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Speakers for the summit include:
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Willie K. Johnson
Associate Director – Global Product Supply Sustainability
Procter & Gamble. |
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Willie is from New Orleans, LA and holds a BS Mechanical Engineering from Tuskegee University. He has been employed at the Procter & Gamble Company since 1986. Since then, he has held a variety of engineering, operations and strategic planning assignments. In his assignments he worked in several business areas and in many different locations globally.
Willie is currently P&G’s Global Product Supply Engineering Sustainability Leader. He is responsible for accelerating and enabling the delivery of key elements of P&G's PS Sustainability strategy.
Most recently, Willie was the Family Care Business Unit Engineering Associate Director. In that organization, Willie held several roles including Charmin Technical Organization Leader, New Capacity Leader, and Process Technology Owner. He was responsible for leading new site projects, developing and launching new products, and development new technologies. He has managed a portfolio of projects that exceeds $600 million dollars.
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Elaine Dorward-King
Global Head Of Health Safety Environment
Rio Tinto. |
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Elaine is Global head of Health, Safety and Environment for Rio Tinto, a position she has held since 2002. From 2000 - 2002, Elaine was Global Executive Environment, Health and Safety for Rio Tinto Borax. Prior to Borax, Elaine held a number of environmental roles of increasing responsibility in the Rio Tinto Group.
Prior to employment with Rio Tinto, Elaine managed the environmental science and chemistry function and led the ecological risk assessment effort at Ebasco Environmental, an environmental consulting firm. Immediately after graduate school, she spent six and one half years with Monsanto Agricultural Company, first providing analytical chemistry support for the animal biotechnology program and then working in regulatory registration for crop protection chemicals.
Elaine graduated from Colorado State University with a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry and from Maryville College in Tennessee with a B.A. magna cum laude in chemistry, with emphasis in biology and mathematics.
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Roland Schroeder
Head Of Sustainability And Product Safety
Henkel. |
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Dr. rer. nat. Frank Roland Schröder received his diploma in Chemistry from the University of Göttingen, Germany. Following his PhD thesis in biochemistry at the Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, he joined Henkel in 1985. Until 1991 he specialised in biotechnology and quality assurance/GLP in both the Henkel Düsseldorf research centre and the Lion Corporation in Odawara, Japan. Subsequently he joined the department of Ecology, specialising in environmental exposure analysis, and environmental modelling and monitoring of environmentally relevant substances. Currently he is Corporate Director and head of the sustain-ability/product safety department of the laundry and home care business unit of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA.
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John Frazier
Director Of Considered Chemistry
Nike. |
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John Frazier serves as the Director of Considered Chemistry and ESH for Nike. His duties have included the development, deployment, and oversight for a variety of sustainability and product stewardship programs including the Nike:
- Restricted Substance List (RSL)
- Global Water Quality Program for Apparel
- Green/Healthier Chemistry Program
Mr. Frazier holds a Master's degree in Chemistry with 20+ years experience. He has served product engines and also environmental programs through materials and process engineering and chemistry applications.
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Chris Williams
Director Of Freshwater Conservation
WWF. |
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Chris Williams is Director of Freshwater Conservation at World Wildlife Fund-US. He directs WWF’s work on international and national freshwater policy, supports WWF field projects all over the world, and develops partnerships for freshwater conservation with governments, corporations, foundations, and bilateral and multi-lateral aid agencies. Chris serves as Deputy Director of the Global Water for Sustainability Program (GLOWS), a USAID-funded consortium of NGOs and academic institutions supporting integrated water resources management around the globe. He is a member of the board of directors of the Alliance for Water Stewardship.
Chris has been a conservation professional for 15 years, first as a policy analyst and federal lobbyist for endangered species and other natural resource issues, and then as manager of a large-scale ecoregional conservation project in the Chihuahuan Desert of the southwestern US and northern Mexico. It was his experiences grappling with water issues in the Rio Grande basin that led Chris to his current specialization in freshwater.
Chris holds masters and law degrees from the Vermont Law School, and a history degree from the University of Washington. He has authored, co-authored, or edited numerous publications on the subject of natural resources conservation.
