• Bernard Amadei

    AmadeiDr. Bernard Amadei is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his PhD in 1982 from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Amadei is the Faculty Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities at CU Boulder and holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering. He is also the Founding President of Engineers Without Borders – USA and the co-founder of the Engineers Without Borders-International network. Among other distinctions, Dr. Amadei is the 2007 co-recipient of the Heinz Award for the Environment, the recipient of the 2008 ENR Award of Excellence, and an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

  • Sarah Barker-Ball

    Barker-ballSarah Barker-Ball is in her third year at the UC Berkeley School of Law and Co-President of the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC), an organization which connects, educates and engages over 2000 students and community members from a variety of disciplines. Sarah helped create several BERC programs to provide opportunities for students to address pressing energy issues and collaborate on real world projects. Among these are Cleantech to Market – a partnership with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to help commercialize promising clean technologies, and BERC Innovative Solutions (BIS) – a student consulting program that serves public agencies, nonprofit organizations and small companies. During law school, Ms. Barker-Ball has also worked at the California Energy Commission and following graduation she will join the law firm Bingham McCutchen.

  • Neil Bellefeuille

    BellefeuilleNeil Bellefeuille has more than 18 years of experience as a management and marketing consultant leading teams in the creation of brands and business units for Fortune 500 clients including Nike, PepsiCo, VF Brands, Conoco-Phillips and World Vision. In September of 2007 Neil relinquished his role as President and Senior Strategist at Bulldog Drummond, a highly successful branding consultancy, to pursue social enterprise design and development within the non-profit sector. He has been instrumental in the strategic development of The Paradigm Project since its launch in May of 2008. Neil has a Master’s Degree in English and an undergraduate degree in liberal arts with an emphasis in business communication.

  • Gary Bojes

    BojesDr Bojes is the Senior Level Program and Policy Advisor in the United States Department of Agriculture and supports the Rural Utilities Service Administrator.  The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) provides federal funding programs for the Electric, Telecommunications, and Water & Environmental Programs in Rural America with a large portfolio of infrastructure investments.  Dr. Bojes brings over 25 years of experience in finance, accounting, investment banking, and management consulting with previous regulation and public service for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. (FDIC).  The RUS has supported USDA Foreign Agriculture Service and USAID on programs to help share best practices on energy efficiency and technical expertise with international entities from across the globe.

  • William Boyd

    boydWilliam Boyd joined the University of Colorado Law School faculty in 2008. Professor Boyd received his Ph.D. from the Energy & Resources Group at UC-Berkeley and his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an Articles Editor on the Stanford Law Review. After law school, Professor Boyd clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the United State Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Professor Boyd then served as 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 then practiced with the firm of Covington & Burling LLP in Washington DC, focusing on energy law and regulation, environmental law, and climate change law and policy.

  • Nick Burn

    Nick Burn

    Nick Burn is the International Director of Practical Action, the international NGO founded by E.F.Schumacher of Small is Beautiful fame. Practical Action brings to bear over 40 years of experience in helping local people and organizations, in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America use technology to fight poverty. Renewable energy, as a means to provide sustainable electricity supply to some of the world’s poorest, currently off the grid, has been one of Practical Actions major areas of work. Trained as an agriculturalist, and with an MA in Rural Development from University of East Anglia, UK, Nick has spent more than 20 years working in Africa and Asia.

  • Phil DiStefano

    DiStefanoDr. Philip P. DiStefano is the Chancellor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has served CU-Boulder since 1974. In the past 35 years, DiStefano’s career with CU has included multiple academic and administrative positions: Professor, Associate Dean, Dean and Vice Chancellor.  As Chancellor, he works closely with students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors, governing officials, business and community leaders in extending CU’s legacy as a preeminent research University. DiStefano earned a B.S. from Ohio State University, and a M.A. in English Education from West Virginia University. He also holds a Doctorate in Humanities Education from Ohio State University.

