UC Berkeley’s Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP) at the Goldman School of Public Policy invites you to participate in the closing event of the inaugural workshop series of the Carbon Governance Project (CGP) entitled:

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Confirmed Participants

Linda Adams, Climate Action Reserve
Kate Beardsley, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Laura Berland-Shane, Siemens
Ken Berlin, Coalition for Green Capital
Henry E. Brady, University of California - Berkeley
Kathryn Brown, Science & Innovation
Adam Bumpus, University of Melbourne
Chris Choate, Recology
Cisco Devries, Renewable Funding
Cassie Doyle, Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco and Silicon Valley
Neill Duffy, Tribe Management
Bob Epstein, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Stephanie Glazer, ARUP
James N. Goldstene, California Air Resources Board
Kristian Hanelt, SVP Renewable Capital Markets
Blas Pérez Henríquez, University of California - Berkeley
Ron Kalich, Kaiser Permanente Corporation
Dan Kammen, University of California - Berkeley
Bruce Klafter, Applied Materials
Peter Liu, Clean Energy Advantage
Dan Lankford, Wavepoint Ventures
Jack MacDonald, Allotrope Ventures
Ben Machol, Environmental Protection Agency
Richard Miller, Technology Strategy Board
Ralph Moran, BP America, Inc
Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the Future
Brad Neff, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Mary Nichols, California Air Resources Board
Michael O'Hare, University of California - Berkeley
Chuks Okereke, University of Reading
Michael R. Peevey, California Public Utilities Commission
Noel Perry, Next 10
Nancy Pfund, DBL Investors
Sean Randolph, Bay Area Council Economic Institute
Ethan Ravage, International Emissions Trading Association
Maike Rentel, Science & Innovation
David Roland-Holst, University of California - Berkeley
Omar Romero-Hernandez, University of California - Berkeley
David Rosenheim, The Climate Registry
Jill Savery, America's Cup Event Authority
Bill Shelander, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kari Smith, SunPower Corporation
Chris Somerville, Energy Biosciences Institute
Costas Spanos, University of California - Berkeley
Brian Steel, University of California - Berkeley
Todd Strauss, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Marc Stuart, Allotrope Ventures
Michael Summers, CG Innovation Partners
James Tansey, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Neil Thomson, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Harrie Vredenburg, University of Calgary
Kim Bach Vu, TE Connectivity
Mason Willrich, California Clean Energy Fund
John Wiseman, University of Melbourne
Catherine Wolfram, University of California - Berkeley
Gillian Wright, Southern California Gas Company
Heather Youngs, University of California - Berkeley
Carol Zabin, University of California - Berkeley, Labor Center

Participant Biographies

Linda Adams
Chair
Climate Action Reserve

Linda Adams, former director of the California Department of Water Resources, was appointed in May 2006 as Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency. Ms. Adams oversees the environmental activities of the Air Resources Board, California Integrated Waste Management Board, State Water Resources Control Board, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Department of Toxic Substances Control, Department of Pesticide Regulation, and the approximately 5,000 employees that serve the state’s diverse environmental programs. Secretary Adams is the lead negotiator on AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.

During Ms. Adams' 32 years of service to the State of California, she has acted in a number of key positions in both the Executive and Legislative branches. Ms. Adams joined Governor Davis' staff in 1999 as Chief Deputy Legislative Secretary, where her primary responsibilities were negotiating legislation related to environmental protection and natural resources. After being promoted to Legislative Secretary, where she served as the Governor's chief liaison to the Legislature, Ms. Adams retained her resources and environmental protection issues, while overseeing all legislative activities.

Previously, Ms. Adams served as a staff member to the State Legislature for 20 years in various positions. She served as chief consultant to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources, chaired by Senator Jim Costa. For the State Assembly, she served as a consultant to the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife and the Committee on Local Government.

Kate Beardsley
Director
State Agency Relations Department
Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Kate Beardsley Grant is a Director in State Agency Relations at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). Grant oversees the company's engagement with the California Air Resources Board on implementation of Assembly Bill (AB) 32 - California's Global Warming Solutions Act. She joined PG&E in 2007 shortly after AB 32 was signed into law and has since participated in AB 32 implementation activities on behalf of PG&E such as the development of the California Air Resources Board's AB 32 Scoping Plan and a range of measures and regulations to implement the Scoping Plan, such as the proposed California Cap-and-Trade Program, Mandatory Reporting Regulation, 33 Percent Renewable Electricity Standard, Low Carbon Fuel Standards and others. Grant also participates in implementation activities via the Western Climate Initiative and represents PG&E on a variety of external stakeholder groups.

Prior to joining PG&E, Kate managed a wide variety of environmental risk and remediation projects for both private and public sector entities. She also worked for the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a communications and outreach specialist, responsible for conveying the agency's latest findings to a wide variety of audiences. She holds a Bachelors degree in Environment, Economics and Politics from Claremont McKenna College and a Masters degree in Environmental Toxicology from Duke University.

Laura Berland-Shane
Siemens

Laura is a business development executive with Siemens Industry's Solar Vertical Market Management Group. The Solar VMM serves as a hub for all Siemens Industries' solar products for utility scale and commercial applications, and includes solar PV inverters, as well as automation and control equipment for solar cell and panel manufacturers. Previously, Laura developed solar PV projects for public sector customers with Siemens' Alternative Energy group within Siemens Building Technologies. She has been a sales and operations professional in the solar PV industry since 2003 - notably as SolarCity 's Southern California Sales Director and Permacity Solar's Chief Operating Officer. Presently. she sits on the Board and is a founding member of The Sustainable Business Council, LA, and is a So Cal Chapter Director for Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a national non-profit advocacy group affiliated with the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC).. Laura also was appointed to the Riverside Solar Task Force, and she sits on the LA Business Council's Solar Working Group. Laura has an MBA in finance from The Wharton School and a BA in International Relations from Brown University. She is also a LEED AP.

Ken Berlin
Senior Vice President for Policy and Planning & General Counsel
Coalition for Green Capital

Ken Berlin is currently Senior Vice President, Policy & Planning and General Counsel of the Coalition for Green Capital. Ken is the former head of the Environmental and Climate Change Practices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (from 1994-October 2010). He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1973.

Ken has been involved in a wide range of environmental and energy issues since 1979, when he was Section Chief in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He was Chairman of the Board of the Environmental Law Institute from 2003-2005 and is the current Chairman of the Board of the Center for International Environmental Law.

Mr. Berlin is a frequent speaker at conferences on climate change issues. His topics have included energy finance issues, carbon capture and sequestration issues, the business of climate change, energy security and climate change, and climate change legislation and litigation.

Ken is currently Chair of the Energy and Environment Team for Obama and a Co-Chair of the Campaign's Energy and Environmental fundraising effort. Mr. Berlin was on the Obama EPA Transition team.

Mr. Berlin has also written extensively on GHG issues. He is the co-author of a paper scheduled for publication in April 2012 by the Brookings Institution titled, "Creating State Green Banks: New Finance Entities for Clean Energy Deployment". TalkingPointsmemo.com has published two postings by Mr Berlin: The Second Valley of Death and The Energy Independence Trust, Lowering the Cost of Clean, the latter co-authored with Bracken Hendricks. His reports, "Global Warming and the Future of Coal, The Path to Carbon Capture and Storage" and "Early Deployment: Maximizing Carbon Capture and Storage Under the Warner-Lieberman Global Warming Bill" and several shorter analysis of clean coal were published in 2007 and 2008 by the Center for American Progress. His article, "A Framework for Achieving Energy Security and Arresting Global Warming" was published by the Center for American Progress in December 2008. His body of work also includes articles on a wide range of environment and resource issues, including international trade and environment, hazardous waste cleanup, allocation of liability under environmental cleanup laws, property takings issues, environmental aspects of real estate transactions, corporate M&A, and endangered species.