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Bruce Lauerman
Natural Resources Manager
Nestle Waters North America. |
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Bruce Lauerman will be speaking at the conference.
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Gregory S. Reub
Principal, Natural Resource Valuation Practice Leader
ENVIRON. |
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Over 27 years experience related to impact assessment, mitigation, and restoration of natural resources. His expertise is currently focused on integration of science- based strategies to expedite resolution of complex natural resource issues. Has been involved in numerous large and small environmental assessments that encompass aquatic, estuarine, marine, riparian, and terrestrial environments as project manager, lead and contributing scientist, technical negotiator, and expert witness. Mr. Reub has extensive experience related to Natural Resource Damage Assessments (NRDA), habitat restoration, landscape-level conservation planning, Endangered Species Act (ESA) compliance and environmental assessment and permitting. His projects have focused on determining physical and/or chemical impacts to habitats and then developing innovative restoration/ conservation measures for cost effective resolution. Mr. Reub is known for developing and working with interdisciplinary teams to solve interrelated issues ranging from physical and biological relations such as instream flows, fish passage, water and sediment quality, geomorphic changes and vegetation interactions to the social, cultural and political realities associated with natural resources. Mr. Reub has worked in diverse geographic locations including most of the contiguous United States, Alaska, Canada, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Panama, Ecuador, Chile, the Philippines, and Guam.
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Tom Cooper
Corporate Water Programs Manager
Intel. |
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In this capacity, Tom’s responsibilities include wastewater policy and program development, long range goal setting and related water conservation initiatives. He has been with Intel for 12 years and has 24 years of experience in EHS programs with major industrial corporations/institutions including Lockheed-Martin, GE, PG&E, NASA-Ames Research Center and Chemical Waste Management. He has a BS in Environmental & Systematic Biology from California Polytechnic State University, and an MS in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco.
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Lisa Quezada
Sustainable Development Manager
MillerCoors. |
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Lisa Quezada is Sustainable Development Policy Manager at MillerCoors. She is responsible for developing and implementing the MillerCoors sustainable development strategy across the company. In her role, Ms. Quezada helps facilitate a cross-functional sustainable development committee and established an employee-led green team to further engage employees and encourage sustainable projects and practices.
Before joining the MillerCoors organization, Ms. Quezada practiced law for eight years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She completed her undergraduate work at University of California-Irvine and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. She serves on The Milwaukee Reparatory Theater Board of Trustees.
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Jeff Seabright
VP, Environment and Water Resources
The Coca-Cola Company. |
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Since 2003, Jeff Seabright has served in his current role, managing a team of industry specialists in the areas of Energy & Climate, Sustainable Packaging, Safety, Water and Sustainable Agriculture. Jeff has held several positions in government and business, including as Foreign Service Officer in the State Department, Legislative Assistant in the U.S. Senate, Director of Environment and Energy at The U.S. Agency for International Development and head of the White House Task Force on Climate Change under President Clinton. Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, he served as Vice President for Policy Planning at Texaco.
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Zack Mansdorf
Former Sr VP Safety Health And Environment
L’Oreal. |
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Zack has served as the Senior Vice President- Safety, Health, Environment, for L’Oreal North America and Worldwide from 2000 to 2009. In this role, he had overall responsibility for safety, occupational health and environment for 42 worldwide manufacturing sites, over 70 distribution centers and over 100 administrative centers around the world. He spent 5 years in residence in Paris (World HQ) and the last 4 years commuting from New York.
L’Oreal has annual sales of approximately 25 Billion dollars (17.5 Billion €) with more than 65,000 employees worldwide. Zack was a direct report to the Managing Director for Supply Chain Operations (American title of Executive Vice President-direct report to the CEO). His dedicated staff was located in Paris. While at L’Oreal, he was responsible for a more than 74% reduction in lost time accidents, a 35% reduction in waste, increase of 12% in recycling, 25% reduction in water use 15% reduction in energy use, wastewater COD reduction of 15%, 38% reduction in VOCs and 3.3% reduction in CO2 (Scope 1 and 2 since 2005). He also achieved absolute reductions in Energy, Water, GHG, SO2, VOCs even with an overall approximately 40% increase in production in this time period. Due to Zacks work and the work of others, L’Oreal is widely listed on all the major sustainability indexes and is cited as one of the 100 most Sustainable Companies by Innovest and Corporate Knights in 2008 and 2009.
