Our People

Ged Davis
Advisor/innovator on energy, sustainability, climate change, and solving 21st century global problems; former managing director, World Economic Forum and head scenarist, Royal Dutch Shell
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Peter Gleick
International water authority, including impacts of climate change, sustainable use, human health, privatization, globalization, and international conflicts; co-founder and president, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security; author, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
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John Holdren
Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and presidential advisor; former professor, environmental policy, Harvard University and president and director of the Woods Hole Research Center; chair, executive committee, Pugwash conferences; author; MacArthur fellow
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Chris Luebkeman
Geologist, structural engineer and architect, specializing in sustainable and thoughtful design. Heads Global Foresight + Innovation initiative at Arup, a global design and engineering firm. Author, Drivers of Change 2009
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Irving Mintzer
Economist and environmentalist, specializing in global energy policy; international climate change negotiator; former editor, Global Change
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Isha Ray
Economist specializing in water resources/politics, technology, and sustainable development, with extensive NGO and developing country experience; assistant professor, U.C., Berkeley; co-editor, The Contested Commons
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Angela Wilkinson
Global scenarist; director of futures programme, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford; former leader, Shell International's global scenario team; director of major public-private scenario initiatives on sustainability, AIDS in Africa, and global finance; physicist
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