change at the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a multilateral grantmaking body supporting global environmental projects in developing countries. Mr. Miller has taught courses on environmental and energy policy at numerous universities and is a widely published author on climate change and development. He founded and directed a center on global environmental policies at the University of Maryland from 1989 to 1996 and previously was on the staffs of the World Resources Institute and Natural Resources Defense Council. Mr. Miller teaches on the summer faculty at the Vermont Law School and is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Law School, and is a co-author of a widely used environmental law textbook. He graduated from Cornell University in 1971 with an A.B. in Government and from the University of Michigan in 1974 with a J.D. and Master’s in Public Policy. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia (1977) and Japan (1987).

David Takacs is completing his J.D. at U.C. Hastings and his L.L.M. at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is writing his L.L.M. thesis on “Global Climate Change and Forest Carbon Offsets: A Deep Equity Legal Analysis.” Because one can never collect enough advanced degrees, he also has a B.S. (Biology), M.A., and Ph.D. (Science & Technology Studies) from Cornell University. Prior to returning to law school, he was an Associate Professor in Earth Systems Science & Policy at CSU Monterey Bay. He is author of The Idea of Biodiversity (Johns Hopkins University Press). His article, “The Public Trust Doctrine, Environmental Human Rights, and the Future of Private Property” won the 2008 NYU Environmental Law Journal’s Student Note Competition, and will be published this spring. He is currently a Switzer Environmental Fellow. During law school, he has clerked at the International Environmental Law Research Centre, Earthjustice’s International Program, and the Center for Biological Diversity, and was co-chair of the Hastings-to-Haiti Partnership.

Kate Raworth is Senior Researcher at Oxfam Great Britain, leading Oxfam International’s research on climate change. She is the author of Oxfam International’s 2007 report Adapting to Climate Change: what it will take in poor countries and who should pay, and of OI’s forthcoming coming report, Climate Wrongs and Human Rights: putting justice at the heart of adaptation (to be launched April 08).

She has worked with Oxfam for six years, on issues ranging from trade policy to labour rights in global supply chains. Prior to joining Oxfam, she was economist and co-author of UNDP’s Human development Report for four years, writing on themes including human rights and new technologies. From 1994-97 she worked in the Ministry of Trade and Industries of Zanzibar, as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute. She holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and an MSC in Economics for Development, both from Oxford University.

Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, and will be an Associate Professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law beginning in Fall 2008. She received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University.

She currently is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon and intends to advance to candidacy in 2008. After clerking for Judge Dorothy Nelson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, she worked as a Fellow at Center for the Law in the Public Interest, with a focus on environmental justice advocacy. In 2001–02, she served as a Yale-China Legal Education Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Sun Yat-sen University School of Law, where she taught U.S. Civil Rights Law and helped the school launch its clinical legal education program. In 2003–04, she was a non-residential fellow with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and engaged in a project on international environmental rights.

Osofsky’s scholarship focuses on two overlapping areas: (1) climate change litigation and (2) law and geography. Her current writing projects on climate change litigation include several articles, a co-edited book forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, and a casebook complement on climate change and nuisance with Aspen Publishers. She also is working on a several articles and a monograph exploring the ways in which geographic perspectives on scale could contribute to legal approaches to cross-cutting problems like climate change and the War on Terror. Her articles have been published and are forthcoming in a variety of journals, including the Washington University Law Quarterly, Villanova Law Review, Chicago Journal of International Law, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Stanford Journal of International Law, and Yale Journal of International Law. Her advocacy work has included assisting with Earthjustice’s annual submissions to the U.N. Human Rights Commission on environmental rights and with the Inuit Circumpolar Conference’s petition on climate change to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She currently serves as an advisor to the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) on climate change litigation.

Dr. Bonizella (Boni) Biagini is currently working at the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as Senior Program Manager on Adaptation to Climate Change. Her responsibilities include designing and managing the adaptation program of the GEF, including the pilot program in the GEF trust fund (SPA), the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF), the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and the newly established Adaptation Fund (AF). She is managing a $300 million project portfolio aimed at making development projects in vulnerable sectors such as agriculture, water, health, coastal zone management, infrastructure, and disaster risk-management climate resilient.

Before joining the GEF, Dr. Bonizella (Boni) Biagini worked at the World Resources Institute in the Climate, Energy and Pollution Program as team leader of several international projects on climate change and sustainable development. Specifically, she was responsible for a multi-year project on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the Caribbean, the Pacific, Indonesia, Philippines and Mauritania, and two research projects, on developing country participation in the climate regime, and on synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development and climate change.

A physicist by training, (Doctorate in Physics from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, 1984) Dr. Biagini has worked on climate change and other global environmental issues over the last 20 years in Europe and in the United States. She has extensive experience as a government and non-government representative in numerous international environmental meetings including the Earth Summit, the Climate Convention and the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). Dr. Biagini previously directed the international office of Legambiente, a leading Italian environmental research organization, and has taught courses on environmental science and politics at the University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

She is a contributor and reviewer of the IPCC Third and Fourth Assessments Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and the author of numerous publications on climate change science and politics, including the report Confronting Climate Change, Economic Priorities and Climate Protection in Developing Nations.

