Course: Leadership and Management of Green Economy

Dr. Anil Malhotra is an international energy and management adviser to the private and public sector. He graduated from the Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, obtained a master's degree from MIT, a doctorate in engineering from the University of California in Berkeley and attended Harvard Business School. A science and technology adviser to Mrs. Gandhi in the seventies, he conceived, created and built the offshore oil capability in India. In the early eighties, he was directly responsible for the accelerated development of Bombay High, India's major offshore oil and gas fields as offshore director of Oil and Natural Gas Commission, India' national oil company. He went on to the World Bank to become the regional energy adviser for Asia and worked on problems of energy development in a number of countries in Asia including Myanmar, Philippines and Vietnam.

He is a "Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur" and was awarded a Gold Medal by the government of Vietnam for his contribution to the energy sector in Vietnam and by the Minister of Industry for his work on rural electrification.

He is at present an international energy management consultant and with offices in New Delhi, India and Maryland, USA. He is a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business where he teaches a seminar on "Leadership and management in the oil industry".

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Mr. Barry Breen is the CEO of 3GSolar, a leading developer of solar energy using DSC (Dye Solar Cell) photovoltaic technology with first applications for off-grid rural areas. DSC is a cost-effective alternative to silicon and thin film-based systems, providing an environmentally-friendly solution that produces electricity efficiently even in low light conditions.

Mr. Breen is a business leader and manufacturing process expert. He worked for 16 years in senior positions at AVX Corporation (NYSE: AVX), helping to build a small development facility in Israel into a 600-employee R&D and manufacturing company producing thin film passive devices. Prior to AVX, Barry was an engineer at General Electric in the United States. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Barry earned a B.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has 6 issued patents, several pending patents and authored numerous published papers. Barry won the coveted Kaplan Prize for industrial innovation and the Kyocera Corporation President's Award for outstanding achievement in product & business development.

Course: Energy and Environmental Policy in Developing Countries

Dr. Carla Freeman is the Associate Director of the China Studies program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC. At SAIS she teaches courses on her current research areas: the international relations of Asia, the link between China's domestic policy and its international behavior, and China's environmental policymaking.

Prior to joining SAIS, she served as the Director of Global Studies and International Affairs at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Parkside, as well as a Visiting Professor at Beloit College. Before joining the academic world, she was Program Officer for Civil and Civic Community at The Johnson Foundation (Wingspread), where she led the Foundation's portfolio on international civil society and democracy and sustainable community-building. In addition to her work in the academic and the non-profit sectors, Dr. Freeman spent the first part of her career as a political risk analyst, focused on China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.

The daughter of a foreign service officer, she spent her childhood and young adult life in Asia, first living in China in 1981. She is the author of numerous papers on China and Asia and is currently working on a book on China's relationships with its territorial neighbors. Her most recent publications include a study of the local face of China's North Korea policy, which draws on her longtime research on China's Northeast region, and an analysis of new developments in China's water policy.

She is a graduate of Yale University (BA) and Johns Hopkins SAIS (MA and PhD) and also holds a certificate in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris.

Course: Embodied Energy Analysis (Emergy)

Dr. David Tilley is an Associate Professor of Ecological Engineering. Dr. Tilley defines ecological engineering as "the emerging field that combines natural and applied sciences, especially systems ecology, with the discipline of engineering to design, build, and operate new ecosystem-types that connect society with nature for the benefit of both." Dr. Tilley is also President of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research, which was formed in 2008.

Dr. Tilley teaches graduate courses and performs research in the theory and application of embodied energy (i.e., emergy) analysis. His most recent work, published in the journal Energy (2009) showed that the manufacture of ethanol from switchgrass-cellulose has a small or negative energy return on energy invested.

He is interested in understanding what new ways natural systems can be re-integrated into our daily lives as the world passes its peak in global petroleum production. He received his Ph.D. and masters degrees from the University of Florida's Environmental Engineering Sciences program in 1999.

Dr. Deborah L. Wince-Smith is the president and CEO of the Council on Competitiveness, a coalition of business, labor and academia that advocates policies to make America more competitive in the global marketplace. She is also a member of several boards, including the board of directors of NASDAQ-OMX, Inc., the Oversight Board of the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, and the University of Chicago's Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory. Previously, she served as the nation's first assistant secretary of commerce for technology policy in the administration of George H.W. Bush and developed President Reagan's Competitiveness Initiative.

