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Rosina Bierbaum is Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, as well as a Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy. Dr. Bierbaum is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and serves on the National Academy of Science's Board on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate. Dr. Bierbaum has published widely in professional journals and continues to lecture frequently on natural resources management and global change. Back to Top
Francois J. Castaing is former Vice President and Executive Vice President of Vehicle Engineering at Chrysler Corporation. Mr. Castaing currently serves on the board of Exide Technologies, Amerigon, Durakon Industries and NextEnergy. He also serves on the board of FIRST in New Hampshire, and is the chairman of the New Detroit Science Center and the chairman of UCCA (University Cultural Center Association) in Detroit (MI). He is Chairman Emeritus, French American Chamber of Commerce, Michigan Chapter. Additionally, Mr. Castaing is a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Fellow and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering. Back to Top
David L. Foster is President of IOMA, a professional education and training publisher in New York City, which he founded in 1982. He is also on the Boards of three other publishing companies: BNA, Pike & Fischer, Inc., and Kennedy Information. Mr. Foster is the Vice Chair of the Board of Bates College in Lewiston, ME, serving on its investment, budget, large gifts, and honorary degree committees. He's also on the finance committee of Symphony Space, the arts organization that produces NPR's Selected Shorts, among other programming. Back to Top
Richard L. Garwin is Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Dr. Garwin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a long-time member of Pugwash and has served on the Pugwash Council. Dr. Garwin is co-author of many books, including his most recent, Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age? (2001) (with Georges Charpak). He is a 2003 recipient of the National Medal of Science. Back to Top
Lawrence Grossman is former president of NBC News and PBS, an advertising agency owner, holder of the Frank Stanton First Amendment Chair at the Kennedy School of Government, and senior fellow and visiting scholar at Columbia University. He currently serves as co-chairman of the Digital Promise Project, as a trustee of Connecticut Public Broadcasting and various nonprofit health organizations. Mr. Grossman also serves as a television columnist for Columbia Journalism Review, and as a Dupont-Columbia Journalism Award juror. He is the author of The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age (1996). Back to Top
Eamon Michael Kelly, President Emeritus and Professor in the Payson Center for International Development & Technology Transfer at Tulane University. Dr. Kelly is the former Chairman of both the Association of American Universities and the Satellite Working Group. His current teaching and research interests focus on the role of science and technology, especially information technology in the developing world. Back to Top
Jane Dale Owen serves as the President of the Houston based nonprofit organization Citizens League for Environmental Action Now (CLEAN). Ms. Owen has been actively involved as a board member of the Blaffer Gallery, has served on the Executive Committee of the Moores School of Music, University of Houston and serves on the Houston Museum of Fine Arts Film Committee. Jane is also an avid supporter of the Houston SPCA and Planned Parenthood. She has dealt with numerous government agencies including the EPA. Harris County Pollution Control, local citizen groups, Sierra Club, Citizen Environmental Coalition, and business and industrial leaders. Back to Top
Kumar Patel is Professor of Physics and Astronomy, as well as Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. In addition, Dr. Patel is a founder of Pranalytica, a medical instrumentation and communications equipment company. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Laser Institute of America, and the Association for Advancement of Arts and Sciences. Back to Top
Judith Reppy is currently Professor of Science & Technology Studies and Associate Director of the Peace Studies Program at Cornell. Dr. Reppy has studied the economics of defense, security and peace for many years. She also researches and teaches Ethical, Legal & Social Issues with the Cornell Genomics Initiative, where her current research focus is on the role of standards in technology transfer between industrialized and developing countries. Back to Top
Arthur H. Rosenfeld received his PhD in elementary particle physics in l954 under Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi, with whom he co-authored “Nuclear Physics”. He served as Prof. of Physics at UC, Berkeley until 1994, then as Senior Advisor at the US Dept. of Energy through 1999, and now as Commissioner at the California Energy Commission under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is presiding member of the Research, Development and Demonstration Committee and the Dynamic Pricing Committee (Ad Hoc Committee); and second member of the Energy Efficiency Committee. Back to Top
Shankar Sastry is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is an Associate Editor of the IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, the International Journal of Adaptive and Optimal Control and the new Journal of Sensors and Biomimetic Systems (Birkhauser). Dr. Sastry's recent work focuses on the development of a "Digital Human," an open architecture digital simulation of the human body currently underway at the National Science Foundation in cooperation with several other leading research institutions, including FAS. Back to Top
Maxine Savitz advises on R&D management, energy and environmental policy, materials development, and technology transfer with the Washington Advisory Group. Her areas of expertise also include energy efficiency in the transportation, industry, and buildings sectors, aerospace technology, and integration of R&D between laboratories and business units. Dr. Savitz is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the AAAS, the National Science Board, and advisory bodies for Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Savitz also serves on the board of directors of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. Back to Top
Jonathan Silver is the founder and a Managing Director of Core Capital Partners, a private equity fund which invests in early-stage technology companies and provides expansion capital for technology-driven small and mid-sized operating companies. Mr. Silver has held senior positions in both the public and private sector, including serving as senior policy advisor to the Secretary of Commerce, Interior and Treasury. Prior to founding Core Capitol, he was the COO of Tiger Management, the nation's largest hedge fund. He currently serves on the Boards of the EarthSat Corporation and Core Communications, and is Adjunct Professor of Entrpeneurship at Georgetown University. Back to Top
Gregory Simon, J.D. is the Chair of Infotech Strategies, an information and communications technology consulting firm, which he joined in September of 2002. Prior to joining the private sector, Mr., Simon served as Staff Director of the Investigations Subcommittee of the House of Representatives' Science, Space and Technology Committee; he then went on to become Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore. While working on the Hill and at the White House, Mr. Simon was involved in a number of health, space, and biotechnology policy initiatives, among many others. Back to Top
Tara O'Toole has been elected our new chair. Dr. O'Toole is a Board-certified internist and occupational medicine physician with clinical experience in academic settings and community health centers. Dr. O'Toole is currently the Director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies and Public Health Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She is co-editor in chief of the new journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism - Biodefense Strategy, Practice and Science. Back to Top
Richard C. Wald, currently the Fred Friendly Professor of Media and Society at Columbia University and a consultant to ABC News. In addition, Mr. Wald is a member of the advisory board of the Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, a member of the Board of Visitors of the School of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a member of the Board of the Correspondents Fund and the Center for Communication. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the Columbia College daily newspaper. Back to Top
Stephen Weinberg has been elected our new Vice-Chair. Steve Weinberg is a professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin. His research has spanned a broad range of topics in quantum field theory, elementary particle physics, and cosmology, and he has been honored with numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Heinemann Prize in Mathematical Physics, and the Oppenheimer Prize. He is the author of six books and over 200 scientific articles, one of which is the most frequently cited paper on particle physics of the past fifty years. He also writes for The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. Back to Top
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