SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

David T. Allen
Chair, Texas Council on Environmental Technology
Dr. David T. Allen is the Reese Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources at the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as Chair of the Texas Council on Environmental Technology. Dr. Allen’s research interests lie in environmental reaction engineering, particularly issue related to air quality and pollution prevention. Dr. Allen is the author of four books and over 100 papers in these areas. The National Science Foundation, the AT&T Foundation, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers have recognized the quality of his research.

James Blackburn
Chair, Galveston Bay Conservation and Preservation Association
Mr. Jim Blackburn is an environmental attorney with a M.S. in environmental science from Rice University. He has been practicing environmental law in Houston for thirty years and teaches in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rice. Mr. Blackburn is an environmental activist, Chair of the Galveston Bay Conservation and Preservation Association, and a member of the board of the Matagorda Bay Foundation. He received the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Achievement Award in the legal/legislative category in 2001. His Book of Texas Bays is forthcoming from Texas A&M Press in winter, 2003.

Francisco Dallmeier
Director, Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity Program
National Zoological Park Conservation and Research Center,
Smithsonian Institute
Dr. Francisco Dallmeier, a conservation biologist with oversight in 23 countries, heads up the Smithsonian Institution/Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity Program (SI/MAB). A Smithsonian scientist and educator since 1986, Dr. Dallmeier is involved in multiple aspects of biodiversity conservation, especially those that link conservation and development. He has coordinated more than 60 international research and training programs in developing countries and has served as an advisor to various national and international committees. He has written publications that outline new approaches to conservation based on adaptive management techniques. SI/MAB successfully tested one such approach when it helped establish a partnership between Shell Oil Company developers and scientists in Peru's Urubamba Basin.

Alain Dangeard
Chariman and CEO, M.E.E. Development
Dr. Alain Dangeard is CEO of MEED (Matières Premières. Eau. Environnement. Développement), a consulting firm specialising in environmental, minerals and water economics. MEED focuses on the design and initiation, at pre-competitive stage, of significant water and environmental demonstration projects in India, the Mediterranean, Middle East and Central Asia. Dr. Dangeard is external advisor of EUROMINES (European Association of Mining Industries) and a member of the European Union work group on sustainable development in the minerals industries. He began his career as a diplomat and subsequently took over responsibilities in several environment-related companies, predominately the French Bureau of Mines (BRGM) and the French National Agency for Recycling and Waste Disposal (ANRED).

Paula Dobriansky
U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, is responsible for foreign policy issues including democracy, human rights, labor, counter-narcotics and law enforcement, refugee and humanitarian relief matters and environmental/scientific issues. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President and Director of the Washington Office of the Council on Foreign Relations. Other government appointments have included Associate Director for Policy and Programs at the United States Information Agency, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the 1985 UN Decade for Women Conference, and Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council, the White House.

Matthew Fraser
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
Dr. Matthew Fraser is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Rice University and is Rice's first air quality researcher. Dr. Fraser received his B.S. degree with University Honors in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering Science with Minor in Geology and Planetary Science from California Institute of Technology. Dr. Fraser is the co-principal investigator of a $3.65M EPA grant together with Dr. David Allen of UT-Austin studying atmospheric fine particles in Houston.

Malcolm Gillis
President, Rice University
Dr. Malcom Gillis received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He began his academic career at Duke University, followed by a fifteen year tenure at Harvard. He returned to Duke in 1984 as professor of economics and of public policy. In July of 1993, he became the sixth president of Rice University. Until assuming leadership roles in University administration, he was a frequent consultant to the U.S. Treasury Department, the Canadian Ministry of Finance, the World Bank, and the governments of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Indonesia. He has published over 70 articles, and is author, co-author, or editor of eight books.

Hank Habicht
Chief Executive, Global Environment Technology Foundation
Mr. Hank Habicht has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Environment and Technology Foundation since 1998. Mr. Habicht was Senior Vice President with Safety-Kleen Corporation and formerly served as Deputy Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He also served as Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. Department of Justice under the Reagan administration where he directed the Environment and Natural Resources Division. Since 1998, Mr. Habicht has been the President of the Global Environment Technology Foundation.

Guy Hascoet
Former French Minister of State for Social Economy
Mr. Guy Hascoet served as French Minister of State for Social Economy from March 2000 until May 2002. An active member of France’s Green Party, he has served as a deputy of the National Assembly, where he was Vice-Chairman of the Manufacturing and Trade Committee and the Study Group on Rivers and Navigable Waterways. He was a member of the National Council for Departmental and Communal Public Services, and Vice Chairman of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Regional Council. Mr. Hascoet hold a degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Tours.

Kurt Hoffman
Director, Shell Foundation
Mr. Kurt Hoffman is Director of the Shell Foundation. Joined Shell Oil Company in 1997 to design and develop Shell Foundation, which was established formally as a UK grant-making charity in June 2000 with a mission to promote sustainable development worldwide. Previously Mr. Hoffman enjoyed a 20-year career as a development professional serving as senior staff member and adviser to numerous development agencies, private foundations and international corporations. He has also served as Senior Fellow and Reader in Development Studies, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, 1976-1987.

Christian Holmes
Executive Director, Shell Center for Sustainability
Environmental and Energy Systems Institute
Rice University
Mr. Christian Holmes serves as Executive Director of both the Rice University Shell Center for Sustainability and the Rice Environmental and Energy Systems Institute. He has held a number of senior executive positions in business and government in the energy, environmental and international economic development sectors, including: Vice President, Environment, Safety and Health, Tenneco Energy; Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, US Environmental Protection Agency; Director, US Trade and Development Agency (TDA); Executive Director, President's Task Force on International Private Enterprise; and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Refugee Programs.

Amy Myers Jaffe
Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Associate Director, Environmental and Energy Systems Institute
Ms. Amy Myers Jaffe is associate director of the Rice University Energy Program and Wallace Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University. Prior to joining the Baker Institute, Ms. Jaffe, a Princeton graduate in Arabic studies, was the senior economist and Middle East analyst for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, a respected oil journal. Ms. Jaffe is a widely quoted expert on energy issues and has written for a variety of publications including the New York Times, Dow Jones International, the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Mideast Report.

Nancy Kete
Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the EMBARQ Center for Transport and Environment, World Resources Institute
Dr. Nancy Kete is Senior Fellow in the Climate, Energy and Pollution program at the World Resources Institute and Co-Director of the EMBARQ Center for Transport and the Environment. Dr. Kete previously served as deputy director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has been responsible for the development and analysis of domestic and international climate change policy options, as well as for voluntary energy efficiency and other greenhouse gas mitigation programs. Other experience includes serving as Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of Air and Radiation, and Science Advisor for Environmental Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.

Alberto Mendoza Dominguez
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnologica y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Dr. Alberto Mendoza is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico, where he also holds a joint position as Head of the Air Quality Laboratory with the Center for Environmental Quality. Dr. Mendoza has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from ITESM. He has participated in numerous air quality studies, including SAMI (Southern Appalachian Mountain Initiative), SCISSAP (Southern Center for the Integrated Study of Secondary Air Pollutants), and a Mexico-US border air quality effort examining trans-boundary air pollution.

Richard Sandor
Chairman and CEO, Chicago Climate Exchange
Dr. Richard L. Sandor is Chairman and CEO of the Chicago Climate Exchange, a self-regulatory exchange that administers a voluntary greenhouse gas
reduction and trading program for North America. He is a research
professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern
University. Previously he served as Vice President and chief economist of the Chicago Board of Trade, where he earned the reputation of being the principal architect of the interest-rate futures market now traded worldwide. Mr. Sandor was honored by the City of Chicago and the Chicago Board of Trade for his contribution to the creation of financial futures. In August 2002 Dr. Sandor was chosen by Time magazine as one of its "Heroes for the Planet" for his work as the founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange.

Bjorn Stigson
President, World Council for Sustainable Development
Mr. Björn Stigson is President of the World Council for Sustainable Development. He began his career as financial analyst with the Swedish Kockums Group and later worked for welding equipment supplier ESAB in positions responsible for Finance, Operations and Marketing. He became President and CEO of the Fläkt Group in 1983, the world leader in environmental control technology. Following the acquisition of Fläkt by ABB in 1991, he became Executive Vice President and a member of ABB Asea Brown Boveri’s Executive Management Group. In 1995 he was appointed President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva, a coalition of some 150 leading international corporations. Mr. Stigson is presently a member of advisory councils to, among others, Unilever, OECD, and the Government of China. He is also a member of the newly established board of GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) and the IRGC (International Risk Governance Council).

Rahul Tongia
Research Engineer, Engineering and Public Policy
Department at Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Rahul Tongia is a research engineer in the Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research explores issues of infrastructure in emerging economies, especially the role of technology choices for improving deployment and penetration. His work also deals with broader policy issues such as security, international collaboration (especially US-India), and technology and analysis transfer. Dr. Tongia also collaborates with the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to explore technology options in telecom infrastructure. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy.

David G. Victor
Director, Stanford University Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Dr. David Victor is Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, which focuses on economic and environmental consequences of energy consumption. Initial studies examined the development of the North American and global natural gas markets, reform of electric power markets. Other research has examined how the availability of modern energy services can affect the process of economic growth in the world’s poorest regions. Previously, Dr. Victor directed the Science and Technology program at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in History and Science from Harvard University.

Hiroyuki Watanabe
Senior Managing Director, Toyota Motor Corporation
Mr. Hiroyuki Watanabe joined Toyota in 1967. Named to the Board of Directors in 1996, Mr. Watanabe directed Toyota’s worldwide operations in after-sales service, supply parts, and conversion and accessory and was responsible for Toyota’s Future Project Division. Named as a managing director in 1999, his responsibilities shifted to environmental affairs, product management and development of Toyota’s fuel cell systems. He also oversees the Virtual Venture Company, a Toyota internal organization set up in 1997 for planning and commercializing activities designed to provide new products and services for young consumers. In 2001, he assumed the position of Senior Managing Director.

Sir Philip Watts
Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors, The Royal/Shell Group
Sir Philip Watts is Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading Company and of the Committee of Managing Directors of the Royal Dutch/Shell. He has served as Chairman and Managing Director of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria; Regional Coordinator for Europe, and Director of Planning, Environment and External Affairs for Shell International in London. Sir Philip Watts is also chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and of the UK chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce. In January 2003 he was knighted for services to British business and in recognition of his role in the WBCSD.

Mark R. Wiesner
Director, Environmental and Energy Systems Institute
Rice University
Dr. Mark Wiesner is the Director of the Environmental and Energy Systems Institute at Rice University where he holds appointments as Professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. Dr. Wiesner’s research pioneered the application of membrane processes to environmental separations and water treatment and recently initiated an examination of the fate and transport of nanomaterials in the environment. Before joining the Rice University faculty in 1988, he worked in Research and Development with the Lyonnaise des Eaux, Le Pecq, France, and was a Principal Engineer with the Environmental Consulting firm of Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., White Plains, NY.