  • Larisa Dobriansky

    dobrianskyLarisa Dobriansky is the Director of the Global Energy Network and Senior Advisor to numerous governments, energy companies, utilities, non-governmental organizations, and others. She advises and counsels on energy and environmental matters and participates in domestic and international development projects relating to climate change, sustainable buildings and communities, and clean energy technology commercialization. Prior to joining the Global Energy Network, Dobriansky served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Dobriansky was also senior counsel in the Washington office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., focusing on environmental and energy policy issues. Dobriansky received her B.S.F.S. cum laude in international relations, J.D. and L.L.M. in securities regulation and taxation from Georgetown University.

  • Jonas Ebbesson

    EbbessonJonas Ebbesson is Professor of environmental law and Director for Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre, at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. His research essentially focuses on international, European, Community and transnational dimensions of environmental law. Among his research fields are legal aspects of public participation and access to justice in environmental matters, liability for transnational corporations for harm to health and the environment, and environmental justice. He is the co-editor of Environmental Law and Justice in Context (CUP 2009), and serves as a member of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee since 2005. He has also been a legal consultant for governments, governmental branches and NGOs.

  • Matt Evans

    evansMatt Evans is the Director of Business Development at Impact Carbon, where he manages new project development and marketing and directs Impact Carbon’s work on efficient, healthy cook stoves in Uganda and Kenya. Previously Matt co-founded LiveClimate.org and served as Executive Director. Matt has worked in Product Management for Sunpower Corporation, and worked to support and scale a wide range of nonprofits and social enterprises with Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, and NESsT. Matt holds a BA in Economics from Stanford and an MBA from UC Berkeley where he focused on social marketing for the developing world.

  • Daniel Farber

    faberDan Farber is the Sho Sato Professor of Law and the Chair of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. 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 editor in chief of the law review and class valedictorian.  After graduating, Professor Farber was a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before coming to Berkeley, he taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Minnesota. Farber’s books include “Environmental Law: Cases and Materials” (with A. Carlson & J. Freeman), which is now in its seventh edition; “Eco-Pragmatism: Making Sensible Environmental Decisions in an Uncertain World” (1999); “Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond” (2006)(with  J. Chen); and “Environmental Law in a Nutshell,” now in its sixth edition.

  • Barbara Farhar

    FarharFor more than twenty-five years, Dr. Barbara Farhar has directed research on the interaction between technology and society. As a Senior Policy Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), she gained national recognition for her work on the human dimensions of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Dr. Farhar is a senior research associate at CU’s Institute of Behavioral Science. She also chairs the Energy and Gender-Equitable Development Section of the World Renewable Energy Congresses and is currently investigating social and behavioral aspects of the smart grid. Dr. Farhar is on the boards of the American Solar Energy Society and the Colorado Renewable Energy Society.

  • Ashok Gadgil

    gadgilAshok Gadgil earned a physics Ph.D. from Berkeley. He is a Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and concurrently Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Besides many publications in scientific journals, he has several inventions and patents to his credit, and has received numerous awards. In 2009, he received the Heinz Award, which recognizes his work as a researcher, inventor and a humanitarian. He is currently working on affordably removing arsenic from Bangladesh drinking waters. He recently pioneered fuel-efficient stoves to reduce violence against women refugees in Darfur. He is one of the scientists featured in the documentaries “Me and Isaac Newton” (1999) and “FLOW” (2008).

  • Michael Glantz

    mickeyglantzMichael H. Glantz, Ph.D., is the Director of the Consortium for Capacity Building at the University of Colorado. He served as a researcher and a Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research for 34 years. Glantz’s research portfolio includes the following issues: African drought and desertification and food production problems and prospects; societal impacts of climate anomalies related to El Niño and La Niña events, climate variability, change and extremes; developing methods of forecasting possible societal responses to the regional impacts of climate variability and change; and the use of climate-related information for economic development.

  • Allessandro Gomez

    gomezProfessor Gomez received a Laurea in Ingegneria Aeronautica summa cum laude from University of Naples (Italy) in 1980, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University (USA) in 1982 and 1986, respectively. He is currently Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University. He has coauthored more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals on combustion and electrostatic spray processes. He has been the recipient of a NSF Young Investigator Award, the Whitby Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research and awards from the Fulbright Foundation, the Von Karman Institute of Fluid Mechanics, ATA Fiat Research Center, and Aeritalia. He is Associate Editor of Combustion Science and Technology and Director of the Yale Center for Combustion Studies. He teaches courses in combustion, energy, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. See http://www.eng.yale.edu/gomez-lab/ for further details.

