Climate Prosperity Alliance Chair
Marc Weiss
Dr. Marc A. Weiss is Chair of the Climate Prosperity
Alliance and Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development. He also is Executive Editor of Global Urban Development
Magazine, Chairman of Climate Prosperity Strategies LLC, a member of the Steering Committee of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership, and a member of the Steering Committees of the United Nations-Habitat World
Urban Campaign and Best
Practices and Policies Program. He previously served as a Public Policy Scholar and Editor of Global Outlook at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center, as the Coordinator of the Congressionally mandated Strategic Economic Development Plan
for Washington, DC, as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton
Administration, as Director of the Real Estate Development Research Center and Associate Professor of Urban Development, Planning,
and Preservation at Columbia University, and as Deputy Director of the California Commission on Industrial Innovation.
He is the author or co-author of many books, articles, and reports, including a widely acclaimed book on urban development
and planning, The Rise of the Community Builders, and a best-selling international textbook, Real
Estate Development Principles and Process, published by the Urban Land Institute. He has been a consultant on sustainable
economic and community development in cities and regions in the U.S. and throughout the world, including South Africa, China,
Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and the Virgin Islands. He earned an M.C.P. and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from
the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. with Honors in Political Science from Stanford University, plus he attended
the London School of Economics.
Climate Prosperity Alliance Vice Chair
Lawrence Bloom
Lawrence Bloom is Vice Chair of the Climate Prosperity
Alliance, a Senior Fellow and member of the Board of Directors of Global Urban Development, Vice Chairman of Climate
Prosperity Strategies LLC, and Chairman of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Green Economy Initiative on Green
Cities, Buildings, and Transport. He also is Executive Vice Chairman of Anagenesis Bioenergy Corporation, Chairman of
C&C Green Energy, Deputy Chairman of Noble Cities Plc., and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda
Council on Urban Management. He previously served on the Executive Committee of the Intercontinental Hotel Group
from where he managed their $3 billion global real estate portfolio. He created an environmental manual for the Intercontinental
Hotels that was endorsed by HRH Prince Charles and is now being used in 4.5 million hotel rooms worldwide. In 1989 he created
the Global Action Plan, which is now the charity partner of the Sky Corporation.
Climate Prosperity Alliance Vice Chair
Hazel Henderson
Dr. Hazel Henderson is Vice Chair of the Climate
Prosperity Alliance, a member of the Board of Directors of Global Urban Development, and President of Ethical Markets Media,
an independent multi-media company operating in the USA and Brazil. She is the author of the 2006 book, Ethical Markets:
Growing The Green Economy, together with eight other books, including The Politics of the Solar Age. Her syndicated
editorial columns are published by more than 200 newspapers in many countries through the InterPress Service. She has served
on numerous advisory boards, including the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation, the National
Academy of Engineering, the Worldwatch Institute, and the Calvert Group of socially responsible mutual investment funds, with
whom she pioneered the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicators. She is a member of the Club of Rome, and a Fellow of
the Royal Society for Arts in the UK. Climate Prosperity Alliance Vice Chair
C. S. Kiang
Professor C. S. Kiang is Vice Chair of the Climate Prosperity Alliance, a member of the Board of Directors
of Global Urban Development, Chairman of the Sustainable Development Technology Foundation, and Chairman of the Peking University
Environment Fund. He previously served as the Founding Dean of the Peking University College of Environmental
Sciences from 2002 to 2006. Dr. Kiang is an Institute Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he previously
served as Director of the School of Geophysical Sciences, as Director of the Office of Environmental Sciences, Technology
and Policy, and as Founding Director of the Southern Oxidant Study. He also served as Head of the Aerosol Program at
the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Professor Kiang is a Councillor of the World Future Council, a member of the
Advisory Board of Environmental Research Letters, and a member of the Asia Society’s International Council.
In addition, he is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on Water Security, Alternative Energies,
and Climate Change. He serves as an advisor for the Global Elders and for Climate Change Capital, and he is a frequent consultant
to private corporations and non-profit organizations.
