Panelist: Alternative Paths: The Existence or Myth of Sustainable Growth in Developing Countries

Prince Moulay Hicham owns a clean energy business, Al-Tayyar Energy, which uses biomass in Thailand to generate renewable energy. His company, based in Abu Dhabi, has several projects in Asia and Europe, the latest of which focuses on the development of an eco-city in Morocco, Prince Moulay Hicham's native country. Al Tayyar aims to open developing markets to energy efficiency and renewable energy and to develop electricity produced from renewable energy sources at a price affordable to people and businesses. Prince Moulay Hicham studied politics at Princeton and earned an M.A. in Political Science from Stanford in 1997. Prince Moulay Hicham is currently a visiting scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies' Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is also the founder of Princeton's Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.

Panelist: Private Influence on Public Thought: How Business Can Drive Social Currents

Elizabeth “Libby” Cheney is the current Vice President of Exploration and Production for Shell Americas. Cheney’s responsibilities encompass Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental (HSSE), Business Planning and Support, Contracts and Joint Ventures, and Communications and Government Affairs associated with Exploration and Production activities throughout North, Central, and South America. Before joining Shell in 2006, Libby was the Manager of Non-Operated Global Development Projects for ExxonMobil Development Company in Houston, TX where she managed technical resources and decisions for non-operated global projects totaling more than $25 billion in gross investment. She began her career as a Reservoir Engineer with Exxon in Kingsville, Texas. Her background includes various assignments managing multi-functional teams for producing assets from offshore Gulf of Mexico to West Texas and California. Libby subsequently managed field operations and led an organization of engineers and technicians in developing and optimizing onshore US assets. In addition, she spent time as the Senior Strategic Planning contact for development projects in Russia, the Caspian, and the Middle East.

Moderator: Private Influence on Public Thought: How Business Can Drive Social Currents

Andrew joined Lightspeed Venture Partners in 2006 and focuses on investments in cleantech, Internet, digital media and software. He has over eight years of investing, consulting and operating experience. Andrew helped initiate Lightspeed's investment program in cleantech and currently observes the boards of Coaltek, LS9, Stion and Exclara. Prior to Lightspeed, Andrew worked at Bain Capital and TL Ventures. Andrew earned his BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Andrew is an avid musician, having performed as a vocalist at distinguished venues like the Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and an off-Broadway musical theatre.

Panelist: Alternative Paths: The Existence or Myth of Sustainable Growth in Developing Countries

Berrien Moore has recently accepted the position of Executive Director of Climate Central, an emerging, nonprofit, nonpartisan think-tank dedicated to producing and providing the public, business and civic leaders, and policymakers with objective and understandable information about climate change and potential solutions. Dr. Moore shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); he was the coordinating lead author for the final chapter, "Advancing our Understanding," of the IPCC's Third Assessment Report. He led the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire as Director from 1987 to early 2008, and has been on faculty there for 39 years.

Panelist: Alternative Paths: The Existence or Myth of Sustainable Growth in Developing Countries

Dr. Nazre, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, focuses on venture capital investments in enterprise software and services, greentech, and new materials, specifically those relating to energy, environment, and life sciences. Additionally, he leads KPCB's India Investment Initiative. Dr. Nazre earned a Ph.D. in Biomechanics from the Technical University of Hanover and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He co-founded SAPMarkets, a company owned by SAP, served as SAPMarkets America's managing director and the Senior Vice President of SAP Inspire, a new venture unit of SAP. He is currently on the board of seven companies.

Panelist: Private Influence on Public Thought: How Business Can Drive Social Currents

Ms. Petrill is creating and working with partnerships with state and regional stakeholders to enable win-win outcomes for the electricity industry and society. She is currently focused on technologies to reduce climate change impacts, such as energy efficiency, the intelligent grid, and distributed energy resources. Over the 20 years Ellen has been with EPRI, her roles have ranged from her current position to program manager in power generation performance and technology development and Executive Director of the West Region Team of Member Services. Ms. Petrill began her career in combustion R&D with Acurex Corporation and TRW, developing and testing advanced combustion systems. Ms. Petrill received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Moderator: Private Influence on Public Thought: How Business Can Drive Social Currents

Stephen Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, co-director at CESP, co-director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, and professor by courtesy in the Department of Civil Engineering. Dr. Schneider was a coordinating lead author for the IPCC's Working Group II, has served as a consultant to Federal Agencies and/or White House staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. His honors include Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences (1999-2001), member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Climate Project, a MacArthur Fellowship, the 1991 American Association for the Advancement of Science/Westinghouse Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology, among many others. He has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific papers, proceedings, legislative testimonies, edited books and book chapters; some 120 book reviews, editorials, published newspaper and magazine interviews and popularizations, is founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Climatic Change, and is a frequent contributor to commercial and non-commercial print and broadcast media on climate and environmental issues.