  • Lakshman Guruswamy

    GuruswamyDr. Lakshman Guruswamy is the Nicholas Doman Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Born in Sri Lanka, Guruswamy is one of the world’s recognized experts in International Environmental Law and is widely published in both legal and scientific journals. Guruswamy was among twenty distinguished speakers specially chosen by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to speak at the symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ICJ. Guruswamy is also the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES). This is an ambitious interdisciplinary project that seeks to find renewable energy solutions for the energy deficits confronting not only the United States, but, more particularly, the developing countries of the world.

  • Evan Haigler

    HaiglerEvan has extensive experience developing carbon finance for improved biomass cookstove projects in Uganda, Kenya, China and West Africa.  He coauthored the Voluntary Gold Standard Improved Cookstove Methodology and worked as the lead project developer in Uganda on the first project registered.  His research and publishing has focused on carbon methodology development and monitoring for improved stoves, and on assessing and valuing the associated social, health and environmental cobenefits.   Evan holds an M.S. in Global Health and Environment from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

  • Sarah Krakoff

    krakoffSarah Krakoff, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at Colorado Law, specializes in American Indian Law and Natural Resources Law.  She is the author of articles on tribal sovereignty, climate change and its effects on American Indian tribes, public lands, and environmental ethics.  Her casebook, American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, co-authored with Bob Anderson, Philip Frickey and Bethany Berger, is a widely used teaching text.  Before coming to Colorado, Professor Krakoff worked for DNA-Peoples’ Legal Services on the Navajo Nation.  She received her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley and her B.A. from Yale University.

  • Dominique Lallement

    LallementDominique Lallement, for more than 30 years with the World Bank, last served as energy adviser and manager of the Energy Sector Management Assitance Program. With assignments in Africa, Latin America, Eastern and Central Europe, and East and South Asia in energy, various infrastructure sectors, and agriculture and rural development, she has integrated gender issues in the Bank’s operational portfolio. Now an international development consultant, she focuses on gender and infrastructure issues and sustainable energy development in developing and emerging economies. She serves on the Boards of the Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund, which provides scholarships for women from developing countries, and of POWEO, a French NGO which provides small investment energy loans to Africa.

  • Jonah Levine

    levineJonah holds a BS in Biology and an MS in Telecommunications and Utility Engineering. Jonah has worked on energy storage and integration with a focus on renewable energy systems. Jonah has working experience with the University of Colorado at Boulder Electrical Engineering Department; The Rocky Mountain Institute; Turner Endanger Species Fund; as well as a number of wind, solar, biomass, and energy storage development companies.  Jonah is currently employed by Biochar Engineering Corporation as well as The Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES). Through CEES Jonah is forming a working coalition around the United States and is spearheading a US Biochar Initiative.

  • Dayna Matthew

    matthewProfessor Matthew joined the University of Colorado faculty in 2003 as an Associate Professor, teaching Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law I (Health Finance and Administration Law) Health Law II (Medical Malpractice Litigation and Ethics) and Public Health Law courses.  In 2004, she became the Law School’s Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, and in 2007 she was promoted to Full Professor.  Professor Matthew’s research interests focus on the American health care system, disparities in health care, and the comparative study of public health systems internationally.  Her most recent articles have appeared in the Wake Forest Law Review, The University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and the Journal of Health, Law, Medicine and Ethics. Professor Matthew has practiced as a civil litigator both in Kentucky, at the law firm of Greenebaum, Doll and McDonald, and in Virginia, at McGuire Woods where her work primarily focused on the defense of medical care providers and corporate manufacturers.

  • Michael Michener

    MichenerAgriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack named Michael Michener Administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service in March 2009.  Michener has served in U.S. foreign affairs agencies, promoting post-conflict stability, economic development and human rights. He served as senior advisor for the Department of State’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization and as lead Iraq policy officer for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. He also worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Kosovo, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Michener received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Maryland.

  • John Mitchell

    mitchellJohn Mitchell works at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency coordinating the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA).  The PCIA has 320 Partners working in 115 countries to improve health, livelihood, and quality of life by reducing exposure to indoor air pollution, primarily among women and children, from household energy use.  Prior to working on the PCIA, he worked at the Maryland Department of the Environment coordinating Maryland’s international environmental initiatives and on a wide range of environmental issues, including:  Smart Growth, air and water quality, waste management, as well as Chesapeake Bay protection and restoration.

  • Marianne Moscoso-Osterkorn

    OsterkornDr. Marianne Moscoso-Osterkorn obtained her PhD in Business Administration at the University of Economics in Vienna and received a Masters of Arts in Industrial Psychology from the University of Michigan. She began her career in the banking sector as a project manager from organizational projects. From 1981-2004, she was employed by Verbund and held various management positions. From 2002-2004, Moscoso-Osterkorn was President of the Board of RECS International. In 2003 she was named one of the “50 International Key Women in Energy.” In 2004 Moscoso-Osterkorn became the Director General of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). She is also a member of the Board of the Gold Standard Foundation, a member of the Advisory Council of the European Technology Platform for the Electricity Networks of the Future, and a member of the UNDP External Advisory Group to the Environment and Energy Network.

  • Joe Neguse

    neguseUniversity of Colorado Regent Joseph Neguse is a CU alumnus and civic leader who has spent years advocating for public higher education. A Democrat, he was elected in 2008 to the CU Board of Regents to represent Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District. Neguse co-founded and directed the Fund Our Future Campaign, a grassroots effort aimed at increasing state funding for public higher education. Recognized widely for his efforts, Neguse became the first CU student to be bestowed with an “emeritus” standing by the Board of Regents. In May of 2009, Joe graduated from CU Law School. During law school, Joe served as Class President and worked as an extern in Gov. Bill Ritter’s Office of Legal Counsel. He also was a member of the CU Rothgerber Moot Court Team, and received the Austin W. Scott Jr. “Best Oralist” Award.

  • Beth Osnes

    OsnesBeth Osnes is an assistant professor of theatre at the University of Colorado. As co-founder of Mothers Acting Up, she is touring a program in partnership with Philanthropiece entitled, The (M)other Tour, to locations around the world to create a global community of mothers moving from concern to action on behalf of the world’s children. In conjunction with this program she is developing a methodology specific to energy justice using theatre as a tool to include the voices of the energy poor in the planning and implementation of development projects in Panama and Guatemala. She has conducted field research on the traditional performing arts throughout much of Southeast Asia and was a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia. She has published books and many articles on mothering, activism, and the performing arts.

  • Alex Pederson

    pedersonAlex Pederson is Chief Financial Officer of blueEnergy, a nonprofit that develops renewable energy and water purification projects for isolated communities on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua.  Before joining blueEnergy, Mr. Pederson practiced corporate law for Reed Smith LLP, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions.  His energy experience also includes developing business strategy for ScottishPower, an international investor-owned utility. Mr. Pederson received a B.S. with honors in economics from the University of Oregon and a J.D. from Boston University, where he was an editor on the Annual Review of Banking and Financial Law.

  • Roger Pielke, Jr.

    pielkeRoger A. Pielke, Jr. has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001 and is a Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). At CIRES, Roger served as the Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research from 2001-2007. Roger’s research focuses on the intersection of science and technology and decision making. In 2006 Roger received the Eduard Brückner Prize in Munich, Germany for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate research. Before joining the University of Colorado, from 1993-2001 Roger was a Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Roger is an Associate Fellow of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at Oxford University’s Said Business School. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute. He is also author, co-author or co-editor of five books. His most recent book is titled: The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics.

