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Board of Directors
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Rosina Bierbaum is Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, as well as a Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy. Dr. Bierbaum is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and serves on the National Academy of Science’s Board on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate. Dr. Bierbaum has published widely in professional journals and continues to lecture frequently on natural resources management and global change. Back to Top
Francois J. Castaing is former Vice President and Executive Vice President of Vehicle Engineering at Chrysler Corporation. Mr. Castaing currently serves on the board of Exide Technologies, Amerigon, Durakon Industries and NextEnergy. He also serves on the board of FIRST in New Hampshire, and is the chairman of the New Detroit Science Center and the chairman of UCCA (University Cultural Center Association) in Detroit (MI). He is Chairman Emeritus, French American Chamber of Commerce, Michigan Chapter. Additionally, Mr. Castaing is a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Fellow and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering. Back to Top
David L. Foster is President of IOMA, a professional education and training publisher in New York City, which he founded in 1982. He is also on the Boards of three other publishing companies: BNA, Pike & Fischer, Inc., and Kennedy Information. Mr. Foster is the Vice Chair of the Board of Bates College in Lewiston, ME, serving on its investment, budget, large gifts, and honorary degree committees. He’s also on the finance committee of Symphony Space, the arts organization that produces NPR’s Selected Shorts, among other programming. Back to Top
Richard L. Garwin is Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Dr. Garwin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a long-time member of Pugwash and has served on the Pugwash Council. Dr. Garwin is co-author of many books, including his most recent, Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age? (2001) (with Georges Charpak). He is a 2003 recipient of the National Medal of Science. Back to Top
Lawrence Grossman is former president of NBC News and PBS, an advertising agency owner, holder of the Frank Stanton First Amendment Chair at the Kennedy School of Government, and senior fellow and visiting scholar at Columbia University. He currently serves as co-chairman of the Digital Promise Project, as a trustee of Connecticut Public Broadcasting and various nonprofit health organizations. Mr. Grossman also serves as a television columnist for Columbia Journalism Review, and as a Dupont-Columbia Journalism Award juror. He is the author of The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age (1996). Back to Top
Eamon Michael Kelly, President Emeritus and Professor in the Payson Center for International Development & Technology Transfer at Tulane University. Dr. Kelly is the former Chairman of both the Association of American Universities and the Satellite Working Group. His current teaching and research interests focus on the role of science and technology, especially information technology in the developing world. Back to Top
Jane Dale Owen serves as the President of the Houston based nonprofit organization Citizens League for Environmental Action Now (CLEAN). Ms. Owen has been actively involved as a board member of the Blaffer Gallery, has served on the Executive Committee of the Moores School of Music, University of Houston and serves on the Houston Museum of Fine Arts Film Committee. Jane is also an avid supporter of the Houston SPCA and Planned Parenthood. She has dealt with numerous government agencies including the EPA. Harris County Pollution Control, local citizen groups, Sierra Club, Citizen Environmental Coalition, and business and industrial leaders. Back to Top
Kumar Patel is Professor of Physics and Astronomy, as well as Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. In addition, Dr. Patel is a founder of Pranalytica, a medical instrumentation and communications equipment company. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Laser Institute of America, and the Association for Advancement of Arts and Sciences. Back to Top
Judith Reppy is currently Professor of Science & Technology Studies and Associate Director of the Peace Studies Program at Cornell. Dr. Reppy has studied the economics of defense, security and peace for many years. She also researches and teaches Ethical, Legal & Social Issues with the Cornell Genomics Initiative, where her current research focus is on the role of standards in technology transfer between industrialized and developing countries. Back to Top