Scandar Abbud Neto
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Scandar Abbud Neto is the General Manager and Partner of Ouro Fértil. His responsibilities include administration, planning and client representative, and his clients include industry, food services and others. Previously, Mr. Abbud Neto worked at Editora Brasiliense as a Brazilian Book editor. He was in charge of management of cultural affairs and events. He also worked in the offices of the Secretary of Health in Sao Paulo, the Secretary of Public Health for the city of Franco da Rocha and the President of the Medical Association of the State of Sao Paulo. Mr. Abbud Neto graduated with degrees in Biology and Medicine from Sao Paulo. He received a certification for the Educational Commission for foreign Medical Graduates in Pennsylvania. Mr. Abbud Neto also received a Masters Degree in Public Health and Administration at the University of Sao Paulo, and pricing in industrial business and commercial business from Sao Paulo.

Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold is Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the World Resources Institute (WRI), a non-profit center that formulates environmental solutions. Mr. Arnold is also the 'theme champion' for sustainable enterprise at WRI, which encompasses WRI's efforts to engage business in sustainable development. Mr. Arnold founded the Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB) in 1990 to help business schools and corporations integrate environmental issues into business strategy. In 1996, MEB merged with WRI.

Mr. Arnold has learned a great deal about how corporations respond to environmental and social change. He has shared that learning in two books, dozens of articles and case studies, and the recent WRI report, The Next Bottom Line: Making Sustainable Development Tangible. He has designed and conducted training programs for Motorola, General Electric and Kodak about how the environment can become a source of competitive advantage. He has worked extensively with DuPont and Monsanto's ongoing efforts to build sustainable development into their business plan. He is a frequent participant, speaker and provocateur in workshops and seminars about the business of sustainable development sponsored by companies, other NGOs, and universities.

Prior to launching MEB, Mr. Arnold held a marketing position with IBM, a financial associate position with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and a business development position with Santa Fe Trading, Hong Kong. He also failed twice as an environmental entrepreneur prior to MEB's success. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Harvard College, a Master's in US Foreign Policy from the Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Duncan Austin
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Duncan Austin is currently an Associate for the World Resources Institute's Program in Economics and Population and a member of WRI's Climate Protection Initiative. His principal research area has been the economic aspects of mitigating climate change. Since joining WRI, he has authored or co-authored four publications including: The Costs of Climate Protection - A Guide for the Perplexed, and Climate Protection Policies - Can we afford to delay?. Mr. Austin has also been active in other areas of environmental economics including the development of a 'green' productivity measurement and most recently, the development of a methodology that allows financial analysts to factor environmental performance into their evaluation of companies.

Before joining WRI he was employed as an Economist in the United Kingdom Department of Environment in the Environment Protection Economics Division. Mr. Austin has a MSc. Degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from University College London and a B.A. (Hons) Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St. Hugh's College, Oxford University.

Sharon Belanger
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Sharon Belanger is a Senior Project Manager at the AES Corporation, and has been with the company since 1986. Ms. Belanger has a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Energy Management and Policy Program. The AES Corporation is a leading global power company comprised of competitive generation, distribution and retail supply businesses all over the world, serving over 100 million customers with electricity and related services. AES is dedicated to providing electricity worldwide in a socially responsible way.

Richard Bunch
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Rick Bunch is a Senior Associate, and WRI's Director of Business Education and MEB's Business Environment Learning and Leadership (BELL) Program. He develops and organizes national events like the BELL Conference for business school faculty and program staff, and local or regional faculty development workshops, and oversees development and publication of business case studies and other curriculum materials. He is a co-author of WRI's recent study, Beyond Grey Pinstripes: Preparing MBAs for Social and Environmental Stewardship, and also co-authored Grey Pinstripes with Green Ties: MBA Programs Where the Environment Matters. Mr. Bunch is WRI's representative to the Alliance for Sustainability through Higher Education, a group of organizations dedicated to the "greening" of higher education. He sits on business school advisory boards for environmental programs or initiatives at University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, Miami University, Florida Atlantic University, Tulane University, York University, and several other business schools and organizations. From 1989 to 1993, he was Executive Director of Washington Public Interest Research Group (WashPIRG), a not-for-profit research and advocacy organization based in Seattle and backed by college chapters and 25,000 community members, advocating environmental protection, government reforms, energy conservation and consumer issues. Prior to that, he directed grassroots advocacy and fundraising campaigns for the PIRG organizations in Washington, D.C., Connecticut, Massachusetts and Washington state. He holds an MBA and Environmental Management Certificate from the University of Washington, and a BA in Political Science from Yale.

