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BROOKINGS BLUM ROUNDTABLE
DEVELOPMENT IN THE BALANCE:
HOW WILL THE WORLD’S POOR COPE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE?
August 1-3, 2008
Participant List
Co-Chairs
Richard C. Blum
Chairman and President
Blum Capital Partners, LP
Lael Brainard
Vice President and Director
Global Economy and Development
The Brookings Institution
Strobe Talbott
President
The Brookings Institution
Honorary Co-Chairs
Walter Isaacson
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Aspen Institute
Mary Robinson
President
Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization
Initiative;
7th President of Ireland
Participants
Madeleine K. Albright
Principal
The Albright Group LLC;
64th Secretary of State of the United States
Bruce Babbitt
Chairman
World Wildlife Fund
Zoë Baird
President
Markle Foundation
Manish Bapna
Managing Director and Executive Vice
President
World Resources Institute
Maria Blair
Associate Vice President
The Rockefeller Foundation
Clóvis Borges
Executive Director
Wildlife Research and Environmental
Education Society (SPVS)
David Brand
Managing Director
New Forests
Ian Burton
Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto;
Scientist Emeritus
Meteorological Service of Canada
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Sylvia Mathews Burwell
President, Global Development Program
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Michael Jenkins
President and Chief Executive Officer
Forest Trends
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum
Senior Scientist
World Health Organization
Sheila C. Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Salamander Hospitality;
President and Managing Partner
WNBA’s Washington Mystics
Steven Chu
Director
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ding Ding
Research Fellow, Energy Research Institute
National Development and Reform
Commission
Elliot Diringer
Director of International Strategies
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Kristie L. Ebi
Independent Consultant
ESS, LLC
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator, California
John J. Fialka
Editor
ClimateWire
Ethelstan Angus Friday
Chairman
Alliance of Small Island States of the United
Nations
John C. Gannon
Vice President for Global Analysis
BAE Information Technology
Al Gore
Cofounder and Chairman
Generation Investment Management;
45th Vice President of the United States
Daniel Kammen
Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of
Energy
Founding Director, Renewable and
Appropriate Energy Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Regis B. Kelly
Director, California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences
University of California, San Francisco
Steven Kull
Director, Program on International Policy
Attitudes
University of Maryland
Alice LeBlanc
Director, Office of Environment & Climate
American International Group, Inc. (AIG)
Nancy Lindborg
President
Mercy Corps
Douglas E. Lute
Lieutenant General
Assistant to the President and Deputy
National Security Advisor for Iraq and
Afghanistan
National Security Council
Jane Holl Lute
Assistant Secretary-General, Peacekeeping
Operations
United Nations
Saleemul Huq
Group Head, Climate Change Group
International Institute for Environment and
Development
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Ricarda McFalls
Managing Director, Development Focus
Area
World Business Council for Sustainable
Development
Herman Mulder
Independent Advisor;
Former Senior Executive Vice President
ABN AMRO
Kumaran (Kumi) Naidoo
Honorary President
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen
Participation;
Co-chair
Global Call to Action Against Poverty
Jane Nelson
Director, Corporate Social Responsibility
Initiative
Harvard Kennedy School;
Nonresident Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institution
Namanga Ngongi
President
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
(AGRA)
Anthony Nyong
Senior Program Specialist
International Development Research Centre
Raymond C. Offenheiser
President
Oxfam America
John Parker
Globalization Editor
The Economist
Janos Pasztor
Director, Secretary-General’s Climate Change
Support Team
United Nations
Nigel Purvis
President
Climate Advisers Inc.;
Nonresident Scholar on Environment and
Development
The Brookings Institution
Iqbal Z. Quadir
Founder and Director, Legatum Center for
Development and Entrepreneurship
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Atiq Rahman
Executive Director
Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies
Albina Ruiz
Executive Director
Ciudad Saludable
David Sandalow
Energy and Environment Scholar
The Brookings Institution
S. Shankar Sastry
Dean, College of Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Lindiwe Majele Sibanda
Chief Executive Officer
FANRPAN
Kirk R. Smith
Professor of Global Environmental Health
University of California, Berkeley
George Soros
Chairman
Soros Fund Management
Bruce Stokes
International Economics Columnist
National Journal
Erica Stone
President
American Himalayan Foundation
Mark Tercek
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Nature Conservancy
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Xueman Wang
Senior Counsel on Carbon Finance
World Bank
Rapporteur
Vinca LaFleur
Partner
West Wing Writers
Shiqiu Zhang
Professor, College of Environmental Science
and Engineering
Peking University
Special Guests
Harriet (Hattie) Babbitt
Vice Chair
World Resources Institute
Peggy Clark
Managing Director
Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization
Initiative
Raji Jagadeesan
Chief of Staff, Global Economy and
Development
The Brookings Institution
Maryanne McCormick
Director of Development, Blum Center for
Developing Economies
University of California, Berkeley
Adele Morris
Fellow and Deputy Director, Climate and
Energy Economics
The Brookings Institution
Marcos Athias Neto
Senior Climate Change Advisor
CARE USA
Peter A. Reiling
Executive Vice President
The Aspen Institute
Brooke Shearer
Executive Director
Turquoise Mountain Foundation (USA)
Jane Wales
President and Chief Executive Officer
The World Affairs Council of Northern
California
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