Course: Renewable Energy Technology and Supply

Dr. Eric Martinot resides in Tokyo as senior research director with the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP). From 2005 to early 2008 he resided in Beijing as visiting faculty at Tsinghua University, where he taught classes on sustainable energy. He remains an affiliate of the Tsinghua-BP Clean Energy Research and Education Center and continues to teach there. He also teaches annually at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and maintains an affiliation as research fellow with the Worldwatch Institute. He is perhaps best known as lead author of the widely-used REN21 Renewables Global Status Report, produced annually since 2005 using a global network of researchers that he established.

From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Martinot was a senior energy/environment specialist with the World Bank in Washington DC. He managed the renewable energy program of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and was responsible for reviewing and recommending approval of GEF grants for renewable energy projects in developing countries. He also guided the GEF's renewable energy program strategies and synthesized knowledge and experience with renewable energy markets and investments around the world.

While working at the World Bank, he taught part-time on energy and environment to graduate students as an adjunct professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. He also taught at Tufts University in 1999 as an adjunct professor of international relations. Earlier, he served as consultant to the Environment Department of the World Bank, as senior scientist with the Stockholm Environment Institute--Boston, as convening lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and as consultant to the United Nations, U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and International Energy Agency.

Dr. Martinot is author of 65 publications on renewable energy and energy efficiency, including works that are seminal in the field. He is a member of the Chairperson Committee of the World Council on Renewable Energy (WCRE), member of the editorial board of the interdisciplinary journal Energy Policy, editor of the renewable energy information site www.martinot.info, and advisor to several international organizations. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley (1991 and 1995) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984).

Erik Peterson is senior vice president at CSIS, where he also serves as director of the Global Strategy Institute, a "think tank within a think tank" established in 2003 to assess long-range trends. He also holds the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, an endowed chair named in honor of Merrill Lynch chairman emeritus William Schreyer. Prior to assuming his role as director of the Global Strategy Institute, Peterson was director of Studies at CSIS. In that capacity, from 1993 to 2002, he oversaw and coordinated programs, projects and publications across the organization. Before joining CSIS, he was director of research at Kissinger Associates, the international consulting firm chaired by former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger (a longstanding member of the CSIS Board of Trustees).

Mr. Peterson serves on several advisory boards, including the X Prize Foundation, the Center for Global Business Studies at Pennsylvania State University, and the Center for the Study of the Presidency. He has also served as a fellow of the World Economic Forum and a member of the Forum's Global Risk Network. In October 2008, he was appointed visiting scholar at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). For the past four years, he has served on the jury for the President Gerald R. Ford Foundation Journalism Prize Competition on National Security Reporting.

A sought-after public speaker represented by Leading Authorities, Mr. Peterson has addressed numerous groups in 48 U.S. states and 22 countries. He lectures regularly for a wide array of U.S. government institutions, including the Army Medical Strategic Leadership Program, Army War College, Coast Guard, Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of State, Interagency Institute for Federal Health Care Executives, Internal Revenue Service, Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Defense University, Proteus, Reserve Forces Policy Board, and U.S. Agency for International Development.

The author of several publications, he is now completing a book on global strategic trends and their effects on governance structures in societies across the world. Together with Rachel Posner, he is author of Water and Energy Futures in an Urbanized Asia: Sustaining the Tiger (CSIS, 2007) and Global Water Futures: A Roadmap for Future U.S. Policy (CSIS, 2008). He also contributed a chapter entitled "Scanning the More Distant Future for the Common Good" in The Ethics of Leadership in the 21st Century (Praeger, 2006).

Mr. Peterson received his B.A from Colby College, his M.B.A. from the Wharton school at the University of Pennsylvania and his M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University SAIS. He holds the Certificate of Eastern European Studies from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Certificate in International Legal Studies from The Hague Academy of International Law (The Netherlands).

George Perkovich is vice president for studies and director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research is focused on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation. His research interest is in South Asia and Iran, and on the problem of justice in the international political economy. He is an expert in U.S. foreign policy, nonproliferation, security, global governance, non-governmental actors, India, Iran, and Pakistan.

He has authoured an award-winning book "India's Nuclear Bomb". He is coauthor of the Adelphi Paper, "Abolishing Nuclear Weapon", published in September 2008 by the International Institute for Strategic Studies and also coauthor of a major Carnegie report, "Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security".