Henry Brady
Dean and Professor of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley

Henry E. Brady is Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in Economics and Political Science from MIT in 1980. He has written on electoral politics and political participation, social welfare policy, political polling, and statistical methodology, and he has worked for the federal Office of Management and Budget and other organizations in Washington, D.C. He is president of the American Political Science Association, past president of the Political Methodology Society of the American Political Science Association, and director of the University of California's Survey Research Center from 1998 to 2009. He is coauthor of Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (1992) which won the Harold Innis Award for the best book in the social sciences published in English in Canada, Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics (1995) which won the Philip Converse Award for a book making a lasting contribution to public opinion research, Expensive Children in Poor Families: The Intersection of Childhood Disability and Welfare (2000), and Counting All the Votes: The Performance of Voting Technology in the United States (2001). He is co-editor of Rethinking Social Inquiry (2004) which won the Sartori Award for best book on qualitative methods, Capturing Campaign Effects (2006), and the Handbook of Political Methodology (2008). Brady has also authored numerous articles on political participation, political methodology, the dynamics of public opinion, and other topics. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2003 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006.

Kathryn Brown
West Coast Regional Director
Science & Innovation

Prior to joining the SF S&I team in September 2009, Kathryn worked in developing and delivering science, innovation and business policy for HMG. This included developing policy recommendations to improve the competitiveness of medical technology SMEs, and working with the Technology Strategy Board to develop and deliver a £50M business support programme. Kathryn has a BSc (Hons) in Biotechnology.

Adam Bumpus
Lecturer
University of Melbourne

Between 2009 and 2011, Adam was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Carbon Governance at ISIS. Currently he is an Associate Fellow of ISIS, and a lecturer in Sustainable Development and the Environment at the University of Melbourne. He is the lead researcher and manager of the International Carbon Governance Project – a collaboration between ISIS, the University of Oxford, University of California, Berkeley and the University of Melbourne – focused on exploring transforming business to a low carbon future. Prior to coming to the Centre, Adam completed a Bachelor of Science (with honours) in Ecology, at the University of East Anglia, UK (with a year spent on exchange at UBC). Adam then worked for three years on climate change and media affairs in London while he finished his Master of Arts in Environment, Politics and Globalization at the University of London, King’s College. Seeing a need for a better understanding of the social and environmental implications of carbon offsets, Adam completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute in 2009.

In addition to fieldwork in both developed and developing world contexts (particularly in Latin America), Adam has spent time as a Visiting Scholar at both the University of California, Santa Cruz (2008) and at UBC’s Liu Institute for Global Issues (2009). Primarily focusing on carbon markets and international development, Adam has published his work in several geography journals and has presented widely at academic- and policy-oriented international conferences.

In the first year of his doctoral studies, Adam also founded The Climate Consultancy, a consulting company dedicated to putting research into action in order to assist companies and governments in progressive approaches to carbon management. Adam aims to put both his academic and business credentials to good use at ISIS as it further develops its work on carbon governance in BC and beyond.

Chris Choate
Vice President - Technology
Recology

Chris Choate is the Director and Vice President – Technology of Recology, a 100% employee-owned company which provides residential and commercial integrated resource recovery services to more than 110 communities in California, Oregon, Seattle and Nevada.

Recology is headquartered in San Francisco, where the Company’s original operating subsidiaries, Sunset Scavenger and Golden Gate Disposal & Recycling, were incorporated in 1920. The Company is recognized for its outstanding customer service and customized approach to programs designed to accommodate each community’s recycling collection and processing systems to increase diversion from landfills to achieve zero waste. As a leader in recycling, Recology is distinguished by being the first company to offer an innovative post-consumer food waste program to an entire major city in the United States.

Chris has 32 years of experience in the solid waste industry. He has worked for Recology for the past 20 years. Chris has played a lead role in the start-up of Recology’s food waste compost operation at Jepson Prairie Organics located near Dixon, California.

As Director and Vice President - Technology, Chris is responsible for searching out emerging technology programs and for finding alternatives to landfill disposal by utilizing waste material for other purposes. Consistent with Recology’s sustainability programs, Chris is analyzing new biomass conversion technologies to create renewable energy and alternative fuel from the waste Recology collects from homes and businesses. Chris envisions Recology as being a carbon neutral company through its greenhouse gas emissions management. Recology is committed to assisting the City and County of San Francisco to reach zero waste by 2020.

Mr. Choate formerly served as Vice President & Group Manager of Landfills and Compost Facilities overseeing all Recology landfill and composting operations and facilities. Previously, Mr. Choate served as a Landfill Manager for the City of Sacramento Landfill, and the Altamont Landfill. Mr. Choate also worked for the California Integrated Waste Management Board.

Chris has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from San Jose State University and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of California.

Cisco Devries
President
Renewable Funding

Cisco DeVries has worked at the cutting edge of energy, environment, politics and government for over 15 years.

As Chief of Staff to Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, he envisioned and led the initial development of the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program. The PACE mechanism has received national and international attention, including being named one of the 20 "world-changing" ideas by Scientific American magazine.

DeVries is now President of Renewable Funding, which helps local and state governments around the country design, administer and finance similar PACE programs. As President he serves as a resource to governments and organizations working on financing programs, including providing technical assistance for the U.S. Department of Energy. He has presented at over 100 conferences, trainings, and workshops – including those sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Pacific Gas & Electric, Sierra Club, ICLEI, and others.

Previously, while with the San Francisco firm Staton & Hughes, DeVries provided policy, media, and political guidance for a wide variety of clients from Members of Congress to Fortune 500 companies.

From 1996 to 1998, DeVries was an appointee in the administration of President Bill Clinton, serving as an aide to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation and the U.S. Secretary of Energy.

DeVries holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego and a Master's degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two sons. He also sits on the Board of the Oakland Museum of Children's Art.

Cassie Doyle
Consul General
Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco and Silicon Valley

Ms. Cassie Doyle was appointed as Consul General of Canada in San Francisco in January 2011. She is responsible for Northern California, Hawaii and Nevada (consular services only).

A native of Canada’s west coast, Ms. Cassie Doyle has served at the executive level of all three orders of government including as Deputy Minister with both the governments of Canada and British Columbia. Over the past 15 years, she has led departments that have focused on advancing Canada’s energy, natural resource and environmental agendas. Ms. Doyle achieved notable success in the development of clean energy innovation and efficiency programs, improvements in the performance of the government’s regulatory system for major projects and the transformation of the forest industry. She has a proven track record of collaborating effectively with stakeholders from across the spectrum of public, private and non-governmental sectors.

Ms. Doyle served as Canada’s Deputy Minister of Natural Resources from 2006 to 2010 after three years as the Associate Deputy Minister of Environment Canada. She was also a member of the Board of Directors for the Atomic Energy Corporation of Canada. Prior to joining the federal government in 2002, Ms. Doyle held a number of senior positions with the British Columbia Government including the CEO of the BC Assets and Land Corporation, Deputy Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks and Deputy Minister of Small Business, Tourism and Culture. Ms. Doyle started her career with the City of Ottawa working in housing and urban development.

Ms. Doyle holds a Master’s degree in Social Policy and Administration from Carleton University and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Victoria. She has served as the Chair of Oxfam Canada, the chair of the 2010 Community Campaign and a member of the Board of Directors of the Ottawa United Way.

Neill Duffy
Chairman,
Tribe Management

After having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa, Neill has spent the last 25 years working with many major brands, federations, properties, NGO's and agencies as a senior sports and entertainment marketing and sustainability professional.

During this time Neill has led a regional division for Octagon Worldwide, one of the worlds top sports and entertainment practices, run an award winning sports marketing agency, worked with major corporations, federations, NGO's and athletes around major events and properties, developed sustainability and responsibility plans for major events, bid for major sports events, spoken at international conferences and authored a book called Passion Branding that has been published internationally.

Neill's current venture, of which he is Chairman, is Tribe Management which is a "for purpose" business dedicated to harnessing the commercial, emotional and communicative power of sports, entertainment, media and celebrity to solve environmental and social problems. Tribe works with brands, NGO's and sports and entertainment properties operating at the intersection of sport, entertainment, celebrity and sustainability.

Neill advises the America's Cup Event Authority, most recently with responsibility for leading the marketing and sustainability activities of the organisation. Built upon a commitment to social, economic and environmental sustainability, the 34^th America's Cup aims to be a model sporting event. A cornerstone of this effort is the America's Cup Healthy Ocean Project, a collaboration between the America's Cup and leading ocean conservation groups to use the global reach and appeal of the America's Cup to inspire millions of people to care about the ocean. This approach to sustainability is a first for a major international sporting event.

