Climate Prosperity Alliance Chair
Marc Weiss
Dr. Marc A. Weiss is Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development (GUD), an international policy organization
and professional network with offices in Barcelona, Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Prague,
Rehoboth, San Francisco Bay Area, Singapore, Sydney, and Washington, DC. He also serves as Chairman of Sustainable Economic
Development Strategies LLC, Executive Editor of GUD Magazine, Chair of the Climate Prosperity Alliance, and Co-Chair
of the GUD program committee on Generating Sustainable Economic Development. In addition, he is an Adjunct
Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and a member of the Steering Committees of
the United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership, the UN World Urban Campaign, and the UN-Habitat Best Practices
and Policies Program. He previously served as: Public Policy Scholar and Editor of Global Outlook at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center; Coordinator of the Strategic Economic Development Plan for Washington, DC; Special Assistant
to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and HUD Liaison to the President’s Council
on Sustainable Development in the Clinton Administration; Director of the Real Estate Development Research Center, Acting
Director of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Planning, and Associate Professor at Columbia University; and 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,
a best-selling international textbook, Real Estate Development Principles and Process, published by the Urban Land
Institute, and Sustainable Economic Development Strategies, published by Global Urban Development. He has
been an adviser on sustainable economic, business, employment, and community development in cities and regions in the U.S.
and throughout the world, including South Africa, China, Brazil, Spain, Sweden, the U.K., the Czech Republic, and the Virgin
Islands. He and his GUD colleagues have advised on Sustainable Economic Development Strategies for San Antonio, San Jose/Silicon
Valley, Southwest Florida, Metropolitan Portland, Metropolitan Denver, and the State of Delaware, and they recently completed
a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy for Sarasota County, Florida, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Also, he
and his GUD colleagues helped organize an international conference on Sustainable Economic Development, sponsored by the Brazil
and U.S. Governments and the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), held in Curitiba, Brazil, during June
7-8, 2011. Dr. Weiss 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, and a Senior Fellow and member of the Board of Directors of Global Urban Development. In addition,
he serves as Executive Chairman of Bhairavi Energy, a private corporation researching and investing in bio-remediation
and in renewable energy and clean water technologies. 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, former Chairman of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Green Economy Initiative on Green Cities, Buildings,
and Transport, and a member of the Jury for the Globe Award for Sustainable Cities. 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 US and Brazil that publishes the Green Transition Scoreboard. 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 Advisory Board 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 served from
2003 to 2011 as President of FIEP, the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná, and he is Vice President of
Brazil's National Federation of Industries (CNI). In addition, he is President of PROTEC, the Brazilian organization promoting
technological innovation, and President of COPIN, CNI’s national council for industrial and technological development
policy. At the request of President Lula, he coordinates 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. He has served since 1968 as Chairman and CEO of Nutrimental, a food company that
he founded, 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 Sustainable Economic Development Strategies
LLC, Co-Chair of the GUD program committee on Generating Sustainable Economic Development, 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 Strategies, published by Global Urban Development, 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,
Executive Chairman, Bhairavi Energy, London, UK Vice Chair:
Hazel Henderson, President, Ethical Markets Media (US and Brazil), St. Augustine, FL Vice Chair: C. S. Kiang, Chairman, Sustainable Development
Technology Foundation, Beijing, China Vice
Chair: Rodrigo Loures, Chairman and CEO, Nutrimental, 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 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 Nancy Brown, CEO, Brown Resources, Pismo Beach,
CA 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 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, Board Member, American Council on Renewable Energy, Washington,
DC 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 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, Chair, Steering Committee,
World Urban Campaign, United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya Climate Prosperity Alliance Advisory Board
Poonam Ahluwalia, President, Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (YES),
Cambridge, MA Jobeda Ali, Managing Director, Fair Knowledge,
London, UK 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, Chief of Staff, Reconnecting America, Oakland, CA Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute, Washington, DC Rinaldo Brutoco, President, World Business Academy, Santa Barbara, 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 Thais Corral,
Director, Network for Human Development (REDEH), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dianne
Dillon-Ridgley, Member, Board of Directors, Interface, Iowa City, IA 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, Office of Urban
Initiatives, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Washington, DC James Garrison, President, Wisdom University, Mill Valley, CA David Gershon, CEO, Empowerment Institute, New York, NY James
Gollub, CEO, E-Cubed, San Francisco, CA David Haenke,
Executive Director, Alford Forest, Gainesville, MO
Richard David Hames,
Professor and Director, Asian Foresight Institute, Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, Thailand James Hanusa, Independent Consultant, San Francisco,
CA
Ken Heatherington, Executive Director, Southwest Florida Regional Planning
Council, Fort Myers, FL Lynn Hinkle,
Principal, HK Climate Solutuions, Minneapolis, MN 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, Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency,
World Bank, Washington, DC; and 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 Stephanie
McClellan, Clean Energy Economy Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Control, State of Delaware, Dover, DE Peter Merry, Director,
The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation, and Emergence, Utrecht, Netherlands
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 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 Allan Savory, President, Savory Institute, Albuquerque, NM 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 Ranjit Sivaprakasam,
President, DSILIVE, Los Angeles, CA
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, Director, Sustainable Enterprise Certificate Program,
Willamette University, Salem, OR Susan Witt, Executive Director, E.F.
Schumacher Society, Great Barrington, MA Michelle
Wyman, Executive Director, Applied Solutions, Sonoma, CA 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 Larry Zinn, Chairman, Green Jobs Leadership Council, San Antonio, TX 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; Jeffrey
Finkle, President and CEO, International Economic Development Council, Washington, DC. Outreach to Education and Research Institutions. Co-Chairs: Shari Garmise, Vice President, Office of Urban
Initiatives, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Washington, DC; 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: Robert Baugh, Executive Director, Industrial Union Council,
AFL-CIO, Washington, DC; 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, Clean Energy
Economy Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, 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, Shelley Poticha, Ron Sims,
Phillip Singerman
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