Edward Bass is extensively involved in business, conservation and ranching. He has been a leader in what is recognized as one of the most successful urban revitalization efforts in America, and along with other members of his family, has developed the Sundance Square area into a highly successful mixed use, urban core district in Fort Worth. As Chairman of Performing Arts Fort Worth, he led the development of the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, which opened to international acclaim in downtown Fort Worth in 1998.

He serves on the boards of numerous national and international conservation and ecological concerns. He is chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Wildlife Fund, serves on the executive committees of the New York Botanical Garden and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. He is President of the parent company of Biosphere 2 in Tucson, Arizona, which he co-founded in 1984.

Mr. Bass is an avid rancher with interests in Texas, the Flint Hills of Kansas, and Australia. He is Chairman of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, a member of the Advisory Board of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, and the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Foundation.

In addition to graduating from Yale College, Mr. Bass studied at Yale's School of Architecture from 1968-70. His service to Yale includes co-chair of the Leadership Council of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, member and former founding chair of the External Advisory Board of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, former member of the University Council and former chair of the Council Committee on the Peabody Museum. He was named Successor Trustee in 2001.

At General Electric Company Mr. Stoler leads a global team responsible for developing GE's EHS standards and programs and monitoring the worldwide performance of GE operations. He is also responsible for GE's annual Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory, led the team that developed GE's recently announced GHG reduction targets and is currently working on the company's implementation plan. He also works with institutional investors and analysts interested in GE's EHS profile in the context of social responsibility. Most recently, he participated in the development of GE's "ecomagination" initiative.

Prior to joining GE in 1999, Mr. Stoler was Environmental Counsel and Director of EHS at W.R. Grace & Co. Before joining Grace, he worked as a consultant to USEPA and the National Commission on Air Quality.

Mr. Stoler is currently a member of the Design Committee for the State of the Nation's Ecosystems project of the John J. Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment and a member of the Business Roundtable's Climate Resolve Steering Committee. He is a graduate of Boston College Law School.

Susan Crown is a Principal of Henry Crown and Company, a family-owned and operated company, which includes diversified manufacturing operations, cellular phone, home furnishings and real estate. She also serves as President of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, a private foundation established in 1947.

Born in Chicago, Ms. Crown received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her graduate degree from New York University.

She serves on the boards of Illinois Tool Works, and Northern Trust Corporation.

Ms. Crown is actively involved in a number of nonprofit organizations. She is a trustee of Yale University, a member of the Executive Committee of Rush University Medical Center, a trustee of The Juvenile Protective Association, The Covenant Foundation, The Aspen Valley Community Foundation, Chairman of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and a member of the United States Olympic Committee's Executive Council.

Fred C. Danforth, a native of Maine, is a graduate of Yale and began his career in banking with Citibank in New York City. In 1986, he was co-founder of Capital Resource Partners (CRP), a private equity investment firm located in Boston. He served as managing partner and oversaw the raising and investment of four institutional funds totaling nearly $1 billion in capital under management. Institutional limited partners in CRP's funds included leading public and private pension funds, major college endowments and foundations.

Mr. Danforth retired from CRP in 2002 and immediately shifted his time and energies to several business partnerships and related activities in Montana. While remaining a resident of Massachusetts, he has seen many of his passions evolve into active pursuits in the worlds of fly-fishing and conservation land management. In particular, he is the lead partner for Nevada Spring Creek Partners in Montana's renowned Blackfoot Valley, where he is overseeing comprehensive habitat, wetland, and stream restoration projects on the Nevada Spring Creek Ranch.

His experience in finance, and currently in the evolving arena of conservation finance, has led him to form Oxbow Land Management. Oxbow's mission is to work with private landowners on large, ecologically significant tracts of land to restore and protect critical natural resources and other disappearing open space while using market-based programs to generate economic returns.

Most recently, Mr. Danforth has joined with the Environmental Bank and Exchange (EBX), a national leader in ecosystem development on private lands, to develop a new private equity investment strategy. The investment activity will focus on critical land acquisition followed by the development of eco-asset values through habitat preservation and restoration. They are currently working to raise capital for the Sustainable Land Fund, a new sector private equity fund targeting the institutional alternative asset market.

