Doug Henton
Session: Green Innovation Index
Doug Henton has more than 30 years of experience in economic and community development at the national, regional, state, and local levels. Doug is nationally recognized for his work in bringing industry, government, education, research, and community leaders together around specific collaborative projects to improve regional competitiveness.
He was project manager for the start-up of the Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, an innovative, results-oriented regional economic development alliance. Doug directed the strategic planning process involving more than 1,200 corporate, community, and public-sector leaders. He was a senior advisor for the Silicon Valley 2010: A Regional Framework for Growing Together. He continues to serve as Joint Venture’s economist, and is the architect of Joint Venture’s annual Index of Silicon Valley.
Doug is a consultant to the California Economic Strategy Panel, California’s first state economic strategy process linked to industry clusters and regions. He was a consultant to Next 10 for the development of the Green Innovation Index. He helped launch collaborative regional efforts in Sacramento, and San Diego. He was consultant to the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Doug has also advised Chicago Metropolis 2020, the Potomac Conference and Arizona Partnership for a New Economy.
Doug founded Collaborative Economics in July 1993 after a decade as assistant director of SRI International’s Center for Economic Competitiveness. At SRI, Doug directed local strategy projects in diverse regions, including Austin, Texas. He led major state-level strategy development projects in Arizona, Florida, and California. Internationally, Doug directed major projects on the economic future of Hong Kong, the technopolis strategy in Japan, and regional development in China.
With colleagues Kim Walesh and John Melville, Doug has written a book, Grassroots Leaders for the New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities, published by Jossey-Bass in March 1997. Their second book Civic Revolutionaries: Igniting the Passion for Change in America’s Communities published by Jossey-Bass in October 2003.
Doug holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Yale University and a master of public policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Peter Liu
Session: Green & Sustainable Economy
Peter Liu is the initial founder and vice chairman of New Resource Bank, an innovative community bank in San Francisco that is setting a new standard in customer service while financing efficient and sustainable resources in its community. New Resource Bank is one of the fastest growing banks in California. Peter currently serves on the Clean Technology Investment Advisory Boards of the California Public Employees Retirement System and the California Teachers’ Retirement System, respectively the largest and the 3rd largest pension funds in the United States. He previously was an energy sector banker at Credit Suisse First Boston and the Chase Manhattan Bank, where he completed over $8 billion in energy project financings. He has also been an engineer for the Chevron Corporation and the California Air Resources Board. He is the co-founder and Vice-chair of the China-U.S. Energy Efficiency Alliance, which is a partnership between governments, businesses and non-profits that is helping China to address its energy constraint through increased efficiency. Peter holds degrees in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton.
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Richard Louv
Session: Treating Nature Deficit
Noted author and journalist Richard Louv discusses the physical and social health benefits that accrue when children, adults and communities reconnect with nature and the outdoors. Louv challenges an exclusively indoor education, contending that our children study forests thousands of miles away while ignoring their own neighborhoods, parents choose indoor vs. outdoor play for their kids, and people of all ages get heavier in body and soul. Louv contends that nature ignored damages us all, physically and mentally: “Forget nature,” he writes. “The real problem is human nature.”
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Maria Pallavicini
Session: New Directions for Health Care
Dr. Pallavicini is a Professor of Cell Biology and Founding Dean of the School of Natural Sciences at UC Merced. She is internationally recognized for her work in stem cell biology, particularly stem cells in leukemia (blood cancer) and breast cancer. Her research is based on application of state-of-technologies for single cell measurements, working closely with engineers and physicists to both develop and apply new measurement approaches to understand cell fate decisions. Dr. Pallavicini received a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in Pharmacology. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, she joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she worked for more than 12 years in the Biomedical Sciences Division. She was a professor at UCSF for 12 years in the School of Medicine before becoming the Founding Dean at UC Merced. At UC Merced she recruited the founding science faculty and led development of the initial academic programs. She is Past-President of the International Society of Analytical Cytology, ISAC and is a member of numerous advisory boards.
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Neal Peirce
Session: Sustainable Regions
Neal Peirce is a foremost writer, among American journalists, on metropolitan regions — their political and economic dynamics, their emerging national and global roles. With Curtis Johnson, he has co-authored the Peirce Reports (now called Citistates Reports) on compelling issues of metropolitan futures for leading media in more than 20 regions across the nation. Reports of recent years include Boston Unbound, released in May 2004, a report on the San Diego-Tijuana citistate area for San Diego Magazine, South Florida for the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Kansas City for the Kansas City Star, and South Texas for the San Antonio Express-News. A recent Citistates project, for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier, was published serially in September and October 2007.In 2004-2006, Peirce took a lead role in conceptualizing and launching the New England Futures Project, starting with a six-part monthly Peirce-Johnson series — printed by 27 newspapers — focused on how that that historic six-state region deals with its 21st century energy, transportation, growth, higher education, broadband and health challenges. The New England report was preceded by a special report — Boston Unbound – printed by the Boston Globe in 2003.In 1975, Peirce began — and continues today — the United States’ first national column focused on state and local government themes. Syndication is by the Washington Post Writers Group. His 10-book series on America’s states and regions culminated in The Book of America: Inside 50 States Today (W.W. Norton, 1983). His more recent books were Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World, Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Age, and Breakthroughs: Recreating The American City.Peirce was one of the founders and then a contributing editor of National Journal, and was active in the ’60s as political editor of Congressional Quarterly. He was a member of the National Civic League’s executive committee from the early 1970s to 1995 and was one of the founders and co-chair of the National Academy of Public Administration’s Alliance for Redesigning Government.Known widely as a lecturer on regional, urban, federal system and community development issues, Peirce has been a familiar figure before civic, business, academic and professional groups nationally. He has appeared on Meet the Press, the Today Show, National Public Radio and local media across the country.
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Jim Pelley
Session: Bringing it all together
A former stand-up comedian and contributing writer for the original Saturday Night Live Show, Jim Pelley has left 'em laughing for more than 20 years at over 1,600 top organizations in the U.S. and abroad, including Disney, Intel, Southwest Airlines, Mattel, and AT&T. He's brought his message of how to smarten up by lightening up to hundreds of thousands of people who are high-tech, low-tech, and no-tech-at-all. With his hilarious way of poking fun at the frustrations of everyday life, Jim demonstrates uproariously how to use humor to become more creative, more productive, and less stressed.
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Noel Perry
Session: Green Innovation Index
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