  • Michael Potts

    pottsMichael Potts, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rocky Mountain Institute, was an active trustee before he joined the RMI management team in early 2007 after more than 25 years as a growth-oriented high-technology executive.  His most recent commercial position was as CEO of American Fundware, which nearly tripled in revenues during his tenure and produced the award-winning FundWare software suite for non-profit and governmental organizations.  AFW was acquired in 2002 by Intuit, maker of the Quickbooks and TurboTax.  Previously, Potts worked in sales, marketing and general management positions for IBM, BancTec, and Recognition International.  He spent many years working internationally and served for a time as Managing Director of an Australian subsidiary. In addition to his work at RMI, Michael currently serves on commercial and non-profit boards that align with his passion for innovation and spiritual growth.

  • Steve Rayner

    raynerSteve Rayner is James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, from where he also directs the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. He previously held senior research positions in two US National Laboratories and has taught at leading US universities. He has served on various US, UK, and international bodies addressing science, technology and the environment, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Until 2008 he also directed the national Science in Society Research Programme of the Economic and Social Research Council. He is Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Society at the University of Copenhagen and is a member of Britain’s Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He was also a co-author of the 2009 Report of Britain’s Royal Society on Geoengineering the Climate.

  • Kirk R. Smith

    SmithKirk R. Smith is Professor of Global Environmental Health at the University of California at Berkeley.  Previously he led the Energy Program at the East West Center, Honolulu, and now holds visiting professorships at universities in India and China and membership in the US National Academy of Sciences.  His research focuses on the health and climate impacts of household fuel use in rural areas including current field studies in India, China, Nepal, and Guatemala.   His work on co-benefits for health and climate started in the early 1990s by conducting in Asia the first simultaneous measurements of climate- and health-damaging pollutants from household fuels.  He participates in a number of international assessments including the Global Energy Assessment, the International Comparative Risk Assessment, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

  • Nii Armah Sowah

    sowahNii Armah Sowah is a Ghanaian born arts educator. He earned his first degree in Theatre Arts with a focus on dance at the University of Ghana in 1987. After graduating from the African Center for the Training of Performing Artists in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 1991, he obtained a Master of Arts in Expressive Arts Therapies at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA in 1997. Over the years, Nii Armah has worn many professional hats including Actor (television, film and stage), choreographer, dancer, singer, massage Therapist and Expressive Arts Therapist. Nii Armah was the 2008 “Excellence in Teaching Award” recipient at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he teaches courses in African Dance and Music. He has also taught at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, Metro State University in Denver, CO, Lesley College in Cambridge, MA, New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA, UC Irvine and the University of Ghana. He has conducted workshops for schools, communities and organizations across the U.S., Canada, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean.

  • Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan

    SreenevasanDato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan was the President of the Malaysian Bar from March 2007 to March 2009.  She was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1982.  She practises commercial litigation, specifically Corporate, Intellectual Property and Industrial Law litigation. The Chambers Asia’s Leading Lawyers 2009 Guide lists Ambiga as a “Notable Practitioner” and describes her as “highly recommended for complex cases”, bringing “eloquence, clarity of thought and sound advocacy” to a courtroom. Throughout the course of her career, Ambiga has been an advocate of human rights issues and the promotion of the rule of law. She is a recipient of the United States Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Awards 2009.

  • Stein Sture

    StureDr. Stein Sture was appointed Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder in May 2009. Previously he served as Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. He also is the Huber and Helen Croft Endowed Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and has served as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Sture received a degree in engineering mechanics at the Schous Institute of Technology in Norway, as well as three degrees at the University of Colorado at Boulder, including his PhD in 1976. His fields of expertise are in the areas of experimental and analytical modeling in solid mechanics, geomechanics, computational geotechnics, and geotechnical engineering. Sture has severed as a consultant to nearly 30 public and private organizations and serves as editor of three major journals.

  • Evan Thomas

    ThomasDr. Evan Thomas (Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder), has been a civil servant at the NASA-Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas since 2004. Thomas works as an aerospace engineer in the Life Support and Habitability Systems Branch on concepts for sustainable Moon and Mars spacecraft. These projects include microgravity fluid management technologies and water recovery systems. Thomas is also a sustainable development engineer, designing and managing appropriate technology programs in developing communities since 2002. Thomas has worked in Nepal, Rwanda, Mexico and Afghanistan with Engineers Without Borders-USA and, since 2007, as the founding Executive Vice President of Manna Energy Limited. Manna is a social enterprise, installing water treatment, biogas and fuel briquetting technologies in Rwanda and Afghanistan, funding these ventures, in part, and as the first organization to claim United Nations carbon credits for the treatment of drinking water.

