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Fulbrighters You Can Meet in San Francsico - one month from
today:
We are pleased to share with you the names and bios of some of the Fulbright speakers at the Fifth Annual FAST
Conference. It is a long email to scan through, but they are interesting colleagues and you can meet and hear them in person in San Francisco on
March 11-14.
The conference is not at maximum capacity, so it is not too late to register. For most, the registration is $300
or $450 for the 3.5 day program. People in the Bay area can register for one day or just the opening night dinner and reception (Thursday, March 11).
Rooms are the Hilton Hotel are available (check www.Hilton.com for pricing), and FAST can assist you if you wish to share a room. You can register for the conference online through our
website: www.FulbrightAcademy.org or by calling FAST at 866-F-BRIGHT (207-799-3098).
Chris Page is
Director of Climate and Energy Strategy for Yahoo!, where she is responsible for the company’s climate program, energy efficiency and
clean tech initiatives, as well as for monitoring and reducing the companies’ global carbon footprint. Her recent work includes Yahoo!’s
corporate commitment to reducing the average carbon intensity of Yahoo! data centers by forty percent by 2014. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Chris worked as a
senior consultant on the Energy and Resources Team at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a Colorado-based “think-and-do tank” founded by
energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins. While at RMI, Chris advised commercial and industrial clients on energy efficiency opportunities. Chris has also been a
field instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School and a writer/editor for NPR’s environmental news program "Living on
Earth.” While living in Colorado, Chris was a member of the all-volunteer Mountain Rescue
Aspen team, providing aid to lost and injured parties in the Rocky Mountains. She has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and Religious Studies
from Brown University and a Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is a Fulbright senior
specialist seeking an overseas assignment.
David Sandino is
Chief Counsel for the California Department of Water Resources. He was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007. He manages
32 attorneys and works on water, environmental, and energy issues for the Department. The Department operates the largest state-built water
project in the United States, the State Water Project.
He has served as lead counsel for the California Reclamation Board, which is responsible for
flood control protection in the Central Valley. He also served as lead attorney for the Department
from 1995-2000 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta Hearings, which allocated responsibilities to meet environmental water quality standards in the
Delta. He has taught water law, environmental law, energy law, real property, and local government law at Santa Clara University School of Law,
University of San Francisco School of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law, UC Davis Extension and the UCLA Extension. With a Fulbright
Fellowship in 1999, he taught international environmental law at the Moscow State Academy, Moscow, Russia.
Malavika
Chauhan is a Program Officer with the Sir Ratan Tata Trust in Mumbai, the oldest private philanthropic organization in India. For the SRTT, she
is placed as the Executive Director of an organization, the Himmotthan Society (Him = Himalayan, Utthan= development - in sanskrit), which implements, monitors
and evaluates their Central Himalayan initiative known as the Himmothan Pariyojana. She
completed a M.Phil. in Environmental Sciences in 1990, and a PhD in Limnology in 1993, following which she worked with WWF India, WWF International and
Wetlands International on issues of wetland biodiversity conservation and protected area management. She also has been a consultant the World Bank, the
Ministry of Environment and other agencies. She has published three books and over 35 journal articles. She was awarded with numerous fellowships, including a
Fulbright IAELP Grant in 2005.
William Fisher is a senior research scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency in the Office of Research and Development serving as lead for coral reef projects. His research efforts are aimed at better protection of
declining coral reef resources through improved understanding of human-reef interactions and use of regulatory authorities under the U.S. Clean Water Act. A
marine invertebrate biologist, Dr. Fisher has developed novel reef assessment
techniques and led several reef surveys in Florida and the Caribbean to evaluate the effects of human activity on reef persistence and the sustainability of
reef services. Previously Dr. Fisher performed pathological and immunological research at the Marine Biotechnology Institute for the University of Texas at
Galveston (cephalopods), University of Maryland (oysters) and University of California-Davis (lobsters). Dr. Fisher was a Fulbright Scholar in Bretagne, France
from 1985-86 where he investigated oyster immune responses to parasitic disease.
Lorna Edmundson is President of Wilson College. Under her leadership since 2001, the College’s national
and international exposure has expanded, emphasizing Wilson’s distinctions in educating women, sustainable living and preparing professionals for
careers in science. She frequently writes and speaks on topics such as: access and equity for women, girls
and people of color; addressing the pressing financial issues in higher education; establishing effective, international educational partnerships and
consortia; reforming graduate studies for the new American scholar; creating high quality learning communities that are committed to diversity and
environmental sustainability. Dr. Edmundson’s work is based on over thirty years of experience in higher education as a college president, state
executive for independent higher education, chief academic officer, strategic planner, fund-raiser, consultant, and teacher in public and private institutions
in the United States, Japan and France. Before coming to Wilson, she served as President of the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges, Trinity
College of Vermont, and the Vermont Chapter of the International Women’s Forum. She has lived and worked in the United States, Algeria, and France
and was Fulbright Scholar in Japan.