Thomas R. Casten
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From 1986 to the present, Thomas Casten has served as President and CEO of Trigen Energy Corporation, a NYSE-listed company whose mission is to produce electricity, heat and power with one-half the fossil fuel and one-half the pollution of conventional generation. Trigen, the leading thermal sciences company in North America serves more than 1,500 customers with energy produced at 47 plants in 32 locations in 18 states. From 1980 to 1986, he was CEO of Trigen's predecessor company, Cogeneration Development Corp. Prior to that, Mr. Casten spent eleven years with Cummins Engine Company where he established a business unit to combine heat and power generation using diesel engine technology.

Mr. Casten served on the Board of Directors and as President of the International District Energy Association. In 1989 he received the Norman R. Taylor Award for distinguished achievement and contributions to the industry. In 1998 he was again recognized by the Association with a special award for his commitment and visionary leadership to the district energy industry. He has authored numerous reports and articles on cogeneration and district heating. He recently published a book, Turning Off The Heat (Prometheus Press, October 1998) that analyzes policy issues concerning energy costs, pollution control, and climate change mitigation. He has given testimony before State Public Service Commissions, State and Federal Legislative Committees and Agencies on topics including restructuring of the electric industry, environmental and tax policy.

Mr. Casten was the founding Chairman of the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra, now in its 17th season. In 1997 he was recognized as the Distinguished Eagle Scout in Westchester Putnam County, NY and is currently the Council President. From 1964 to 1968, he was an engineer officer in the U.S. Marine Corps., and spent one year in Vietnam. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Colorado, with a B.S. in Economics, and was valedictorian of the 1969 graduating class of Columbia University's M.B.A. program.

Elizabeth Cook
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Liz Cook is the Co-Director of the Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB) at the World Resources Institute and supervises a fifteen member staff. She has been with WRI since 1994 and has twelve years of experience working with industry on innovative responses to atmospheric issues.

Liz Cook also serves as team leader of WRI's interdisciplinary Climate Protection Initiative, which works in partnership with companies to identify policies and business strategies for achieving strong climate goals. As part of this effort, she co-authored Taking a Byte Out of Carbon: Electronics Innovation for Climate Protection, which was produced with leaders in the electronics and communications industries. She also participated in the Safe Climate, Sound Business collaboration with oil, auto, and life science companies. Previously, as the Ozone Campaign Director of Friends of the Earth, Cook worked with multiple industry sectors to pioneer voluntary programs and policy responses that build upon innovation and market-oriented approaches. Cook documented the lessons learned from this experience in the 1996 WRI report, Ozone Protection in the United States: Elements of Success. In 1997, Cook received the United Nations Environment Program Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Protection of the Ozone Layer. She was also the recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award in 1991.

José María Figueres
José Maria Figueres is highly representative of a new generation of Latin American leaders with a singular track record in business, politics and government. The youngest president of any Central American country in modern times, he grew up in La Lucha, a small factory town established by his father in the late 1920's. Mr. Figueres studied Industrial Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Upon returning to Costa Rica in 1979, he found himself charged with a complete restructuring of the family business. By the late 1980s, the company had regained its footing and had diversified into a wide variety of agroindustrial products becoming one of the leading groups in the country.

In 1988 Mr. Figueres was appointed by then President Oscar Arias to serve in the Costa Rican government, first as Minister of Foreign Trade and then as Minister of Agriculture. He demonstrated great energy and leadership abilities. With the end of the Arias Administration in 1990, Mr. Figueres traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he earned a Masters Degree in Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, under the Mason Fellows Program.

While finishing his degree at Harvard, he announced his candidacy for the Presidency of Costa Rica in 1994. After the primary process, Mr. Figueres consolidated Liberacion Nacional behind his candidacy, and went on to win the general election in February of 1994. During his four-year term as Costa Rica's President, he undertook important transformations. He led Costa Rica's stunning achievements in attracting numerous high-tech companies to the country, including Intel, Sawtech, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, DSC Communications, Microsoft, and Acer. His legislative initiatives included a complete overhaul of the tax system, revamping Costa Rica's banking and securities laws, a modernization of the customs procedures, a reform of the pensions systems, and fortification of regional integration treaties.

Environmental policies had a privileged status during the four years of his administration, with great emphasis in the implementation of the international legislation on climate change and biodiversity. During the administration Costa Rica's leadership in sustainable development was influential in the rest of Central America. In 1994, regional leaders signed the Central American Alliance for Sustainable Development. As an inspiring leader in the region, former President Figueres was very supportive of new approaches, by working more closely with international academic and private sector institutions in the design of new ways to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of opening markets, government restructurings, information era and technological revolution. Based in Costa Rica, former President Figueres presides over the Costa Rican Foundation for Sustainable Development and is involved in some business activities. He undertakes initiatives to encourage business and nonprofit activities combining interests in sustainable development and environmental issues and the promotion of information technologies to enhance the quality of life of the Costa Rican people.

Former President Figueres' non-profit activities include directorships of the World Resources Institute, World Wildlife Fund, FUNDES International, Leaders for Environment and Development, Stockholm Environment Institute and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. He is also the Chairman of the Seniors Advisors Committee of the Global Environment Facility. Former President Figueres has been honored with diverse international recognition, thanks to his notable achievements in favor of sustainable development policies.

Jennifer Finlay
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Jennifer Finlay is a Senior Associate with the WRI's Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB). Ms. Finlay's works focuses on strategic market transformation initiatives both for environmentally preferable products and services and increasing the environmental and social content of business school training. She has authored two reports on business education. The latest, Beyond Grey Pinstripes: Preparing MBAs for Social and Environmental Stewardship, is a partnership with the Aspen Institute's Initiative for Social Innovation through Business. Ms. Finlay heads a corporate buyers group in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Business for Social Responsibility, and was part of WRI's "Safe Climate, Sound Business" project with British Petroleum, General Motors and Monsanto.

Ms. Finlay's international experience includes consulting at the World Bank and at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on technology transfer under the Montreal Protocol. Her background is in development strategy in Asia, including developing strategies for multi-stakeholder involvement in natural resource management decisions in Laos. Ms. Finlay earned an A.B. in Asian Studies and Political Science from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA., a M.S. from University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment, and an MBA from the Michigan Business School. In 1990, she was awarded a Watson Fellowship for sociology research in Asia, and was one of E.I. DuPont Nemours & Co.'s judges for their 1997 Safety, Health and Environmental Excellence Awards.

Allen Hammond
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Dr. Allen Hammond is Senior Scientist and Director of Strategic Analysis for the World Resources Institute. His responsibilities include institute-wide leadership in the use of analytical methods and information tools for policy research, direction of the Strategic Indicator Research Initiative on environmental and sustainable development indicators, development of web-based communication tools, and writing and research on long-term sustainability issues. He was formerly the editor-in-chief of the World Resources report series. His book, Which World?: Scenarios for the 21st Century, was published in May 1998, by Island Press. Dr. Hammond holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard University in engineering and applied mathematics.

Prior to joining WRI, he created the Research News section of the international journal Science and went on to found and edit several national publications, including Science 80-86 (published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Issues in Science and Technology (published by the National Academy of Science), and the Information Please Environmental Almanac (published by Houghton-Mifflin). In addition, he broadcast a daily radio program for 5 years (syndicated nationally by CBS) and has written or edited 10 books. Dr. Hammond has won several national magazine awards and other journalist honors. Dr. Hammond has published extensively in the scientific and policy research literature; has lectured widely; and has served as a consultant to the White House science office, to several U.S. federal agencies, to the United Nations, and to several private foundations.

