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Falah Al
Ahbabi serves as the general manager of the Urban
Planning Council in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Created in
2007, the UPC is leading the efforts to create a new
green capital district that will establish
Abu Dhabi
as a global national capital renowned for its
architecture as well as its sustainable features. As
general manager, Mr. Al Ahbabi ensures that development
proposals are consistent with the overarching plan for
the development of the city.
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Diana
Balmori is a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a noted
landscape scholar, and the design principal of the landscape and
urban design firm Balmori Associates in
New York City.
She teaches courses in landscape design at Yale
University
and currently holds a joint appointment with its
School
of
Architecture and
the
School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies. In 2004, Balmori Associates
received an Award of Excellence from the nonprofit association
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Larry
Beasley is a distinguished practice professor of planning at the
University of
British Columbia
and the founding principal of Beasley and Associates, an
international planning consultancy. Previously,
he served as director of planning for Vancouver,
Canada, where he was known for land use and transportation plans
that revitalized the city core and reshaped the surrounding neighborhoods.
Beasley currently chairs the
National Advisory Committee on Planning, Design and Realty of
Ottawa's National Capital Commission. He has been recognized with
numerous awards for architecture, city planning, and landscape
design, including the Kevin Lynch Award from MIT's Department of
Urban Studies and Planning.
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Marcel
Beaudry served as chairman of
Canada's
National Capital Commission from 1992 until 2007. He previously
served as the mayor of
Hull,
Canada
and on the boards of numerous corporations, financial
institutions, universities, and charities. In his private career, Mr. Beaudry
developed a successful law practice as a litigation lawyer and
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Frances Beinecke is president of the Natural Resources Defense Council
(NRDC), where she has worked for more than 30 years. Under her leadership, NRDC has
launched campaigns that focus on curbing global warming, moving
America beyond oil, reviving the world's oceans, saving
endangered wild places, stemming the tide of toxic chemicals,
and accelerating the greening of China. Prior to becoming president in
2006, Ms. Beinecke was the organization's executive director. She
has received numerous awards for her work and she serves on the
boards of several environmental organizations, including the
World Resources Institute and the Energy Future Coalition. |
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Congressman
Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon, 3rd District) was elected to
the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. A member of
the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Climate
Change, he is a strong advocate for the environment and
sustainable development. Congressman Blumenauer first served in the
Oregon House of Representatives and spent ten years on
the Portland City Council. His innovative
accomplishments in transit, planning, and the
environment have helped
Portland earn an international reputation as one
of America's most livable cities.
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In 2001, Majora Carter founded the nonprofit
environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable
South Bronx (SSBx). Under her leadership,
SSBx launched the South Bronx
Greenway; started a green-roof installation business;
pioneered a highly successful green-collar job training
and placement system; and spearheaded efforts to
implement local and state laws that fuel demand for
these jobs. She has received widespread recognition,
including a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship, and is
currently advising cities, communities, foundations, and
businesses on how to unlock their green-collar economic
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Laurel Colless is the
executive director of the Energy Efficiency Partnership
of Greater Washington-a program based at Virginia Tech
that is devoted to helping communities become more
green. The Partnership's goal is to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions in existing buildings in the Washington,
DC region by 20 to 50%. Ms. Colless sits on the board of
the Institute for Sustainable Communities and is a
member of the Steering Committee of the Women's
Conservation Forum at Conservation International.
Previously, she served as director of financial
communications and corporate reporting for Nokia in
Helsinki, Finland. She is married to Pekka Lintu,
Finland's ambassador to the United States.
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Herbert
Girardet is a renowned author, documentary filmmaker, and a
United Nations Global 500 Award recipient for Outstanding
Environmental Achievements. He is currently director of
programmes at the World Future Council, a newly-established
international advocacy group championing the right to a
sustainable future. He has authored or co-authored 11 books
and produced dozens of television documentaries on sustainable
development and has developed sustainability policies for major
urban areas, including
London
and
Vienna.
His most recent publications include
Cities, People, Planet: Liveable Cities for a Sustainable World
(2004) and the edited volume
Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Change and Other Global
Challenges (2007).
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George S. Hawkins is the
director of the Department of the Environment for the
District of Columbia (DDOE). As director, Mr. Hawkins is
prioritizing the restoration of the
Anacostia
River
and its watershed, with the goal of transforming one of
the most polluted rivers in the country into an
environmental asset that will spur the revitalization of
neighborhoods surrounding it. He launched and now
chairs the Mayor's Green Team, which coordinates the
District's sustainability program across more than 40
agencies, and he serves as the chair of the Green
Building Advisory Council, which oversees the
implementation of the nation's most progressive green
building law. Prior to his appointment at DDOE, Mr. Hawkins was the executive director
of a nonprofit organization promoting smart growth, and
he has held senior positions at the U.S. Environmental
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Tom
Hicks is a vice president of the U.S. Green Building Council,
where he oversees the Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) Neighborhood Development Program. Prior to joining USGBC, he was a
principal creator and senior program manager for the Energy Star for Buildings
program, one of the nation's largest and best-known energy efficiency
initiatives. |
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Jim Huffman,
associate principal with Busby Perkins + Will, has been
with the firm for more than 21 years. His portfolio
includes urban planning, commercial, and residential
design projects for both public and private clients.
Mr. Huffman has been instrumental in the success of key
sustainability projects, including the LEED Platinum
Dockside Green Development in Victoria.