Dr. Perkovich served as a speechwriter and foreign policy adviser to US Senator Joe Biden from 1989 to 1990. He is an adviser to the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Policy.

He completed B.A. in Politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1980, M.A. in Soviet Studies from Harvard University in 1986 and earned Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 1997.

Professor Ishwar K. Puri has served as Professor and Department Head of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) at Virginia Tech since 2004, where he also directs the Multiphysics Research Group (MuRG).

He obtained his Ph.D. (1987), and M.S. (1984) degrees in Engineering Science (Applied Mechanics) from the University of California, San Diego after obtaining a B.Sc. (1982) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delhi.

He served as an Assistant Research Engineer at the University of California, San Diego from 1987-90. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1990, promoted as Associate Professor with tenure in 1994, and as Professor in 1999. He served at UIC as Director of Graduate Studies of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering programs from 1994-97, and 1999-2000; as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (2000-01) and as Executive Associate Dean of Engineering (2001-04).

Professor Puri is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was a 1993 American Association for the Advancement of Science-Environmental Protection Agency (AAAS-EPA) Environmental Fellow. He is an editor of the journal Experimental Heat Transfer and an associate editor of International Journal of Reacting Systems. Professor Puri has conducted research through major grants from US federal agencies, industry and foundations.

He has established international consortia to develop collaborative degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His students are placed in major corporations and at universities. He is the author of over 260 archival and conference publications, and book chapters in the field of combustion and transport phenomena (e.g., related to emissions, self assembly and magnetic drug targeting, nanoscale transport phenomena, and hydrogen storage). He has edited a book on the environmental implications of combustion processes, a textbook on Advanced Thermodynamics Engineering and another on Combustion Science and Engineering.

At Virginia Tech, Professor Puri has been involved with a number of interdisciplinary and campus-wide initiatives. With his stewardship, ESM was the first department to develop a computational science and engineering program and houses the universitys graduate certificate in the area. He served on the Provosts Race and Institution Task Force and serves on the AdvanceVT campus climate committee. He has also assisted the Institute for Critical Technologies and Applied Sciences by serving on various advisory committees, and is a member of the Virginia Tech, India steering committee. He is active in Virginia Techs nanotechnology education and ethics programs, leads NSF funded teams in nanotechnology undergraduate education and graduate ethics education, and coordinates the TCE-Virginia Tech Emerging Issues in Technology Seminar Series.

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Dr. John Zogby is an American political pollster and first senior fellow at The Catholic University of America's Life Cycle Institute. He is also a Senior Advisor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and serves as the first Senior Fellow of the The Catholic University of America's Life Cycle Institute in Washington, D.C. He is also a member of the board of directors of the prestigious Advertising Research Foundation, based in New York City.

He also serves on the Advisory Council for Bio-Technology for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is a Commissioner on the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Smart Power.

Dr. John Zogby regularly writes standing political analysis column for Campaigns and Elections' Politics Magazine and is also a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.

Dr. John Zogby also hosted a weekly show called "Zogby's Real America," in September 2007. He also writes weekly column for Forbes.com and a weekly "Obamameter" report for the U.S. News and World Report's Washington Whispers. He is author of a book "The Way We'll Be" which is an optimistic portrait of the new American consumer.

Dr. John Zogby was awarded honorary degree from the College of St. Rose in 2009. He was honoured as a "Living Legend of Oneida County" (NY) in 2006 for his community service work and his founding of a groundbreaking worldwide company. In 2005, he was awarded Honorary Doctorate Degrees from State University of New York and the Graduate School of Union University. Being trustee of Le Moyne College, he received the Alumni Award in June, 2000.

Zogby received a Bachelor's degree in history from Le Moyne College in 1970 and a Master's degree in history from Syracuse University in 1973. He taught history and political science for 24 years.

Louis Goodman has been Professor and Dean of the School of International Service since 1986 and in 1992 served as the President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs.

Prior to assuming this position, he directed the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Latin America and Caribbean Program at the Social Science Research Council and served on the faculty of Yale University's Sociology Department.

The author of numerous books and articles, Dr. Goodman's current research focuses on democracy-building and civilian control of the armed forces in Latin America. His Small Nations, Giant Firms: Capital Allocation Decisions in Transnational Corporations (Holmes and Meier: 1987) discusses the determinants of capital allocation decisions in transnational corporation and the impact of transnational corporations on national development. The Military and Democracy in Latin America (D.C. Heath-Lexington: 1990) and Lessons from the Venezuelan Experience (Johns Hopkins: 1995) are volumes he has co-edited which focus on the role of the military in political and economic development. Dr. Goodman received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and earned his MA and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Dr. Vijay Kumar provides leadership for sustainable technology-enabled educational innovation at MIT. In his previous roles at MIT and at other institutions, Vijay provided leadership for the effective integration of information technology and media services in education.