Neill's work at the America's Cup has led to the development of the America's Cup Sustainability Credit, an innovative response to the America's Cup commitment to being carbon neutral and zero waste. The ACSC is a marketing platform that generates enabling capital to assist with the establishment of marine protected areas by harnessing the enabling capital potential of REDD+ and the marketing power of a major international sporting event. ACSC delivers multiple stakeholders with societal, economic and environmental benefits that go way beyond what is possible with "vanilla" carbon offsetting instruments.

Bob Epstein
Founder
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)

Bob Epstein is an entrepreneur and engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a co-founder of five companies: Sybase, New Resource Bank, GetActive Software, Colorado Microdisplay and Britton-Lee. Bob currently splits his professional time between his roles as co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs, Director of New Resource Bank, Advisory Board for the Goldman School of Public Policy and Chairman of the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund. Bob’s community activities are focused on the environment, public education, urban food systems and opera.

Stephanie Glazer
Senior Climate Change Specialist
ARUP

Stephanie Glazer advances climate change mitigation measures through planning for sustainability in the built environment. An accredited GHG lead verifier in voluntary and compliance markets, she has developed and verified GHG emissions inventories in the telecommunications, power and water/wastewater utilities, waste management, retail, and entertainment industries. Ms. Glazer authored a hybrid production- and consumption-based carbon accounting protocol for development projects, incorporating both the embodied carbon and operating emissions associated with buildings and infrastructure. Ms. Glazer evaluates the possible tradeoffs between embodied and operating emissions to optimize design decisions in support of low-carbon, sustainable development. Her work also includes creating quantification models to assess the potential effectiveness of various policy options aimed at prioritizing implementation measures and forecasting likely results.

Ms. Glazer has provided technical advice to Clinton Climate Initiative's Climate Positive Development Program, and she currently participates on ICLEI’s Technical Advisory Committee for the Community-Scale GHG Accounting and Reporting Protocol.

James N. Goldstene
Executive Officer
California Air Resources Board

James N. Goldstene is the Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board. The Board has 11 members appointed by the Governor and is responsible for promoting and protecting the public health and ecological resources of California through effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and considering the effects of its actions on the state’s economy. To achieve this goal, the Executive Officer oversees the development and implementation of regulations and policies adopted by the Board and represents the ARB before the Legislature and in a wide variety of state, regional, national and international forums. The California Air Resources Board has more than 1300 employees.

Goldstene was appointed Executive Officer in October 2007. Since then the Board has passed major rules to reduce diesel emissions from trucks, construction equipment and ships. It also adopted a comprehensive plan to reduce global warming pollutants under AB 32, California’s pioneering climate change legislation, and developed a range of measures and regulations to implement this plan, including the groundbreaking Low Carbon Fuel Standard and the establishment of a greenhouse gas emissions-trading program. In 2008 the Obama administration adopted California’s standard for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles as the standard for the entire nation. Currently, ARB is working with the U.S. EPA and the Department of Transportation to develop more stringent standards for vehicles from model year 2017 to 2025.

Prior to his appointment as Executive Officer, Goldstene served first as a specialist to coordinate the Board's involvement in California's Smog Check program. Later, as Senior Advisor to the Board's Office of Climate Change, he was also responsible for providing policy guidance and direction for the implementation of AB 32.

Prior to joining the Board, Goldstene served as Deputy Chief at the California Department of Consumer Affairs' Bureau of Automotive Repair, the agency responsible for regulating automotive repair dealers and running the state's Smog Check program. His career history also includes key management positions with the Bureau of Barbering and Cosmetology, the State Contractors License Board, the California Pollution Control Financing Authority and other financing authorities in the Office of the State Treasurer. Goldstene served as Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy's environmental advisor in the early 1990s.

Goldstene also serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Clean Air Agencies and is currently co-chair of the Western Climate Initiative Executive Committee.

Goldstene holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Government from California State University, Sacramento, where he served as part-time faculty in the Government Department for many years. As part of his graduate studies, he completed a year studying in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol in England. Goldstene taught American government and political theory at California State University, Sacramento for many years.

Kristian Hanelt
SVP Renewable Capital Markets
Clean Power Finance

Kristian has spent his career financing energy projects across a variety of energy sectors. He comes to Clean Power Finance from Tioga Energy, a leading developer of commercial solar systems. As the Vice President of Project Finance and a member of the founding team at Tioga, Kristian was instrumental in both project finance and corporate fundraising initiatives. Previously, Kristian worked as an Associate at ArcLight Capital Partners, an energy infrastructure-focused private equity investor. Prior to ArcLight, he was the Financial Manager for Gunnison Energy Corporation, where he controlled all finance-related activities for the startup natural gas producer. Kristian has also worked for Goldman Sachs in their Industrial and Natural Resources group, and PA Consulting in their Wholesale Energy Markets practice. Kristian has a BS in Business Administration from Boston University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Blas Pérez Henríquez
Director, Center for Environmental Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley

Blas L. Pérez Henríquez founded and directs the UC Berkeley Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP). Pérez Henríquez also serves as Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and as a visiting professor at Mexico's Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE).

As the founding Director of Executive and International Programs (EIP), and Assistant Dean, at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, Pérez Henríquez oversees executive education and capacity building programs for mid-career government officials and senior public policy professionals domestically and abroad. He serves as an ex-officio member of the Goldman School advisory board. He has served as the Quarterly Chair of the Commonwealth Club of California, the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum.

Pérez Henríquez’s research is distinguished by a focus on the interaction of policy implementation with policy adaptation and revision in the context of emission trading, the use of information technology to support environmental market creation and collaborative efforts between business and government to enable the low carbon economy. His current work is aimed at providing guidance for policymakers and advocates in the broader context of climate, energy and environment. He is particularly interested in creating innovative and cost-effective policy frameworks to address global environmental problems in both the developed and developing world.

As an academic observer, Pérez Henríquez participates regularly at the Climate Change Expert Group of the United Nations Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC), a support group at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that develops policy alternatives to address global climate change, as well as the United Nations (UN) Conference of Parties (COP). He has served as external advisor to the Mexican delegation to the UN climate negotiations process, and more recently as part of the California delegation to the COP15, COP16 and COP17 summits, to conduct research on subnational and regional policy developments, business and financing innovation to support climate action, low carbon development and adaptation policies.

Addressing the policy lessons from the international experience implementing emission trading systems, his most recent book “Environmental Commodities and Emissions Trading: Towards a Low Carbon Future” will be published by RFF Press/Earthscan in fall 2012. In addition, Pérez Henríquez is currently conducting research and will co-edit a volume on the development of a high-speed rail system in California as a trigger for smart growth and sustainable development. He has written on public-private environmental collaboration and on the use of information technology to support environmental markets.

Pérez Henríquez holds a Master of Public Policy and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from UC Berkeley. He also holds a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Ron Kalich
National Facilities Director
Kaiser Permanente Corporation

Ron Kalich oversees facilities operations for more than 6 million square meters of Kaiser Permanente real estate in more than 1000 buildings including hospitals, medical office buildings, parking lots, administrative and support buildings, laboratories, pharmacies, and training facilities.

He manages an internal consulting practice focused on facility operations, energy, risk mitigation, and process improvement. Ron is chair of Kaiser Permanente's Sustainable Energy Council, which recently established a targeted reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of 30 percent by 2020.

Prior to Kaiser Permanente, Ron worked for Cushman and Wakefield as a global program compliance manager and as national facilities manager for the corporate real estate firm. His work also included driving LEED and Energy Star certification efforts. Ron's work experience also includes management positions at HPC America, Colo.com, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Ameritech Corporation.

Ron received his bachelor's degree in physics from University of Wisconsin and his master's degree in business administration finance from the University of Pittsburgh. He holds the International Facility Management Association’s SFP designation (Sustainable Facility Professional), as well as CMA and CFM credentials.

Dan Kammen
Professor in the Energy and Resources Group
Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy
Professor of Nuclear Engineering
UC Berkeley

Daniel M. Kammen is Professor in the Energy and Resources Group Energy and Resources Group (ERG) , Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy and is Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley . He is also the founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL).

Kammen received his undergraduate degree in physics from Cornell University (1984), and his masters and doctorate in physics from Harvard (1986 & 1988) for work on theoretical solid state physics and computational biophysics. He was then the Wezmann & Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in the Divisions of Engineering, Biology, and the Humanities (1988 - 1991). First at Caltech and then as a Lecturer in Physics and in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Kammen developed a number of projects focused on renewable energy technologies and environmental resource management. At Harvard he also worked on risk analysis as applied to global warming and methodological studies of forecasting and hazard assessment. Kammen received the 1993 21st Century Earth Award, recognizing contributions to rural development and environmental conservation from the Global Industrial and Policy Research Institute and Nihon Keizai Shimbun in Japan.

