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Paul Gilman
is senior vice president and chief sustainability officer of Covanta
Energy. Previously, he served as director of the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced
Studies and as assistant administrator for the Office of Research and Develop-
ment in the US Environmental Protection Agency. He also worked in the Office
of Management and Budget, where he had oversight responsibilities for the US
Department of Energy (DOE) and all other science agencies. In DOE, he ad-
vised the secretary of energy on scientific and technical matters. From 1993 to
1998, Dr. Gilman was the executive director of the Commission on Life Sci-
ences and the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Re-
search Council. He has served on numerous National Research Council commit-
tees and is currently a member of the Committee on Human and Environmental
Exposure Science in the 21st Century. Dr. Gilman received his PhD in ecology
and evolutionary biology from Johns Hopkins University.
Daniel S. Greenbaum
is president and chief executive officer of the Health
Effects Institute (HEI), an independent research institute funded jointly by gov-
ernment and industry. In this role, he leads HEI's efforts to provide public and
private decision-makers with high-quality, impartial, relevant, and credible sci-
ence on the health effects of air pollution to inform air-quality decisions in the
developed and developing world. Mr. Greenbaum has focused HEI's efforts on
providing timely and critical research and reanalysis on particulate matter, air
toxics, diesel exhaust, and alternative technologies and fuels. Before joining
HEI, he served as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environ-
mental Protection. Mr. Greenbaum has chaired the US Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Blue Ribbon Panel on Oxygenates in Gasoline and EPA's Clean
Diesel Independent Review Panel, and he is a member of the board of directors
of the Environmental Law Institute. He has also served on several National Re-
search Council committees, most recently the Committee on Health, Environ-
mental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Con-
sumption and the Committee on Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction Benefits
from Decreasing Tropospheric Ozone Exposure. Mr. Greenbaum earned an MS
in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Steven P. Hamburg
is chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. He is
an ecosystem ecologist specializing in the impacts of disturbance on forest struc-
ture and function. He has served as an adviser to both corporations and nongov-
ernment organizations on ecologic and climate-change mitigation issues. Previ-
ously, he spent 16 years as a tenured member of the Brown University faculty
and was founding director of the Global Environment Program of the Watson
Institute for International Studies. Dr. Hamburg is the co-chair of the Royal So-
ciety's Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative and a member of the
US Department of Agriculture Advisory Committee on Research, Economics,
Extension and Education. He has been the recipient of several awards, including
recognition by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for contributing
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