Vijay was the Principal Investigator of O.K.I (Open Knowledge Initiative), a MIT-led collaborative project supported by the Andre W. Mellon Foundation to develop an open architecture for enterprise educational applications.

Vijay is a member of the Advisory Committee of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and a member of the steering committee for I-Campus, a MIT-Microsoft Research joint initiative for educational technology. Vijay also served on the Applications Strategy Council for Internet2, as a Trustee of the Corporation for Research and Education Networking (CREN) and as a member of the strategic advisory group for IT at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, University of Berkeley, USA, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland and the Open University of Catalonia, He has served as an honorary advisor to India's National Knowledge Commission and as advisor to UNESCO on their strategies for open technology, education and policy. He is a co-editor of a Carnegie Foundation book "Opening Up Education" (MIT Press, August 2008).

Vijay's research, as well as his extensive professional engagements are directed toward strategy, planning and implementing innovations for education.

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Course: Nonrenewable Energy Technology and Supply

Dr. Maria Papadakis is currently teaching in the Energy, Geography, and Instrumentation and Measurement sectors at James Madison University. She is also a Visiting Scholar for the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (Japan).

Dr. Papadakis has served as a trade analyst for the US International Trade Commission, economic analyst for the US Embassy to Zimbabwe, and international R&D analyst for the National Science Foundation. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University.

Course: Energy and Environmental Economics

Dr. Michael Trachtenberg is the founder, Chairman, CEO, and Chief Technical Officer of Carbozyme, a company in the final stage of its state-of-the-art carbon dioxide separation and capture system. This process employs high efficiency, low energy, liquid membranes to capture and separate carbon dioxide, thereby combating greenhouse gases and global warming. Dr. Trachtenberg is the author of over 120 publications, has received three patents, and has several patent applications currently under review. Dr. Trachtenberg has held faculty positions at the Medical Schools of Harvard, Boston University, and the University of Texas. He earned his B.A. in Psychology and Biology from the City University of New York, and his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Neurobiology from UCLA.

Morty Kaplan, President of Trans-Chemical Corporation and Chairman of the Kaplan Group of Companies, was born and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from Pennsylvania Military Preparatory School in 1947 and Pennsylvania Military College in 1951, later he served in the army as a Line Infantry Officer in the Korean War.

After leaving the army, Mr. Kaplan resided in the Far East where he established a commodity trading company that focused on East-West bilateral trade. Upon his return to the States and during the late 1950's and 1960's Mr. Kaplan continued to operate family businesses involved in international trade and manufacturing. Through his experience, he has developed a keen sense for the international marketplace including expertise in manufacturing, finance, and shipping.

In the early 1970's, Mr. Kaplan founded Trans-Chemical Corporation (Trans-Chem), a U.S. based multinational trading company which is primarily engaged in the trading and toll processing of bulk industrial commodity chemicals and has broadened its scope over the last decade to include coordination and management of global energy and agriculture projects. Trans-Chem, as a privately held company, developed a worldwide network of both formal and informal joint ventures, agents, and associates that have extensive expertise in trading and project development. Furthermore, for the past 26 years, he has hosted an International Roundtable, a think-tank, which was originally started as a get-together for the petrochemical and agricultural fraternity, and has evolved into an annual forum for serious exchange of ideas, perceptions, and knowledge on global basis between a diverse group of political and industry leaders from around the world.

Mr. Kaplan is involved in numerous trade associations including the National Petroleum Refiners Association (NPRA) in which he is a member of the Founders Club, the North Eastern Chemical Association (NECA), the European Petrochemical Association (EPCA), and the International Petrochemical Association (IPCA). Mr. Kaplan is also very involved in the community and has established a charitable trust to support his familie's activities.

Mr. Kaplan's projects are now focused on energy conservation and safety. These projects include: hybrid electric conversion technology, clean coal, and run flat tires.

For the past 35 years, Mr. Kaplan has resided in Miami, Florida with his wife Linda and their two sons Ian and Howard. Both sons are married and are actively involved in these businesses. The Kaplans have two granddaughters and three grandsons.