Climate Prosperity Alliance Vice Chair
Rodrigo Loures
Rodrigo Loures is Vice Chair of the Climate Prosperity Alliance. He has served
since 2003 as President of the FIEP, the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná in Brazil, and he is Vice
President of the National Federation of Industries (CNI). In addition, he serves as President of PROTEC, the Brazilian organization
promoting technological innovation, and as President of COPIN, CNI’s national council for industrial and technological
development policy. At the request of President Lula, he is coordinating the National Movement of Citizenship and Solidarity,
responsible for implementing the UN Millennium Development Goals throughout Brazil. He also serves in leadership
positions with many national business, industry, economic and social development, and science and technology associations
in Brazil, including CDES, CCT, FNDCT, SESI-SENAI, ABDI, ANPROTEC, SEBRAE, MTC, the National Forum of Industries, the World
Business Academy, the Green-and-Yellow Fund, the Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development (FBDS), the ETHOS Institute
for Social Responsibility, and the Innovative Cities initiative in Parana. He has a degree in Business Administration from
São Paulo’s Fundação Getulio Vargas, and was a Professor at the Federal University of Paraná
and at Paraná’s Catholic University. In 1968, he founded Nutrimental, a food company with more than 1,000 employees
operating in the States of Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Pernambuco, Minas Gerais, and
Rio Grande do Sul. Climate Prosperity Alliance Vice Chair
James Nixon
James Nixon is Vice Chair of
the Climate Prosperity Alliance, President of Global Urban Development, President of New Voice of Business, President
of Climate Prosperity Strategies LLC, and Co-Founder and Chair of Sustainable Systems. Sustainable Systems
is the lead consultant to the Bay Area Council for the Bay Area Family of Funds, consisting of $250 million in private equity
real estate and venture capital seeking a market rate of financial return combined with substantial economic, social, and
environmental benefits. In addition, Sustainable Systems manages the Communications Technology Cluster Business Center in
downtown Oakland (CA). Mr. Nixon has served as a lead consultant to the City of San Antonio (TX) for the
Mission Verde sustainability plan, headed the consultation team that produced the Southwest Florida Climate Prosperity
Strategy for the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council, and co-coordinated three international conferences on Building
the Sustainable Economy. He is the author or co-author of Sustainable Economic Development, published
by Urban Sustainability Associates (a national network that he helped co-found), The Double Bottom Line Handbook (with
financial support from the Ford Foundation), and Building the Sustainable Economy: An Opportunity for Oakland. He
previously served for 12 years as Senior Vice President of Progressive Asset Management, a socially responsible investment
company, and he holds both Series 7 and Series 24 securities registrations.
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Climate Prosperity Alliance Executive Board
Chair: Marc Weiss, Chairman and CEO, Global
Urban Development, Washington, DC Vice Chair: Lawrence Bloom,
Chairman, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Green Economy Initiative on Green Cities, Buildings, and Transport, London,
UK Vice Chair: Hazel Henderson,
President, Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil), St. Augustine, FL Vice
Chair: C. S. Kiang, Chairman, Sustainable Development Technology Foundation, Beijing, China Vice Chair: Rodrigo Loures, President, Federation of
Industries for the State of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil Vice
Chair: James Nixon, President, Global Urban Development, Oakland, CA Grace Akumu, Executive Director, Climate Network Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Rosa Alegria, Co-Chair, The Millennium Project, Brazil Node, Sao Paulo,
Brazil Elizabeth Autumn, Executive Producer and Anchor,
United Nations MediaGlobal News Service, New York, NY Emilia
Queiroga Barros, Vice President, State of the World Forum, Lauro de Freitas, Brazil Antonella Battaglini, Process Leader, SuperSmartGrid, Renewables Grid Initiative, European Climate
Forum, Berlin, Germany Robert Baugh,
Executive Director, Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC Scott
Bernstein, President, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, IL Iman
Bibars, Vice President, Ashoka Global, and Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World, Cairo, Egypt Tess Cacciatore, Chairman and Executive Director, World Trust Foundation,
Los Angeles, CA Nancy Carter, City Council Member, Charlotte,
NC, and Member, Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Steering Committee, National League of Cities, Washington, DC John Cleveland, Vice President, Innovation Network for Communities, Tamworth,
NH Susan Davis, President, Capital Missions Company, East
Troy, WI Ladislau Dowbor, Professor of Economics and Regional
Development, Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Marlene
Fernandes, International Advisor, Brazilian Institute for Municipal Administration (IBAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jeffrey Finkle, President and CEO, International Economic Development Council,
Washington, DC Morel Fourman, CEO, Gaiasoft, London, UK John Fullerton, Founder, Level 3 Capital Advisors, New York, NY James Garrison, President, State of the World Forum, Mill Valley, CA Nicky Gavron, Council Member, Greater London Authority, London, UK John Geesman, Chairman, American Council on Renewable Energy, Washington,
DC Abdulrahman Al Ghabban, Project Development Specialist,
Qassim Development Corporation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Theodore
Gordon, Senior Fellow and Co-Founder, The Millenium Project, Washington, DC Alex Grayson, Principal, Omni Group, London, UK
Elliott
Hoffman, Chairman and CEO, New Voice of Business, San Francisco, CA
Ashok Khosla, President, Development Alternatives, New Delhi, India Sean Kidney, Europe Manager, Climate Risk, London, UK Kelly
Krpata, Director, Applied Materials Climate Prosperity Initiative, Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network, San Jose,
CA
Christine Loh, CEO, Civic Exchange, Hong Kong, China L.