He served as design principal of TELUS House, a highly
sustainable office revitalization in Vancouver
that recently won the 2008 Lieutenant-Governor of
British Columbia Award for Excellence in Architecture.
Currently Mr. Huffman is design principal of the GM
Place Tower, a 23 story tower that is targeting LEED
Platinum certification, which is projected to be the
first carbon-neutral office building in North America.
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Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, is a
practicing architect, planner, educator, and author
based in Washington, DC. He helped establish the
University of Maryland's School of Architecture,
Planning, and Preservation, where he is now professor
emeritus of architecture. His award-winning illustrated
column on architecture and urban design, "Shaping the
City," has appeared in The Washington Post
since 1984. Professor Lewis has been a planning and
design consultant to numerous federal, state, county,
and municipal government agencies, and his projects have
received many design awards, including a 1988 Federal
Design Achievement award conferred by the National
Endowment of the Arts. A frequent guest lecturer and
panelist at conferences and symposiums, Professor Lewis
serves regularly on regional and national design award
juries and design review committees. |
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As the seventh president of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Richard Moe
leads America's historic preservation
movement.
The nonprofit National
Trust was founded in 1949 and has approximately 270,000
members. Under Moe's leadership, the National Trust has
reaffirmed its commitment to expanding and diversifying
the preservation movement and become an outspoken
advocate of controlling sprawl and encouraging smart
growth.
Prior to assuming the
presidency of the National Trust in 1993, Mr. Moe held
administrative positions in government at the city,
state, and federal levels and practiced law in
Washington,
DC.
He is the co-author of
Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of
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Tom Murphy
is a senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute, a
nonprofit research and education organization that
provides leadership in responsible land use and the
creation of sustainable communities worldwide. Mr. Murphy was the
mayor of Pittsburgh from 1994 to
2005, where he initiated public-private partnerships to
convert more than 1,000 acres of blighted industrial
properties to commercial, residential, retail and public
uses. He also oversaw the
development of more than 25 miles of new riverfront
trails and urban green space. In recognition of these
achievements, Mr. Murphy received the 2002 Outstanding
Achievement of City Livability Award from the U.S.
Conference of Mayors.
Since 2006, he has
contributed his expertise on urban revitalization to
many ULI projects, and he serves as the Institute's Gulf
Coast Liaison.
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As an
attorney and consultant, Daniel K. Slone
has worked for more than 20 years to build new urban and
smart growth communities throughout the United States.
He has helped localities develop regulatory policies to
facilitate sustainable development and he serves as the
national counsel for many prominent organizations
devoted to sustainable development practices, including
the U.S. Green Building Council and the Congress for New
Urbanism. He also serves on the board of the National
Charrette Institute. |
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Robert Stacey is executive director of 1000 Friends of Oregon, a
30-year-old public interest group that advocates smart growth in
land use planning. Mr. Stacey's professional career includes
work as director of the Bureau of Planning for the City of
Portland; executive director of
policy and planning
at TriMet (the regional transit agency in the Portland area); senior policy advisor on
urban growth management to Oregon
Governor Barbara Roberts; and chief
of staff to Congressman Earl Blumenauer. From
1975 to 1986, Mr. Stacey
served as a staff attorney for 1000 Friends of Oregon and as a
partner in the Portland law firm of Ball Janik LLP.
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Irene Svenonius has been chief executive officer (CEO) of
the city of Stockholm since October 2006. She has
held various positions in the city since 1998.
Between 2003 and 2006 she was managing director of
the Department of Research and Statistics; between
2000 and 2002, she was finance director; and between
1998 and 2000, she served as head of the Mayor's
office.
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From
1997 to 2005,
Cassio Taniguchi
was the mayor of
Curitiba,
Brazil,
a city recognized as a model for good urban planning and
progressive ecological policies since the early 70s. Mr.
Taniguchi implemented an innovative bus system, created more
than two dozen recreational parks that provide natural treatment
for stormwater runoff, and increased green areas from 5 square
feet per inhabitant to 560 square feet. Previously, Mr. Taniguchi
spearheaded the creation of
Curitiba's industrial center and led
efforts to attract nonpolluting industries. He is now Brazil's
secretary of the Department of Urban and Environmental
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Harriet Tregoning was appointed director of
the District of Columbia's Office of Planning in 2007, where
she is currently
spearheading projects to restore the capital city's waterfront,
upgrade its
water and sewer system, refit its buildings with green roofs,
and create "green collar jobs" in environmental industries. She
previously worked for the governor of Maryland as the nation's
first state-level cabinet secretary for smart growth. Prior to her tenure in Maryland state government, Ms. Tregoning
was director of Development, Community and Environment at the
United States Environmental Protection Agency where she helped
launch the National Smart Growth Network. |
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As commissioner of public buildings for the General
Services Administration, David Winstead oversees a real
estate portfolio of more than 340 million square feet in
8,000 public and private buildings accommodating more
than one million federal workers. His career
spans more than 30 years in the public and private
sector during which time he served as the State of
Maryland's secretary of transportation and as executive
director of the Washington/Baltimore Regional
Association, a private sector economic development
alliance. Before his arrival at GSA, he was a partner with the law firm Holland Knight. Mr. Winstead
has also been active in numerous professional
organizations including the Urban Land Institute and the Washington Board of Trade.
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