Michael T. Eckhart is founding President of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), a Washington DC-based nonprofit organization with members in wind, solar, hydro, ocean, geothermal, biomass, biofuels and waste sources of electricity, thermal energy, hydrogen and fuels. At ACORE, he has established a Board of Directors and Advisory Board of 40 national leaders and a membership of over 600 organizations.

In international work, Mr. Eckhart serves on the governing bureau of the REN 21 global policy network, as a participant in the North American Secretariat of REEEP, and U.S. chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy. He initiated and produced the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) world meeting in 2008 and created the on-going series of IREC world meetings. He oversees ACORE's US-China Program, and also maintains strong working relationships in Europe, India and Africa. Representing ACORE, he is an Observer at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). He serves on the Advisory Committee to Prince Charles' Rainforest Project.

He is a 2009 recipient of the Corporate Responsibility Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2008 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2006 recipient of RSF's Good Deal for All Award, and a four-time invited participant in the Clinton Global Initiative.

Prior to ACORE, he developed financing for solar energy under the SolarBank Initiative through which he trained over 1,000 bankers in India on the financing of solar PV, and for which he was named Renewable Energy Man of the Year of India in 1998. He also worked extensively in South Africa, creating the Shell-Eskom solar PV joint venture in 1999 which implemented PV on over 10,000 rural homes.

Earlier, he was Chairman & CEO of the power generation development firm United Power Systems, Inc.; Vice President of the venture capital firm Areté Ventures, Inc.; the strategic planner of General Electric Company's power systems sector; and a Principal with the energy practice of Booz, Allen & Hamilton where he conducted many of the original national studies on the emerging new energy technologies in the 1970s.

Mr. Eckhart served in the US Navy Submarine Service. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Course: Environmental Impact

Dr. Michael Willingham is an energy and environmental analyst, with experience in policy, technology, educational program design, and professional training. His work experience includes the Navajo Tribe, the Peace Corps, US Congress, the United Nations, the World Bank and the private sector.

He has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from MIT and a PhD in Energy Management from the University of Pennsylvania. Since April 2000, Dr. Willingham has been attached to Virginia Tech's Advanced Research Institute (ARI) as an Adjunct Professor working with the ARI Critical Infrastructure and Modeling Program (CIMAP), which was established to provide Virginia state policymakers and legislators - along with citizens, state and federal agencies as well as industry partners - with long-term perspectives and guidance on the various issues that affect the planning, commissioning and operation of critical infrastructures.

As a member of the Virginia Tech Disaster Risk Reduction Program (DRR), he also is working with the Governor's Office of Commonwealth Preparedness to assess the resilience of critical infrastructure sectors in selected jurisdictions throughout the Commonwealth.

Dr. Pradeep Rohatgi currently serves as a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor and the Director of the UWM Composite Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He serves on committees of Governments of the United States and India, including those related to collaborations in the areas of materials, especially those related to the automotive sector, energy, and environment. His research has been supported by NSF, DOE, Office of Naval Research, EPRI, and major private sector organizations including Ford, General Motors, Sunstrand, Alcan, and A.O. Smith. Dr. Rohatgi has coauthored eleven books and over four hundred scientific papers. He has 20 U.S. Patents and has received numerous awards for excellence in Research. Dr. Rohatgi received his B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Banarus University, and earned his Masters and Doctorate in Materials Science from M.I.T.

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Course: Science of Energy Generation

Dr. Kulkarni was the Counselor for Science, Technology, Environment and Health Affairs at the Embassy of the United States of America in New Delhi, India. He was a member of the US Mission which under the leadership of the Ambassador was engaged in transformational diplomacy with India.

Previously, on a change of station assignment from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), he held the position of Executive Director, Laboratory Management, University of California (UC) Office of the President. In this role he developed a strategy to better integrate and leverage the competencies of the 10 UC campuses and the 3 national laboratories (Los Alamos, Livermore and Berkeley) and identified areas where collaborative work would result in synergies as well as efficiencies. He conceived and organized the UC System-wide forums on 'Engineering Novel Materials', 'High Energy Density and Ultrafast Sciences' and 'Performance Based Design of Nuclear Energy Systems' as well as the UC/LLNL Frontiers of Physics High School Day during the World Year of Physics 2005 Celebration. He is also the Editor of a recent publication 'University of California: 10 Campuses working with 3 National Laboratories – Unparalleled Contributions to Education, Discovery and Public Service'.