Hunter Lovins, President and Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions, Longmont, CO Tony Manwaring, CEO, Tomorrow's Company, London, UK David
Martin, Executive Chairman, M∙CAM, Charlottesville, VA Peter
Matthies, Founder, Conscious Business Institute, Santa Barbara, CA Dan
Montgomery, Principal, Resilient Strategies, Superior, CO Mary
Jane Ortega, Secretary General, CITYNET, Yokohama, Japan Julia
Parzen, Sustainability Manager, Urban Sustainability Associates, Chicago, IL Christina Carvalho Pinto, President, Full Jazz Communications Group, Sao Paulo, Brazil Alexander Plessl, Independent Journalist, Buenos
Aires, Argentina Bill Radulovich, Founder, Climate Prosperity
Citizens, Pleasanton, CA Susan Rochford, Vice President,
Energy and Sustainability Initiatives, Council on Competitiveness, Washington, DC Nancy Sedmak-Weiss, Secretary Treasurer, Global Urban Development, Rehoboth, DE Jigar Shah, CEO, Carbon War Room, Washington, DC D. Wayne Silby, Founding Chair, Calvert Funds, Bethesda, MD Phillip Singerman, Senior Vice President, B & D Consulting, Washington,
DC Radames Soto, President and Founder, Kinina Ventures,
Miami, FL Steve Viederman, Author, and former President,
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, New York, NY Nicholas You,
Senior Advisor for Policy and Strategic Planning, Office of the Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Program
(UN-Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya Climate Prosperity Alliance Advisory Board
Poonam Ahluwalia, President, Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (YES),
Cambridge, MA Prince Cemil Giray Alyanak, Founder, Mondofragilis
Group, Annecy, France Mart Bailey, Chairman, US-China
Green Tech Summit, San Francisco, CA Andrea Bassi,
Deputy Director for Project Development and Modeling, Millennium Institute, Arlington, VA Clement Bezold, Chairman and Founder, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA Allison Brooks, Managing Director, Reconnecting America, Oakland, CA Ann Chan, California Program Director, Center for Clean Air Policy, Washington,
DC Michael Chang, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of
Sustainable Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Helene
Connor, Director, HELIO, Paris, France Reese Fayde,
Principal, Reese Fayde & Associates, New York, NY Seth Fearey,
Associate Country Director, Peace Corps, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic David
Feehan, Advisory Panel Manager and Program Consultant, International Downtown Association, Washington, DC David Fenton, CEO, Fenton Communications, New York, NY Shari Garmise, Vice President for Knowledge Management
and Development, International Economic Development Council, Washington, DC David
Gershon, CEO, Empowerment Institute, New York, NY
Richard David Hames,
Professor and Director, Asian Foresight Institute, Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, Thailand James Hanusa, Fellow, Global Urban Development,
San Francisco, CA
Ken Heatherington, Executive Director, Southwest Florida
Regional Planning Council, Fort Myers, FL Paul
Hughes, President, Green Fox Energy Group, Newark, DE Bianca Jagger, President, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, London, UK Daniel
Kammen, Professor and Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley,
CA
Randall Kempner, Executive Director, Aspen
Network for Development Entrepreneurs, Aspen Institute, Washington, DC Steven
Lovink, President, Planet2025 Network, Washington, DC Tom
McCawley, CEO, Evergreen Asia Pacific Investment, Shanghai, China Peter
Merry, Director, The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation, and Emergence, Utrecht, Netherlands
Michael Northrop, Program Director, Sustainable Development, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York,
NY Lora O'Connor, Consulting Director, Social Media, Citizen
Global, Los Angeles, CA Collin
O'Mara, Secretary, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, State of Delaware, Dover, DE Gerald Page, Managing Director, Equinox Energy Partners Corporation, Beijing,
China Kathryn Papp, Associate Senior Fellow, National Council
for Science and the Environment, Washington, DC Nicolai Peitersen,
CEO, Ethical Economy, London, UK Scott Polikov, Principal,
Gateway Planning Group, Austin, TX Paul Ray, Director, Institute
for the Emerging Wisdom Culture, Mill Valley, CA Michael Replogle,
Global Policy Director and Founder, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Washington, DC
Renato Romano, Principal, Global Green Partners, Los Angeles, CA Kendra Sandoval, Social Venture Connector, Blue and Yellow Logic, Denver, CO Marybeth Schubert, Principal, Schubert Consulting, Santa Fe,
NM Steve Schueth, President, First Affirmative Financial Network, Colorado
Springs, CO Nick Silver, Director, Callund Consulting, London, UK
Jasper
