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Directors
William Bodde ,
Jr. has
been a US Ambassador to Fiji , Tonga,
Tuvalu, and the US
Representative to the South Pacific Commission. He was also a senior policy
maker in the U.S. Department of State and was appointed the first Executive
Director of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat in Singapore.
Since leaving the State Department in 1994, he has been lecturing widely in
Europe, Asia and the United
States. He has been a visiting professor
at the University
of Hawaii at Manoa for many years.
Mr. Richard A. Figliuzzi , Jr . is
president of the Hawaii
based Energy Management Group. He is involved in development of alternate
energy sources for Hawaii
and is the state's sole distributor of an "urban" windmill. His
previous business developments were EcoSoul, Inc,
and BuyHawaii.Com, Inc. of which he is the president. He has been serving
as VP and Director on the Board of UNAUSA, Hawaii Division.
Dr. Roy M. Green is Chair of the Western
Australia Government Taskforce for Greenhouse and Energy, and Member of the
Technical Advisory Committee of the Australian Nuclear Science and
Technology Organization. Dr. Green has served, inter alia, as the Chief Executive of the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), and as Deputy
Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Science and Technology. He has
been an Australian Delegate to, and on the Executive Council of, the
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, and Vice-Chairman of the OECD
Committee on Science and Technology Policy. His Honors include Officer of
the Order of Australia,
the Centenary Medal, and an Honorary D.Sc. Dr. Green is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Science and
Engineering.
Dr. Gundolf
H. Kohlmaier is Professor for Theoretical and Physical
Chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe
University in Frankfurt/Main (Germany).
He served on the Board of Directors of the Center of Environmental
Studies at the University for twenty years.
He was a visiting Professor at several academic institutions, including the
University of California, Berkeley;
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego; the University of Paris,
Orsay; the Australian
National University;
and the Center for International Studies at Stanford University.
Dr. Kohlmaier’s current research interests
include Strategies for sequestering carbon dioxide in natural systems;
political implementation of a follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol; and a
comparison of the climate strategies of the European Union and the six Asia
Pacific Partnership countries.
Mr. Hilal Raza is Director-General of the
Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP), a part of the
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources of that country. He is
concurrently the Director of the recently established SAARC (South Asian Association
for Regional Corporation) Energy
Center. He represents Pakistan
in the World Energy Council, and at other international meetings dealing
with Pakistan’s
energy issues.
Dr. David Streets is Senior Scientist in the Decision
and Information Sciences Division of the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. His
research interests relate to the impact of human activities on the
atmospheric environment. He has been an important participant in the U.S.
National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, and the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change.
Dr. Jack P. Suyderhoud has been serving as the Vice President of GEE-21. He
is Professor of Business Economics at the Shidler
College of Business, University
of Hawaii at Manoa. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University, Indiana, and has published in many
scholarly journals. He also served as the Associate Dean of the College of Business (1996-2000). Dr. Suyderhoud has won a number of teaching and service
awards, and is teaching in business programs in Vietnam,
Japan, Malaysia, and France.
Mr. Kunbao
Xia has
worked in the field of environmental diplomacy, since 1985. He was Director
and then Director General in charge of international cooperation in China’s
National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) for over a decade. He
subsequently served as China’s
Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and acted as Vice Chairman, Committee
of Permanent Representatives of UNEP. He then was a senior staff member at
UNEP, holding positions including Coordinator for Emergency Response, Chief
of Capacity Building Branch, and Head of UNEP China Office. Mr. Xia is a
Member of the Committee of Science and Technology of the State Environmental
Protection Administration (SEPA), Director of the All China Environment
Federation, and Visiting Professor at the UNEP/Tongji
University Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development.
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