Earlier, he was the Division Leader of the New Technologies Engineering Division (NTED) in the Engineering Directorate at LLNL. NTED is a multi-disciplinary, multi-program support organization with stewardship of several engineering core competencies/technologies. His assignments at LLNL have spanned national and homeland security, nonproliferation, energy & environment and biosciences programs. In addition, he has held several institutional responsibilities such as membership of the Lab-wide Council on Energy & Environmental Security, Student Policy Committee and the Engineering S&T Strategic Planning Committee. He was also the S&T Panel Chair of the Engineering Futures Conference during LLNL's 50th Anniversary Celebration in 2003.

Before joining LLNL, Dr. Kulkarni was the Program Manager for Advanced Composites with Materials Sciences Corporation in Blue Bell, PA. He has also worked at Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Division in Lynchburg, VA, and Tata Consulting Engineers in Mumbai, India.

He has a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, a MS from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a BS from Calcutta University. He is the recipient of the Society of Sigma XI Research Award for outstanding graduate research at Virginia Tech, and the Society of Plastics Industry Design Award. He was also the winner of the first Jagdish Bose National Science Talent Search Award in India modeled after the Westinghouse (now Intel) Awards in the US. Recently, he was inducted into the Academy of Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech for 'meritorious lifetime achievements and contributions to the engineering profession'.

Dr. Shen Dingli is co-founder and director of China's first non-government-based Program on Arms Control and Regional Security, at Fudan University. He teaches courses on nonproliferation and international security, and China's foreign policy.

He carries out research on China-US security matters and nuclear ties, regional security and nonproliferation issues, and Chinese and American foreign and defense policies.

He is a member of the board of scholars at US-Chine Institute of University of Southern California. Dr. Shen Dingli earned his doctorate in physics and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University.

Dr. Suhas S. Patil is entrepreneur, venture capitalist and a philanthropist. He is Chairman Emeritus of Cirrus Logic Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, which he founded in 1984.

Dr. Patil is co-founder of the TiE – Ind-US Entreprreneurs, a global not for profit organization teaching and fostering entrepreneurship. He is Chairman of the board of Cradle Technologies. He serves on the board of, The Computer History Museum, The Tech Museum and the World Affairs Counsel of Northern California.

Dr. Patil has received several patents and he has authored more than 40 scientific papers.

Dr. Patil received his B. Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1965. He completed a Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering form MIT in 1970. He joined MIT as Assistant Professor in 1970. While at MIT, Dr. Patil also served as Assistant Director of Projects MAC (Multi-Access Computer), the largest computer science laboratory in USA at that time, where modern time-sharing was developed.

Dr. Patil was conferred an honorary doctoral degree in 1995 at IIT Kharagpur.

Dr. Vasant G. Telang is an internationally honored pharmacist, a well known scientist and educator, who has attained the highest levels of administrative responsibility in higher education.

Dr. Telang is a product of the University of Bombay, India where he spent his formative years and earned a B.Sc (Honors) in Chemistry, B.Sc(Tech) and M.Sc. (Tech) degrees in Pharmaceuticals and fine Chemicals. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Rhode Island in 1968 and was the key member of Medicinal Chemistry research group of Professor Philip S. Portoghese at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Professor Portoghese is one of the most well recognized experts in the field of drug design in the world and continues to be the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry for over 35 years.

From Dr. Portuguese's laboratory, Dr. Telang was selected over 30 years ago to join the faculty of the Howard University College of Pharmacy in Washington, D.C. Through his record of distinguished research, clinical instruction, service to the university and Pharmacy community, Professor Telang went on to become Assistant Dean, Associate Dean and then interim Dean of the College of Pharmacy. He was in charge of the Pharmacy School when the Colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied Health Sciences were combined into one college. In 2001, his exceptional professional and personal qualities were recognized further and Dr. Telang was appointed as Associate Provost of Howard University.

In this position, Professor Telang is responsible for a very wide academic portfolio at the highest level at Howard University. The College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied Health Services, College of Medicine, College of Dentistry and the School of Law come under his responsibility-excellence in teaching and assessment, institutional faculty grant programs, university-wide academic appointments, promotions and tenure, new academic programs and Fulbright Scholars Program.