Mr. Ellis joined Yale's environment school in 1995 just after retiring from Northeast Utilities, New England's largest electric and gas utility. He had served that company as its chief financial officer beginning in 1976 and was its chief executive officer for ten years before retiring.

Mr. Ellis is on the Board of Directors of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the Board of Trustees and several academic advisory boards at Carnegie Mellon University, and a steering committee for the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund. He also serves on a number of corporate boards, including Catalytica Energy Systems, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of high-tech catalysis systems for environmental mitigation.

Mr. Ellis received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland, where he was a National Science Fellow. He was selected as the Businessperson of the Year by New England Business Magazine in 1987 and New Englander of the Year by the New England Council in 1994. His primary academic interests at Yale are the links between energy use and the environment, and business decision-making processes as they are related to environmental concerns.

Under Mr. Fink's guidance, Marshall Street�Management is leveraging its investment expertise to develop a mission-driven, but return-focused investment strategy.�In 2004, the firm established MSM Capital Partners as a mission-oriented, multi-strategy vehicle to manage its investment activities in the emerging environmental finance sector.�MSM Capital Partners is actively investing in three core areas: environmental commodities, ecosystem services, and clean technologies.�In recent months, the firm has become increasingly focused on opportunities in global carbon trading markets.

Mr. Fink began his business career as a forest and land manager for Georgia-Pacific.�After attending business school, he continued his career in marketing and operations management as well as business development, first with Citicorp and then with CUC International, later known as Cendant.�He joined entrepreneur Jay Walker as COO of Walker Digital Inc., a leading inventor and developer of business method solutions.�Mr. Fink was the founding COO of priceline.com, running operations from inception through IPO.�He then founded Marshall Street Management.

He is a graduate of the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, where he received a B.S. in Resource Management. He also earned an MBA from Syracuse University's School of Management.�He and his wife Betsy manage the Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation, which focuses on catalytic environmental and educational grant making.�They serve on a number of non-profit and start-up company boards.

Mr. Gentry's B.A. is from Swarthmore College; his J.D. is from Harvard University.

Mr. Gentry's work explores the opportunities for using private investment to improve environmental performance. He works both across and within particular sectors/problems. The cross-sectoral work focuses on the steps policy makers can take to help develop opportunities for sustainable investments, including market frameworks, information systems, and shared investments/ partnerships. The sectoral work is concentrated in three major areas—increasing private investment in the delivery of urban environmental services (particularly drinking water and sanitation), and sustainable forest use and management and cleaner energy. Projects in all these areas are undertaken across a range of contexts from New Haven, to developing country mega cities and to wilderness forest systems. He has written extensively on the links between private investment and environmental performance, including the book Private Capital Flows and the Environment: Lessons from Latin America.

Auden Schendler is director of environmental affairs at Aspen Skiing Company (ASC), where he is responsible for improving the company's environmental performance. ASC, which has won thirty national and international awards for its environmental work, is widely considered to be the environmental leader in the ski industry, and has pioneered such programs as the US Green Building Council LEED system, use of biodiesel in snowcats, and sustainability reporting (www.aspensnowmass.com/environment).

Mr. Auden was previously research associate in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute. He currently serves on Colorado Governor Owens' pollution prevention advisory board and on the board of the General Service Foundation.� His writing on sustainable business and life in the West has been published in Harvard Business Review, the L.A. Times, Salon.com, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Rock and Ice, Canoe and Kayak and many other journals.

Prior to the formation of Cinergy, Mr. Rogers joined PSI Energy, Inc., in 1988 as the company's Chairman, President and Chief executive officer. Prior to joining PSI, he was Executive Vice President, Interstate Pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group. Before joining Enron Corp., Mr. Rogers was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld (a law firm based in Dallas, Texas). He represented energy companies before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Department of Energy, various Congressional committees and federal courts.

Immediately before joining Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Mr. Rogers was Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Enforcement of the FERC. In this position he directed all aspects of the FERC's litigation and enforcement. Previously, Mr. Rogers served as Assistant to the Chief Trial Counsel at the FERC, as a Law Clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky, and as Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he acted as intervener on behalf of State consumers in gas, electric, and telephone rate cases. He was a reporter for the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader from 1967 to 1970.