From 1993 - 1998 Kammen was an Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Kammen played a key role in developing the interdisciplinary Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) Program at Princeton, that awards undergraduate and masters certificates and a doctoral degree. He was STEP Chair from 1997 - 1999 and co-chair before that. In July of 1998 Kammen joined the interdisciplinary Energy and Resources Group (ERG) at the Univeristy of California, Berkeley as an Associate Professor of Energy and Society. Kammen is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Permanent Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Kammen's research interests include: the science, engineering, management, and dissemination of renewable energy systems; health and environmental impacts of energy generation and use; rural resource management, including issues of gender and ethnicity; international R&D policy, climate change; and energy forecasting and risk analysis. He is the author of over 90 journal publications, a book on environmental, technological, and health risks (Should We Risk It?, Princeton University Press) and numerous reports on renewable energy and development. He has been featured on radio, network and public broadcasting television and in print as an analyst of energy, environmental, and risk policy issues and current events. His recent work on energy R&D policy appeared in Science, and Environment, and has been featured on PBS, KQED, CNN, and in many newspapers via the Reuters news service.

Kammen advises the U. S. and Swedish Agencies for International Development, the World Bank, and the Presidents Committee on Science and Technology (PCAST), and is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Working Group III and the Special Report on Technology Transfer). Dr. Kammen serves on the technical review board for the GEF (the STAP), is a lead author for the Special Report on Technology Transfer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and advises the World Bank and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and well as the African Academy of Sciences.

Bruce Klafter
Senior Director for Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS)
Applied Materials

Bruce Klafter is Senior Director for Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) at Applied Materials, Inc., where he is responsible for assisting business units worldwide with compliance, industrial hygiene, product safety and various strategic initiatives. Additionally, Mr. Klafter is head of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability for the company, where he manages a wide variety of reporting, employee engagement and other projects aimed at enhancing the company’s global citizenship programs. He also serves as an Advisory Council member for Sustainable Silicon Valley, the Association of Climate Change Officers and Next Ten’s Green Innovation Index.

Peter Liu
Managing Director
Clean Energy Advantage

Peter is a co-founder of CEAP and has also founded several companies and organizations that have advanced clean energy and sustainable resources. Peter founded New Resource Bank in 2006 and currently serves as its vice chairman. Peter is also the founding director of Ecologic Brands, an innovative packaging technology company and is the co-founder and Vice Chair for the China US Energy Efficiency Alliance, which coordinates policy and technical collaboration on energy efficiency in China. In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Peter has served on the clean technology advisory boards for the California Public Employees Retirement Systems and the California Teachers' Retirement Systems and serves on the boards of the Climate Action Reserve and the Christensen Fund. As a project finance and energy sector banker at JP Morgan Chase and Credit Suisse, Peter completed $8 billion in project financing, including capital markets, bank loan and tax advantaged structured transactions. Peter is a graduate of UC Berkeley Engineering in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Dan Lankford
Partner
Wavepoint Ventures

Dan is a Managing Director at Wavepoint Ventures, and currently serves as CEO of Element Energy, an early stage energy technology company. Previously he was CEO of BOLDER Technologies (advanced technology batteries), where he took the company from early-stage through IPO and raised more than $100 million in the private and public markets. Before joining BOLDER he was the CEO of AT&T Microelectronics Europe, where he grew the company to more than $250 million in revenue.

Prior to moving to Europe, Dan had various assignments at AT&T and Bell Labs. He has been involved with early-stage technology ventures for more than 20 years as an investor, board member, executive, and consultant. He has a MS from Stanford Business School where he was a Sloan Fellow, and a BS in Engineering (with honors) from Johns Hopkins. Dan is a former commissioner on the Colorado Governor's Commission on Science and Technology and has presented at the White House Conference on Alternative Energy.

Wavepoint Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that believes in "distributed innovation," the potential for exceptional people to innovate almost anywhere today by outsourcing non-core functions and using the Internet as a marketing and collaboration tool. Wavepoint invests in companies in the software and services, clean technology, and medical technology sectors.

Element Energy is commercializing a unique hardware/software system for managing large, multi-cell battery systems.

Jack MacDonald
Principal
Allotrope Ventures

Jack MacDonald is an environmental finance and commercial professional with over fifteen years of international experience in more than 20 countries accumulating a record of innovation in development of the emission reduction and clean energy marketplace.

Prior to Allotrope, Jack was CFO, Board member and Commercial Director of EcoSecurities and departed in the summer of 2010, following transition to full integration as a wholly owned subsidiary of JP Morgan. With offices in 16 countries, EcoSecurities was a globally leading developer of greenhouse gas reduction projects and was publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange until it was purchased by JP Morgan in 2009.

As Commercial Director at EcoSecurities, Jack headed up the firms commercial activities in optimising its global CDM project portfolio through sales of projects and renegotiation of terms as a result of the continuous rapid evolution of the emission reduction market. As CFO of EcoSecurities, Jack managed significant transactions including its IPO in 2005, sale of a strategic stake to Credit Suisse and secondary equity offering in 2007.

Prior to joining EcoSecurities he was a portfolio manager at Light Green Advisors, an institutional equity manager with a resource and environmental efficiency investment strategy and was with Sprott Securities an institutional investment firm.

He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia with a degree in Commerce and fellowship in portfolio management and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and daughter.

Ben Machol
Manager, Clean Energy & Climate Change Office
Environmental Protection Agency

Ben Machol manages the Clean Energy and Climate Change Office for the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9. Prior to that, he served as the region’s Senior Energy Advisor. In his 19 years at the agency, Ben has served in several different capacities, including Guam Program Manager, where he oversaw EPA programs on the island and development of innovative infrastructure finance opportunities for U.S. island Territories. Ben also spent many years in EPA's water programs, working with U.S. and Mexican officials to develop water and wastewater infrastructure along our border region. Ben is a licensed Professional Engineer, with a master's degree in environmental engineering, and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering, both from University of California, Berkeley.

Richard Miller
Head of Sustainability,
Technology Strategy Board

Richard is Head of Sustainability at the Technology Strategy Board. He has overall responsibility for developing and implementing a sustainability strategy across all of the Technology Strategy Board activities. He also has direct responsibility for programmes in Low-Impact Buildings, Sustainable Agriculture and Food, Resource Efficiency and Water. Richard is also currently leading the creation of a strategy for Future Cities, including a large scale demonstrator programme.

Previously he developed and led the Low-Impact Buildings Innovation Platform; creating a programme to enable UK industry to meet the challenge of delivering buildings with a dramatically reduced environmental footprint over the next 10 years.

Richard graduated in Chemistry from Imperial College London, and later completed a PhD in bioinorganic chemistry at the University of Manchester. After a short stint as a post-doctoral fellow he became a lecturer in the Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science at Manchester, researching intelligent instruments and new forms of spectroscopic analysis. In 1986 he joined Unilever's central research group to create a measurement science team at their Port Sunlight Laboratory. He then managed the research programme for the Unilever Speciality Chemicals Group, leading to the creation of a new research focus in molecular modelling and knowledge management.

In 1993 Richard was appointed Vice President R&D for Unichema International, a Unilever company. After the sale of Unichema International to ICI he held a joint appointment as Director for Knowledge and Sustainability in Uniqema, an ICI subsidiary, and as ICI Senior Research Fellow. At Uniqema he was responsible for all knowledge initiatives, development of an e-business portfolio, and for integrating sustainability into the corporate strategy. As Senior Research Fellow he was a member of the ICI Technology Board responsible for the development and implementation of ICI's corporate research and technology strategy. Richard took particular responsibility for sustainability, modelling and knowledge programmes. In 2001 Richard left to found Miller-Klein Associates, a consultancy focused on innovation and sustainability, and Vigorat, a specialist intranet consultancy. With both he has worked with a range of public and private organisations.

Ralph Moran
Sr. Director of Government and Public Affairs - California
BP America, Inc.

Ralph J. Moran has 20 years experience in both the upstream and downstream segments of the oil industry including oil field formation evaluation, site remediation and government relations. As Senior Director of California Government and Public Affairs at BP America, he is primary accountability for managing BP's political, legislative and regulatory interests in the state. In his previously role as BP's Director of Environmental Affairs in Washington D.C. he supported BP's Western Hemisphere business segments and Communications and External Affairs group by facilitating engagements with non-governmental organizations and by managing environment-related policy issues – including federal climate change policy. Mr. Moran holds B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Richard D. Morgenstern
Senior Fellow
Resources for the Future

Richard Morgenstern's research focuses on the economic analysis of environmental issues with an emphasis on the costs, benefits, evaluation, and design of environmental policies, especially economic incentive measures. His analysis also focuses on climate change, including the design of cost-effective policies to reduce emissions in the United States and abroad.

Immediately prior to joining RFF, Morgenstern was senior economic counselor to the undersecretary for global affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where he participated in negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol. Previously he served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he acted as deputy administrator (1993); assistant administrator for policy, planning, and evaluation (1991-93); and director of the Office of Policy Analysis (1983-95). Formerly a tenured professor at the City University of New York, Morgenstern has taught recently at Oberlin College, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Yeshiva University, and American University. He has served on expert committees of the National Academy of Sciences and as a consultant to various organizations.

Brad Neff
Manager
AB32 Cap-and-Trade Implementation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Brad Neff directs overall project management and coordination of PG&E's implementation of California's GHG cap-and-trade program. He joined PG&E in 2005 and has held several positions throughout the company focused on making and sustaining performance improvements.

Prior to joining PG&E, Brad analyzed electricity markets and energy-related issues for domestic and foreign utilities and trade associations. He worked in the Washington D.C. office of LECG where he prepared expert witness testimony. Brad holds bachelor degrees in Economics and Business Finance from the University of Utah and a Masters in Business Administration from HEC Paris.

Mary D. Nichols
Chairman
California Air Resources Board

Mary D. Nichols is Chairman of the California Air Resources Board, a post she has held since 2007.

Nichols has devoted her entire career in public and nonprofit service to advocating for the environment and public health. In addition to her work at the Air Board, she has served as Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air and Radiation program under President Clinton, Secretary for California's Resources Agency from 1999 to 2003 and Director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Her priorities as chairman include moving ahead on the state's landmark climate change program (AB 32), steering the Board through numerous efforts to curb diesel pollution at ports and continuing to pass regulations aimed at providing cleaner air for Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley. She values innovation, partnerships and common-sense approaches to addressing the state's air issues.

The Board is supported by a professional staff of scientists, engineers, economists, lawyers and policy experts, with an annual operating budget of more than $860 million.

Michael O'Hare
Professor of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy
UC Berkeley

Trained at Harvard as an architect and engineer, Michael O’Hare came to Berkeley after teaching positions at MIT and Harvard's Kennedy School and "real-world" employment at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. His research history has included periods of attention to biofuels and global warming policy, environmental policy generally, arts and cultural policy, public management, and higher education pedagogy. O'Hare is the principal investigator for Berkeley's contract research for the California Air Resources Board for implementation of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, and publishes regularly on fuel policies for global warming reduction, especially biofuels,; their "indirect land use change" and food price effects, and the importance of time and uncertainty in relating fuel carbon intensity to warming policy.

He has been editor of the Curriculum and Case Notes section of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Public Affairs Education, and has published frequently on quality assurance and best practices in professional teaching. Since coming to Cal he has done applied research for state and nonprofit clients on diverse topics including funding of the state Fish and Game Department, surface mining reclamation, and revitalizing county fairs. He is a regular faculty member of the school's executive programs for mid-career training, and has had visiting positions at Università Bocconi, the National University of Singapore, and Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille).

He is the GSPP chair of the school's undergraduate minor and usually teaches one of the two semester offerings of the undergraduate introduction to policy analysis. His other courses recently cycle among arts and cultural policy, a program and policy design studio, a second-year elective for masters students at GSPP and ERG on optimization and risk models, and an APA section.

Chuks Okereke
Reader in Environment & Development
Geography and Environmental Science Department
University of Reading

Chuks was appointed Reader in Environment and Development in June 2011. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Climate and Development Centre at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. He continues to be a visiting fellow of the Smith School and Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute (ECI). He is also a fellow and college adviser at the Green-Templeton College Oxford. Before joining Oxford, Chuks was a Senior Research Associate on the Post-2012 International Climate Policy programme at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, University of East Anglia.

During his time in Oxford, Chuks was the founding Project Director of the Rwandan National Strategy for Climate and Low Carbon Development project funded jointly by the Climate Development and Knowledge Network (CDKN) and DfID Rwanda. He was also the Project Director of many other climate change and adaptation projects including:

• Climate Change Impact on Health and Response Options for the Pharmaceutical Industry;
• Opportunities for carbon emission reduction in sub-Saharan Africa
• Corporate climate strategies and the links with post-2012 climate policy.

Chuks is the moderator of United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Climate Diplomacy Course and has served as a consultant to DFID, UNDP, the World Bank and a number of African Governments.

He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Global Environmental Politics, the official journal of the Environmental Studies Section, International Studies Association (ISA). He is also a member of the Executive Committee, Environmental Studies Sections, ISA, a member of UNEP Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) project and a member of the stakeholder advisory forum, Centre for Carbon Measurement and Governance at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

Michael R. Peevey
President
California Public Utilities Commission

Michael R. Peevey was appointed President of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) by Governor Gray Davis on December 31, 2002, having been originally appointed to the CPUC by Governor Davis in March 2002. In December 2008 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reappointed Mr. Peevey to the CPUC for another six-year term.

As President of the CPUC, Mr. Peevey is committed to protecting the public interest by promoting consumer needs, while challenging utilities to embrace new technologies and provide safe, high-quality services.

Mr. Peevey is committed to maximizing energy efficiency and demand response opportunities and ensuring that California's environment is protected. He is also a strong supporter of renewable energy and renewable procurement requirements for utilities, and is a leader in implementing California's Solar and Greenhouse Gas Initiatives. He also serves as Chairman of the California Emerging Technology Fund.

Mr. Peevey has made it a priority to work closely with sister agencies, such as the California Department of Water Resources, the Independent System Operator, the California Energy Commission, and the Air Resources Board-- agencies in which the CPUC has overlapping or complementary responsibilities, to assure that California has adequate energy resources and transmission facilities to support its growing population and improving economy.

From 1995 until 2000, Mr. Peevey was President of NewEnergy Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Peevey was President of Edison International and Southern California Edison Company, and a senior executive there beginning in 1984. Mr. Peevey has served on the boards of numerous corporations and non-profit organizations.

Mr. Peevey has received many awards recognizing his leadership in developing energy policy and promoting recognition of California's diverse population, including a "Distinguished Citizen Award" from the Commonwealth Club of California for achievements in green and sustainable energy in 2007; the Pat Brown Legacy Award in 2003; named "Man of the Year" by the Power Association of Northern California; recognized with the Climate Action Champion Award by the California Climate Action Registry in 2004; and leadership recognition from American Council for Energy Efficiency (2005), the Utility Minority Access Program (2006), and the California Solar Energy Industries Association (2006).

Mr. Peevey holds Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is married to Carol J. Liu, who served three terms representing the 44th Assembly District (La Canada Flintridge) in the California legislature and in November 2008 was elected to the California Senate to represent the 21st Senate District. They have three children.

Noel Perry
Founder
Next 10

Noel Perry is a venture capitalist, social entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder and managing director of Baccharis Capital, Inc., a private venture capital firm focusing on early stage investments in educational software, educational toys, organic food, health, and other consumer products. His concern for the well-being of local, national, and international communities has led to his founding of several organizations, including Next 10 (an independent, nonpartisan organization that educates, engages and empowers Californians in the interest of improving the future economy and quality of life in California), 100 Families Oakland (a project celebrating the power of families and neighborhoods, creating stronger connections between diverse groups and positive social change through the process of making art), and Conservation International (an organization devoted to conserving biological diversity and combating global warming worldwide, using economic incentives where possible). He is a member of the board of trustees of the California College of the Arts and an advisory board member of the Santa Clara University Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. He holds an M.B.A. from George Washington University.

Nancy Pfund
Managing Partner
DBL Investors

Nancy Pfund is a Managing Partner of DBL Investors. Ms. Pfund currently sponsors or sits on the board of directors of a number of private companies, including Primus Power, SolarCity, Solaria, Brightsource Energy and Pandora. Ms. Pfund also worked closely with exited portfolio company Tesla Motors.

