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,
Brazil, 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 Chairman for United Kingdom Affairs of the Intergovernmental
Renewable Energy Organization, a member and former Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Urban
Management, and a member of the Jury for the Globe Award for Sustainable Cities. In addition, he serves as Executive Chairman
of Bhairavi Energies, a private corporation researching and investing in bio-remediation and in renewable energy and clean
water technologies. He previously served on the Executive Committee of the Intercontinental Hotel Group, managing its $3 billion
global real estate portfolio, and 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 and a member
of the Board of Directors of Global Urban Development. 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, President, Brazil 2020 Agenda, 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 Robert Freling, Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund, Washington,
DC John Fullerton,
Founder, Level 3 Capital Advisors, New York, NY Nicky Gavron, Assembly
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 Jaime
Lerner, Vice Chair, Global Urban Development, Curitiba, Brazil
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 for Energy Efficiency, Sustainability,
and Public Policy, Legrand NA, West Hartford, CT Nancy
Sedmak-Weiss, General Counsel, Climate Prosperity Strategies LLC, 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 Ramiro Wahrhaftig, Executive Director, Open
University for the Environment, Curitiba, Brazil 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 Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute, Washington, DC 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 Richard Eidlin,
Principal, Eidlin Consulting, Denver, CO 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 James Garrison, President,
Wisdom University, Mill Valley, CA 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 Calestous
Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development, and Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization
Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 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 Michael
Kennedy, President, Maryland Energy and Sustainability Cooperative, Bethesda, MD Richard Lindberg, Founder and Chairman, Congress for Environmental Advancement, Lund, Sweden
Steven Lovink, President, Planet2025 Network, Washington, DC Adalberto Maluf, City Coordinator, Clinton Climate Initiative, Clinton Foundation, Sao Paulo, Brazil Tom McCawley, CEO, Evergreen Asia Pacific Investment, Shanghai, China Cynthia McEwen, Practice Leader, Sustainability & Leadership, Avastone
Consulting, Atlanta, GA 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 Doug Payne, Executive Director,
SolarTech Consortium, San Jose, CA Nicolai Peitersen,
CEO, Ethical Economy, London, UK Andre Pettigrew, Executive
Director, Climate Prosperity, Inc., Washington, DC 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 Richard Seline, Managing Principal,
Regionnovate, Washington, DC 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 Al Victors, President,
Creative i, Reno, NV 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:
Michael Northrop, Program Director, Sustainable Development, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New
York, NY; Andre Pettigrew, Executive Director, Climate Prosperity, Inc., Washington, DC. 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: Michael
Fleming, President, American Chamber of Commerce Executives, Alexandria, VA; Richard Fleming,
President and CEO, St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, St. Louis, MO. 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: Doug
Henton, Chairman and CEO, Collaborative Economics, Mountain View, CA; 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, Robert Ferguson, James Lopez, John Melville, Shelley
Poticha, Ron Sims
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