Mr. Rogers has served more than 38 years cumulatively on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a director of the following corporations: Cinergy Corp., Fifth Third Bancorp and Fifth Third Bank. He serves as 2^nd Vice Chairman of the Board, is on the Executive Committee and is Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Edison Electric Institute. He previously served as Chairman of the Environmental Policy Committee. He also serves on the Board of the American Gas Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Rogers also serves on numerous civic boards and has published numerous articles on energy and environmental issues. He formerly served as director of the following corporations: Duke Realty Corp., Bankers Life Holding Corporation; A O Irkutskenergo (a Russian hydroelectric/coal-fired steam utility), INB (Indiana National Bank) and NBD Indiana Inc. He has testified before Congressional Committees 13 times since 1989.

He attended Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) and holds a B.B.A. and J.D. degree from the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of the Kentucky Law Journal and Beta Gamma Sigma (Academic Honorary Society).

Mr. Repetto was vice president of the World Resources Institute, a non-profit policy research center in Washington D.C. and director of its economics program, prior to his appointments at the University of Colorado and Yale. From 1998 to 2000, he was a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Earlier in his career, Mr. Repetto was a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, a World Bank official working in Indonesia, an economic advisor to the planning commission in Bangladesh, a Ford Foundation staff economist in India, and an economic analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.

Mr. Repetto is known for his writings and research on the interface between environment and economics and on policies to promote sustainable economic development. His recent work with Duncan Austin on environment and finance was awarded the Moskowitz Prize for 2000.

He has served as a member of the National Research Council's Board on Sustainable Development and as a member of the Environmental Economics Advisory Board of EPA's Science Advisory Board. He holds a BA and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and an M.Sc. Degree from the London School of Economics.

In the early 1970s, Mr. Hawkins was successful in persuading the U.S. EPA to deny delays to the auto industry in meeting pollution cleanup schedules; he also won a major case requiring EPA to develop programs to improve transportation systems in urban areas as an air pollution control strategy.

In 1977 he was appointed by President Carter to be Assistant Administrator for Air, Noise, and Radiation at EPA. In that position he was responsible for initiating major new programs under the 1977 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. With President Reagan's election in 1981, Mr. Hawkins returned to NRDC to co-direct NRDC's Clean Air Program. Working with the Clean Air Coalition, NRDC defeated a prolonged effort by the new administration to roll back the protections of the Clean Air Act. Eventually Congress passed a much-strengthened law in 1990 and NRDC was a major architect for all of its provisions.

Since 1990 Mr. Hawkins has directed NRDC's Air and Energy Program, and in 2001 became director of the NRDC Climate Center, which focuses on advancing policies and programs to reduce pollution responsible for global warming and harmful climate change.

Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices. She is also the Director of the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance of institutional investors that coordinates U.S. investor responses to the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change.Ms. Lubber has held leadership positions in government as Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; in the financial services sector as Founder, President and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds; in the private sector as the President of an environmental law and policy consulting group; and in the not-for-profit sector for more than a decade leading environmental and public interest law organizations, including the National Environmental Law Center, which she founded. She received her JD from Suffolk University, and her MBA from State University of New York, Buffalo.

Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. is president and CEO of Atlanta-based West Hill Investors, a privately held equity firm. Prior to founding West Hill Investors in 1998, he was chairman and CEO of Production Operators Corporation, which specializes in the handling of gases for maximizing the recovery of hydrocarbon resources. In 1998, Production Operators was acquired by Schlumberger Limited.

While still a student at the Harvard Business School in the 1950s, Mr. Knobloch established the Rhodesia Chemical Corp. in what is now Zimbabwe, and in 1954 he developed Central Africa's first drive-in movie theater. In subsequent years, his career took him back to New York into industrial finance, and to Jacksonville, Fla., where his company financed and built small rural homes in the South, eventually becoming the South's largest source for home improvement financing.

Mr. Knobloch is founder and chairman of the West Hill Foundation for Nature, a nonprofit corporation he founded in 1999 that focuses its giving on land preservation efforts in the United States. He also is the recently retired chairman of Automated Logic Corporation, a leading state-of-the-art building automation energy controls company that was acquired by the Carrier division of United Technologies in Farmington, Conn. He holds an economics degree from Yale, having graduated in 1951.

Amory Lovins, a MacArthur Fellow and consultant physicist, has advised the energy and other industries for nearly three decades as well as the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense. Published in 29 books and hundreds of papers, his work in approximately 50 countries has been recognized by the "Alternative Nobel," Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the Happold Medal, nine honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Time Hero for the Planet, and World Technology Awards. He advises industries and governments worldwide, and has briefed 18 heads of state. He co-founded and leads Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org), an independent, market-oriented, nonprofit applied research center. Much of its work is synthesized in Natural Capitalism (www.natcap.org). RMI spun off E source (www.esource.com) in 1992 and Hypercar, Inc. (www.hypercar.com), which he chairs, in 1999. His 29^th book, Winning the Oil Endgame (www.oilendgame.com), was published 20 September 2004.

Richard E. Kroon retired from the Sprout Group venture capital fund in mid-2001, after serving as its Managing Partner from 1981 to 2000, and more recently as Chairman. He is a past Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and currently serves on the boards of Finlay Enterprises, Cohen and Steers mutual funds, and several private companies. Mr. Kroon joined Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, Sprout's corporate parent, in 1969, serving as a Securities Analyst for the electrical equipment industry; later as Director of DLJ International, working in the firm's London office; then as a member of the firm's investment banking group; and finally became part of Sprout in 1977. Prior to joining DLJ, he worked as an assistant to the Comptroller of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Mr. Kroon received an M.B.A. with high distinction from the Harvard Business School and was a Baker Scholar and member of the Century Club. He received his B.A. from Yale University where he graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Corning Traveling Fellow. He is a member of Yale's Development Board and the Leadership Council of its School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He is a member of the Investment Subcommittee of Monmouth University and a member of the board of the Community YMCA Foundation.

William C. Kunkler is currently Executive Vice President for CC Industries, Inc. (CCI), a private equity firm focused on manufacturing companies and real estate investments. He is also Vice President of Henry Crown and Company, the parent company of CCI.

Mr. Kunkler has over 25 years of manufacturing company experience. He is responsible for general operating issues at each of CCI's companies and serves as a director of several of the companies. Prior to joining CCI in 1994, he was Executive Vice President for Marblehead Lime Company, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation. Mr. Kunkler began his career at USG Corporation in 1979 as a project engineer.

In addition to his responsibilities at CCI, Mr. Kunkler is a director of Envestnet Asset Management Inc., a financial services company based in Chicago, and NIBCO Inc., a manufacturer of valves and fittings based in Elkhart, Indiana. He is a director of The Northwestern Memorial Foundation, a trustee of Brookfield Zoo and The Field Museum of Natural History, and a member of the Yale Development Board.

Mr. Kunkler received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University and his Master of Management degree from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.

Mitchell Thomashow is the Chair of the Antioch New England Department of Environmental Studies, where he has worked since 1976. The department serves 350 masters and doctoral students, offering programs in environmental education, environmental policy, and conservation biology. He also serves as Associate Dean for Institutional Advancement at Antioch New England. In that capacity, he promotes sustainability initiatives at the graduate school.�

Dr. Thomashow is specifically interested in developing reflective, interdisciplinary pedagogy for graduate programs in environmental studies. He teaches courses such as Global Environmental Change, Ecological Thought, Cultures of Natural History, and Music and Nature. Currently he supervises twelve doctoral students.

Dr. Thomashow's book, Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist (The MIT Press, 1995) offers an approach to teaching environmental education based on reflective practice—a guide to teachers, educators and concerned citizens alike that incorporates issues of citizenship, ecological identity, and civic responsibility within the framework of environmental studies. His most recent book, Bringing theBiosphere Home (The MIT Press, 2001) is a guide for learning how to perceive global environmental change. It shows readers that through a blend of local natural history observations, global change science, the use of imagination and memory, and spiritual contemplation, you can learn how to broaden your spatial and temporal view so that it encompasses the entire biosphere. It suggests how global environmental change might become the province of countless educational initiatives—from the classroom to the Internet, from community forums to international conferences, from the backyard to the biosphere.

Dr. Thomashow is the founder of Whole Terrain, an environmental literary publication. He serves on the advisory boards of The Orion Society, the Coalition on Environmental and Jewish Life (COEJL), and the Teleosis Institute. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD), a national organization that supports interdisciplinary environmental studies in higher education.

Ms. Chertow's B.A. is from Barnard College, Columbia University; her M.P.P.M. and Ph.D. are from Yale University.

Dr. Chertow's research and teaching concern environmental management and policy as they relate to the private sector. Primary research interests are the application of innovation theory to the development of environmental and energy technology and the study of industrial symbiosis: geographically based exchanges of wastes, materials, energy, and water within networks of businesses. She is the editor of Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (with Daniel Esty), to which she also contributed work on the relevance of industrial ecology to public policy, and the author of Innovation and Environmental Technology. Prior to Yale, Dr. Chertow spent ten years in environmental business and state and local government. She also serves on the faculty of the National University of Singapore.

Mr. Somerville received the Ph. D. degree in meteorology from New York University in 1966 and has been a professor at Scripps since 1979.�There he works with an interdisciplinary group of scientists studying the variability and predictability of climate.�He is an authority on the prospects for climate change in coming decades.

Professor Somerville is a climate theorist.�His research is focused on critical physical processes in the climate system, especially the role of clouds and the potentially important feedbacks that can occur as clouds change with a changing climate.�Using a broad spectrum of observations, ranging from satellite images of storm systems to detailed measurements of microscopic cloud particles, he compares computer simulations with reality.�His work has led to many innovations and important improvements in climate models.

He comments frequently on climate and environmental issues for the media and has also trained schoolteachers, testified before the United States Congress, briefed United Nations climate change negotiators, and advised government agencies on research, education and outreach.

Among many honors, Dr. Somerville has received awards from the American Meteorological Society for both his research and his popular book, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change. He is a Coordinating Lead Author for the next major climate science assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to appear in 2007

At the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) Mr. Coyle coordinates its citizen science and education programs, volunteer programs, education research and policy, campus ecology program and award-winning children's publications.

Prior to NWF, he served nine years as President of the National Environmental Education & Training Foundation, a Congressionally-authorized NGO and recognized leader in education program design, legislation and policy development. Mr. Coyle is the principal founder of National Environmental Education Week and presided over the creation of NEETF's green business and climate programs, health practitioners' education and an innovative approach to environmental education through television weather-casting. He also co-authored NEETF's influential annual NEET/Roper Report Card on Environmental Knowledge (from 1997 to 2001) and is a leader in documenting the effectiveness of environmental education in America and abroad. His new book, entitled Environmental Literacy in America, a comprehensive research evaluation of the state of environmental knowledge and learning in America, will be published in October of 2005.

Before NEETF, Mr. Coyle was President and program director of American Rivers, the nation's principal river conservation organization where he oversaw campaigns that protected 20,000 miles of outstanding rivers, five million acres of riverside land and made significant national policy reforms in water resource and hydropower development. At American Rivers he authored the Guide to Wild and Scenic River Designation, which is still considered the authoritative work on the legal and political aspects of the national rivers system.

He was also a founding board member and vice president of River Network and co-founder and president of the American Land Resource Association, publisher of the award-winning journal American Land Forum. He worked for ten years with the U.S. Department of the Interior managing the Wild and Scenic Rivers planning Program and Land and Water Conservation Fund Grants for the Northeast Region.

He has been honored by Paddler Magazine (1998) on the list of "top ten river conservationists of all time," River Conservationist of the Year by the U.S. Canoe Association (1992) and the Interior Department's Meritorious Service Award (1980). He also shared in the White House's "Reinventing Government" award (2000) for developing National Public Lands Day. In March of 2005, he received an Award of Honor from the U.S. EPA for overall support of the field of environmental education in the U.S. Mr. Coyle has served on a number of NGO boards, including having served as Chair of the Natural Resource Council of American for five years from 1996 to 2000.

He has a Juris Doctor degree from Temple University and a BA in sociology and social work from LaSalle University in Philadelphia. In 2001 he completed a Certificate Program in Conservation Leadership at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Fischhoff is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and has served on some two dozen NAS/NRC/IOM committees. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and recipient of its Early Career Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Psychology and for Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. He is President of the Society for Risk Analysis and recipient of its Distinguished Achievement Award. He has been President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Advisory Committee and of the Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Advisory Board, where he chairs the subcommittee on homeland security. He is a member of the World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism.

Dr. Fischhoff's research includes risk perception and communication, risk analysis and management, adolescent decision-making, medical informed consent, and environmental protection. He has co-authored or edited four books, Acceptable Risk (1981), A Two-State Solution in the Middle East: Prospects and Possibilities (1993), Preference Elicitation (1999), and Risk Communication: The Mental Models Approach (2001).

He holds a B.S. in mathematics and psychology from Wayne State University and an MA and Ph.D. in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Before joining the museum, Ms. Futter served as President of Barnard College for thirteen years. She was graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Barnard College and earned her J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. She was elected to the Board of Trustees of Barnard as a student representative and was subsequently elected to full membership to complete the term of Arthur Goldberg, former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She began her career as an associate at the Wall Street firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy where she practiced corporate law. In 1980, Ms. Futter took a leave of absence from Milbank, Tweed to serve as Barnard's Acting President for one year. At the end of that period, she was appointed President of the College and served in that capacity until 1993 when she joined the Museum.

Ms. Futter currently serves on the boards of American International Group, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Consolidated Edison, Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and NYC & Company, as well as on the board of the American Museum of Natural History. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Institute of Social Sciences and the Academy of American Poets, as well as of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State and American Bar Associations. She formerly served as Chairman of the Board of New York Federal Reserve Bank and Chairman of the Commission on Women's Health of The Commonwealth Fund. She has received numerous honorary degrees and awards.

M. Albin Jubitz, Jr. is a native Oregonian and retired businessman. He became an environmental activist 25 years ago upon reading The Global 2000 Report, a study commissioned by President Carter and co-authored by Gus Speth. It was this early awareness that led him to establish student internships at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in the belief that supporting good science would lead to good public policy. Since 1991 upwards of 50 Yale graduate students have benefited from Jubitz summer internships throughout the Pacific Rim. At the invitation of Gus Speth, he joined the Yale FES Leadership Council in 2001.

Also in 2001, having sold his business, Mr. Jubitz established the Jubitz Family Foundation, which supports early childhood education, environmental stewardship and the fostering of peace. Since its founding, the foundation has actively supported many environmental non-profits throughout Oregon and most recently has focused on creating healthy streams as a primary mission. During 2004 he served as a member of the Oregon Governor's Advisory Group on Global Warming.

Mr. Jubitz has been active on numerous boards and service organizations including The Rotary Club of Portland, Portland Schools Foundation, Outward Bound, Morrison Child and Family Services and the Energy Trust of Oregon. He is a current participant in the American Leadership Forum.

He received his BS degree from Yale University in 1966 and an MBA from the University of Oregon Graduate School of Business in 1968.

Mr. Lupia has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Rochester. He writes on subjects including persuasion, opinion change, civic education, coalition governance, legislative-bureaucratic relationships and decision-making under uncertainty. The work addresses these topics by integrating insights from his interactions with mass and elite decision makers with tools and concepts from cognitive science, economics, political science, and psychology. His books include The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? and Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality. His work has been honored by the American Political Science Association and the National Academy of Science and he is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Professor Lupia is also very active in developing new means for researchers to better serve science and society. With Jon A. Krosnick, he is Principal Investigator of the American National Election Studies, the longest-running scientific study of elections and voting behavior in the world. With Diana C. Mutz, he developed and serves as Principal Investigator of Time-Shared Experiments for the Social Sciences, an innovative NSF-sponsored program that allows scientists from many disciplines run critical experiments on opinion formation and change using nationally representative subject pools.

He has developed a reputation for taking matters at the intersection of science and society and making them accessible to broad audiences. He makes such presentations regularly, having given over 200 research presentations in 12 countries. He has also consulted for organizations ranging from the Markle Foundation and the Public Policy Institute of California to the (U.S.) Department of Justice and the World Bank.