Roger F. Pajak is Senior National Intelligence Adviser and Senior Research Associate with L-3
Communications, Inc. in Washington, DC. Dr. Pajak was formerly National Security Adviser for Russia and the Middle East to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury,
as well as the Secretary’s Principal Adviser for Counterterrorism and International Organized Crime. Dr. Pajak later served as National
Counterintelligence Officer for Russia and the Middle East in the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive. A widely published and recognized
authority on Russian and Middle East national security affairs and foreign policy, Dr. Pajak was Visiting Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College, an
Adjunct Fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Visiting Lecturer at the Joint Military Intelligence College. His 2001 Fulbright
was lecturing on international affairs at Sofia University in Bulgaria.
Vanessa Timmer is a co-founder of One Earth Initiative, a Vancouver-based nonprofit research and advocacy group focused on
transforming unsustainable consumption and production patterns locally, nationally and internationally. Dr. Timmer is also a Research Fellow at the University
of British Columbia, teaches courses on social change, systems thinking and sustainability at UBC, Simon Fraser University and Metro Vancouver, and believes
that imagining sustainable futures is a powerful draw for social change. Timmer has degrees from the University of British Columbia, Oxford University, and a
Queen’s University. Timmer has previously worked for the International Centre for Sustainable Cities (ICSC) in launching the Partners in Long-term
Urban Sustainability (PLUS) Network and for the regional government, Metro Vancouver, in shaping the regional sustainability principles and framework and
developing its public engagement programs. Timmer co-hosts the
award-winning Canadian television show, The Sustainable Region, and was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
as part of the Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability
Charles Webel is Director of the Program in Peace, Conflict, and Environmental Studies at the University of New
York in Prague and a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Peace and Conflict Resolution. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and did
postdoctoral work in Public Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University, where he also taught. He is also a research graduate of the Psychoanalytic
Institute of San Francisco. Dr. Webel has published four books, including Terror, Terrorism, and the Human Condition, and, with David Barash, Peace and
Conflict Studies, widely considered the standard text in the field. He is also. As a graduate student, Dr. Webel was
a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and he has also received a faculty Fulbright to the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Tim Lang is the head of the Sustainability Office at University of Toronto Scarborough. Since May 2007 he has
been assessing the environmental performance of the campus. He identifies initiatives to improve it and then oversees the work. Initiatives can be either
operations oriented and undertaken in cooperation with the administration, or outreach oriented and targeted at the entire campus community. For his Fulbright,
Mr. Lang researched Poland's changing environmental management infrastructure as it acceded to the European Union in 2004/2005. He holds a Master of
Engineering in Sustainable Infrastructure (Toronto), Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Swarthmore), and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Religious
Philosophy (Swarthmore).
Prof. S. Williams is an Emeritus Professor at
Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, with 40 years of teaching experience at both
secondary and higher education levels and 25 years of award winning work in community development and rehabilitation with an emphasis in youth and women
leadership and empowerment in Nigeria and throughout Africa. She has been Coordinator for Nigeria in the West African Artisanal Fisheries Group funded by the
EU and the NEPAD Fish for All Summit through The WorldFish Center. Her current role is the chair of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development
(AWARD) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID. From 2003-2004 she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Residence at Bellevue Community College
in Washington State where she taught environmental science and led other initiatives.
Gordana Surlan is Vice-President of
the Fulbright Association of Serbia. Dr. Surlan is professor of genetics at
the Faculty of Agriculture University of Belgrade and head of Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding. In the last 30 years, she published over 150
scientific papers on genetics and plant breeding at both the national and international levels. Her focus is breeding and genetics of wheat, barley and corn.
Her research has taken her on extended visits to Germany, Norway, the UK, among others. In 2002-03, she was Fulbright Professor at the University of Missouri
Columbia, and she also spent five months at Texas A&M University, Texas, USA in 2005.
David C. McGaffey is an
international consultant and professor of international relations. He is a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and also currently teaches on an adjunct
basis at Holy Names University, Oakland. He is associated with AUCS (Skopje), European University (Lisbon), Lesley University (Cambridge) and the University of
Sierra Leone, where he developed that University’s first MBA program and
helped manage the Institute of Public Administration and Management. Professor McGaffey returned to teaching and consulting when he retired in 1991 from the US
Foreign Service, after a twenty-five-year career as a U.S. diplomat, serving in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Iran, and Guyana, among other countries. He is a
specialist in negotiations, cultural analysis, organizational behavior, and strategic planning.
