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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, Shidler College of
Business, 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 Excecutive Council of, the
Intergovernmental Oceanic 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 Frankfur/Main
(Germany).
He served on the Board of Directors of the Center of Environmental
Studies at the University for twenty years. He
has been a visiting Professor at several academic institutions, including
the University of California, Berkely;
the Scipps Institution of Oceanography at UC San
Diego; the University of Paris, Orsay; the Australian National
University; the Center for International
Studies at Stanford
University. Dr. Kohlmaier's current research interests include
strategies for sequestering carbon dioxide in natural systems; political
implementations 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 represents Pakistan in the World Energy
Council, and at other international meetings dealing with energy issues.
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 a number
of scholarly journals. He served as the Associate Dean of the College of Business Administration for four
years (1996-2000). Dr. Suyderhoud has won a
number of teaching and service awards, and has been teaching in the Shidler College of Business MBA programs in Japan, Malaysia,
Vietnam and France. He
also is currently administrating the College's Executive MBA Program in Vietnam.
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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