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As the food and beverage industry reporter for the New York Times, Andrew Martin has reported on a broad range of subjects, from water scarcity in the Middle East to the carbon footprint of orange juice to fluctuations in the price of milk.

Prior to being hired by the Times in 2006, Mr. Martin worked at the Chicago Tribune for 14 years where he covered agriculture and food policy in the Washington bureau and City Hall politics in Chicago.

He was part of a team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 2001 for a series on the reasons for gridlock at O'Hare International Airport. In 2002-2003, he was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. Mr. Martin, a graduate of Miami Universiy, is married with three boys and lives in New Jersey.

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Jon Padgham is Program Director for climate change vulnerability and adaptation at the Global Change System for Analysis, Research, and Training (START), located in Washington, DC. Jon directs education and capacity building programs that promote and enable research and policy applications of science, related to climate change in Africa and Asia (www.start.org).

He has also held climate change-related positions at the World Bank and the US Agency for International Development. At the World Bank, he authored a report on climate change adaptation for the agricultural sector, and at USAID he designed and managed adaptation projects, helped to develop an adaptation guidance manual, and participated in negotiations on climate change adaptation as part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Jon was also a lead author on the recent International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. Prior to working on climate change issues, Jon researched plant-parasitic nematodes of rice in South Asia, and has also done research on conservation tillage. He earned a PhD in soil science from Cornell University.

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Mark A. Shannon is the Director of a U.S. National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems (WaterCAMPWS), which is a multiple university and government laboratory center for advancing the science and engineering of materials and systems for revolutionary improvements in water purification for human use.

He is also the Director of the Micro-Nano-Mechanical Systems (MNMS) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a 2000 sq. ft class 10 and 100 cleanroom laboratory devoted to research and education in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS & NEMS), microscale fuel cells and gas sensors, micro-nanofluidic sensors for water and biological fluids.

He chairs the Instrument Systems Development Study Session for the National Institutes of Health. He is the James W. Bayne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UIUC, and received his B.S. (1989) M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He is an author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in top journals and conferences.

He received the NSF Career Award in 1997 to advance microfabrication technologies, the Xerox Award for Excellence in Research (2204), the Kritzer Scholar (2003-2006), the Willet Faculty Scholar (2004-2007), and received the BP Innovation in Education Award in 2006. Finally, he is a co-founder of Cbana Laboratories, Inc. a start-up company developing micro-nanofluidic sensors and micro-gas analyzers.

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Cutler Cleveland currently is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment and the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University. Dr. Cleveland is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy, winner of an American Library Association award and the Dictionary of Energy, and is the founding Editor-in- Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth, winner a best web site award from the Geoscience Information Society.

Dr. Cleveland is a member of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Energy Statistics, an advisory group to the Department of Energy, and a participant in the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum. He is the recipient of the Adelman- Frankel Award from the United States Association of Energy Economics for "unique and innovative contributions to the field of energy economics." Dr. Cleveland is Chairman of the Environmental Information Coalition, the governing body of the Earth Portal. He has won publication awards from the International Association of Energy Economics, the American Library Association, and the National Wildlife Federation. He has won teaching awards from the University of Illinois and the Honor's Program in the College of Arts and Sciences of Boston University.

Dr. Cleveland has been a consultant to numerous private and public organizations, including the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, Charles River Associates, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Cleveland holds a B.S. in Ecology from Cornell University, a M.S. in Marine Science from Louisiana State University, and a Ph. D. in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

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William C. Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Trained as an ecologist, his research focuses on the interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs, with a special emphasis on the role of science and technology in shaping those interactions. Clark is co-author of Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management (Wiley, 1978) and Redesigning Rural Development (Hopkins, 1982); editor of the Carbon Dioxide Review (Oxford, 1982); and coeditor of Sustainable Development of the Biosphere (Cambridge, 1986), The Earth as Transformed by Human Action (Cambridge, 1990), Learning To Manage Global Environmental Risks (MIT, 2001), and Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence (MIT, 2006). He serves on the editorial boards of the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences, and Annual Review of Environment and Natural Resources. Clark is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, where he serves on the Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and co-chaired the study Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability (National Research Council, 1999). At Harvard, he co-directs the Sustainability Science Program at the University's Center for International Development. Clark is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize, the Humboldt Prize, and the Kennedy School's Carballo Award for excellence in teaching.