Speakers

Keynote Address

Charles C. Mann
Author
Charles C. Mann's most recent book, 1491, won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Keck Award for the best book of the year. A Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many newspapers and magazines here and abroad, including BioScience, The Boston Globe, Fortune, Geo (Germany), The New York Times (magazine, op-ed, book review), Panorama (Italy), Paris-Match (France), Quark (Japan), Smithsonian, Der Stern (Germany), Technology Review, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post (magazine, op-ed, book review). He has also written for CD-ROMs, HBO, and the television show Law and Order, and was the text editorial coordinator for the internationally best-selling photographic projects Material World (1994), Women in the Material World (1996), and Hungry Planet (2005). A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has received writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Margaret Sanger Foundation and the Lannan Foundation (a 2006 Literary Fellowship). He is now working on a companion volume to 1491; an early excerpt appeared in National Geographic in May 2007.

Plenary Speakers

Bob Bendick
Director, U.S. Government Relations
The Nature Conservancy

Charles Bronson
Commissioner
Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services

Sally Collins, Director
USDA, Office of Ecosystem Services & Markets
Washington, DC

Matthew Donegan
Co-President
Forest Capital Partners, LLC
111 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 3850
Portland, Or 97204

Samuel Ice
Vice President Primary Products
Rigesa, MeadWestvaco

Michael Jenkins
President and CEO
Forest Trends
1050 Potomac Steet, NW
Washington DC

Tom Tidwell
Chief, U.S. Forest Service

Homer C. Wu, Director
Graduate Institute of Environmental Education
National Taichung University