Zack also served as a member of the senior management committee (Conjuncture) as well as the only non-Executive Committee Member of the Sustainable Development Committee (chaired by the CEO).
Prior to this work, he has held several other senior level positions in the US Army (retired Lt. Col.) Goodyear, Midwest Research Institute, Clayton Environmental Consultants, Liberty International Risk Services and Arthur D. Little Company. Zack spent almost 15 years as head of Mansdorf & Associates which was sold to Clayton Environmental Consultants in 1994.
Zack has a Ph.D., in Environmental Engineering from the University of Kansas, School of Engineering, with Masters degrees in Environment and Safety from the University of Michigan and Central Missouri State. He is a QEP, CSP and CIH.
He is Past President of the AIHA, Past Board member of the BCSP, Past President of the AIHF, A Fellow of AIHA and ASTM, awarded the Donald E. Cummings Award by the AIHA in 2005 and has received several other awards.
Zack is a past Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, a past member of the Graduate School Advisory Committee for the University of Kansas and was active in teaching in a number of other institutions.
He is well published in safety, industrial hygiene and the environment with a large number of books, chapters, journal and magazine articles.
Zack specializes in management systems and business approaches to promote sustainability and environmental excellence.
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Senior VP
Intel. |
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Senior VP will be speaking at the conference.
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Estrellita Fuentes Nava
TBC
Conagua. |
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Estrellita Fuentes Nava will be speaking at the conference.
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Jason Morrison
Economic Globalization and the Environment Program Director
Pacific Institute. |
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Jason Morrison will be speaking at the conference.
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Dave Shenton
National Energy Manager
Lafarge Cement. |
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Dave has been with Lafarge Cement UK for over 20 years, starting as a mechanical apprentice at Cauldon Works in Staffordshire. Since then, Dave has taken a number of plant and central roles focused on the environment and Health and Safety. In January 2008, Dave was appointed as National Environment Manager for Lafarge Cement in the UK. Following his appointment Dave has been seconded to the British Cement Association (BCA) to look at industry-wide issues and represented UK organisations at European environmental cement industry standards meetings. Supporting Lafarge on a global basis conducting auditing and training of Environment manager in the EU and Africa.
In this role, Dave have also played a major part in supporting Lafarge Cement UK in becoming a leading environmental company – not just in the cement sector, but also across all industry. This was recognised with Lafarge Cement’s Award for Excellence, which was presented to us by Former Vice President Mr. Al Gore on behalf of Business in the Community. In 2007, Lafarge’s open commitment in public reporting was recognised with the large enterprise award for EMAS (eco management audit scheme) in the EU. And in July 2008 the Environment Agency chief executive, Dr Paul Leinster awarded Lafarge with two prestigious national awards from the public body responsible for the environment, the Environment Agency, for its commitment to save and recycle water at its Cauldon Works in the Staffordshire Moorlands which Dave played a major part in achieving this.
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Dave Spitzley
Product Sustainability Manager
KCC. |
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Mr. Spitzley has more than fourteen years of experience in environmental and sustainability analysis. His experience includes topics such as life cycle assessment, organizational environmental strategy, sustainable facility design, component environmental analysis and sustainable product design strategy. He joined the Global Sustainability team at Kimberly-Clark as a product sustainability manager in 2006. In this role, he provides oversight and guidance for activities in life cycle assessment, product environmental improvement, carbon footprints and related fields. Prior to joining K-C, he directed graduate students, managed research activities and conducted life cycle research at the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems. As the Senior Research Associate at CSS, he contributed to methods development in life cycle optimization and life cycle energy analysis.
