Dr. Eban Goodstein is Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College. He directs two national educational initiatives on global warming: C2C (Campus to Congress) and The National Climate Seminar. In recent years, he has coordinated climate education events at over 2500 colleges, universities, high schools and other institutions across the country. Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment and other books, including Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming and The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. Articles by Goodstein have appeared in among other outlets, including The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, The Economist, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Dr. David Korten is a lecturer and author, and co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, which was formed in 2008 to formulate and advance a new economy agenda. He has worked for more than thirty-five years in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions, and now works exclusively with public interest citizen-action groups. He is the author of numerous books, including Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth and When Corporations Rule the World. He is the cofounder and board chair of YES! Magazine, the founder and president of The People-Centered Development Forum, a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, an associate of the International Forum on Globalization, and a member of the Club of Rome.

Dr. Bobbi S. Low is Professor of Resource Ecology in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan. Her research centers on behavioral ecology and life history theory: how these were shaped by evolution, and how they in turn constrain optimal management. She links data collection, analysis, and theory. Her methodologies include dynamic modeling, optimization, agent-based modeling and game theory. Dr. Low's research crosses the biological and social sciences, both in topics and journals. Her biological and ecological research includes studies of toad skin secretions, the ecological tradeoffs of marsupialism, fish schooling, kangaroo foraging, the biology of sex differences, and the evolution of anisogamy. She is co-author of Methods and Models in Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology and Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability. Dr. Low is the former President of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.

Dr. Devon Payne-Sturges, DrPH is the Assistant Center Director for Human Health U.S Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental Research. She is responsible for conducting strategic research planning and directing NCER's approximately $20 million human health research program. She serves as primary NCER contact on human health research for interactions with the EPA Office of Research and Development's Human Health National Program Director, EPA Program Offices, Regions, ORD Centers/Laboratories on Program Reviews, Research Planning-Research Coordinating Teams, and Multi-Year Plans, including Research Strategy/Priority Setting. Her areas of research include use of exposure biomonitoring for policy analysis, risk assessment, environmental health indicator development, children's environmental health and environmental health of minority populations. Ms. Payne-Sturges was recently appointed to U.S. EPA's Risk Assessment Forum and is serving on the Cumulative Risk Assessment Tech Panel and as chapter lead for Agency's exposure assessment guidelines focusing on exposures of vulnerable and susceptible populations. She is also Co-Chair of Environmental Justice Technical Guidance workgroup on developing technical guidance on incorporating environmental justice concerns in Agency rule making activities. She is EPA's representative on the interagency Federal Collaboration on Health Disparities Research (FCHDR) executive committee. She possesses Master of Public Health and Doctor of Public Health degrees in environmental health sciences from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health. Prior to joining U.S. EPA, Ms. Payne-Sturges served as Assistant Commissioner for Environmental Health with the Baltimore City Health Department.

Dr. Kristen Sheeran is the director of Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3), a nationwide network of economists developing new arguments for environmental protection with a social justice focus. Her research is focused on the tension between equity and efficiency in public goods provision, the political economy of environmental policy, and climate change mitigation. She is author of Saving Kyoto (New Holland, 2009) with Graciela Chichilnisky, which was named Outstanding Academic Title of 2010 by the American Library Association. In addition to her popular writing about economics and the environment and publications for the E3 Network, she has published scholarly articles in Environmental and Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, Climatic Change, and Journal of Economic Issues. Prior to her role with E3 Network, she was an associate professor of economics at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in economics and political science from Drew University, and received her PhD in economics from American University.

Dr. Larry Walker is professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, and Director of the Biomass Conversion Laboratory. A native of Detroit, Larry holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University in agricultural engineering. During his 25 years at Cornell he has been involved in a number of biomass to energy and chemical projects, including an assessment of New York State biomass resources available for ethanol production, farm-scale methane production and co-generation, the application of nanotechnology to characterizing and studying important biocatalysts for industrial biotechnology, and optimization of solid-state fermentation for the production of biocontrol products. He serves as the Director of the Northeast Sun Grant Institute of Excellence, he is a member of the National Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) Executive committee, and Co-Editor in Chief for the journal Industrial Biotechnology.