Previously, Ms. Pfund was a Managing Director at JPMorgan. Ms. Pfund joined JPMorgan (then Hambrecht & Quist) in 1984 as a securities analyst and later joined its venture capital department as principal and then Managing Director in 1989. In addition to her private equity responsibilities, Ms. Pfund also built and directed H&Q’s external affairs and philanthropic programs from 1996 to 2001. In 1988, President Bush appointed Ms. Pfund as a charter member of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. In 1999, Ms. Pfund was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Congressional Web-Based Education Commission. Ms. Pfund is a member of the board of directors of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), a not-for-profit fund mandated by the California PUC to invest in companies pursuing fossil-fuel alternatives, and is a founding officer and director of ABC2, a foundation aimed at accelerating a cure for brain cancer. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the UC Davis Center for Energy Efficiency and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford.

Prior to joining JPMorgan, Ms. Pfund worked at Intel Corporation, Stanford University, the State of California, and the Sierra Club. Ms. Pfund received her BA and MA in anthropology from Stanford University, and her MBA from the Yale School of Management. She lives in Berkeley, with her husband and their two children.

Sean Randolph
President
Bay Area Council Economic Institute

Sean Randolph is President of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership of business, labor, government and higher education, that works to foster a competitive economy in California and the Bay Area, including San Francisco, Oakland and the Silicon Valley. The Economic Institute produces authoritative analyses on major economic policy issues, including infrastructure, globalization, energy, science & technology, and governance, and mobilizes California and Bay Area leaders around targeted policy initiatives.

Dr. Randolph has previously served as President & CEO of the Bay Area Economic Forum, which merged with the Bay Area Council in January 2008, and as director of international trade for the State of California, where he developed trade strategy and directed international business programs to stimulate exports and introduce California companies to overseas markets. Before service with the state, he was Managing Director of the RSR Pacific Group, an international business consulting firm specializing in Asia and Latin America, and prior to that served as International Director General of the Pacific Basin Economic Council, a 15-nation international organization of leading U.S., Asian and Latin American corporations.

His professional career includes extensive experience in the U.S. Government, including the U.S. Congress staff and the White House staff. From 1981-85 he served in the U.S. State Department on the Policy Planning Staff, as Special Adviser for Policy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and as Deputy/Ambassador-at Large for Pacific Basin affairs. From 1985–88 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs, where he managed nuclear non-proliferation, energy research, and global oil and gas issues.

Dr. Randolph holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts and Harvard Universities), and a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, and he also studied at the London School of Economics.

He serves as chairman of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), a California state commission that regulates development in and near San Francisco Bay and works to ensure its environmental integrity and maximum public access. He is also a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Pacific Council on International Policy, and he serves on the Boards of Directors of the Bay Area World Trade Center and the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, and on the President’s Advisory Council of Excelsior College (New York). Dr. Randolph speaks frequently before business and government audiences, and writes for U.S. and international media on global, national, state and regional economic and policy issues.

Ethan Ravage
West Coast Lead,
International Emissions Trading Association

Ethan serves as the International Emissions Trading Association’s (IETA) Lead for its Western US activities. Ethan is also a Principal with Allotrope Partners, a San Francisco Bay Area-based merchant bank managing project finance, clean economy start-ups and low-carbon technologies and platforms. Ethan’s involvement with carbon markets began when he directed Société Générale’s Carbon Trading Venture (“ORBEO”) in its US and Canada market launch, integrating all areas of Carbon Origination, Trading and Advisory with bank offices in Alberta, Houston and New York.

Ethan has also published analysis of the energy trading markets, including carbon, crude oil / refined products and power / natural gas. His energy trading research was integrated into extensive modeling and analyses of the Financial Services sector published by Sanford C. Bernstein, a unit of Alliance Capital.

Mr. Ravage started his career with Morgan Stanley and he supported the Treasurer's capital planning process during the company's IPO in 1986. From 1987 to 1992 he was with Salomon Brothers as the Operations and Finance Manager for the firm's Tokyo-based Trading and Sales businesses. Subsequent to Salomon Brothers he was a Vice President at CSFB Japan where he managed financial reporting, business planning and analysis.

From 1994 to 2002, Mr. Ravage worked in the technology industry. He led Business and Corporate development for AgentWare, a web services development tools company, and was Senior Product Marketing Manager at Oblix, a security software company that was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Prior to Oblix, Mr. Ravage was a management consultant with R.B.Webber in Palo Alto, advising technology companies in marketing, operations and corporate strategy.

Mr. Ravage holds a B.S. degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School, 1984) and an M.B.A. degree from at Emory University (Goizueta Business School, 1994) where he earned a fellowship.

Maike Rentel
Head of Science & Innovation, San Francisco

Maike joined the SF S&I team in April 2007. After receiving a BSc in Biochemistry from Edinburgh University, Maike moved on to a D.Phil. in Plant Molecular Biology at Oxford, followed by postdoctoral positions in mammalian cell biology at UCSF and plant pathology at UC Berkeley. She also held a short-term fellowship at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.

David Roland-Holst
Adjunct Professor
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
Department of Economics
University of California at Berkeley

David Roland-Holst is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Economics and Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. He has served in academic posts in the U.S., Europe, and Asia and worked with U.S. and foreign national governments, the Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development bank, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, World Bank, and the United Nations. Developer of the Berkeley Energy and Resources (BEAR) model, he has written extensively on climate change and economic assessment of California’s greenhouse gas control policies and has advised the California Air Resources Board regarding implementation of the AB 32 Scoping Plan.

Omar Romero-Hernandez
Center for Responsible Business
Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley

Chemical Engineer with graduate studies in Economic Policy and Government and a PhD in Process Economics and Environmental Impact from Imperial College, England. He has worked for a diverse range of public and private organizations such as Procter & Gamble, PEMEX (Oil & Gas), Accenture, and the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources, Center for Economic and Social Studies. In 2001, he was appointed as Professor at ITAM, UC Berkeley Fulbright Professor in Haas (2009) and Energy Biosciences Institute Researcher in 2010. Currently, he is a National Researcher, and author of various books including: Renewable Energy Technologies and Policies, and Industry and the Environment and several international publications on business modeling, green operations and sustainable development. He has led several internationally awarded projects in the field of sustainable business strategies, renewable energy and business processes – sponsors include the United Nations, Ministry of the Environment, Industry consortiums, the Stock Exchange and NGOs. In 2010 he was appointed leader of Mexico's Business Summit task force on Economic Growth and Low Carbon Emissions, which delivers recommendations to the President. His main postgraduate teaching and research areas are multidisciplinary sustainability assessments (economic, social and environmental). Prof. Romero-Hernandez was the recipient of the 2010 Franz Edelman Award, the world’s most prestigious award on Operations Research and Management Science.

David Rosenheim
Executive Director
The Climate Registry

In his role as Executive Director, David is responsible for providing the strategic direction for The Registry and oversees its program, services and staff. He acts as chief liaison with the state and provincial Board members, as well as between states and provinces and their respective federal governments.

David is a proven senior executive with experience as COO, CEO and Director on four corporate Boards. In his previous position, David oversaw U.S. business development for Offsetters, a leading carbon management organization, and he also serves as co-director of the Northern California chapter of Environmental Entrepreneurs. Prior to that, David was an entrepreneur in the high tech sector, founding and/or leading innovative internet start-ups.

David has an MBA from Oxford University, and has extensive experience across the range of key business functions: strategic planning, vision setting, raising capital, business development, board relations, marketing, and digital product development. He is based in San Francisco.

Jill Savery
Head of Sustainability
America's Cup Event Authority

Jill Savery is the Head of Sustainability for the America's Cup Event Authority. Her professional experience includes supporting organizations such as the United States Olympic Committee, the London 2012 Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, the Chicago 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid team, the England 2018 FIFA World CupTM bid team, and several municipalities in the United States. From 2008 to 2011 Jill lived in London where she supported the London 2012 event organizers to prepare to deliver the most sustainable Games to date. Jill continues to serve as a co-opted expert to the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, and is a member of the Beyond Sport Advisory Panel. Jill earned a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management from Yale University, and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1996, Jill won an Olympic gold medal in synchronized swimming, and was later inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Jill’s new book (co-edited with Keith Gilbert) recently hit the shelves – Sustainability and Sport is a first of its kind look at this emerging field.

Bill Shelander
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Bill Shelander is the Business Development expert for Berkeley Lab, a position aimed at enhancing the entrepreneurial awareness within the Lab’s research community with an emphasis on helping to create start ups. His seminar will share some insights on how to recognize viable opportunities, some realities of ventures, and what alternatives are available to Lab researchers. He has over 20 years of experience managing nearly $180 million in venture funds and returned over $600 million. He has invested in and helped to start dozens of high technology companies. He has seen both investment failures and successes with a distinguished track record as an officer or director of companies acquired or listed on NASDAQ. He has a BS in Systems Engineering with a minor in physics, an MS in Chemical Engineering, and an MBA from Stanford.

Kari Smith
Director of Regulatory Affairs
SunPower Corporation

Kari Smith serves as SunPower director of regulatory affairs and is responsible for driving cost-effective solar policy at the state and the federal levels. While leading SunPower’s California effort, Smith advocated passage of California’s Solar Initiative (CSI), solar net-metering laws, voluntary green power markets and AB 32. She is currently most active in the states of Texas and Arizona. While at the California Energy Commission (CEC), Smith directed California’s first legislatively directed inter-agency project to assess potential impacts of global climate change and possible policy mitigation measures. She has also lobbied on behalf of non-profit energy advocacy organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT). Smith holds a masters degree in Public Policy from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Chris Somerville
Director
Energy Biosciences Institute

Chris Somerville is the Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a research institute supported with a $350M award from the energy company BP (www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org). He is the Philomathia Professor in Alternative Energy at UC Berkeley. He was a professor at Stanford University and director of the Carnegie Institution for Science from 1994-2007 and a professor at Michigan State University from 1982-1993. He has published more than 230 scientific papers and patents in plant and microbial genetics, genomics, biochemistry, and biotechnology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society of London and has received numerous scientific awards. He cofounded six scientific journals and three biotechnology companies.

Costas Spanos
Professor and Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

Costas Spanos received the Electrical Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1980 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981 and 1985, respectively. From 1985 to 1988 he was with the advanced Computer-Aided Design group of Digital Equipment Corporation, where he worked on the statistical characterization, simulation and diagnosis of VLSI processes.

In 1988 he joined the faculty at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is now a Professor and Chair of the department. He was the Director of the Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory from 1994 to 2000, the Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory from 2004 to 2005, and the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering from 2004 to 2008.

Professor Spanos has served in the technical committees of numerous conferences and was the editor of the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing from 1991 to 1994. He has published more than 200 referred articles, has received several best paper awards and has co-authored a textbook in semiconductor manufacturing. His present research interests include the application of statistical analysis in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits, and the development and deployment of novel sensors and computer-aided techniques in semiconductor manufacturing. In 2000 he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers for contributions and leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

Brian Steel
Executive in Residence and Lecturer
Energy Institute at Haas
UC Berkeley

Brian Steel is an Executive in Residence and Lecturer, and brings 30 years of business innovation and leadership experience. Most recently, Brian was Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development for PG&E Corporation, where he led the energy industry’s first tax-equity solar project financing by an investor-owned utility, investing $400 million in nearly $1 billion of photovoltaic assets from 2010-2011. Prior roles include Chairman, International, Pandora Media – the world’s leading Internet radio company; President, International, Overture Services – building a billion-dollar division of Yahoo! with operations in 20 countries; President and CEO, Idealab Silicon Valley and a Managing Director of Idealab – the premier creator and operator of pioneering technology companies; President and COO, On Command - the world's largest provider of information and entertainment services to the lodging industry; EVP and CFO, TELE-TV; and VP, Strategic Development, Pacific Telesis. In addition to his operating roles, Brian specializes in coaching high-growth companies, and has spent nearly 20 years serving as an active board member for companies such as Airwave Wireless (NASDAQ: ARUN), Care2, Cars Direct/Internet Brands (NASDAQ: INET), Commission Junction (NASDAQ: VCLK), Cooking.com, Desktop.tv, Discern Communications, eVoice (NYSE: AOL), Krugle, MeeVee, Omnilux, On Command, Pandora (NYSE: P), Sameday Technologies, Scan Mobile, Sharpcast (SugarSync), Spun.com and Swell.com. Separate angel investments include LiveOps and Powerset (sold to Microsoft). Brian holds a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics from Duke University, where he was an Angier B. Duke Scholar.

Todd Strauss
Senior Director, Energy Policy, Planning and Analysis
Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Todd Strauss is Senior Director of Energy Policy, Planning and Analysis at Energy Procurement for Pacific Gas and Electric Company. He leads the policy and planning group focused on providing adequate energy supply in an environmentally sustainable manner at reasonable cost. His scope has included: policies for greenhouse gas reductions and renewable resources, market design issues, resource planning (integrating demand-side and supply-side, generation and transmission, and electric and gas), market assessment, valuation of structured transactions, portfolio strategy, carbon trading implementation, and risk management.

He has 20 years of experience applying quantitative modeling to business and policy issues in energy and the environment. He has been Director of Quantitative Analysis at PG&E National Energy Group, Principal at the consulting firm PHB Hagler Bailly, and Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Management Science at the Yale School of Management. He was a Regulatory Fellow at the California Public Utilities Commission and a Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future. He holds a Ph.D. in IEOR from UC-Berkeley and an S.B. in Mathematics from MIT.

Marc Stuart
Founding Partner
Allotrope Ventures

Marc Stuart is a private equity investor in the carbon and clean-energy space. His firm, Allotrope Partners, seeks out early-stage opportunities in technology and execution platforms that are positioned to thrive in the transition to the low-carbon economy. Previously, Mr. Stuart co-founded EcoSecurities in 1997 and departed in the spring of 2010, following transition to full integration as a subsidiary of JP Morgan. With offices in 16 countries, EcoSecurities was a globally leading developer of greenhouse gas-reduction projects and was publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange until it was purchased by JP Morgan in 2009. Marc was Director of New Business Development and also headed up the firm's Government and Regulatory Affairs Group, providing the firms positions within the evolving policy and regulatory processes of the UN, EU, US and elsewhere. He has nearly 20 years of international business development experience in carbon market, project finance and clean energy development across more than 30 countries.

He is currently serving a two-year term as one of two private-sector observers to the World Bank's $5 billion Clean Technology Fund. In January 2009, he was named one of 30 "Green Heroes" by CNBC European Business magazine. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the London School of Economics, and the Claremont Graduate University.

Michael Summers
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
CG Innovation Partners

Michael is Managing Partner, US and Asia, and co-founder of CG Innovation Partners. He has over 25 years of experience creating, managing and investing in technology ventures. He currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Cleantech to Market Program, Energy Institute at Haas, UC Berkeley, and is a founding board member of the Innovation and Materials Science Institute in New York. He recently served as a board director of Aurix, Intrinsiq Materials, Quintel Solutions, and Omni-ID. Previously, as a senior advisor to QinetiQ, SRI International, and NTT Corporation, he provided value creation and business development leadership. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Business Development for SRI International where he managed the process of shaping, developing and delivering technologies to the software, systems, energy and advanced materials commercial markets. Michael has managed new ventures in the US, Japan, and the UK. He has an MBA from the University of Connecticut.

James Tansey
Associate Professor
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia

James joined UBC in 2006 and is an Associate Professor, leading the Sauder School of Business’ activities on sustainability and social innovation. James is the Executive Director of ISIS, at the Sauder School of Business. He also works closely with the Business Family Centre to identify areas where advances in social innovation can meet philanthropic goals. James’ research activities cover a number of areas including social enterprise, climate change the social impacts and acceptability of new technologies. He has written extensively on the role of public consultation in the governance of industrial societies, industrial ecology, scenario methods and climate change. His current research focuses on emerging international markets for carbon exchange, solutions to neglected diseases and strategic corporate social responsibility.

James Tansey received his PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia in 1999. Prior to joining UBC, he was based in the UK as a lecturer in Science and Technology Studies with the Said Business School in Oxford, where he was also deputy director of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization.

James is co-founder of a Canadian carbon offset company called Offsetters, top ranked provider to the Pacific Carbon Trust and Official Supplier to the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. James also works with startup companies in the green technology sector. He has taught on MBA, EMBA, Executive Education, MSc and Undergraduate programmes in the UK and Canada. He is co-director of Sauder’s new Accelerated Leadership Programme. He currently contributes to the MBA core and to graduate teaching in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. James has recently worked as an advisor and contributor to the World Economic Forum, the UK National Audit Office, Oxford Analytica, Cisco, Isis Innovation (Oxford), and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.

In 2010, James was recognized by Business in Vancouver magazine as one of the city’s Top 40 Under 40 and was selected as a Pacific finalist in the Clean Tech category at the prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2010 Awards.

Neil Thomson
Manager, Low Carbon Economy
ISIS, Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia

Neil Thomson manages the Low Carbon Economy research theme at ISIS. He graduated with an MBA from UBC in 2010, this included an exchange semester at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Prior to the MBA Neil worked in London, UK with Accenture as a management consultant in the financial services practice. Neil spent his formative years growing up in South Africa and also holds an Honors degree from the University of Johannesburg in Strategic Management. His interests lie in the development of a low carbon economy and, specifically, the use of carbon markets as the mechanism for achieving this end.

Neil is motivated by the challenge to move towards a low carbon economy and the opportunity to work with talented people in achieving this end.

Harrie Vredenburg
Professor of Strategy & Suncor Energy Chair in Competitive Strategy & Sustainable Development
Academic Director, Haskayne/IHS CERA Global Energy Executive MBA
Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

Dr. Harrie Vredenburg is Professor of Strategy at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business and holds the Suncor Energy Chair in Competitive Strategy and Sustainable Development, a Haskayne research chair affiliated with the University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy. He also holds an appointment as an International Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Said Business School (Centre for Corporate Reputation). He is Academic Director of the Global Energy Executive MBA, a Haskayne joint venture with IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a member of the board of directors of Petrobank Energy, a $1.7 billion market-cap international oil and technology company traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, of Kainji International, an African-focused startup oil and gas company and of Element Renewables, a private startup company with a focus on western Canada and the Caribbean. Before joining the University of Calgary Dr. Vredenburg taught at McGill University.

Kim Bach Vu
Associate, Corporate Responsibility
TE Connectivity

Kim has expertise in marketing, water conservation, environmental management, sustainability reporting, and social media. She has worked with Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) and Tivix, a company that specializes in web 2.0 solutions for mission-driven organizations. She also designed water systems programs for homes in EarthQuest Adventures. Her work experience includes conscious lifestyle and body products companies, and retail fashion management.

For her capstone The Sustainability of the Red Abalone Fishery in Northern California, she examined the critical factors affecting the radical decline in abalone populations including pollution, ethical poaching issues, and climate change. She has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee. She enjoys practicing yoga, reading about economics and history, and hanging out with her Lhasa Apso, Bernie Kosar.

Mason Willrich
Director, California Clean Energy Fund
former Chair, Cal ISO, Governing Board

Mason Willrich was appointed to the California Independent System Operator (California ISO) Board of Governors in March 2005 and was elected Board Chair in June 2006.

Mr. Willrich was a partner of NTH POWER, a venture capital firm that invests in early state energy technology companies, from its inception in 1996 until February 2002. He also served as director of EVERGREEN SOLAR, INC., a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules from 1998 through 2003. Mr. Willrich was founder and served as chairman of ENERGYWORKS LLC, a joint venture of PACIFICCORP and BECHTEL which provides combined heat and power to industrial firms located in less developed countries, from its start up in 1995 until the company was sold in 1998.

From 1989 until 1994, Mr. Willrich served as Chief Executive Officer of PG&E ENTERPRISES, the subsidiary of PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY for unregulated business, which he started up and grew to profitable operations with assets of $3 billion. From 1979 until 1989 he served as Executive Vice President responsible for strategic planning, budget, controller and information systems, and in various other executive positions at PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY.

The author or co-author of numerous books and articles on energy policy and international security issues, Mr. Willrich has written: Radioactive Waste: Management and Regulation (with R.K. Lester), 1977; Administration of Energy Shortages, 1976; and Energy and World Politics, 1975 to name a few.

Mr. Willrich currently serves on a number of professional and government boards and committees, including:

• Director of the California Clean Energy Fund
• Trustee and chair of the budget and investment committee of WINROCK INTERNATIONAL
• Trustee and past chairman of the World Affairs Council of Northern California
• Member of the administrative board of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University Library
• Member of the advisory board, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

A graduate of Yale University, Mr. Willrich was magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and also received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of California, Berkeley.

John Wiseman
Professorial Fellow
University of Melbourne

John Wiseman is a Professorial Fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne. John has worked in a wide range of public sector, academic and community sector settings including as Director of the McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne (2006-2010) Professor of Public Policy, Victoria University (2003-2006) and Assistant Director, Policy Development and Research, Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet (2000-2003)

John has published a wide range of books and articles on social justice and public policy issues with a particular focus on the role of local communities and civil society in responding to the challenges and opportunities of globalisation. The major focus of his current work is on the social and political transformations needed to build just and sustainable pathways to a post carbon safe climate future.

Catherine Wolfram
Associate Professor
Barbara & Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
Co-Director, Energy Institute at Haas
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
UC Berkeley

Catherine Wolfram is an associate professor of business administration at the Haas School of Business and a researcher at the UC Energy Institute. Her research focuses on the economics of energy markets. She has studied the impact of environmental regulation on energy markets and the effects of electricity industry privatization and restructuring around the world. She received a PhD in economics from MIT. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University.

Gillian Wright
Director of Customer Programs and Assistance
Southern California Gas Company

Gillian Wright has worked for the Sempra Energy companies since 1999. Since May 2011 she has been Director of Customer Programs and Assistance. Gillian is responsible for managing SoCalGas' energy efficiency and low income customer assistance programs, representing a combined budget of over $200 million annually. Prior to her current assignment Gillian had a variety of assignments for SoCalGas and its sister utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), in the companies' energy markets, capacity products, and regulatory affairs functions. In prior assignments Gillian was responsible for SoCalGas' Self Generation Incentive Program and the California Solar Initiative – Thermal Program. She has also been involved in the utility’s efforts to develop biomethane services, air quality compliance support, and other new business services for residential, commercial and industrial customers.

Gillian has a Master of Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Bachelors Degree in Economics at Reed College in 1991. Gillian is a member of the board of the Los Angeles Business Council, and is currently Chair of the Board of the Energy Solutions Center, a trade association of North American gas utilities.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.

Heather Youngs
Senior Analysis Fellow
Energy Biosciences Institute
UC Berkeley

Heather Youngs is an Senior Analysis Fellow at the Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley and an Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry at Michigan Technological University. Dr. Youngs received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Oregon Health and Sciences University and was a NIH postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institute for Plant Bioloogy at Stanford University. Specializing in the structure and function of plant and fungal proteins, she has studied the enzymology of plant biomass synthesis and degradation for over fifteen years. At the EBI, Dr. Youngs provides strategic assessments and detailed technical analysis of the entire bioenergy value chain including feedstock production, biomass depolymerization, and socio-economic and environmental impacts. In particular, she has published and lectured on production of lignocellulosic fuels from Miscanthus and Energycane, sustainable use of municipal waste and woody feedstocks for bioenergy, commercial development of biofuels and biogas, and stakeholder views affecting feedstock choices. She recently completed an assessment of biofuels for the California Council of Science and Technology's California’s Energy Future report.

Carol Zabin
Director of Research
UC Berkeley Labor Center

Carol Zabin (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is a labor economist whose research has addressed job quality, living wages, worker training and other economic development issues in the United States and Mexico. Her current research focuses on the impact of climate change legislation and the burgeoning green economy on California's economy, workers and labor unions. Carol is leading a $1.1 million study, funded by the California Public Utilities Commission, assessing California's workforce development needs as part of the California Long Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan. Carol also serves as Co-Chair of the Donald Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy.

Past work includes a project in which Carol extensively researched and analyzed ways to alleviate the staffing crisis in California's services for those with developmental disabilities. She worked with labor, community, and business partners on a field project to improve conditions for workers in this sector. Carol has served as a research advisor to numerous unions, community organizations, and foundations on issues of workforce development reform, the role of unions in labor markets, and improving opportunities and outcomes for low-wage workers. Before joining the Labor Center, she was on the faculty at Tulane University and UCLA.