Previously, Mr. Spitzley served as a senior consultant in life cycle management and automotive technology at Battelle Memorial Institute. While at Battelle, he advised the Ford Motor Company on the environmental redesign of the historic Rouge complex and helped guide life cycle assessment decision making procedures at General Motors. Mr. Spitzley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and has been actively involved in societies and associations focused on sustainability. He is currently serving as chair of the Methodology Working Group for the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Initiative and as a member of the steering committee for the Sustainability Consortium. He is the author of fourteen technical papers on sustainability and environmental design as well as two textbook chapters addressing life cycle assessment.
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Jonathan Kaplan
Senior Policy Specialist
Natural Resources Defence Council. |
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Jonathan Kaplan will be speaking at the conference.
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P Joseph Grindstaff
Director
CALFED. |
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Joe was appointed Deputy Secretary for Water Policy by Resources Secretary Mike Chrisman on November 28, 2006, with broad oversight responsibility for all activities related to water, including the CALFED Bay-Delta Program. He was appointed Director of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program on June 12, 2006 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, after serving as acting director for the prior year. Prior to joining CALFED, he served as chief deputy director of the Department of Water Resources and general manager of the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority. Earlier in his career, he served in leadership roles at other water districts and municipalities.
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John Bohn
Secretary for Water
CPUC. |
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Ambassador John A. Bohn currently serves as a Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). He was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger in May 2005 for a six year term. The Commission’s focus for the State of California is on climate change, energy, and water issues, as well as developments in clean technology solutions.
In addition to his duties at the CPUC, Commissioner Bohn serves as a Director of the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC, and is on the Advisory Board of the Yale Institute for Corporate Governance and Performance. He is a member of the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness chartered by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to advise on the reform capital markets for the 21st Century. Commissioner Bohn is a principal in GlobalNet Partners, N.A., LLC, a global advisory and consulting firm.
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Troy Elliott
Director of Agronomy
BoltHouse Farms. |
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Troy Elliott will be speaking at the conference.
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Maile Smith
Corporate Sustainability Co-Ordinator
Northgate Environmental Management, Inc. |
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Maile Smith is a professional geologist with ten years of experience managing environmental restoration projects, with particular expertise in strategic planning, regulatory negotiations, site characterization and feasibility studies, hydrogeologic and geochemical interpretation, and in-situ and sustainable remediation. She manages multi-disciplinary projects and multi-site remedial programs for commercial and municipal clients under federal, state, and local California regulations and policies. Ms. Smith is Northgate’s corporate Sustainability Coordinator, in which role she evaluates and incorporates sustainability principles into Northgate projects and procurements, and identifies client risks and opportunities related to climate change and associated regulations and policies. Ms. Smith serves on the Board of Trustees of the Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF), a national consortium of EPA regions, state agencies, and large industries working to establish a framework that incorporates sustainability concepts into the remediation process and regulatory decision-making.
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Brooke Barton
Senior Manager, Corporate Programs
Ceres. |
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At Ceres, Brooke is responsible for advising member companies in the food and beverage and oil and gas sectors on sustainability strategy, reporting and stakeholder engagement. She also leads Ceres’ work with companies and investors to address the growing business risks posed by water scarcity, and is the author of Ceres’ most recent study on the topic, Murky Waters: Corporate Reporting on Water Risk. Prior to Ceres, Brooke was a researcher for the Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, and a communications manager at ACCION International, a microfinance NGO. She holds a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and an undergraduate degree from Duke University.
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Scott McGinty
Executive Vice President
Aurora Organic Dairy. |
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Scott is a senior member of the strategic and executive committees, and is responsible for overseeing sales, marketing and manufacturing for Aurora Organic Dairy. He joined the company at its inception as an organic dairy producer/processor as VP of Sales. He has since built more than $100 million in annual sales in the first five years to make Aurora Organic the country’s leading provider of private brand organic dairy products.
Under his leadership, the company has built a nationwide dairy product distribution footprint. Key to his success was overseeing two major capital investments to expand manufacturing capacity, the development of co-packing services and overall brand building.
His experience in the organic dairy category began in 1995 as Horizon Organic Dairy’s sales broker in Northern California. He then joined Horizon and held a variety of sales positions, including National Accounts and Regional Management. Horizon grew by more than $100 million during his tenure.
He has held a variety of other sales and marketing management positions over his 15-year career in organic food and grocery retailing. He has served as VP of Sales with Frontier Natural Products and National Account Team Leader for Dean Foods at Safeway. Scott began is career in CPG sales management with Kelley-Clarke food brokers (now Acosta) and Wal-Mart Stores where he absorbed the fundamentals of retailing, data analysis, people management and pioneering new product distribution in the grocery trade. He received his B.S. degree in Marketing from Santa Clara University.
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Steve McDonald
Partner
Carollo Engineers. |
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Mr. McDonald is a partner and Director of the Integrated Water Resources (IWR) Group for Carollo Engineers. The IWR Group applies engineering, science and business principles to deliver a wide range of planning services for municipal wastewater, stormwater and water resource agencies. Mr. McDonald has significant experience in the development of strategic master plans for the water quality industry. He has master-planned over $8 billion of new wastewater treatment facilities in the last 10 years. He is the creator of customized software models used in strategic master planning and forecasting, including: the Master Plan Manager (MPMTM) for developing and running strategic planning scenarios; OptimoTM for minimizing O&M costs; and the Water/Wastewater Asset Manager (WAMTM) for assessing asset condition, criticality, and vulnerability, and for comparing and prioritizing projects based on risk and benefit. These planning models incorporate principles of sustainability and “green” technologies with the latest in wastewater/stormwater treatment processes. He has completed master plans for the City and County of San Francisco; the City of Fresno, CA; the Cities of Reno, Sparks, and Washoe County, NV; Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District, CA; and is currently project director for the development of the Wastewater Master Plan for the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant, and the land use plan for the surrounding 2,600 acres. Mr. McDonald has contributed as a technical expert in USEPA’s development of the total maximum daily load (TMDL) approach to improving water quality. He was appointed to the National Research Council (NRC) Committee to assess the science of the TMDL approach and to make recommendations to EPA and Congress on the future direction of TMDL water quality regulations. He is coauthor of the NRC Report; “Assessing the TMDL Approach to Water Quality Management,” (June 2001).
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Pascual Benito
Senior Staff Engineer
Northgate Environmental Management, Inc.. |
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Dr. Pascual Benito is a senior staff engineer at Northgate Environmental Management. He has 14 years of experience in environmental site investigations and working in research and development in areas including surface and subsurface hydrology, contaminant transport modeling, environmental restoration, and the use of geographic information systems for environmental data analysis. Dr. Benito is an expert in fluid flow and contaminant transport modeling and has carried out regional and watershed scale investigations to assess the risks posed by industrial waste discharges. He also has extensive experience in developing and deploying web-based environmental information systems for use in multi-stakeholder projects for government agencies and private corporations. Dr. Benito earned his doctorate and master’s degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, and his undergraduate degree in Geology from Amherst College. Prior to joining Northgate, he worked for WebH2O, LLC, developing web-based environmental management systems, and in the Earth Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Yoram Rubin
Professor
University of California, Berkeley. |
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Yoram Rubin is a professor of environmental engineering at U.C. Berkeley, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His areas of expertise include groundwater hydrology, contaminant transport, subsurface characterization of geological media, spatial analysis and geostatistics, environmental risk assessment, and soil-plant-atmospheric interaction. He is the recipient of the 2004 Hydrologic Sciences Award of the American Geophysical Union. In 2006, he was also nominated a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Prof. Rubin is also the founder and CEO of WebH2O, LLC., a company that specializes in developing web-based environmental information management, analysis, and mapping tools for government agencies and corporations.