Dr. Telang has received several honors and awards: outstanding faculty (1974), Black Apothecary Faculty (1975), Faculty Member of the Year (1982), Rho Chi Faculty (1985), Honored Faculty (1989), Distinguished faculty (1991) and Cultural Diversity Awareness (1999). His active involvement and contributions to the Washington D.C. Pharmaceutical Association garnered him the honor of "Pharmacist of the Year" (1984). Dr, Telang received the "Pharmacy Leadership Award" (1986) in recognition of accomplished Leadership in the Advancement of Pharmacy from the National Association of Retail Druggists. He served as the President of Washington, D.C. Pharmaceutical Association (1985-86) and President of Howard University Chapter of Sigma Xi (1986-87). In 1987, he received the distinguished "A.H. Robins Bowl of Hygeia" Award.

Dr. Telang serves as Executive Director of the National Advisory Council for South Asian Affairs to the U.S. Department of State (1985-present). He was National Vice President of the Association of Indians in America (1987-91). He was awarded the Hind Rattan "Jewel of India" Award (1992) by the Non-Resident Welfare Society of India, New Delhi, India and the " B.V. Patel Memorial Award" (1993) for contributions in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences by the Indian Pharmaceutical Association. Dr. Telang has served with distinction on various committees of professional bodies including the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). He served as Secretary/Treasurer (1990-2002) of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) and AACP, District II. In 2002, District II bestowed the "Distinguished Service Award" on him for his leadership and service.

Dr. Telang's professional affiliations include: Rho Chi, the National Pharmacy Honor Society; (APLA); American Chemical Society; AACP; Sigma Xi, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS); New York Academy of Sciences and Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA). Dr. Telang has over thirty-seven scientific publications to his credit.

Varghese George is the President and CEO of Westex Group, Inc., an International Trade and Procurement Service established in 1983.

Mr. George is a member of many prestigious boards, including the Advisory Board of the Asia Society (Washington Chapter), the Board of Small Business Exporters Association, the Board of Advisors at BB&T (DC Metro and Montgomery Country Region) and the Board of the Directors of the India Film Society in Washington DC.

Mr. George received his MBA from Loyola University in Maryland in 1978.

Dr. Vijay Kelkar is currently the Chairman of the Forum of Federations, Ottawa & India Development Foundation, New Delhi. He was Chairman of the Finance Commission, India, until January, 2010. He also remained Advisor to the Minister of Finance during year 2002 to 2004. He also remained Finance Secretary, Government of India.

Dr. Kelkar held various senior level position in Government of India. He was Chairman, India Development Foundation; Chairman, Finance Commission, India; Chairman, IDFC Private Equity, Mumbai; Chairman, Tariff Commission, Government of India; Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India; Chairman, Bureau of Industrial Costs & Prices and Secretary to the Government of India, New Delhi; Secretary, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, Government of India, New Delhi; Advisor, Economic Policy & Planning, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India, New Delhi and Economic Advisor, Ministry of Commerce, Govt of India.

Dr. Kelkar also held senior positions in international organizations. He was Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C. Also as Director & Coordinator, International Trade Division, UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Kelkar has also taught at Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad; Center for Economic Development and Administration, Kathmandu, Nepal; South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany and also at University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Dr. Kelkar earned his B.S. degree from University of Pune, India in 1963 and M.S. degree from University of Minnesota, USA in 1965. He was conferred Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, USA in 1970.

Course: Nuclear Energy Technology and Supply

Mr. Nilekani has over 30 years of diversified experience in the oil and gas, electricity, and nuclear generation sectors. He has been involved with most aspects of energy generation, including economics, design, construction, project management, startup, operations, and maintenance. His progressive experience with major companies and organizations, including management positions with industry leaders such as Bechtel, Exelon and the Nuclear Energy Institute has given him a broad and deep multi sector perspective in many areas, and a realistic understanding of comparative economics and strategic significance of different energy sources.

His experience also encompasses international consulting in South Africa, Canada, Japan, the Middle East, South America, India and the US. Additionally, Mr. Nilekani is keenly interested in international economics, energy security, geopolitics, and policy issues. He is widely traveled. Work or vacations have taken him to over 40 countries on seven continents.

He is currently engaged in homeland security policy issues for critical infrastructures and key resources in the US, with emphasis on the energy sector.

Dr. William C. Vocke Jr. is responsible for developing new partnerships and educational materials for the Carnegie Ethics Studio project.

Vocke is a lifelong proponent of international education. He has been professor and Director of the Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and recently resigned his position as a Professor at Taiwan's top international affairs program at National Cheng Chi university. He also taught at National Taiwan University and at the Foreign Service Institute of the Foreign Ministry; consulted at the Ministry of Justice, International Investigations Bureau; and spoke regularly at academic and corporate events.

When the Cold War ended, Vocke became active in public education to try to have a small impact on the rapidly changing world. He subsequently became President of the World Affairs Council of Greater Cincinnati, then National President of the World Affairs Councils of America, and Executive Director of the Worlds Affairs Council in Milwaukee. During this extensive non-profit and community service he has also produced and hosted over 600 television and radio programs on public channels in Wisconsin and Cincinnati. He was also a successful local and national fund raiser for these organizations.

Dr. Vocke's PhD is from the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of South Carolina under Charles Kegley, and he emphasizes public diplomacy and the domestic sources of US foreign policy. He has taught at SUNY Geneseo, Juniata College, UWM, and, on sabbaticals, in Germany, France, and South Carolina.

Course: Energy Distribution

Wolfgang Kröger has been Ordinarius of Safety Technology at the ETH Zurich since 1990. Currently he is managing director of the Institute of Energy Technology and heads its Laboratory for Safety Analysis (www.lsa.ethz.ch). He is also Founding Rector and Board member of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC; www.irgc.org) which is located in Geneva and has been established by a Swiss initiative in June 2003. Until then he headed research in nuclear energy and safety at the national Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) where he was also on the board of directors.

Prof. Kröger (born in 1945 in the Ruhr district, Germany) studied mechanical engineering, specialized on nuclear engineering at the RWTH Aachen, completed his doctorate in 1974, and his habilitation thesis in 1986.

Amongst others he is chairman of the "Safety Review Group" of the EBRD, was member and vice-chairman of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) of the OECD-NEA until 2003, and was member of the International Committee on Nuclear Technology (www.ilk-online.de) until 2007. He is member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), and honorary member of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft der Kernfachleute (SGK). He published a multitude of articles and contributed to numerous books mainly on risk and safety issues related to large scale engineered systems, in particular nuclear power plants, and sustainability of energy systems.

Course: Climate Change Policy in a Globalizing World

Dr. Yda Schreuder has a rich background in Interdisciplinary and International Research and Teaching. In collaboration with her colleagues and students, she has committed her experience in research on land-use, watershed, and sustainable development issues to the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware. She has also conducted research on climate change and water resources issues in Department of Geography and on international migration at Department of Political Science/International Relations.

Dr. Yda Schreuder is currently active as Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at University of Delaware, Newark, DE. She had served as Assistant Professor of Geography, Department of Geography since 1982, and became Associate Professor of Geography in 1990. To date, she has contributed over 30 years to University of Delaware.

In Newark, Dr. Yda Schreuder regularly teaches "World Regional Geography", "Economic Geography", "Conservation Global Issues" and "Resources, Development and the Environment." Along with these, out of special interest she also teaches courses such as "Perspectives on Migration – An Interdisciplinary Approach", "The New World Order in Europe", and "Globalization and International Migration".

Before her association with University of Delaware she was Lecturer in Geography at Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, between 1981 and 1982.

She had also served as Lecturer in Geography and Anthropology at Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Maryland, European division (Heidelberg, Germany) between 1979 and1981.

Dr. Yda Schreuder has authored many publications on various subjects such as "Climate Change Policy in a Globalizing World", "Trade Relationships between Amsterdam and Barbados in the 17th Century", "EU Emissions Trading Scheme in the Corporate Greenhouse", "Flexible Mechanisms in the Corporate Greenhouse", "Global Corporations in the Greenhouse" and those related to pharmaceutical industry & business.

She has been honored with various educational grants and awards for her valued contribution in educational research, development of various educational courses and for her efforts in research for Geography and Regional Science Division.

Dr. Yda Schreuder graduated with B.A. in Geography from University of Groningen, the Netherlands in 1971. Then in 1975 she obtained her M.A. in Anthropology from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. In 1982 she was awarded Ph.D. in Geography at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Dr. Yugui Guo is Professor and Director of the Center for Global Studies in Education of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Also, he is the Director of the Center for American Studies in Education of Suzhou Institute of Sichuan University and Professor of the US Asian Cultural Academy.

In the past he has been consultant to a number of US government agencies and international organizations. He is the author of the book "Asia's Educational Edge: Current Achievements in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and India."