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: Kaush Arha; Latham & Watkins; Kaush served as the director of the National Forum on U.S. Agricultural Policy and the 2007 Farm Bill: Conserving Ecological Integrity and Preserving Economic Resilience of American Farmlands.; MORE >>

: Roni Avissar; W.H. Gardner Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Duke University; For the past 25 years, Professor Avissar has focused on the development and evaluation of various environmental fluid dynamics models to study ocean-land-atmosphere interactions at the various spatial and temporal scales.; MORE >>

: Kenneth "Ken" Cassman; Professor of Agronomy & Horticulture Director of the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; The need to meet food demand while protecting environmental quality and natural resources for future generations is a scientific challenge that has been grossly underestimated, and this theme provides a unifying framework for Professor Cassman's rese; MORE >>

: Ronald "Ron" Christenson; Corporate Vice President & Chief Technology Officer; Cargill, Incorporated; Ron was elected corporate vice president and chief technology officer in August 1994. His current responsibility includes corporate leadership for corporate plant operations, environment, health and safety and food safety.; MORE >>

: Dr. Jason Clay; Vice President, Center for Conservation Innovation; World Wildlife Fund; Dr. Jason Clay is the lead for the WWF Network on aquaculture and agriculture. Over the course of his career he has worked on a family farm, taught at Harvard and Yale, worked in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and spent more than twenty years wo; MORE >>

: Dr. Mark Delucchi; Research Scientist at the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS); University of California, Davis; Dr. Mark Delucchi is a research scientist at ITS at UC Davis and a private consultant, specializing in economic, environmental, engineering, and planning analyses of current and future transportation systems.; MORE >>

: Dr. Jikun Huang; Director of the Center for Center for Chinese Agriculture Policy Analysis
Professor and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dr. Jikun Huang is the Founder and Director of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as well as Professor and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Resear; MORE >>

: Mark Jacobson; Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of the Program on Atmosphere/Energy; Stanford University; Professor Jacobson specializes in computer modeling of air pollution, weather, and climate, understanding physical, chemical, and dynamical feedbacks in the atmosphere, identifying and analyzing methods of addressing air pollution and climate problem; MORE >>

: Andrew "Andy" Karsner; Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; United States Department of Energy; Assistant Secretary Karsner was unanimously confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) in March 2006.; MORE >>

: Rosamond "Roz" Naylor; Julie Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Associate Professor (by courtesy) in Economics; Stanford University; Professor Rosamond Lee Naylor's research focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive food production.; MORE >>

: Dr. Scott Rozelle; Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University; Stanford University; Dr. Rozelle's research focuses almost exclusively on China and is concerned with three general themes.; MORE >>