Panelist: Private Influence on Public Thought: How Business Can Drive Social Currents

Dr. Schwegler is Chief Scientist of Walt Disney Imagineering R&D and a consulting professor at Stanford University. From hydrological modeling to 4D software, from integrated infrastructure design to next generation entertainment effects, Ben's mission is to invent, simulate and deliver new technologies to improve the quality of the built environment. He has been a key executive for theme park and resort developments for the Walt Disney Company in the US, Europe, Japan and Hong Kong. Ben is a member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Technical Divisions Advisory Board, a winner of the Henry R Michel Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a juror for the Sloan Prize for the best portrayal of science in a feature film at the Sundance Film Festival.

Afternoon Keynote

Michael works on and writes about everything from energy to technology innovation to changing social values. As president of the Breakthrough Institute, he is a leading national advocate for the U.S. to make a 10-year, $500 billion public-private investment into cutting-edge clean energy technologies to achieve energy independence and restore America's economic competitiveness. He is co-author of Break Through and "The Death of Environmentalism." Michael has written for L.A. Times, the American Prospect, Glamour Magazine, and other publications. Michael has worked as a strategist for efforts to win action on global warming, save the world's last redwoods, and improve working conditions for Nike factory workers in China. He was raised in Greeley, Colorado, received his B.A. from Earlham in Indiana, and received a Masters Degree in cultural anthropology from the University of California.

Panelist: Private Influence on Public Thought: How Business Can Drive Social Currents

An early pioneer of e-commerce, Dan Whaley developed the first basic software platform allowing any general business to be transacted online. He founded GetThere in 1994, an online travel reservation site. In four years, GetThere was the dominant provider of Internet-based travel reservation functionality to the airline, and in 2000 was sold to The Sabre Group, known now for their service Travelocity.

His newest venture, Climos, is exploring various processes for naturally removing large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. The first technology Climos is developing is ocean iron fertilization, which improves the efficiency of natural phytoplankton production in the open ocean. Phytoplankton are responsible for approximately half of the world's annual CO2 absorbtion capability.

Dan earned his BA in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has traveled extensively, including bicycling solo across the United States, driving overland from California to Argentina and living with Tibetan refugees in Nepal. He is an avid inline skater, a licensed private pilot and a certified ham radio operator.

Panelist: Alternative Paths: The Existence or Myth of Sustainable Growth in Developing Countries

Mr. Xie currently serves as the city director for Beijing and Shanghai for a major global climate change mitigation initiative. He has worked with colleagues in 40 of the worlds' largest cities to implement practical, measureable, and sustainable projects in building, transportation, waste management, and power. In Beijing and Shanghai, Mr. Xie identifies greenhouse gas reduction opportunities and has initiated projects in lighting, retrofitting existing buildings, and transportation. Before his role as City Director, Mr. Xie also worked on the China division of a major global HIV/AIDS initiative and as a project manager for Fortum, a Finnish company involved in power and energy projects in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and Asia. While at Fortum, Mr. Xie worked to provide clean energy and power solution to coal fired power plants.

Opening Keynote

Cathy Zoi is the CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the nonprofit organization established by Al Gore to raise widespread awareness of the climate change crisis. The Alliance has been an important partner in such projects as the Live Earth worldwide concerts and other efforts to galvanize a global movement to address the climate change issue. Ms. Zoi has worked for two decades on the issues of energy and the environment, both in the United States and in Australia. In addition to her role at the Alliance, Ms. Zoi also serves on the board of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), which invests in clean energy technology companies.

Prior to joining the Alliance for Climate Protection, Ms. Zoi held a number of important positions in firms and organizations working toward solutions to the world’s energy and environmental challenges. These include serving as the Group Executive Director at the Bayard Group in Sydney, Chair of the Board at the Climate Institute in Australia, a member of the International Climate Change Task Force, Assistant Director General of the New South Wales EPA, Co-Chair of the Sustainability Advisory Council, and founding CEO of the Sustainable Energy Development Authority. Ms. Zoi also served as Chief of Staff in the White House Office on Environmental Policy during the Clinton-Gore administration and a manager at the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she pioneered the Energy Star Program.

In March 2006, Ms. Zoi was profiled in Rolling Stone magazine as a global warming “Warrior and Hero”. She was also awarded a Centenary Medal by the Australian government in 2003 for her contributions to sustainability.