The Earth Institute at Columbia University is convening the fourth biennial State of the Planet Conference to discuss the feasibility of sustainable development for billions of people worldwide. The dates of the conference are March 28-29, 2006.
Internationally renowned scholars and opinion leaders will lead discussions, present ideas, and outline research throughout this two day forum, which seeks to explore the fundamental requirements of science, economy, governance and human behavior needed to achieve sustainable development.
State of the Planet 2006 will be held at Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University. The auditorium is located at 2920 Broadway (between 114th & 115th Streets), New York, NY.
For more information and to register, visit http://www.stateoftheplanet.org
The list of speakers is below.
Lastly, registration for this conference is FREE.
I hope to see you there!
Steve
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Steven G. Brant, Business Futurist
Founder and Principal
Trimtab Management Systems
sbrant@trimtab.com
http://www.trimtab.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant/
"Human history becomes more and more
a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells
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Opening Address
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University; Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Speakers
Carol Bellamy, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Learning; Former Executive Director, UNICEF
Abby Joseph Cohen, Partner and Chief U.S. Investment Strategist, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University; Professor of Populations, Columbia University; Head of the Laboratory of Populations, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Rockefeller University
John Coomber, Retired Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Re Group
Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge;
Fellow of St. John's College
Amy Davidsen, Director of Environmental Affairs, JPMorgan Chase
Andrew Dobson, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Stuart L. Hart, Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise, Professor of Management, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Denis Hayes, President, The Bullitt Foundation;
National Organizer of the first Earth Day
Georg Kell, Executive Head, United Nations Global Compact
Steven E. Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP p.l.c.
Nicholas D. Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times
Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General, United Nations
Parker Mitchell, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Engineers Without Borders
Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute; Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Tim Palmer, Head of the Probability Forecast Division, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast
David J. Refkin, Director of Sustainable Development, Time Inc.
Frank Rijsberman, Director General, International Water Management Institute
Johan Rockström, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute
Joseph Romm, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
Eric V. Schaeffer, Director, Environmental Integrity Project
Ismail Serageldin, Director, Library of Alexandria in Egypt
Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Dato Lee Yee-Cheong, President, World Federation of Engineering Organisations 2003-05; Co-Coordinator, UN Millennium Project "Science, Technology and Innovation" Task Force; Senior Fellow, Academy of Sciences Malaysia
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