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MICHAEL FISCHER
Michael Fischer directed the environment program for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
a $35 million annual grants program. The California governor and legislature previously appointed him Executive Director
of the California Coastal Conservancy, a state agency that works with the private and non-profit sectors to acquire, protect
and restore wetlands, watersheds, coastal lands and urban waterfronts. Mr. Fischer also directed the California Coastal Commission
for ten years, a regulatory agency that protects marine resources and shoreline public access, and assures needed port and
energy development. He was the California governor’s chief land use planner, and Executive Director of the national
Sierra Club for six years.
Mr. Fischer serves on the Advisory Council of the Calvert Social Investment Fund. He
is a founding director of EDGE: Alliance of Ethnic and Environmental Organizations, and a former member of the National Academy
of Sciences’ Committee on the Impact of Maritime Facility Development.
Mr. Fischer has a bachelor's degree
in political science, and earned his Master of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He was
an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
DAVID GARDINER
David Gardiner is President of David Gardiner & Associates, a firm that provides strategic assistance on sustainable
development and integration of environmental and economic concerns. Clients include the International Finance Corporation
and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
As a senior official in the Clinton Administration for eight years, Mr.
Gardiner was a leading strategist in the U.S. government’s integration of environmental and economic policy. He was
Executive Director of the White House Climate Change Task Force, the group President Clinton established to coordinate domestic
and international climate change policies, including the development of the Administration’s climate change budget and
tax credit proposals. He provided strategic guidance on United Nations treaty negotiations as a senior member of U.S. delegations.
Mr. Gardiner also served as Assistant Administrator for Policy at the Environmental Protection Agency, where he led
the agency’s climate change efforts and programs to “reinvent” EPA’s approaches to key economic sectors,
including transportation, agriculture, metal finishing, and real estate. He also directed the agency’s environmental
economics and information policy initiatives.
Prior to joining the Administration, Mr. Gardiner was Legislative
Director for the Sierra Club in Washington, DC, where he managed policy on climate change, clean air, land protection and
international issues.
Mr. Gardiner has a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Harvard College, and served on the Board
of Directors of the League of Conservation Voters.
HEALY HAMILTON
Dr. Hamilton is a biodiversity
research scientist at the California Academy of Sciences, and adjunct professor in the Department of Geography at San Francisco
State University. She is the founding director of a program that integrates biological and geospatial data for biodiversity
research, conservation and education at the Academy.
Dr. Hamilton received her masters degree from Yale University's
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
For both degrees she conducted extensive field research in Latin America. Her research uses comparative DNA sequence analysis
to reconstruct the Tree of Life for certain groups of organisms, including whales, dolphins and seahorses. Dr. Hamilton is
a former U.S. Fulbright Fellow and a Switzer Foundation Environmental Leadership Grantee.
LINDSAY JUDGE
Ms. Judge is a human rights attorney who specializes in the interface between human rights and economic development.
She is also expert in designing and implementing research and pilot projects. She advises the World Bank on priorities of
the poor how to enhance the poor’s participation in civil society. She provides strategic advice to Amnesty International’s
Business and Economic Relations Group, where she liaises with companies looking to improve their social impacts in developing
country operations. She has evaluated the social impacts of development projects for Oxfam and the UK Government Department
for International Development.
Ms. Judge completed her law degree with distinction from the Manchester University
School of Law (UK). She studied International Refugees and Human Rights Law at Oxford and International Political Economy
at the London School of Economics.
FRANCISCO SANCHEZ
Francisco “Frank” Sanchez served
as Special Assistant to the President of the United States in the Office of the Special Envoy for the Americas. In the White
House, he worked on Western Hemisphere economic integration and the promotion of democracy with the National Security Council,
the State Department and the U.S. Trade Representative. President Clinton later appointed him U.S. Assistant Secretary of
Transportation where he developed policy and oversaw international negotiations.
Mr. Sanchez is Managing Director
of Cambridge Negotiation Strategies (CNS), where he works with corporations and governments worldwide on negotiation strategy,
facilitation and training; alliance management; labor-management negotiations; and litigation settlement. He designed the
negotiation process and facilitated the negotiation among major telecommunications firms in Ecuador. He advised the president
of Ecuador on border dispute negotiations with Peru, and taught negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Mr. Sanchez
practiced corporate and administrative law in Miami, Florida, and was the first director of the state’s Caribbean Basin
Initiative Program in former Governor (now U.S. Senator) Bob Graham’s administration.
He received his undergraduate
and law degrees from Florida State University and holds a Master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University.
ANDREA SOCCORSO
Ms. Soccorso is Chief Strategist and Business Developer for the Netaid.org Foundation,
a joint venture between Cisco Systems and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). There she establishes public-private
partnerships, in alliance with Internet users, to fund projects that provide economic opportunities for people living in extreme
poverty worldwide. She previously led international operational reengineering efforts for Lucent Technologies. She also served
as Director of International Strategy at Lotus Management, where she developed business plans for emerging Internet and telecom
businesses. Ms. Soccorso holds a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University where she concentrated on political
and economic development.
MADELYN YUCHT
Ms. Yucht is President of Co-Operations, Inc. where she
consults to Fortune 500 companies, public agencies, and non-profits who want to establish alliances and joint ventures, and
gain maximum advantage from existing partnerships. Representative clients include Xerox, AETNA, General Foods, General Electric
and Honeywell.
Ms. Yucht also owned and was CEO of Careworks, Inc., a placement firm for health and child care
workers. She also founded Hartwood Systems, Inc., which specialized in increasing competitiveness through automation.
Ms. Yucht collaborated with Rosebeth Moss Kanter at the Harvard Business School on examining the impacts of globalization
on American businesses and international alliances. Ms. Yucht received her Master’s degree from Harvard, where she concentrated
on new initiatives and organizational change. She also holds a B.S. in international politics. A background in legislative
affairs and state government complements her corporate and international expertise.
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