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Braden Allenby, PhD.

Braden R. Allenby is currently Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University, having moved from his previous position as the Environment, Health and Safety Vice President for AT&T in 2004. Dr. Allenby received his BA from Yale University in 1972, his J. D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1978, his Masters in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1979, his Masters in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University in the Spring of 1989, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers in 1992. He is currently President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology; Chair of the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration; and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. From 1995 to 1997, he was Director for Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and from 1991 to 1992 he was the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC. His areas of expertise include Design for Environment, industrial ecology, telework and netcentric organizations, and earth systems engineering and management.

Paul Anastas, PhD.

Paul Anastas is the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering at Yale University and Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry at Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The objective of the Center’s research is to achieve increased understanding of the molecular basis of sustainability. Immediately prior to his current appointment, Paul was Director of the Green Chemistry Institute at the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. Until June of 2004 he served as Assistant Director for Environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where his responsibilities included a wide range of environmental science issues including furthering international public-private cooperation in areas of Science for Sustainability such as Green Chemistry. Prior to coming to OSTP in October of 1999, Dr. Anastas served as the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 1989. During that period he was responsible for regulatory review of industrial chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act and the development of rules, policy and guidance. In 1991, he established the industry-government-university partnership Green Chemistry Program, which was expanded to include basic research, and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Prior to joining the U.S. EPA, he worked as an industrial consultant to the chemical industry in the development of analytical and synthetic chemical methodologies. Dr. Anastas received his M.A. and Ph.D in Organic Chemistry from Brandeis University and his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Christine Ervin

Christine Ervin, a nationally respected leader and spokesperson on market-based strategies for green buildings, clean energy and climate change is the President of Christine Ervin/Company, which focuses on sustainable market transformation. Her career as an environmental leader spans executive positions across national, state and nonprofit sectors. As the President and CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council, Ervin led its growth from 200 members and three staff in 1999 to become a highly influential coalition of 4,500 companies and organizations, 50 staff and 70 local chapters and affiliates. During her five-year tenure, the Council’s LEED® green building rating system became the defacto national standard for certified green buildings and professional accreditation. She played the lead role in launching the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, which most recently drew 7,500 attendees. Ervin was Assistant Secretary of Energy for the nation’s $1 billion portfolio of clean energy technologies. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, with its 700 staff, ten regional offices and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, focuses on private/public partnerships to develop and commercialize new technologies for transportation, buildings and major industries. Over her four-year tenure, she led initiatives to launch the EPA-DOE Energy Star partnership; a national center on sustainable communities; overhaul of the national appliance standards program, and several voluntary market-based programs including Million Solar Roofs and private sector financing initiatives for energy retrofits. In 1991, Ervin was appointed by Governor Barbara Roberts to direct the Oregon Department of Energy and to lead a state task force on livable communities. Ervin’s served as a project manager at the World Wildlife Fund/The Conservation Foundation. Key projects included an evaluation of eco-labeling programs, an initiative to develop common protocols for product life cycle assessments, and co-direction of an EPA project to develop consensus recommendations on eliminating waste at the source. Ervin received her graduate degrees in physical/water resources geography at Oregon State University and studied post-graduate economics at the Universities of Missouri and Maryland.

Sego Jackson

Sego Jackson currently works as a Principal Planner for Snohomish County Solid Waste Management Division in Washington State. He is a cofounder of the NW Product Stewardship Council and held one of 15 government positions in the National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative, representing the interests of local government. He has been instrumental in the development of numerous local, regional and national electronics programs and policies and his counsel is sought by a wide range of interested parties including activist NGOs, governments, haulers and recyclers, OEMs and U.S. EPA. Sego has received numerous awards for his work on product stewardship and electronics.