Sky, Senior Fellow, Oxford University Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, UK William
Stafford, President, Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle, Seattle, WA Sean
Sweeney, Director, Global Labor Institute, Cornell University, New York, NY Richard Swett, CEO, Climate Prosperity Enterprise Solutions, Concord, NH Kaarin Taipale, Chair, Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Buildings and Construction, Ministry
of the Environment, Government of Finland, Helsinki, Finland Martin Tull, Director of
Sustainable Technology, Formos, Portland, OR Wayne Wescott,
Principal, Wescott and Wyman, Melbourne, Australia Mark Willis, Resident
Fellow, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University, New York, NY Eva
Willmann de Donlea, Director, Beyond 2012-Climate Professionals, Sydney, Australia Darcy Stallings Winslow, Manager, Sustainable Enterprise Certificate Program, Willamette University,
Salem, OR Susan Witt, Executive Director, E.F. Schumacher Society, Great Barrington,
MA Michelle Wyman, Principal, Wescott
and Wyman, Washington, DC Joel Yudken, Principal, High
Road Strategies, Arlington, VA Dimitri Zenghelis, Senior
Economic Advisor, Cisco Systems, and Senior Visiting Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment,
London School of Economics, London, UK Climate Prosperity Alliance Working Groups
Coordination with Climate
Prosperity, Inc. Co-Chairs:
Richard Fleming, President and CEO, St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, St. Louis, MO; Doug Henton, Chairman and CEO, Collaborative Economics, Mountain
View, CA. Metrics–Outreach to Entrepreneurs
and Policymakers. Co-Chairs: Andrea Bassi, Deputy Director for Project Development
and Modeling, Millennium Institute, Arlington, VA; Martin Tull, Director of Sustainable Technology, Formos, Portland, OR. Outreach
to Business Organizations. Co-Chairs:
Richard Eidlin, Principal, Eidlin Consulting, Denver, CO; Michael
Fleming, President, American Chamber of Commerce Executives, Alexandria, VA. Outreach to Civic Organizations. Co-Chairs: Robert McNulty, President
and CEO, Partners for Livable Communities, Washington, DC; Adele
Simmons, President, Global Philanthropy Partnership, Chicago, IL. Outreach to Economic Development
Organizations. Co-Chairs, John
Cleveland, Vice President, Innovation Network for Communities, Tamworth, NH; Shari Garmise, Vice President for Knowledge Management and Development, International
Economic Development Council, Washington, DC. Outreach to Education and Research Institutions. Co-Chairs: James
Gollub, CEO, E-Cubed, San Francisco, CA; Joel Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, and Senior Advisor, Green for All, Oakland, CA. Outreach to the Federal Government. Co-Chairs: Uwe Brandes, Vice
President, Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC; Emily Wadhams,
Vice President for Public Policy, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC. Outreach to Financial Institutions
and Investors. Co-Chairs: Paul Hughes, President, Green Fox Energy Group, Newark, DE; Sean Kidney, Europe Manager, Climate Risk, London, UK. Outreach
to Labor Organizations. Co-Chairs:
Lynn Hinkle, Principal, HK Climate Solutions, Minneapolis, MN; Joel Yudken, Principal, High Road Strategies, Arlington, VA. Outreach to Land-Use and Transportation Organizations. Co-Chairs: Parris Glendening,
President, Smart Growth Leadership Institute, Smart Growth America, Washington, DC; Keith
Laughlin, President, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Washington, DC. Outreach to Local Governments. Co-Chairs: Scott Polikov, Principal, Gateway Planning Group, Austin, TX; Graham
Richard, Principal, Graham Richard Associates, Ft. Wayne, IN. Outreach
to State Governments.
Co-Chairs: Phil Angelides, Chairman, Apollo Alliance,
Sacramento, CA; Mary Jo Waits, Director, Social, Economic, and Workforce Division, National Governors
Association, Washington, DC. Outreach to Sustainability Organizations. Co-Chairs: Lynne Barker, Program Director, STAR Community Index, ICLEI-Local Governments
for Sustainability, USA Office, Seattle, WA; Stephanie McClellan, Policy Director, Office of the Governor,
State of Delaware, Dover, DE. Outreach to Urban and Regional
Organizations. Co-Chairs: Andre Pettigrew, Executive Director, Office of Economic Development,
Denver, CO; Kim Walesh, Chief Strategist, Office of the City Manager, San Jose, CA. Promoting Innovative Technologies
and Policies. Co-Chairs: Jackie Roberts, Director of Sustainable Technologies, Environmental
Defense Fund, Washington, DC; Richard Swett, CEO, Climate Prosperity Enterprise Solutions, Concord, NH. Former Climate Prosperity Alliance Working Group
Co-Chairs
Lucy Blake, Joe Cortright, David Engel, Seth Fearey, David Feehan, Robert Ferguson, James Lopez,
John Melville, Shelley Poticha, Richard Seline, Ron Sims
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