  • Sekou Toure

    Photo Toure, Sekou(G4)Sekou Toure joined the Global Environment Facility (GEF) on September 10, 2007 after serving as Director of the Regional Office for Africa of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) from  February 1, 2001. As Conflict Resolution Commissioner at the Global Environment Facility Secretariat located inside the World Bank, Washington, D.C. Mr. Toure’s assignment is to advise the CEO of the GEF and help protect its integrity. Specifically, he is the main point of contact in the GEF Secretariat for countries and other stakeholders wishing to seek advice or to raise issues and disputes related to GEF operations. He serves as an impartial third party to help countries, GEF agencies and the Secretariat to resolve disputes over project or policy issues. In addition, he provides advice and intellectual leadership to the GEF partnership on conflict resolution.

  • Doug Vilsack

    vilsackDoug Vilsack is a lawyer and environmental activist from Colorado.  He works with the law firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs in Denver in the practice areas of environmental law, Indian law and renewable and alternative energy law.  Doug is also the founder and Executive Director of Elephant Energy, a non-profit that works in Namibia, Africa promoting wildlife conservation and renewable energy.  Elephant Energy works with the World Wildlife Fund to distribute small-scale renewable energy technology, like the BoGo Light, through the use of funds earned by community-run conservation organizations from wildlife tourism enterprises.

  • Bryan Willson

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    Dr. Bryan Willson is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Solix Biofuels, a developer of large-scale production systems for algae-based biofuels.  He is also a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU) and has worked for over 25 years to develop large scale solutions for global energy needs.  In June 2009, he was named among the “Scientific American 10” – individuals who have made significant contributions to “guiding science to serve humanity” on a global basis.  Willson is a founding Director of CSU’s Clean Energy Supercluster, Founder and Director of CSU’s Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory; and co-Founder of Envirofit International.  Willson received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988, the same year he joined the CSU faculty.  He is the Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on over $30 million in funded research; has funded over 350 graduate and undergraduate students; and is author or co-author of over 200 journal papers, conference proceedings, or technical reports.

  • Andrew Yager

    yagerAndrew Yager is Officer-in-Charge of the Water, Energy and Strategies Branch in the Division for Sustainable Development at the United Nations in New York. He manages technical cooperation and capacity building activities focusing on access to modern energy, clean water, sanitation, and national sustainable development strategies. Dr. Yager is the Secretary to UN-Energy, a system-wide interagency coordination mechanism on sustainable development. He has more than 25 years experience developing and managing environmentally sound energy projects. Dr. Yager is a member of the Governing Board of Engineers-without-Borders USA. He received his Ph.D. in Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1984.

  • Kandeh Yumkella

    yumkellaKandeh K. Yumkella is Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). As a leader in international development cooperation for over 20 years, he has actively promoted important initiatives and international partnerships for the cause of sustainable development. Mr. Yumkella serves as Chairman of UN-Energy, the United Nations system coordination body on energy-related issues. He also serves as the Chairman of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC).


  • Hon. John Zebrowski

    zebrowskiSince leaving the California Court of Appeals in 1999, Justice Zebrowski has conducted a full-time ADR practice. His practice covers a spectrum of business-related matters, including contracts and commercial transactions, insurance, entertainment, intellectual property, real estate, environmental, banking and finance, securities, partnership and corporate disputes, business torts, professional liability (other than medical malpractice), employment and similar matters. Justice Zebrowski also serves on the American Arbitration Association’s complex litigation panel and is regularly named to the Daily Journal’s periodic listing of the 30 to 50 “Top Neutrals” in California. In 2007, Justice Zebrowski was also named one of Hollywood Reporter Esquire’s “Top Entertainment Neutrals.” In 2008, Justice Zebrowski was appointed to serve as a Commissioner member of the California Law Revision Commission. He also serves as a member of the BAJI Civil Jury Instructions Committee. Justice Zebrowski is a member of the CEES Advisory Board.