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In a 1970 speech entitled Give Earth a Chance, Senator Frank Church said: “This is one We have pinned wings upon ourselves before In this capacity, he is the United Nation’s senior of those times in our history when we have been given ample warning in advance. achieving a winged spirit. We have shrunk the representative in Washington, serving as a spokesman The evidence lies all about us, challenging us… to master our impulses and rescue our world into a close neighborhood of nations before nations learned to live as neighbors. the Executive Branch, the Congress, the media, civil imperiled habitat.” for the organization and working with officials in And we have poisoned, polluted, defiled and society and the business community to further the degraded our living space in the arrogant relationship between the UN and its largest contributing Member state. Thirty-nine years later, environmental ministers and officials will meet in December at a assumption that man could conquer nature— U.N. summit in Copenhagen to thrash out a global deal on climate change. As President Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Davis was the Director for Global and that the creature could somehow subdue its Functional Affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of Legislative Affairs. Mr. Obama said in a recent U.N. speech on climate: “The journey is long. The journey is hard. creator. Unless wisdom can at least overtake Davis oversaw the Department’s interaction with the Congress on global priorities man’s run-amuck willfulness, the scales will tilt We don’t have much time left to make that journey.” These issues will be the focus of the such as international organizations, human rights, refugees, counter-narcotics inexorably beyond the point of redemption.” conference on The Global Environment: From Kyoto to Copenhagen sponsored by the and international environmental affairs. He led a staff of ten foreign policy Frank Church Institute. Senator Frank Church professionals who served as liaisons with the Congress. Mr. Davis was also the Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall Department’s senior legislative adviser on relations with Congress regarding the and Senator Frank Church, 1968. AGENDA >>> Tuesday, October 20, 2009 “Give Earth a Chance” • April 15, 1970 SecretaryFrom 2001 of to State’s 2004, Office Mr. Davis of Reconstruction was the Deputy and Head Stabilization. of the Public Affairs Division 8:30 am Welcome and Introduction 11:45 am Break for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Bethine Church, Chair, the Frank Church Institute an international organization based in Paris, France. Mr. Davis served as the 12:00 pm Luncheon OECD’s main liaison with the private sector, organized labor, non-governmental The Hon. David Bieter, Mayor, City of Boise organizations, and parliamentarians. He was also instrumental in establishing Dr. Melissa Lavitt, Dean, the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs 12:45 pm Luncheon Address the now annual OECD Forum, one of the world’s largest high-level civil society/ 9:00 am Opening Address Introduction: Bethine Church, Chair, the Frank Church Institute government summits. From 1998-2001, Mr. Davis was the Head of Center for Introduction: The Hon. Byron Johnson, President, the Frank Church Institute, former William Meadows, President, The Wilderness Society; member of the boards of justice of the Idaho Supreme Court the League of Conservation Voters; Campaign for America’s Wilderness Coalition; OECD’s outreach in the United States and Canada. the National Wildlife Refuge Association, and the National Resources Council of Public Affairs of the OECD’s Washington Office, responsible for all aspects of the Michael Buck, Representative, the National Association of Foresters; trustee, the Aloha From 1990-1998, Mr. Davis served in the State Department’s Bureau of Legislative America; co-chair of the Partnership Project, a coalition of 21 of the nation’s largest Foundation environmental groups. Affairs and on the White House’s National Security Council (NSC) staff. At the State 9:45 am Panel Discussion – Climate Policy and the Congressional Role Department, Mr. Davis became expert on the annual budget and appropriations 2:00 pm Adjournment process, particularly with respect to funding for foreign assistance. At the NSC, he Moderator: Former Congressman Larry LaRocco (D-ID); President, LaRocco & worked closely with the President’s National Security Adviser and other senior Associates; served on the House Banking and Financial Services, and the Natural Former Congressmen McHugh and Miller meetings with students in the Congress to Resources Committees. Campus program created by the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress and sponsored by the Frank Church Institute. major foreign policy matters, such as funding for international affairs programs, Former Congressman Matthew McHugh (D-NY); Counselor to the President, The World tradeWhite and House sanctions and Administration issues, peacekeeping, officials, andcoordinating counter-narcotics legislative activities. strategy on Bank; served on the House Appropriations, Intelligence, Agriculture, and Interior 5:30 pm Reception – Banner Bank Building Committees; chaired the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus. Mr. Davis’ other government service includes tenure as a Presidential Management Former Congressman Dan Miller (R-FL); Professor, University of South Florida; former 7:30 pm Keynote Address Fellow at the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government; served on the House Welcome: Dr. Melissa Lavitt, Dean, the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs as assignments with the U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Department of Appropriations, Budget, and Government Reform committees. Defense.Intern in the Executive Office of the President’s Office of Administration, as well Introduction: The Hon. Byron Johnson, President, the Frank Church Institute Dr. John Gardner, Associate Vice President for Energy Research, Policy and Campus “The Political Climate for Climate Change Negotiations,” William Davis, Director, the Mr. Davis graduated cum laude from Duke University with a Bachelor’s degree Sustainability, Boise State University. United Nations Information Center in Political Science. He subsequently earned a Master’s Degree in Public Policy Dr. Don Reading, Vice President and Consulting Economist, Ben Johnson and Studies, also from Duke University. He is married with two children and resides in Associates; affiliate with the Climate Impact Group, the University of Washington. 9:00 pm Adjournment Bethesda, MD.