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  • Munjed Al-Sharif

    Coordinator

    United Nations Country Team (UNCT) Joint Program, Adaptation to Climate Change to Sustain Jordan’s MDG Achievements

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    Nancy Albury

    Branch Manager and Curator of Paleontology

    National Museum of the Bahamas

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    William J. Antholis

    Managing Director

    The Brookings Institution

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    Lloyd Axworthy

    Former Foreign Minister of Canada, President and Vice Chancellor

    University of Winnipeg

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    Bruce Babbitt

    Former Secretary of the Interior

    United States

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    Harriet Babbitt

    Vice Chair, Global Water Challenge

    World Resources Institute

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    James Barry

    Senior Scientist

    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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    Kenneth Berlin

    General Counsel

    Coalition for Green Capital

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    Sally Bingham

    Founder and President

    Interfaith Power and Light

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    Joel Bourne

    Contributing Writer

    National Geographic Magazine

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    Gary Braasch

    Environmental Photojournalist

    World View of Global Warming

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    David Brancaccio

    Public Television and Radio Journalist

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    Mary Bruno

    Executive Editor

    Grist

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    Elizabeth Cheney

    VP Safety, Environment & Sustainable Development

    Shell Upstream Americas

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    Aimée Christensen

    CEO

    Christensen Global Strategies

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    Rev. Richard Cizik

    President

    New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good; Fellow, Open Society Institute

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    Patricia Cochran

    Executive Director; Co-Chair

    Alaska Native Science Commission; Indigenous Peoples’ Global Network on Climate Change

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    Theo Colborn

    President

    TEDX – The Endocrine Disruption Exchange

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    Kevin Costner

    Actor, Entrepreneur, Co-Founding Partner

    Ocean Therapy Solutions & WestPac Resources

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    Thomas Culhane

    Urban Planner & Educator

    Solar CITIES

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    Janet D'Ignazio

    Vice President, Transportation

    ICF International

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    Lumumba Di-Aping

    Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative, Chair of the G77

    Republic of Sudan

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    Robert Draper

    Contributing Writer

    National Geographic Magazine

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    Brian Fagan

    Emeritus Professor of Anthropology

    University of California, Santa Barbara

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    Doug Fine

    Author and Carbon-Neutral Cowboy

    Farewell, My Subaru

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    David Foster

    Executive Director

    BlueGreen Alliance

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    J. Charles Fox

    Senior Advisor to the Administrator

    US Environmental Protection Agency

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    Robert Gagosian

    President and CEO

    Consortium for Ocean Leadership

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    Nathan Glasgow

    Principal

    Rocky Mountain Institute

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    Mark Gold

    President

    Heal The Bay

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    Vladimir Golitsyn

    Judge

    International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; Moscow State Institute of International Relations

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    Jeff Goodell

    Journalist and Author

    "How to Cool the Planet"

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    Elizabeth Grossman

    Journalist and Author

    "Chasing Molecules"

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    Cheryl Hayashi

    Professor of Biology

    University of California, Riverside

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    Tom Horton

    Journalist and Author

    "An Island Out of Time"

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    Peter Huybers

    Assistant Professor

    Harvard University

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    Walter Isaacson

    President and CEO

    The Aspen Institute

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    Maria Ivanova

    Director

    Global Environmental Governance Project Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

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    Lisa Jackson

    Administrator

    US Environmental Protection Agency

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    Mitchell Joachim

    Associate Professor

    New York University

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    Chris Johns

    Editor in Chief

    National Geographic Magazine

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    Brian Keane

    President

    SmartPower

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    Anne Korin

    Chair

    Set America Free Coalition

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    Robert Kunzig

    Environment Editor

    National Geographic Magazine

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    Michelle Lapinski

    Founding Principal

    SustainBiz

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    Sarah Laskin

    Vice President for Public Programs and Business Development

    National Geographic Society's Mission Programs

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    Marianne Lavelle

    Senior Editor, Energy

    National Geographic Digital Media

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    Peggy Liu

    Chairperson

    JUCCCE (Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy)

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    Joe Lockhart

    Former Press Secretary to President Bill Clinton and Current Founding Partner and Managing Director

    The Glover Park Group

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    Gal Luft

    Executive Director

    Institute for the Analysis of Global Security

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    Lee McIntire

    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

    CH2M HILL

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    Patricia Mulroy

    General Manager

    Southern Nevada Water Authority

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    Mohan Munasinghe

    Nobel Peace Prize Winner for Work on Climate Change, Vice Chairman

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4)

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    Major General Muniruzzaman

    President, Major General (Retired) - Bangladesh Army

    Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS)

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    Andrea Neal

    President, Principal Investigator

    Blue Ocean Sciences, Project Kaisei

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    Kakenya Ntaiya

    President

    Kakenya Center for Excellence; Emerging Explorer, National Geographic Society

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    Marvin Odum

    President

    Shell Oil Company

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    Randy Olson

    Contributing Photographer

    National Geographic Magazine

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    Mary Pearl

    Vice President and Dean

    Stony Brook University – Southampton

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    Audrey & Frank Peterman

    Authors

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    Wendell Pierce

    Actor, Philanthropist

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    Eric Pooley

    Author, Deputy Editor

    Bloomberg Businessweek

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    Victoria Pope

    Deputy Editor

    National Geographic Magazine

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    Glenn Prickett

    Chief External Affairs Officer

    The Nature Conservancy

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    John Robb

    Blogger

    Global Geurrillas

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    Michael Robinson

    Vice President of Environment, Energy and Safety Policy

    General Motors Company

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    Pamela Ronald

    Professor of Plant Pathology

    University of California Davis, Co-author of "Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food"

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    Gwen Ruta

    Vice President, Corporate Partnerships

    Environmental Defense Fund

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    David Saperstein

    Director and Legal Counsel

    Union for Reform Judaism’s Religious Action Center

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    Joel Sartore

    Contributing Photographer

    National Geographic Magazine

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    Jon Sawyer

    Executive Director

    Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

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    Jacob Scherr

    Senior Attorney

    Natural Resources Defense Council

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    Melina Shannon Di-Pietro

    Executive Director

    Yale Sustainable Food Project

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    Andrew Shapiro

    Founder and President

    GreenOrder, an LRN Company

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    Daniel Sigman

    Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences

    Princeton University

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    Joseph Stanislaw

    Founder and Independent Senior Advisor

    JAStanislaw Group and Energy and Sustainability, Deloitte LLC

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    George Steinmetz

    Contributing Photographer

    National Geographic Magazine

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    Eric Sundquist

    Research Geologist

    US Geological Survey

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    Strobe Talbott

    President

    The Brookings Institution

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    Nancy Tuor

    Group President

    Executive Sponsor for Sustainability

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    Mathis Wackernagel

    President

    Global Footprint Network

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    Michael Ware

    Managing Director

    Good Energies

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    Kenji Williams

    Director

    Bella Gaia

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    Charlie Williams

    Chief Scientist, Well Engineering and Production Technology

    Shell Worldwide

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    Doug Woodring

    Co-Founder and Director

    Project Kaisei

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    Will Wynn

    Former Mayor of Austin, Texas; Former Chairman

    Austin Energy

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    Jan Zalasiewicz

    Senior Lecturer in Geology

    University of Leicester

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    Fred de Sam Lazaro

    Correspondent

    PBS NewsHour

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