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Slav Hermanowicz
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley. |
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Slav Hermanowicz has been at the University of California at Berkeley since 1983 where he has conducted research and teaching in the area of environmental protection with special emphasis on physical sustainability, water and wastewater treatment and water reuse. The focus of his research was on metrics of sustainability, biological processes, membrane bioreactors, and biostability of drinking water. He consulted for public and private clients including water utilities, engineering companies, attorneys, governmental and supranational organizations in the US, EU and Asia. His visiting appointments include Nishihara Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Hokkaido University, Japan, Gaspar de Portola Scholar at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Universitat de Girona, Spain. Recently, he was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Sustainability at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna (Fall 2008). He graduated from Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Toronto.
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Linda Hwang
Manager, Environmental Research & Innovation
BSR. |
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With the current global water crisis threatening access to clean water for businesses, governments, and communities, Linda spearheads many of BSR's initiatives to help ensure healthy management of water resources.
As a manager on the Environmental Research & Innovation team, Linda works with companies to identify and prioritize water-related risks for their business operations, driving strategies on emerging issues related to supply, access, quality, and land-use changes, as well as leading the Sustainable Water Group.
Linda leads two initiatives in southern China: one on how global apparel and retail brands can reverse the degradation of water systems, and a second project exploring the impact of water management on environmental health. She also co-leads the Environmental Services, Tools & Markets Working Group, delivering solutions for integrating ecosystem services into corporate decision-making processes.
Prior to joining BSR, Linda worked in equity research investment banking and helped lead community development strategies in South Africa. She is fluent in Taiwanese.
Linda holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, an M.Phil. in Development Studies & Social Transformation from the University of Cape Town, and a B.A. in Environmental Economics from the University of Michigan.
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Corporate water strategy; water-related risks for apparel and commodity supply chains; ecosystem services and land use policy; biofuels.
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Steven Avadek
Sustainability and Climate Change Consultant
ERM. |
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Steven Avadek is a Sustainability and Climate Change Consultant with ERM based in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Mr. Avadek specializes in water sustainability and strategy and is a core member of ERM’s global water sustainability team. As such, Steven is involved in a wide spectrum of projects that have focused on ensuring the sustainability of global freshwater resources for his clients. Steven has led the water business risk assessment for a fortune 100 global agricultural processor, performed product water footprints for clothing retailers as it relates to their supply chains and a beverage trade association, and contributed to the development of the Cadbury plc water footprinting methodology and tool.
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Marty Matlock
Area Director, Center for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability
University Of Arkansas. |
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Dr. Marty Matlock is a professor of ecological engineering and director of Center for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability at the University of Arkansas. He is a Certified Senior Ecologist with the Ecological Society of America, and a Registered Professional Engineer (Texas). Matlock's research area is design and management of ecosystem services, with a focus on water resources. He serves as an Environmental Protection Commissioner for the Cherokee Nation, is a technical advisor on five international corporate sustainability committees, and is the chair of the Technical Committee for the ANSI SCS001 Standard for Sustainable Agriculture.
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Dr. Velislava Ivanova
Global Water Sustainability Practice Lead
ERM. |
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Dr. Ivanova has 15 years of wide international experience in sustainability consulting. She has significant technical expertise in a variety of sectors including mining, utilities, and retail. She has managed complex programs and projects in the USA, UK, Belgium, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, and Bulgaria. Dr. Ivanova has developed, managed, and implemented diverse water related projects focused on water infrastructure and treatment technologies, water quality and conservation, wetlands restoration, water risk analysis, and water-related legislation for a wide client base including industry, International Financial Institutions, and utilities. Dr. Ivanova is the Global Water Sustainability Practice Lead for ERM focusing on development of water related innovative service offerings and helping clients achieve their strategic and operational goals related to sustainability and water in particular.
Dr. Ivanova holds MSc in Pollution and Environmental Control and Ph.D in Environmental Biology form the University of Manchester, UK . Her Ph.D. research focused on biological methods of treatment of metal polluted freshwaters.
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John McKinnon
Lead Water Strategist
KCC. |
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John McKinnon will be speaking at the conference.