David R. Klein is
professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His interests are broadly ecological with primary focus on plant-animal relationships
at high latitudes and associated consequences of climate change. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 1971-72 at the University of Oslo, Norway where he lectured on
wildlife ecology and environmental philosophy and did research on wild reindeer ecology. Also in 1972, through the European Fulbright affiliation, he
visited and provided advice on management of the newly established
Peneda-Gerez National Park in northern Portugal. Dr. Klein’s subsequent long history of research and educational activities on wildlife
ecology and the environmental influences of climate change and northern development has been of an international nature and has included work in Canada,
Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Russia, Portugal, and South Africa.
Dr. Beth Middleton is
a research ecologist with National Wetlands Research Center, United States Geological Survey in Lafayette, Louisiana. Her work has contributed
to the understanding of world wetland restoration and global climate change. Among her books is "Wetland restoration, flood pulsing and disturbance
dynamics", which received the Merit Award of the Society of Wetland Scientists. Her Ph.D. is from Iowa State University, where she did her Ph.D. research
on monsoonal wetlands in India. During her time as a full professor at Southern Illinois
University, she had a Fulbright Fellowship to G.P Pant University, Pantnagar India on decomposition dynamics in wetlands of the Himalayan terai. This year she
returned to India, and gave the Earth Day talk sponsored by the U.S. Consulate in Chennai. She will be working as a visiting professor in China in 2010 by the
invitation of the Chinese Academy of Science to work on wetland restoration on the Sanjiang Plain of China.
John K. Gamman
is a helps clients understand and resolve large-scale environmental disputes. He is senior mediator and policy analyst with CONCUR Inc., a
California-based consulting firm that assists public agencies, industry and community groups by designing and leading collaborative negotiations. The work has
resulted in landmark agreements related to water management and allocation, land and water pollution clean-up, watershed management, flood control and natural
resource protection. These projects typically involve a complex
set of interrelated issues related to public policy, regulatory requirements and competing environmental, economic and social needs that have led to stalemate
and deadlock. Dr. Gamman often designs joint fact-finding processes in support of collaborative stakeholder processes, to increase scientific and technical
certainty, which in turn form a foundation upon which collaborative consultations and negotiated agreements are based. John is now working on applying these
practices to climate change and sustainable development challenges. He has degrees from MIT, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the
University of California Santa Cruz.
Floriano Filho is a videojournalist at TV Brazil and has covered
domestic and international politics for more than ten years. He was editor-in-chief and presenter of a Brazilian TV show on foreign affairs called
“Diplomacia.” For TV Brazil, he covered the 2008 US elections,
Barack Obama’s inauguration, the financial crisis and Guantanamo. He has recently edited a series of programs on Africa (Angola, Apartheid, Southern
Africa). He has been specializing on the connections among energy, environment and trade -- the focus of his 2008 Fulbright-APSA Congressional Fellowship. He
had researched media issues such as “global trade of digital contents” at the University of Oxford, with a Reuters Foundation fellowship;
“the Japanese information society” at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, with a Monbusho scholarship; “the European digital
society” at the University of Westminster, London, with a Chevening scholarship. He holds degrees in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia University
(USA) and was a lecturer of journalism for seven years in Brasilia.
Nancy Meyer-Emerick is an Associate Professor of
Public Administration at the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State
University. Meyer-Emerick’s research interests include democratic governance, organizational behavior, environmental health and emergency management.
Her book, The Violence Against Women Act of 1994: An Analysis of Intent and Perception, was published in 2001. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of
Prešov, Slovakia in 2009 where she taught Organizational Behavior and Crisis Management. Her conference paper focuses on the Sustainable Cleveland
2019 Summit process and outcomes. She serves on the 2010 Summit Steering committee and the Cleveland State University Sustainability Coalition.
Minnesota-based architect and author Blaine Brownell is a self-defined materials researcher and
sustainable building adviser. His "Product of the Week" e-mails and two volumes of Transmaterial (2006, 2008) published by Princeton Architectural
Press provide architects, designers, and engineers with a steady flow of inspiration—a 21st
century version of The Grammar of Ornament. Blaine has practiced architecture in Japan and the U.S. and has been published in more than a dozen design,
business, and science publications. The recipient of a Fulbright fellowship for 2006–07, he researched contemporary Japanese material innovations at
the Tokyo University of Science. He now teaches at the University of Minnesota.
