Conference Speakers
| Paul Anastas | Paul Anastas is credited with establishing the field of green chemistry during his time working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch and as the Director of the U.S. Green Chemistry Program. Dr. Anastas has published widely on topics of science through sustainability. More Information |
| Dayna Baumeister | Dayna is Co-founder of the Biomimicry Guild, a world leading innovation company which draws on deep knowledge of biological adaptations to help designers, engineers, architects, and business leaders solve design and engineering challenges sustainably.
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| Martina Bosi | Martina Bosi joined the World Bank Carbon Finance Unit in Washington in 2005. She is the fund manager for the World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund (the world’s first global carbon fund) and the World Bank Danish Carbon Fund. She is also actively engaged in the area of policy and methodology for energy efficiency carbon finance-related activities. More Information |
| Robert Costanza | Dr. Costanza's research has focused on the interface between ecological and economic systems, particularly at larger temporal and spatial scales. This includes landscape level spatial simulation modeling; analysis of energy and material flows through economic and ecological systems; valuation of ecosystem services, biodiversity, and natural capital; and analysis of dysfunctional incentive systems and ways to correct them. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific papers. More Information |
| Herman Daly | Herman Daly is an American ecological economist and professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park.
Herman Daly has been named Adbuster Magazine's Person of the Year. View his featured article, "Big Idea: Steady State Economy" on the Adbusters website. |
| Jon Erickson | Jon D. Erickson is Associate Professor at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Environmental Program at the University of Vermont, and Fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. From 1997 to 2002 he was Assistant Professor of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he helped build the first Ph.D. program in Ecological Economics. More Information |
| John Gowdy | John M. Gowdy has been with the Economics Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1982. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology from American University, a Master's degree in Community Planning from the University of Rhode Island, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from West Virginia University. He has been a West Virginia University Foundation Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar at the Wirtschaftsuniversität in Vienna. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in Munich, the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, The Central European University in Budapest, The Vrije University in Amsterdam, and Tokushima University in Japan. More Information |
| Richard Howarth | Richard B. Howarth is the Rosenwald Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College and the Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Economics. His work centers on the normative dimensions of environmental issues with applications to topics such as energy use, climate change, and ecological conservation. More Information |
| Bill McKibben | Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history. McKibben is active in the Methodist Church, and his writing sometimes has a spiritual bent. More Information |
| Julie Nelson | Julie A. Nelson is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, USA. Nelson is best known for her work in feminist economics, in which she investigates gender-laden biases in the definition and methodology of economics, and the implications of these biases for the economics of caring labor.
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| Ellie Perkins | Ellie Perkins is an economist concerned with the relationship between international trade, the environment, and local economies. She is interested in globalization, and how local economies may grow as an antidote to international trade. She also looks at international means of controlling air pollution in the Arctic, and at the metals and minerals resource industries. More Information |
| Pavan Sukhdev | Pavan Sukhdev is a Managing Director in the Global Markets division of Deutsche Bank AG, based in London, having joined this division in India in 1994. His assignments have included building a leading financial markets business for the bank in India, managing the Bank's money markets trading and liquidity across Asia-Pacific, being COO for the Bank's Asian Global Markets business from Singapore, and being COO for the Bank's global Emerging Markets business based in London. More Information |
| Ussif Rashid Sumaila | Dr. Ussif Rashid Sumaila is Associate Professor and Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC Fisheries Centre. He specializes in bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the economics of high and deep seas fisheries. More Information |
| Beth Sawin | Beth Sawin is a scientist, writer, teacher, and public speaker with the Sustainability Institute, in Harland, VT. She brings systems analysis together with an attention to vision, values, and human purpose. She is a biologist with a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and influenced in systems dynamics and sustainability from her mentor and SIs founder, Donella Meadows. More Information |