Peter Barnes
Peter Barnes is a successful entrepreneur who has started and run several socially responsible businesses. Most recently, he was a co-founder and president of Working Assets Long Distance. In 1995, he was named Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. He is also a former journalist who has written for Newsweek, The New Republic, The New York Times, and many other publications.

Ambassador Richard Benedick
Ambassador Richard Benedick is Senior Advisor to the Joint Global Change Research Institute, University of Maryland/Battelle International. Dr. Benedick is concurrently a Visiting Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, as well as President of the National Council for Science and the Environment. He was the chief U.S. negotiator for the Montreal Protocol for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. He was also Special Advisor to Secretaries-General of both the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) and the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994).

Michel Gelobter
Michel Gelobter was named Redefining Progress's Executive Director in July 2001 and has served on RP's Board of Directors since 1995. Dr. Gelobter presently serves on the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council where, until recently, he chaired the Subcommittee on Air and Water; the Clean Air Act Federal Advisory Committee; and the Board of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Prior to joining the staff of Redefining Progress, he was a professor in the Graduate Department of Public Administration at Rutgers University. During the same period, during he founded and ran Community/Academic Partnerships for the Environment, a regional research entity spanning New Jersey, New York, and Puerto Rico. Prior to that, Dr. Gelobter started the Environmental Policy Program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Lawrence Goulder
Lawrence H. Goulder is the Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Institute for International Studies and its Institute for Economic Policy Research; a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a University Fellow of Resources for the Future. At Stanford, Goulder teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental economics and policy, and organizes a weekly seminar in environmental and natural resource economics.

Thomas C. Heller
Thomas C. Heller has been a member of the Stanford University faculty since 1979. He is currently a Professor of International Legal Studies at Stanford Law School and was an Associate Dean from 1997-2000. He served as Director of the Overseas Studies Program from 1985-1992 and Deputy Director of the Institute for International Studies, 1989-1992 (affiliated professor since 1993). He has also been a Visiting Professor at both the European University Institute in 1992-1993 and 1996-1999, and Catholic University of Louvain in 1998. He was a Kellogg national fellow from 1981-1983, and a fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of California-Irvine in 1989.

Dale W. Jorgenson
Dale W. Jorgenson is a Frederic E. Abbey Professor of Economics and the Director of the Program on Technology and Economic Policy at Harvard University. He was Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard from 1994-1997. He has been a Professor of Economics since 1962 and has taught economics and statistics at various Universities, including Stanford, University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, and Hebrew University.

Raymond Kopp
Raymond Kopp is the Vice President for Programs at Resources for the Future and executive editor of Weathervane, RFF's Web site dedicated to climate policy. He is also a member of the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. He is an expert in techniques of assigning value to environmental and natural resources that do not have market prices, which he uses in cost-benefit analysis and to assess damage to natural resources. His interest in environmental policy began in the late 1970s, when he developed techniques to measure the effect of pollution control regulations on the economic efficiency of steam electric power generation. He then led the first examination of the cost of major U.S. environmental regulations in a full, general equilibrium, dynamic context, using an approach that is now widely accepted as the most state-of-the-art in cost-benefit analysis.

Linda Liebes
Linda Liebes is the former Executive Director and Director of Development of the Coyote Point Museum for Environmental Education in San Mateo, California. Before her 20 years of work at the museum, she was an environmental educator at the Bay Leaf Environmental Program, and the editor and publisher of Bay Leaf Publishing Company. She is active politically on the local and state level on environmental issues in Northern California.

Frank E. Loy
Frank E. Loy is the former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs. Mr. Loy also served the federal government three times, twice in the Department of State as Director of the State Department's Bureau of Refugee Programs, with the personal rank of Ambassador, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. He has served as co-chair -- with Robert Shapiro, CEO of Monsanto Corporation -- of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee to the U.S. Special Trade Representative, Ambassador Charlene Barshevsky, and was President of the German Marshall Fund. Mr Loy has also practiced law in Los Angeles and been active in numerous not-for-profit organizations.

Warwick McKibbin
Warwick McKibbin is a Professor of International Economics at the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies of the Australian National University and an Executive of Software Group USA/Australia. He serves on the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and is also a nonresident Senior Fellow of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institute. Mr. McKibbins areas of expertise are in Asia, balance of payments, China, computer modeling, developing countries, energy policy, environment policy, European Community, exchange rates, fiscal policy, international economics, Japan, macroeconomics, monetary policy, NAFTA, OECD, sustainable development, and trade policy.

Richard Morgenstern
Richard Morgenstern is a Senior Fellow in Resources for the Futures Quality of the Environment Division, a position he began in early 2000 after an academic record as an economist, as well as extensive experience in national and international policy. Most recently, he was Senior Economic Counselor to the Under Secretary for Global Affairs at the U. S. Department of State, where he served as a member of the U.S. negotiating team for the Kyoto Protocol. Previously, he served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where he acted as the Deputy Administrator (1993) and as the Assistant Administrator for Policy, Planning and Evaluation (1991-1993). He first joined EPA as Director of EPAs key analytic arm, the Office of Policy Analysis, in 1983 – a position held for more than a decade.

William OKeefe
William (Bill) O'Keefe is the President of Solutions Consulting, Inc. He was formerly the Senior Vice President of Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly's Environmental Management Practice and prior to that, the Executive Vice President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, responsible for all management operations for the 300-person/$70 million petroleum trade organization. He is the Chairman Emeritus of the Global Climate Coalition. Mr. O'Keefe is an expert in energy and environment policy, climate change, regulatory response, issue management, and crisis communications.

Martha Phillips
Martha Phillips is a Public Affairs Consultant. She was formerly the Executive Director of The Concord Coalition in Washington, D.C. Prior to her appointment in 1992, she was the Republican staff director for the Committee on the Budget in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1986 through 1992. She often participates in radio and television coverage of deficit, tax, and entitlement issues and can frequently be heard on National Public Radio and seen on C-SPAN, CNBC, and CNN programs.

John Edward Porter
John Edward Porter is currently a partner at the law firm of Hogan and Hartson in Washington, D.C. He was elected to the 96th Congress, by special election, January 22, 1980, and was reelected to each succeeding Congress through January 2001. He served on the Appropriations Committee and was a ranking member of the Labor, Health, and Human Services and Education Subcommittee. He has also been a member of the Illinois State Legislature, as well as a member or officer of many civic and philanthropic organizations.

Thomas C. Schelling
Thomas C. Schelling is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland. He was previously the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has held positions in the White House, Yale University, the RAND Corporation, and the Department of Economics and Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.