Lynn Clark Callister is a professor at
the Brigham Young University College of Nursing in Provo, Utah. Dr. Callister is fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She is the global
health and nursing columnist for MCN: The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing with expertise in Millennium Development Goal #5 which focuses on maternal
mortality. She was a visiting professor at the University of Jordan Faculty of Nursing in 2008, teaching in the nursing doctoral program in Amman and was a
Fulbright Scholar to the Russian Federation in 2004.
Nina
S. Roberts is an Associate Professor in the Dept of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism at San Francisco State University. Her research is
highly regarded in the areas of race/ethnicity, culture and visitation to U.S. national parks and public lands. She is also nationally known for her
work regarding urban youth as well as women and girls outdoors. Dr. Roberts is the Project Director of the SF State Pacific Leadership Institute developing
youth leaders through outdoor and adventure experiences. She is on the Advisory Board of GirlVentures in San Francisco, a Board member of the Yosemite
Institute, and Advisor to the National Park Service 2nd Century Commission. A former employee of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), she currently
supports the NPS and park partners as a social scientist by sharing her expertise in engaging culturally diverse communities in the Bay Area and
nationally. As part of the Indo-American Environmental Leadership
Program, she was a Fulbright scholar with the Ministry of Environment and Forests conducing research on environmental education in India.
Fred Kiesner is the
Conrad Hilton Chair of Entrepreneurship at Loyola Marymount
University, where he has been a professor since 1974. He was an
entrepreneur in the import-export business, and also ran a small country newspaper and a freelance writing and photography business. He began teaching
entrepreneurship in 1968. He was a Fulbright Scholar (teaching and research) to Ireland in 1988/89 and is currently hosting a visiting Fulbright scholar from
Poland.
Other
Parts of the Conference Program - Sunday Seminars, Tours & Fulbright Film Festival
We have a Film Festival that focuses on Sustainability (broadly
defined), with films covering topics such as farming in Montana, destruction of nuclear weapon sites, illegal immigration, poverty in Brazil and Africa, shaman
healers, and restoration of rivers. The festival will be on Friday, March 12, with a panel discussion at the Hilton and the film showing at a nearby
movie theater.
Sunday Seminars: These are longer
programs that provide continuing education and training to conference participants. The three Seminars at our 2010 Conference are (1)
Entrepreneurism, (2) Global Health and (3) Sustainable Agriculture. A
fourth alternative is a workshop on FAST Futures - what programs should the Fulbright Academy
carry out during its next five years to better serve the alumni community. For information about the Sunday Seminars, click here.
As at prior conferences, our annual conference incorporates visits to other sites,
such as the Golden Gate National Recreation Area/Crissy Field Center, the David Brower Center,
the San Francisco Cable Car Museum, the Marine Mammal Center, the PG&E Pacific Energy Center and the California Academy of Sciences.
If you can not participate, please support the program with an on-line donation. Your
$75 donation gives a free one-day registration to a young Fulbrighter, or $300 for all four days. Monsanto
Corporation is an Ambassador Level Sponsor of the conference, and many others are sponsors at lower levels: Aspera, Campbell Soup,
Creative Industry Law Group, Loyola Marymount University, Thunderbird School of Global Management, the Presidio Trust. For the full list of sponsors,
please visit the conference's home page.
About
FAST
FAST is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that serves Fulbright scholars and alumni -
executives, educators, and researchers worldwide. Its monthly bulletin is sent directly to over 5,000 people. In 2009, FAST worked on contracts funded by the
US-Egypt Science & Technology Fund and the US National Science Foundation, and FAST received major support from Monsanto, Seavus, Google, the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, and Saints Cyril & Methodius University.
FAST members and sponsors include individuals and institutions
such as universities, corporations, government agencies and foundations. Membership is open to institutions that support the FAST mission and to individual
Fulbright scholars and alumni, hosts of scholars and friends of the Fulbright program. Because FAST is not affiliated with or funded by the Fulbright Exchange
Program, the US Department of State or the US Fulbright Association, partnerships and
member contributions are critical to FAST's continued success. Please learn more about the work of the Fulbright Academy by visiting our website: www.FulbrightAcademy.org
Most FAST activities are initiated by FAST members. If you would like to
help lead a forum, conference or research initiative in partnership with FAST, please contact Eric Howard, FAST's Executive Director. Expected program areas
for 2010 and 2011 include Sustainability, Global Health, Entrepreneurism, Counterfeiting, and Access to Digital Information. (Click
here for our calendar of upcoming activities)
If you have questions about institutional or individual membership, please call
FAST at 207-799-3098 or respond to this email.
Sincerely,
Eric Howard
Executive Director
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