CSF Advisory Committee

Former Deputy Secretary for Climate Change and Energy of the California Natural Resources Agency, Sacramento, Califonia, USA

Anthony Brunello was Deputy Secretary for Climate Change and Energy of
the California Natural Resources Agency until 2011. He is now a private consultant on energy and climate matters. Anthony was responsible for
coordinating renewable energy and climate change efforts for his agency
which includes over 16,000 employees and a $6 billion dollar budget.
Anthony helped Governor Schwarzenegger start the Governors' Climate and
Forest Task Force in 2008. Prior to his current position, he has served
as a program coordinator for the U.S. Forest Service, Executive Director
for an international non-profit organization, a climate change economist
for the PA Consulting Group and a senior research fellow for the Pew
Center on Global Climate Change. He has a M.Sc. in resource economics
from University College London and a B.A. in economics and environmental
studies from U.C. Santa Barbara. Anthony lives in Sacramento with his
wife Belinda Morris and daughters Siela and Nadia.

World Bank Institute (retired), Kailua, Hawaii, USA

John Dixon was the lead Environmental Economist at the World Banks and is widely known for his work on applied environmental economics, especially the valuation of environmental resources. He has published numerous books on economic valuation and its applications to various ecosystems, as well as many articles on these and other themes. Before joining the World Bank in 1990, John was a researcher at the East-West Centre in Honolulu, and also worked with the Ford Foundation in Indonesia. His recent work has focused on the economics of parks and protected areas, especially marine parks and tourism. Recent professional work includes activities in East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. John holds undergraduate degrees in Chinese and Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard.

Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

Ricardo Godoy has been doing long-term ecological and socioeconomic research among lowland Amerindian populations in Central America and Bolivia using standard methods of data collection. His research has focused on the effect of market economies on various indicators of the quality of life and on the habitat of indigenous people. A former professor of Anthropology at Harvard and the University of Florida, Dr. Godoy now teaches at Brandeis University

Founder and Executive Director, Green Schools Initiative and Former Commissioner, World Commission on Dams, Berkeley, California, USA

Deborah Moore is the founder and executive director of the Green Schools Initiative, an effort improve the environmental health and ecological sustainability of schools. Deborah was appointed one of the twelve Commissioners to the World Commission on Dams, an independent body established by the World Bank and World Conservation Union/IUCN to investigate the environmental, social, and economic impacts of large dams worldwide and to recommend guidelines for the future. The WCD’s final report was launched by Nelson Mandela in London in November 2000 (www.dams.org).

For thirteen years, Deborah was a senior scientist with Environmental Defense, a US-based public interest group, where she worked since 1986 (www.environmentaldefense.org). As Co-Director of Environmental Defense’s International Program, she worked to safeguard the world’s unique ecological treasures – and the rights and cultural diversity of communities that depend on these resources – through re-directing investments towards sustainability and institutions like the World Bank. Deborah has helped to win protection for the Pantanal wetlands in South America, to defeat plans for misguided water development projects in South Asia, and to promote investments in sustainable, community-based water programs globally. In the western U.S., she worked with Native American communities to win Congressional approval for three separate Indian water rights settlements that set important precedents for river protection and recognition of Indian rights.

She has an MS in Energy and Resources from the University of California-Berkeley, and a BA in Physics from Reed College. Deborah is married to Adam Dawson, an attorney in San Francisco, and has a daughter, Mariah. Mariah says "My Mom protects water so people and fish can be healthy!"

Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota

Stephen Polasky received a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1986. He previously held faculty positions in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State University (1993-1999) and the Department of Economics at Boston College (1986-1993). Dr. Polasky was the senior staff economist for environment and resources for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers 1998-1999. He was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007.

His research interests include ecosystem services, natural capital, biodiversity conservation, endangered species policy, integrating ecological and economic analysis, renewable energy, environmental regulation, and common property resources. His papers have been published in Biological Conservation, Ecological Applications, Journal of Economics Perspectives, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, International Economic Review, Land Economics, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science and other journals. He has served as co-editor and associate editor for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, as associate editor for International Journal of Business and Economics, and is currently serving as an associate editor for Conservation Letters, Ecology and Society and Ecology Letters.