Professor Hayes directs Nautilus Institute at RMIT University and Nautilus Institute at University of San Francisco. He works at the nexus of security, environment and energy policy problems. Best known for innovative cooperative engagement strategies in North Korea, he has developed techniques at Nautilus Institute for seeking near-term solutions to global security and sustainability problems and applied them in East Asia, Australia, and South Asia. Professor Hayes covers scientific, technical, institutional, and geopolitical aspects of energy security, global nuclear insecurity with particular reference to the risk of nuclear proliferation and nuclear next-use; he convened Australia’s first urban climate change adaptation research program that includes developing a global framework for inter-city collaboration for successful adaptation; he is highly knowledgeable about North Korea, including many in-country projects as well as working with the US Departments of Energy, State, National Security Council thereon; he orchestrates a series of regional research and security networks including Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network, Austral Peace and Security Network, and AdaptNet; he directs research projects on science and security in East Asia, on Asian energy security with national teams in Russian Far East, China, North and South Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Australia; a regional nuclear fuel security and future safeguards research project; and a civil society nuclear monitoring and verification research project in Korea, Japan, and the US.

He has authored many books and dozens of journal articles, most recently in Science, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Energy Policy, and Global Asia. He is a co-author and editor of Global Greenhouse Regime: Who Pays? Professor Hayes’ awards include: MacArthur Fellowship, the Gleitsman Award Global Korea Award, and named one of the 10 Smartest People in the Bay Area by Wave Magazine, in July 2003. He is cited or interviewed on weekly basis by many mass media including.

Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. John Leshy was born and raised in a village in southern Ohio. He received an A.B. cum laude from Harvard College in 1966 and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School three years later. Upon graduation he litigated civil rights cases for the U.S. Department of Justice out of Washington, D.C. for three years, then moved to the Bay Area and worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council (a national nonprofit environmental group) for five years. In 1977 Professor Leshy returned to Washington to join the Carter Administration as Associate Solicitor for Energy & Resources. In 1980 he became Professor of Law at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe.

After twelve years in the classroom, Leshy took leave to serve as Special Counsel to Chairman George Miller of the House Natural Resources Committee in Washington, D.C., and then became leader of the Clinton-Gore transition team for the Interior Department. In early 1993 President Clinton appointed him to be Solicitor (General Counsel) of Interior where, following Senate confirmation, he served under Secretary Bruce Babbitt until the end of the Administration, the second longest tenure of any Solicitor in the Department's 158 year history.

In his academic career Professor Leshy has taught constitutional law (state and federal), Indian law, water law, public land law, natural resources law and policy, and law and social change. He is co-author of the standard casebook on federal land and resources law and one of the leading casebooks on water law, and has published books on the Mining Law of 1872 and the Arizona Constitution as well as several articles on federal lands, water and other natural resources issues, and on constitutional and comparative law.

Professor Leshy has served on several commissions and advisory bodies and has been a consultant to many nonprofit organizations, foundations, governmental agencies, and Indian tribes. He is currently a trustee of the Grand Canyon Trust and the Natural Heritage Institute, and has been the President and is now Vice-Chair of the Board of the Wyss Foundation, which supports land conservation activities in the Rocky Mountain West. He has also litigated civil rights, environmental and natural resource cases in state and federal courts.

Manik (Nikki) 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-five 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.

Mr. Brunello was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in August 2007 to serve as the Deputy Secretary for Climate Change and Energy at the California Resources Agency, the state agency responsible for managing California’s natural, cultural and historical resources. In this capacity, he is responsible for coordinating all climate change and energy activities of a cabinet-level agency and its 24 departments, boards, commissions and conservancies and advising the agency secretary on climate change and energy policy.

Prior to joining Governor Schwarzenegger’s Administration, he managed all Europe and Eurasia international program efforts within the U.S. Forest Service. Anthony has worked extensively on climate and energy related issues developing greenhouse gas mitigation projects and analysis around the world for public and private sector clients for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, PA Consulting, and the World Bank. He has also worked as the Executive Director for the Tahoe-Baikal Institute and has worked on biodiversity conservation in Russia for a U.S. Agency for International Development contractor.

A native of South Lake Tahoe, California, he received a bachelor in science degree in economics and environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Masters of Science in Environmental and Resource Economics from the University College London in the United Kingdom. He lives in Sacramento with his wife, Belinda, and their two children.

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Gavin Christopher Newsom is the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, California and a member of the Democratic Party. Newsom was elected the city's mayor in 2003. Under Newsom, San Francisco joined the Kyoto Protocol. In September of 2004, Newsome introduced San Francisco’s Climate Action Plan, which is aimed at helping San Francisco meet its Kyoto Protocol targets. Newsom helped San Francisco implement green building standards and to improve open spaces. Recently, Newsom urged Bay Area cities and counties to write letters to auto-makers urging them to manufacture plug-in hybrid cars. Newsom said San Francisco would buy the cars if automakers produced them.

Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Professor Dodge was born in Nigeria and grew up in the Bay Area. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Yale and clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court before joining the Hastings faculty in 1995.

Professor Dodge has written extensively on the extraterritorial application of U.S. law and the enforcement of judgments, the place of international law in the U.S. legal system, the history of the Alien Tort Statute, and investor-state arbitration. He is a co-author of the casebook Transnational Business Problems (3d ed. Foundation Press 2003) and a co-editor of the series NAFTA Chapter Eleven Reports (Kluwer Law International 2006).

William Boyd is an attorney at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington DC. He divides his practice between energy regulation and climate change law and policy. In the climate change area, he advises clients on a range of legal and policy issues related to existing and emerging compliance regimes and the carbon markets. For the past several years, he has been very involved in the effort to integrate reduced emissions from deforestation into climate policy, advising on a pro-bono basis the Coalition for Rainforest Nations in the UNFCCC context and coordinating, on behalf of a private sector client, a coalition of U.S. environmental groups and businesses to advocate for provisions in U.S. climate legislation that will recognize and credit efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation in developing countries.

Dr. Boyd received his Ph.D. from the Energy & Resources Group at UC-Berkeley (2002) and his J.D. from Stanford Law School (2002). Prior to joining Covington & Burling in 2005, he was American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Science Fellow and Counsel on the Democratic minority staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. He is currently working on a project exploring governance issues and related institutional design challenges associated with efforts to bring deforestation into the international climate regime. In Fall 2008, he will join the faculty at the University of Colorado School of Law as an associate professor.

Alberto Monti is Associate Professor of Comparative Law at Bocconi University where he teaches Economic Analysis of Law and Comparative Law. Admitted to the Italian Bar and specialized in the Law of Insurance and Financial Services, since 1998 he is Partner of the Law Firm Studio Legale Monti, based in Milan and since 2007 member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC).

Professor Monti is also international legal Consultant for the Organisation For Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Financial Affairs Division - Insurance Committee (Paris, France) and for the Brazilian Institute of Insurance Law. He has been Consultant for the World Bank (Washington, D.C.) on a major project aimed at the reform of the insurance laws and regulations in a group of countries belonging to Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia). He served as expert witness on Italian insurance law matters before English courts.

During 2006 Alberto Monti contributed to the launching the OECD International Network on the Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes and he is currently involved in the activities of the Network’s High Level Advisory Board. The main objectives of the OECD Network project are to identify emerging financial threats and vulnerabilities; exchange information and expertise on the financial mitigation and compensation of disasters; review the related financial tools and schemes; develop policy analysis aimed at improving financial catastrophe mitigation and compensation strategies in OECD and non-OECD countries, including China.

He received his J.D. (1995, cum laude) from the University of Milan Law School, his LL.M. (2000, Int'l Legal Studies) from New York University (NYU) School of Law and his Ph.D. (2000, Comparative Law) from the University of Trento. He has published books, articles and reports on Insurance Law, Contract Law and the Law of Torts.

Judah Schiller is the Executive Vice-President of Saatchi & Saatchi S. In addition to heading up the company’s Outreach Division, Judah leads global business development and the Wal-Mart global account. Judah is one of the co-creators of the Personal Sustainability Project ("PSP"), the largest grassroots, sustainability initiative ever undertaken by a corporation - Wal-Mart. By successfully transforming "sustainability" - a 14 letter, 6 syllable word - into fun and easy-to-digest concepts within an effective grassroots training and communications framework, Judah and the Act Now team have been able to educate, inspire, and engage the 1.3 million Wal-Mart Associates across the U.S., linking personal interests and happiness to organizational sustainability, planet, and community. In addition to helping Wal-Mart, Judah is working to transform a variety of major corporations into models of sustainability using a holistic approach that incorporates strategy, employee activation, and consumer engagement. Judah holds a B.A from Brandeis University and a J.D. from UC Hastings.

William Sloan is of counsel with Morrison & Foerster in the firm’s San Francisco office, and serves on the firm’s Cleantech Steering Committee. Mr. Sloan represents domestic and international clients on matters involving natural resource and emission management, regulation, and litigation, with a particular focus on climate change, energy and water resources. He has advised clients on carbon offset generation projects and emission reduction purchase agreements, both under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol and in the voluntary offset marketplace. With respect to water, he has counseled clients on water rights and water supply assessments, and has handled contested cases involving groundwater basin adjudications and water quality compliance.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Sloan served in externships with the United States Department of Justice, the United States EPA, and the California Attorney General’s Office. During his career, he has developed extensive compliance, permitting, and litigation experience involving the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the California Environmental Quality Act, the California Coastal Act, the Endangered Species Act, the California Forest Practice Act, and other environmental statutes.

Currently, Mr. Sloan sits on the Climate Change Advisory Committee for the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, and participates in the Association’s environmental and government affairs committees. He has served as past Chair (2002) and Vice-Chair (2001) of the San Francisco Barrister Club's Environment Section

Mr. Sloan received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1994 and his J.D. degree from Hastings College of the Law, University of California in 1999. In 2006, he was awarded a diploma as a Rhodes Ocean Scholar from the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy.