Governor Tony Earl*
Quarles and Brady
Chairman

Mr. Earl is a retired partner in the Madison office of Quarles & Brady LLP. He previously served as 40 th Governor of the State of Wisconsin, January 1983 - December 1986; Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, October 1975 – October 1980; Secretary of the Department of Administration, 1975; Member, Wisconsin State Legislature, 1969-74; City Attorney, Wausau, Wisconsin, 1966-1969; and Assistant District Attorney, Marathon County, Wisconsin, 1965. Mr. Earl received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and his law degree from the University of Chicago. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for various organizations, including Aldo Leopold Nature Center, Inc., American Transmission Company, Center for Clean Air Policy, Friendship Project for Northern Ireland, Inc., Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, The Joyce Foundation and the Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development.

Robert C. Shinn, Jr.*
S2 Concepts
Vice-Chairman

Robert C. Shinn, Jr., the 11th Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection from February 1994 to February 2002, held the post longer than any Commissioner in the 31-year history of the NJDEP and transformed the department into one of the most progressive in the country. Shinn became a national/international leader in environmental organizations. While Commissioner, Shinn served as president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer of the Environmental Council of States (ECOS), a national association of state environmental commissioners who work closely with the EPA and Congressional leaders to ensure state input on federal environmental legislation and policy. He has a total of 34 years in public service at the local, county and state levels with a legacy of innovative programs for air quality, solid waste management, water supply and Pinelands and farmland preservation.

Ned Helme
Center for Clean Air Policy
Executive Director

Ned Helme helped create the Center for Clean Air Policy in 1985, with a number of progressive state governors. He oversees day-to-day operations and directs policy work and project development, in addition to leading many of the Center’s dialogue groups and contributing to policy papers. Ned also directs the Center’s extensive fundraising efforts. He is actively involved in the international negotiations on climate change and is a recognized expert and frequent speaker before domestic and international audiences on climate change, emissions trading, air quality, and energy policy. Prior to heading the Center, he served for eight years as Staff director for the National Governors Association’s (NGA) Committee on Energy and Environment and as Director of NGA’s Natural Resources Division. He also served five years as Chief Legislative Assistant to former U.S. Representative Ken Hechler and worked closely with the House Science & Technology Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development and Demonstration. Ned holds an M.P.P. from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. from Haverford College in political science and psychology.

James D. Boyd
Commissioner
California Energy Commission

Mr. Boyd has been a government administrator for over thirty years overseeing a variety of public health, environmental, natural resource, scientific, technical, and administrative programs. In February 2000, Governor Gray Davis appointed him to a five-year term with the California Energy Commission. In addition to presiding over the Energy Commission's Transportation Committee and overseeing the Climate Change and International Export Programs, he also serves on the Electricity and Natural Gas and Renewables Committees. He chairs the state's Joint Action Climate Change Team and the state's Natural Gas Working Group. Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Boyd was Chief of Staff of the California Resources Agency. He served 15 years as the Chief Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), directing the nation's largest state air pollution control program. During this period, the CARB led the nation in establishing new pollution control programs for motor vehicles and their fuels, toxic air contaminants, consumer products, and industrial and area sources.

E. Donald Elliott
Professor (adj) of Law, Yale Law School Partner, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, L.L.P.

Mr. Elliott has successfully represented many companies in major environmental enforcement cases with federal and state governments.  Most recently, he was the lead negotiator on the $1.1 billion, five plant Ohio Edison NSR settlement with EPA, NY, NJ and CT, which the New York Times called "one of the most significant settlements ever for cleaning the air."  The company publicly described the settlement as "consistent with its long-term financial planning" and helping it to comply with new Clean Air Act regulations of general applicability.  Other clients that he has represented in significant environmental enforcement litigation and settlements include Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Toyota Motor Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ashland Oil, Phelps Dodge, Colgate-Palmolive and Federal Mogul.  He was also involved in many significant enforcement and rulemaking cases during his government service as General Counsel of EPA, 1989-1991. He is an adjunct professor of environmental law and litigation at Yale Law School and Georgetown University Law  Center, and serves on the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the National Academy of Sciences.

Marianne Lais Ginsburg
German Marshall Fund of the United States (Retired)

Ms. Ginsburg is a career foundation executive who spent 30 years with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where she dealt with transatlantic environmental, energy, and communication matters. She now works in these subject areas as a volunteer and board member for organizations in the United States and Europe.

David Hawkins*
Director of Climate Center
Natural Resources Defense Council

Mr. Hawkins has worked on environmental and energy policy since graduating from Columbia University Law School in 1970. In 1971, David and former NRDC attorney Dick Ayres, began NRDC’s Clean Air Project. In 1977 he was appointed by President Carter to be Assistant Administrator for Air, Noise, and Radiation at the US EPA. With President Reagan’s election in 1981, David returned to NRDC to co-direct its Clean Air Program. In 1990 David became Director of NRDC’s Air and Energy Program. In 2001 he became Director of the NRDC Climate Center, which focuses on advancing policies and programs to reduce pollution responsible for global warming and harmful climate change.

Dr. Mark Levine
Senior Staff Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Energy Analysis Department

Before joining LBNL in 1978, Dr. Levine was a staff scientist at the Ford Foundation Energy Project in Washington, D.C., and a senior energy policy analyst at SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.  From 1983 until his appointment as Division Director in 1997, Dr. Levine served as Head of LBNL's Energy Analysis Program.  Since 1988, he has devoted attention to analysis of China's energy system, and is a co-founder of the Beijing Energy Efficiency Center (BECon).  Dr. Levine was co-leader of the report “Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future” as well as a co-leader of a recent study of energy and carbon futures of China. He was also a lead author of sections on mitigation for the 1995 and 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and has led a major international study for the World Energy Council on energy efficiency.  He is the U.S. member of the advisory board of the Asian Pacific Energy Research Centre in Tokyo, Japan.  In 1999, he was elected to be a fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology.

Jim Maddy*
CEO
Association of Zoos and Aquariums

Mr. Maddy recently joined the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of zoos and aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science and recreation, as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this appointment he served as Executive Director for Resources Legacy Fund, a California-based non-profit dedicated to the conservation and restoration of natural landscapes, marine systems, wild lands and wilderness. Prior to this he served for nine years as President of the National Park Foundation, during which time he helped restore the Washington Monument and launched the innovative Proud Partner corporate program, the National Parks Pass, and significant acquisitions of sensitive land within and around National Parks. Maddy also served for eight years as President of the League of Conservation Voters and for four years as the Executive Director of the Western Governors Association.

Eric B. Svenson, Jr.
Vice President
PSEG Services Corp.

Mr. Svenson was named vice president – environment, health and safety of PSEG Services
Corporation, in December 2006. He had been director - corporate issues management, where he was
been responsible for directing PSEG’s Washington lobbying activities to advance and protect PSEG’s
business interests before the United States Congress and federal regulatory agencies.
Mr. Svenson has been with PSEG for 33 years in electric power production, business development, and
environmental and governmental affairs. Prior, he served as director - plant support for PSEG Power,
the merchant generation business of PSEG. He was responsible for developing strategies to optimize
the performance of PSEG Power’s fossil electric generation portfolio of 6,000 megawatts in New
Jersey and New York. Mr. Svenson also developed the first phase of a plant maintenance optimization
program, using reliability centered maintenance techniques to reduce expenditures. He joined PSEG in
1973 working in electric generation operations. Mr. Svenson has provided testimony at numerous New Jersey, Northeast, and national legislative and regulatory forums on electric industry restructuring and environmental matters. He also has coauthored with the Natural Resources Defense Council, several reports benchmarking electric power industry emissions.

Mary D. Nichols
Chairman
California Air Resources Board

Ms. Nichols holds a faculty appointment as Professor in Residence at UCLA’s Law School. She teaches a seminar in air and water law, in addition to directing the IoE, an independent, interdisciplinary unit that sponsors research, teaching and public service initiatives across the entire UCLA campus. Ms. Nichols also currently serves as Board President for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Before joining UCLA, she served as Secretary for California’s Resources Agency. In a long career as environmental lawyer and policymaker, Nichols has worked as a senior staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Law in the Public Interest, and headed the Environment Now Foundation as Executive Director. She served as Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Clinton Administration and was appointed Chair of the California Air Resources Board by Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Her principal areas of interest are the role of science in environmental decision making and the creation of new institutions for environmental governance.

D. Louis Peoples (Retired)*
Vice Chairman and CEO
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc

Mr. Peoples has more than 30 years experience in the electric and gas energy industries. He has held senior positions as vice chairman of the board and Chief Executive Officer of Orange and Rockland Utilities Inc. (retired) and chairman of the New York Power Pool. Most recently, Lou served as one of seven independent directors and President of GridOne Advisory Corporation, an entity sponsored by Entergy Corp., to attempt to form a new independent transmission company. His current business involvement is a new startup: Nyack Management Company, Inc. (NMC). Lou is President and Founder. NMC provides general consulting and interim management services; drawing upon very experienced executive talent around the nation. He is a director of the Center for Clean Air Policy and is a sponsor of the Aspen Institute Program on Energy, the Environment and the Economy. Other recent board positions include: USAA, Enermetrix.com, energyLeader.com, the Edison Electric Institute, the Electric Power Research Institute, the Empire State Electric Energy Research Corporation, the New York Power Pool and the Energy Association of New York State as well as Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. and GridOne Advisory Corporation.

Conrad Schneider
Policy and Technical Coordinator
Clean Air Task Force

Mr. Schneider joined the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring clean air and healthy environments through scientific research, public education, and legal advocacy, in 1998. He also serves as a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Department of Bowdoin College. Previously, he served as coordinator of the Northeast Clean Power Campaign and was a staff attorney and air project director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Prior to that, Mr. Schneider served as trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice.  He began his legal career as law clerk for Judge Robert H. Hall in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta Division). 

Ron Sims
Executive
King County Government

Mr. Sims was first elected to run Washington State’s largest county in 1997. Since then he has won regional praise and national recognition for his leadership in a three-county effort to restore the runs of the prized Chinook salmon, declared threatened by the National Marine Fisheries Service earlier in 1999. He has also promoted comprehensive smart growth strategies in dealing with transportation of people, goods, and services in the heavily congested Puget Sound corridor. Sims is a member of the advisory board of the Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. A longtime public servant, Mr. Sims served for 11 years on the King County Council, in addition to his seven years as County Executive.

Dr. Fernando Tudela
Under Secretary of Planning and Environmental Policy
SEMARNAT

Dr. Tudela has had a distinguished career as a policymaker and academician. He served as Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Climate Change in Mexico from 1997-2000 and as a Mexican negotiator to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He has also served as Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of the Mexican Federal Government, and as a professor at various academic institutions, including Metropolitan Autonomous University and the Iberoamerican University, both in Mexico City. Dr. Tudela is the author of numerous books and articles relating to various aspects of environment and development.

John Wells*
Vice President, Environment

BP

John Wells leads the Environmental Policy team in the Group’s corporate centre.  As such he provides leadership to the development of Group's approach to environmental issues such as the environmental impact of new and existing operations, the climate change agenda as well as the broader environmental implications of the products that BP sells.  His team develops and monitors delivery of Group level commitments on environmental issues.  Prior to his current appointment John was Vice President, Procurement and before that a Business Unit Leader in BP Chemicals, running global business activities in both commodity and specialist chemicals. His early career was spent in technology and business development followed by a period in BP Finance – during which time he ran the risk management unit associated with BP’s financial trading activity. 

John joined BP in 1982 after reading Physics (MA) and Materials Science (PhD) at Cambridge University, UK.  He is also on the Board of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA).