Spotlight
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | 04:30 PM
Dan Esty, Gidon Bromberg, Tim Jarvis, Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Vincent Perez
Burke Auditorium (3rd Floor) Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St, New Haven
Panel Discussion with the Yale World Fellows Panel will be followed by a wine and cheese reception.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Yale World Fellows Program
*Please note the time has been changed from 5pm to the new time of 4:30pm*
Dan Esty
Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University with appointments in the Environment and Law Schools. He serves as Director of the Center for Business and the Environ-ment at Yale and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. He is the author or editor of nine books and a number of articles on the environment, and is also the co-author of a recent prize-winning book, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. Prior to taking up his current position at Yale, Professor Esty was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics and served in a variety of senior positions in the US En-vironmental Protection Agency.
Gidon Bromberg | Israel | 2007
As director of EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East since 1994, Gidon Bromberg is known for his innovative methods of regional cooperation in pursuit of environmental goals. He has systematically built a working network of Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, and other regional actors that achieves environmental outcomes while simultaneously advancing an agenda of peace. His cross-border community peace building program, "Good Water Neighbors," is used as a successful model for programs in conflict areas around the world. He has taken on some of the thorniest environmental issues in the Middle East, including shared fresh water usage, saving the Dead Sea, and solar energy development. Deeply committed to environmental diplomacy, Bromberg effectively engages the various governments of the region, the international donor community, UN agencies, and other international organizations to produce tangible environmental results and build peace among parties who are otherwise locked in seemingly intractable conflict.
Tim Jarvis | Australia | 2009
Associate Director, URS Corporation UK. Jarvis is an environmental scientist who advises developing countries on natural resource management, sustainability issues, contaminated land, and energy efficiency issues. Also a well-known explorer, he has undertaken treks to the North and South Poles and across some of Australia's largest deserts, using his expeditions to broaden understanding of the scale of environmental issues facing the globe. Jarvis made headlines in 2007 when he successfully retraced Sir Douglas Mawson's controversial 1912 expedition to Antarctica, using the same equipment and starvation rations as the original team. He subsequently authored an account of the expedition, Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica, and was featured in an award-winning international documentary film of the same name. He is committed to finding pragmatic solutions to global environmental sustainability issues, and volunteers his time with a number of charitable organizations devoted to the environment and child welfare.
Sascha Müller-Kraenner | Germany | 2005
As the Director for Europe and North America at the Henrich Böll Foundation, Sascha Müller-Kraenner de-velops strategies relating to international policy, activism, and civil society. Affiliated with Germany's Green Party, the Böll Foundation administers public education programs in approximately 50 countries worldwide through collaboration with an international network of political leaders, think-tanks, and NGOs. Müller-Kraenner founded and directed the Washington, D.C. office of the Böll Foundation, where he worked closely with both the Clinton and Bush administrations, and initiated critical dialogues among German and American leaders. Müller-Kraenner is also a co-founder and senior adviser to Ecologic, a non-profit center for international and European environmental policy located in Berlin. Müller-Kraenner con-tinues to work in the policy field, focusing on such key issues as environmental security in the wake of global change, the rise of crime and terrorism in failing states, and the proper role of the European Union in managing these problems.
Post-Fellowship: Müller-Kraenner left the Heinrich Böll Foundation and became a Senior Policy Advisor to The Nature Con-servancy, the biggest US environmental organization. He is working to establish its European Policy Office. Müller-Kraenner's work focuses mostly on climate change and biodiversity protection. He published a book on energy security entitled Energieaussenpolitik in 2007. Müller-Kraenner re-entered party politics and co-authored a new environmental policy manifesto for Germany's Green party. The manifesto passed the party congress with an 80% majority and was published by one of Germany's major daily papers.
Vincent S. Pérez | Philippines | 2005
Vincent Pérez is CEO of Alternergy Partners, a renewable power company in Asia, and chairman of Merritt Partners, an energy advisory firm focused on Asia. Previously, Pérez was the youngest-ever Philippine Energy Minister, from 2001 to 2005. He served briefly in early 2001 as Trade Undersecretary for Industry. Prior to 2001, Pérez acquired 17 years experience in the financial markets, first in Latin American debt restructuring at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, and later in debt trading and capital markets in emerging countries at Lazard in London, New York and Singapore. He became the first Asian General Partner at the investment bank Lazard Frères in New York as head of its Emerging Markets Group, and became Managing Director of Lazard Asia in Singapore in 1995. In 1997 Pérez founded Next Century Partners, a private equity firm based in Singapore. In 2000 he founded Asian Conservation Company which acquired El Nido Resorts in Palawan. He is chairman of WWF-Philippines, is on the advisory board of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, and is an independent director of several listed companies in Australia, Philippines and Singapore.