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Carey King
Research Associate, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy
University of Texas At Austin. |
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Dr. Carey King studies energy systems, how they work together, how they impact the environment, and how and why humans as a society consume energy resources. He specializes in dynamic systems modeling and nonlinear optimization methods. Much of his recent work has focused on the nexus between energy and water for projecting water demand for electricity generation and alternative automobile fuels. As part of his energy-water studies, Dr. King has authored journal publications, a chapter for the Texas State Energy Conservation Office on the role of water in Texas' energy future as well as a report for the Texas Water Development Board that projects water demand scenarios for future electricity production. Additional work in which Dr. King is engaged includes the economics of carbon capture and sequestration, the design of beneficial combinations of renewable energy and storage systems, and the creation of tools to help the public and policymakers understand the tradeoffs among different electricity generation sources.
Before joining the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. King was Director of Scientific Research at UniPixel Displays, Inc., a company developing a new flat panel display technology based upon microelectromechanical systems. Dr. King is a former National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, and holds both a B.S. with High Honors and Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Jonathan C Kaledin
Blue Water Certification Program Director
The Nature Conservancy. |
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Jonathan C. Kaledin will be speaking at the conference.
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Roger Pulwarty
Director, National Integrated Drought Information System
NOAA. |
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Dr. Roger S. Pulwarty will be speaking at the conference.
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Bas Mohrmann
Principal Investment Officer
IFC. |
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Bas Mohrmann will be speaking at the conference.
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Karin M. Krchnak
Senior Advisor, International Water Policy
The Nature Conservancy. |
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As an environmental lawyer, Ms. Krchnak has worked to improve policies and procedures related to environmental management and resource conservation worldwide. As a Senior Advisor in the External Affairs Department of TNC, she advises on the development of policy strategies with national governments, multilateral institutions, river basin organizations and other partners. Her areas of focus include river basin conservation, payment for environmental services in the water sector, water and energy infrastructure development (hydropower), and watershed protection. Before joining TNC, as the World Resource Institute’s Director of the Access Initiative & the Partnership for Principle 10, Ms. Krchnak managed two global secretariats aimed at improving information disclosure, transparency and accountability in environmental decision-making. Prior to WRI, Ms. Krchnak has worked as the Population & Environment Program Manager in the National Wildlife Federation’s International Programs, as well as Director for the Western Newly Independent States and Director of the Environmental Law Program for the American Bar Association Central and Eastern European Law Initiative. In addition, she has worked as an environmental attorney for Science Applications International Corporation and the Environmental Law Institute, and as an editor for the East Asian Legal Studies Program at the University of Maryland School of Law. Ms. Krchnak received her B.A. in Political Science from Duke University and her J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law. She has published extensively in the area of international environmental policy and sustainable development, particularly on freshwater issues. She has served on the Steering Committees of the Global Water Partnership and the Gender & Water Alliance. She is Co-Chair of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development’s Freshwater Caucus. She currently serves on the World Water Council’s Board of Governors as representative for The Nature Conservancy. Ms. Krchnak has also served as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Maryland School of Law and at law faculties and universities overseas.
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Jan Dell
Water Core Project Team
World Business Council Sustainable Development. |
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Ms. Dell works with global companies on major project developments and corporate strategies with an emphasis on Sustainable Water Management, Adaptation to Climate Change and Low Carbon Energy.
Ms. Dell is a chemical engineer (M.S. University of California at Berkeley) with over 20 years of experience on energy and water projects extending across more than 40 countries. Much of that experience has been in China, Indonesia, Canada, the Mid East and other regions with water supply constraints. Ms. Dell began her career with Chevron in research and development of enhanced oil recovery techniques. From 1987 to 1991, Ms. Dell was based in Asia and worked with national and private oil/gas companies on water injection and produced water treatment systems in onshore and offshore developments. She has also worked with multinational clients in the chemical, manufacturing, food, beverage, footwear, apparel, and entertainment industries to implement sustainable business practices in their business operations, their communities and their supply chains.
In 2007, Ms Dell led the creation of the Global Water Tool for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The free and easy-to-use tool enables companies to map their water use (or that of their supply chain) with local availability water conditions including access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. The Global Water Tool has become the global standard and is used by over 200 companies to measure their water footprint and map their risks.
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