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Environmental summit speakers:

Nicholas Institute:
	Timothy Profeta Director of the Nicholas Institute click for full bio >		William K. Reilly Chair of the Advisory Board for the Nicholas Institute and Founding Partner of Aqua International Partners click for full bio >
	Lydia Olander Associate Director of the Nicholas Institute click for full bio >

Duke University and Nicholas School:
	Richard H. Brodhead President of Duke University click for full bio >		Peter Lange Provost of Duke University click for full bio >
	William H. Schlesinger Dean of the Nicholas School and James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry click for full bio >

Keynote Speakers:
	Jared Diamond Professor of Geography, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author University of California		Richard J. Osborne Group Vice President, Public and Regulatory Policy, Duke Energy
	Russell Train Chairman Emeritus of World Wildlife Fund and Former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Panelists:
	Linda S. Birnbaum Director of the Environmental Toxicology Division, Environmental Protection Agency		Douglas T. Breeden Dean of the Fuqua School of Business and William W. Priest Professor of Finance, Duke University
	Norman L. Christensen, Jr. Professor of Ecology and Founding Dean of the Nicholas School		Thomas J. Crowley Nicholas Professor of Earth Systems Science, Nicholas School
	Michael Depledge Head of Science at the Environment Agency, UK and Professor, University of Plymouth		Victor J. Dzau, M.D. Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University and President and CEO of the Duke University Health System
	Linda J. Fisher Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, DuPont		Paul Gorman Founder and Executive Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment
	Jason S. Grumet Executive Director, National Commission on Energy Policy		Peter D. Hart CEO of Peter D. Hart Research Associates
	Martin I. Hoffert Professor Emeritus of Physics, New York University		Randall A. Kramer Professor of Resource and Environmental Economics, Nicholas School
	Fred Krupp President of Environmental Defense		Michael Lenox Associate Professor of Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
	Thomas Lovejoy President of The H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment		Susan Lozier Professor of Physical Oceanography, Nicholas School
	Bill McInturff Partner and Cofounder of Public Opinion Strategies		Marie Lynn Miranda Director of Children's Environmental Health Initiative and Associate Research Professor, Nicholas School
	Michael K. Orbach Director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory and Professor of the Practice of Marine Affairs and Policy, Nicholas School		Paul Parker Executive Director of the Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association
	Daniel Pauly Professor and Director at the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia		Stuart Pimm Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology, Nicholas School
	Sandra Postel Founder of the Global Water Policy Project		Lincoln Pratson Associate Professor of Sedimentary Geology, Nicholas School
	Kenneth H. Reckhow Professor of Water Resources, Chair, Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School		Simon B. Rich, Jr. Chairman of the Board of Visitors, Nicholas School, former CEO of Louis Dreyfus Holding Co. and former Chairman and CEO of Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas
	James E. Rogers Chairman, President and CEO, Cinergy		Jim Salzman Professor of Law and Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy, Duke University
	James Gustave Speth Dean and Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development, Yale University	Nicole St. Clair Communications Director for the Climate Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council
	Joseph A. Stanislaw Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Energy Research Associates		Jack Ward Thomas Professor of Conservation, University of Montana and Former Chief, USDA Forest Service
Michael Whatley Founder of the Patriot Group and former chief of staff to US Sen. Elizabeth Dole and Staff Director to the Environment and Public Works Clean Air Subcommittee			Jonathan Wiener Perkins Professor of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy, Duke University