Stuart Hart
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Stuart Hart is Associate Professor of Strategic Management, and Director of the Sustainable Enterprise Initiative at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. Prior to joining the Kenan-Flagler faculty, he taught corporate strategy at the University of Michigan Business School and was the founding director of the Corporate Environmental Management Program, a joint initiative between the Business School and the School of Natural Resources and Environment. Dr. Hart's research interests center on strategy innovation and change. He is particularly interested in the implications of environmentalism and sustainable development for corporate and competitive strategy.

He has published over 40 papers and authored or edited four books. His article "Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World" won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in the Harvard Business Review for 1997. He has consulted or served as management educator for a number of organizations, including 3M, Abbott Laboratories, Battelle, Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Enron, Ford Motor Company, Gemini Consulting, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Monsanto, U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Weyerhaeuser, and World Resources Institute. Dr. Hart earned his Bachelors degree from the University of Rochester, Masters degree from Yale University, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Charles E. Ing
Charles E. Ing is the Corporate Manager of Government Affairs at Toyota Motor Sales. Mr. Ing has worked with Toyota since 1986 and manages both the federal and state affairs activities for the company. Prior to working for Toyota, Mr. Ing worked for the Government Relations Department of the National Automobile Dealers Association for nine years. He received his BA from Clemson University in South Carolina and his MA from the University of South Carolina.

Ross Leonard
Ross Leonard is the General Manager of Corporate Business for Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high-performance carpeting for corporate office, retail, healthcare, educational, and government interiors. At Collins & Aikman, Mr. Leonard is responsible for the marketing and brand management of the company's award-winning six-foot roll and tile carpeting made from recycled content to corporate, facility management, and architectural/design audiences.

Collins & Aikman conserves resources by producing floorcoverings that last up to three times longer than conventional carpeting and is the only company worldwide to produce a high-performance carpet backing (ER3™) made of 100% reclaimed and recycled carpeting. Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings is also the only carpet manufacturer to pass the State of Washington's environmental air-quality protocol with its patented dry adhesive installation system known as RS.

Steve Lippman
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Steve Lippman is a Program Manager in Business for Social Responsibility's Business and the Environment Team. He currently leads the Program's initiatives related to Supply Chain Environmental Management. He has convened and facilitated a series of meetings to help leading companies explore best practices for reducing environmental impacts across their supply chains through BSREF's Supply Chain Working Group (recently expanded as the Supply Chain Environmental Network). He contributed an article on supply chain environmental management for the Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and has given presentations on the subject at numerous workshops and conferences, including the Global Environmental Management Initiative's annual meeting. Mr. Lippman also leads the Program's Initiative on Sourcing Environmentally Responsible Forest Products.

In addition to his supply-chain related work, Mr. Lippman has worked on consulting projects for a number of BSR member companies, including The Home Depot, Johnson & Johnson, and Levi Strauss & Company. He led an EPA-funded project aimed at promoting environmental leadership among retailers. He has helped deliver several trainings on human rights and environmental issues for overseas manufacturers in the apparel and footwear. Steve was a researcher and co-author of an EPA-sponsored BSR Education Fund benchmarking study, Moving Toward Sustainability: A View of Leadership Company Practices and Stakeholder Expectations. He organized a forum to share the studies' findings with representatives of leading companies, NGOs, and government agencies.

Before joining BSREF, Mr. Lippman worked for three years for Jellinek, Schwart & Connolly, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental consulting firm with a broad range of private sector clients. Mr. Lippman has also worked on projects as an intern or fellow with the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Oregon Water Trust. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Slide Ranch, an organic farm and environmental education center located in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Mr. Lippman received his B.A. from Stanford and an M.S. from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and the Environment.

Patricia Londoño
Patricia Londoño is Director of Latin American Business Enterprises at the World Resources Institute. Prior to joining WRI, Ms. Londoño was the Project Coordinator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Colombian office for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol. Ms. Londoño was also the Commercial Executive of the Sociedad Colombiana de Transporte Ferroviario S.A. (National Railroad Company) in Bogota, Colombia, and a Foreign Currency Trader and Credit Analyst at the Banco de Credito, Bogota, Colombia. She holds a BS in Management from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, and MS in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School.

Amory Lovins
Amory Lovins co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute-a 17-year-old, 48-person, independent nonprofit resource policy center-and serves as its co-CEO (Research) and its Treasurer. A consultant physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford, he has received an Oxford MA (by virtue of being a don), six honorary doctorates, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz and Lindbergh Awards, and the Nissan, Mitchell, "Alternative Nobel," and Onassis Prizes; held visiting academic chairs; briefed ten heads of state; published 26 books and several hundred papers; and consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide.

The Wall Street Journal's Centennial Issue named him among 28 people in the world most likely to change the course of business in the 1990s, and Car magazine, the 22nd most powerful person in the global automotive industry. His work focuses on transforming the car, real-estate, electricity, water, semiconductor, and several other manufacturing sectors toward advanced resource productivity. His currently in-press books are Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (with Paul Hawken and L. Hunter Lovins) and Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size (with André Lehmann).

William McDonough
William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.' Time magazine recently recognized him as a 'Hero for the Planet' (2/22/99), stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that-in demonstrable and practical ways-is changing the design of the world." His ideas and efforts were also honored when, in 1996, he became the first and only recipient of the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the nation's highest environmental honor, presented by President Clinton in a White House ceremony.

Mr. McDonough is co-founder and principal, with German chemist Michael Braungart, of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, a product and systems development firm assisting prominent client companies in implementing their unique sustaining design protocol. McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry works with client companies whose annual revenues exceed a trillion dollars. The firm assists clients in profitably implementing its scientifically-based design protocols, the McDonough Braungart Index of Sustainability. Current MBDC projects include designing shoes with Nike, personal care products with Unilever, furniture with Herman Miller, fabrics with Steelcase, and transportation-related products with Ford Motor Company.

He is also the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, Architects and Planners, an internationally recognized design firm practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad. William McDonough + Partners has been a leader in the sustainable development movement since 1977. The design of the Environmental Defense Fund offices, completed in 1985, helped launch the 'green building' movement. Recent award-winning projects for Gap Inc., Nike, Herman Miller, and Oberlin College have set new standards for design quality, environmental sensitivity, and functional effectiveness. WM+P is the only firm to win Business Week/Architectural Record "Good Design is Good Business" awards for large commercial projects both years of the new awards program (1997 and 1998).

In addition to this, Mr. McDonough recently stepped down as the Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he was also the Edward E. Elson Professor of Architecture. He is the founder and creative director of the University's Institute for Sustainable Design. Mr. McDonough currently serves as the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, Alumni Research Professor at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia.

Patricia Moles-Rivero
Patricia Moles-Rivero is the General Manager for Banco Axial, Terra Capital Fund (TCI). Prior to assuming the position of General Manager of TCI, Ms. Moles-Rivero helped close the first sustainable forestry acquisition in the Amazon for Banco Axial. Prior to joining Banco Axial she worked in London at the Treasury of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as a Funding Officer & Emerging Markets Analyst. She has worked in financial institutions for the last 9 years. Ms. Moles-Rivero holds a MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and MBA from Escuela Superior de Alta Dirección de Empresas, Barcelona, Spain. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

George Nagle
George Nagle is the Corporate Senior Director of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) with the Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Company. His group is responsible for developing EHS policies, programs, and practices which are then implemented at Bristol's facilities worldwide. He has been with BMS for 19 years, and has been practicing EHS management in industry for a total of 29 years. George is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Safety Professional, and a registered Professional Engineer. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from General Motors Institute in Flint, MI a Master's Degree in Environmental Health from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI and also participated in the MBA program at the University of Chicago.

Tia Nelson
Tia Nelson is the Deputy Director of the Climate Change Program at The Nature Conservancy. Ms. Nelson was a fisheries technician for the state of California before spending five years in the executive branch of Wisconsin State government. She served as a constituent liaison for the Governor and later as staffer for the State Assembly's Natural Resources Committee where she worked on the enactment of a host of landmark environmental laws.

Ms. Nelson joined The Nature Conservancy 10 years ago, and has been responsible for establishing the government relations agenda for international programs. Ms. Nelson has secured significant Congressional funding for biodiversity protection and sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean. She led NGO negotiations with the U.S. Congress and the Department of State and Treasury to include bilateral debt relief as a financial mechanism for environmental funding in the hemisphere and continues to provide technical advice to the Administration on implementation of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, recently having testified before Congress on it's reinstatement. She currently directs the Latin American and Caribbean Division's work on Climate Change and Joint Implementation and manages the development of TNC's JI project portfolio.

Tia Nelson received her B.S. in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin.

Michael H. Nicklas
In September of 1995 Michael Nicklas, with President Mugabe, opened the ISES Solar World Congress in Harare, the International Solar Energy Society's first Congress to be held in Africa. He later conducted a high level meeting with President Mugabe of Zimbabwe, President Sir Ketumile Masire of Botswana, Namibian President Sam Nujoma, Lesotho Prime Minister Dr. Ntsu Mokhehle, OAU Secretary-General Salim Ahmed Salim, and Malawian Vice-President Mr. Chakufwa Chihama to discuss the possibilities of greatly enhancing solar energy use throughout Africa and the developing countries of the world. For this work, Mr. Nicklas recently received the Abbot Award, the highest honor given by the American Solar Energy Society for his "tireless efforts in promoting worldwide awareness of environmentally- and energy-conscious architecture and policy."

Mr. Nicklas has been the owner of Innovative Design, Inc. in Raleigh, North Carolina since 1977. The architectural firm's focus is on energy-efficient, environmentally-sensitive design. He is on the steering committee of the AIA Committee on the Environment, the advisory committee analyzing progress towards sustainable energy for the United Nations Development Programme since 1997 and a member of several professional societies. Additionally, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Duke Solar.

In 1983, the North Carolina Solar Energy Society's Highest Award for Leadership and Service to Solar Energy was awarded to Mr. Nicklas. Ten years later, he received the International Solar Energy Society's Highest Award for Service to Society. Mr. Nicklas has also received the Special Recognition Award for Contribution from the American Solar Energy Society (1994). Mr. Nicklas received his Bachelor of Architecture from North Carolina State University.

Alexandre Augusto Ottati Nogueira
Alexandre Nogueira is a Brazilian engineer who was selected in 1996 to take part in the DaimlerChrysler International Management Program, representing Mercedes-Benz of Brazil. While in Germany, he was chosen to take part at the DaimlerChrysler International Management and Technology Exchange Program, in which he has been working for the last 18 months, both in Germany and in the United States. After concluding this program, Mr. Nogueira will return to the Advanced Planning Manufacturing Department (GPP) at Mercedes-Benz of Brazil. Before joining Mercedes-Benz, Mr. Nogueira worked at Logit, a small, highly competent consulting enterprise. Mr. Nogueira holds a Masters in Science from the University of Sao Paulo.

Tony Prophet
Tony Prophet is the founding President and CEO of AlliedSignal Power Systems Inc., a subsidiary of AlliedSignal, Inc. (NYSE: ALD). He is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Inspired by technologies from AlliedSignal's aerospace and automotive businesses, Mr. Prophet championed the formation of AlliedSignal Power Systems Inc. Formed in January 1997, AlliedSignal Power Systems is dedicated to the development of the world's finest power generation systems for use in businesses, institutions and transportation.

Prior to the formation of AlliedSignal Power Systems, Mr. Prophet worked for AlliedSignal Aerospace as vice president, new business development for the Aerospace Equipment Systems (AES) business unit. In this position he spearheaded new product development efforts, strategic planning, as well as identifying acquisition and joint venture opportunities. Before joining AlliedSignal in 1994, Mr. Prophet was vice president and partner of Booz, Allen & Hamilton Management Consultants, where he was an officer in the firm's aerospace practice and co-founder of the firm's Los Angeles office. Before moving into the consulting arena, he worked for General Motors in both its Oldsmobile Division and the GM-Toyota joint venture.

Mr. Prophet earned his B.S. in engineering at General Motors Institute. He also earned a M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he attended as a General Motors fellow.

Ellen J. Quinn
Ellen J. Quinn was made Director of Environmental Programs for United Technologies Corporation on June 1, 1999. Ms. Quinn provides technical expertise on projects concerning groundwater contamination and hazardous waste and land disposal regulations as they apply to site investigations, remedial projects and property assessments. She also works on both environmental regulatory and site remediation issues. She is responsible for developing a Shared Service for Environmental Remediation and Compliance for United Technologies Corporation worldwide operations. She was formerly Vice President of Administration for Yankee Energy Systems, Inc., the parent of Yankee Gas Services Company. She was responsible for human resources, information systems, purchasing, facilities management, environmental management and safety activities.

Ms. Quinn graduated from Franklin and Marshall College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Geology from Harvard University and a Master of Science degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic University. She is on the board of directors of Regional Plan Association-Connecticut Committee and the Connecticut Audubon Society. She is a member of the American Gas Association; New England Gas Association; Society for Human Resource Management; and the Connecticut Groundwater Society. She serves as technical advisor to the Electric Power Research Institute, and has served on an advisory board for the National Academy of Science.

Janet Ranganathan
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Janet Ranganathan is a Senior Associate in the Management Institute for Environment and Business at the World Resources Institute in Washington D.C. where she works on the development & implementation of corporate accountability tools for measuring and driving progress toward more sustainable business activities. She is co-manager of a major collaborative effort to develop an international standard for measuring & reporting business greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, she works extensively with business and other stakeholder groups on the development of business sustainability metrics. Janet has also worked on corporate environmental accounting and the role of emerging environmental monitoring technologies for better management and accountability.

She is co-author and editor of a WRI publication, Green Ledgers: Case Studies in Corporate Environmental Accounting, with Daryl Ditz and Darryl Banks, and co-author of Measuring Up: Toward a Common Framework for Tracking Corporate Environmental Performance, which she co-authored with Daryl Ditz. Her most recent publications include Sustainability Rulers: Measuring Corporate Environmental and Social Performance, and The Global Reporting Initiative: An Emerging Tool for Corporate Accountability. Prior to joining WRI she worked on business and environmental issues in the U.K. both as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and in a regulatory capacity with the Department of Environment and Hertfordshire Waste Regulatory Authority. Janet Ranganathan received a BSc. (Hons) from Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London in 1983, and an MSc. with distinction in Environmental Technology from Imperial College in 1990.

Donald Reed
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Don Reed is Deputy Director of the Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB), a program of the World Resources Institute, and Director of MEB's SPLASH project. He brings his capital markets experience to bear on the questions of how investors should value sustainable development, and engages the broad investment community in a dialogue on why sustainable development is critical to their interests. He helps our SPLASH corporate partners enhance shareholder value through sustainable business strategies. Mr. Reed brings an uncommon mix of skills and experience to our sustainable development initiative. He has worked in both the financial service and not-for-profit worlds in his 18-year career. As Director of Research at The Carson Group, he provided a range of capital markets consulting services to many of the largest publicly-traded corporations in the US. As Vice President of Excelsior Capital Corporation, Mr. Reed worked with leading pension funds to design, develop and implement new institutional investment products with positive economic development benefits. He is co-author of Competitive Plus, a review of economically targeted investments, published by the New York State Industrial Cooperation Council, and author of Green Shareholder Value, Hype or Hit? by WRI. In his NGO career, Mr. Reed worked for an environmental lobbying group and a progressive coalition in his home state of Montana. Mr. Reed has earned the designation as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and holds an MBA in Finance from the Stern School of New York University and an undergraduate degree in Political Economy from Princeton University.

Reto Ringger
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In 1995, Reto Ringger is CEO and founded the SAM Sustainability Group based in Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to working at SAM, Mr. Ringger was the assistant to the Chief Executive at Bank J. Vontobel & Co. AG. Previously, he worked in Mergers & Acquisitions at Bank Sarasin & Cie (1991-1993), the Nikko Bank (1989-1991), the Swiss Re in Zurich (1987-1989) and the Nomura Bank (1985-1986). Mr. Ringger received his MBA in banking, corporate finance and management from the University of Zurich.

Dawn Rittenhouse
Dawn Rittenhouse is Business Sustainability and Product Stewardship Leader for the DuPont Company. Ms. Rittenhouse joined DuPont in 1980 and has held positions in Technical Service, Sales, Marketing, and Product Management within the Packaging Polymers and Ag Products businesses. In late 1993, she began working in the corporate organization to assist DuPont businesses in integrating environmental and sustainability strategies into their business management processes. Recently she has begun working with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development on their Sustainability through the Marketplace working group. She also leads the Product Stewardship competency for the corporation, manages the corporate recognition program for Sustainable Growth Excellence, manages a communications network to link leaders of the Community Advisory Panels (CAPs) at all DuPont manufacturing sites, and leads DuPont's environmental education initiatives. Ms. Rittenhouse is president of the board for Birthright of Delaware, a non profit crisis pregnancy counseling service. Ms. Rittenhouse has a double major in Chemistry and Economics from Duke University.

James R. Sheats
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James R. Sheats received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1978 at Stanford University, with a thesis on molecular motion in synthetic analogues of cell membranes. After postdoctoral work in nonlinear chemical dynamics at MIT and Stanford, he joined Hewlett Packard Labs in 1982 where he has contributed to a wide range of applications of chemistry in electronics, including photolithography, superconductors, electroluminescence, and memory, described in more than 40 journal articles and several patents. Dr. Sheats currently manages a program to analyze and develop technology opportunities motivated by environmental sustainability. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society.

Michael Totten
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Michael Totten is the Co-Director of the Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB) at the World Resources Institute and supervises a fifteen member staff. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of MEB's Sustainable Forest Enterprise and Renewable Energy projects. Prior to WRI he co-founded and served as Executive Director of the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST). Totten conceived the non-profit's mission of developing a new generation of learning and decisionmaking tools for sustainable energy development, based on electronic information and telecommunication tools like the Internet and CD-ROM. Over five years more than 16 software titles were released, as well as growing an Internet site dedicated to sustainable resource development that receive 6 million hits each month.

For the past two decades, Mr. Totten has been engaged in developing public policies and market incentives to foster ecologically sustainable development. In the early 1990s he served as Director of Training and Information at the International Institute for Energy Conservation. While at IIEC he succeeded in getting the World Bank to fund one of the largest energy efficiency projects up to that point, the highly successful Mexico-based lighting project known as Ilumex. During the 1980s, he served as Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Congresswoman Claudine Schneider, drafting major legislation such as the Global Warming Prevention Act. He has published extensively, such as the widely distributed EnergyWise Options for State and Local Governments. Totten graduated from Yale University with Honors.

Allen White
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Dr. Allen White is Vice President of Tellus Institute and Director of the Risk Analysis Group. He also is affiliated with the Stockholm Environment Institute-Boston. Dr. White advises business, government, and NGOs on corporate environmental and sustainability performance measurement, environmental accounting, pollution prevention economics, product-to-service transition, and integrating environment into business strategy. Dr. White has advised federal and state agencies across the U.S., foundations, corporations, as well as UN agencies, USAID, OECD, and the World Bank.

For US EPA, Dr. White has led pioneering efforts in the development of environmental accounting methods, working as advisor and researcher with the Environmental Accounting Project since its inception. More recently, he has initiated research related to extended product responsibility and the transition from product to service-based economy in the U.S. He led Tellus Institute's role in the 1996 launch of the Chemical Strategies Partnership, a multi-year effort to restructure the chemical supplier-customer relationships to achieve continuous, cost-effective toxics use reduction.

Dr. White serves as principal technical advisor and Vice Chair, Steering Committee, of the Global Reporting Initiative, a foundation-supported, international multi-stakeholder effort aimed at establishing a common framework for corporate sustainability reporting worldwide. Dr. White has published and spoken widely on corporate environmental strategies, pollution prevention economics, corporate accountability and disclosure, performance metrics, and business transformation.

Deborah Zemke
Deborah Zemke is the Director of Corporate Governance for Ford Motor Company. This is a new position for Ford, and Ms. Zemke is responsible for supporting the development of the Company's corporate responsibility agenda. She also is secretary of the Company's recently established Corporate Citizenship Council. Ms. Zemke joined Ford in 1971 and has held a variety of positions. Prior to her present assignment, she was Director of the Corporate Organization Planning group and served as Director of the Ford Executive Development Center.