BROOKINGS BLUM ROUNDTABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE BALANCE: HOW WILL THE WORLD’S POOR COPE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE? August 1-3, 2008 Participant List Co-Chairs Bruce Babbitt Richard C. Blum Chairman Chairman and President World Wildlife Fund Blum Capital Partners, LP Zoë Baird Lael Brainard President Vice President and Director Markle Foundation Global Economy and Development The Brookings Institution Manish Bapna Managing Director and Executive Vice Strobe Talbott President President World Resources Institute The Brookings Institution Maria Blair Honorary Co-Chairs Associate Vice President Walter Isaacson The Rockefeller Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer The Aspen Institute Clóvis Borges Executive Director Mary Robinson Wildlife Research and Environmental President Education Society (SPVS) Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative; David Brand 7th President of Ireland Managing Director New Forests Participants Madeleine K. Albright Ian Burton Principal Professor Emeritus The Albright Group LLC; University of Toronto; 64th Secretary of State of the United States Scientist Emeritus Meteorological Service of Canada 1 Sylvia Mathews Burwell Michael Jenkins President, Global Development Program President and Chief Executive Officer The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Forest Trends Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum Sheila C. Johnson Senior Scientist Chief Executive Officer World Health Organization Salamander Hospitality; President and Managing Partner Steven Chu WNBA’s Washington Mystics Director Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Daniel Kammen Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Ding Ding Energy Research Fellow, Energy Research Institute Founding Director, Renewable and National Development and Reform Appropriate Energy Laboratory Commission University of California, Berkeley Elliot Diringer Regis B. Kelly Director of International Strategies Director, California Institute for Pew Center on Global Climate Change Quantitative Biosciences University of California, San Francisco Kristie L. Ebi Independent Consultant Steven Kull ESS, LLC Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes Dianne Feinstein University of Maryland United States Senator, California Alice LeBlanc John J. Fialka Director, Office of Environment & Climate Editor American International Group, Inc. (AIG) ClimateWire Nancy Lindborg Ethelstan Angus Friday President Chairman Mercy Corps Alliance of Small Island States of the United Nations Douglas E. Lute Lieutenant General John C. Gannon Assistant to the President and Deputy Vice President for Global Analysis National Security Advisor for Iraq and BAE Information Technology Afghanistan National Security Council Al Gore Cofounder and Chairman Jane Holl Lute Generation Investment Management; Assistant Secretary-General, Peacekeeping 45th Vice President of the United States Operations United Nations Saleemul Huq Group Head, Climate Change Group International Institute for Environment and Development 2 Ricarda McFalls Nigel Purvis Managing Director, Development Focus President Area Climate Advisers Inc.; World Business Council for Sustainable Nonresident Scholar on Environment and Development Development The Brookings Institution Herman Mulder Independent Advisor; Iqbal Z. Quadir Former Senior Executive Vice President Founder and Director, Legatum Center for ABN AMRO Development and Entrepreneurship Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kumaran (Kumi) Naidoo Honorary President Atiq Rahman CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Executive Director Participation; Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies Co-chair Global Call to Action Against Poverty Albina Ruiz Executive Director Jane Nelson Ciudad Saludable Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative David Sandalow Harvard Kennedy School; Energy and Environment Scholar Nonresident Senior Fellow The Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution S. Shankar Sastry Namanga Ngongi Dean, College of Engineering President University of California, Berkeley Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Lindiwe Majele Sibanda Chief Executive Officer Anthony Nyong FANRPAN Senior Program Specialist International Development Research Centre Kirk R. Smith Professor of Global Environmental Health Raymond C. Offenheiser University of California, Berkeley President Oxfam America George Soros Chairman John Parker Soros Fund Management Globalization Editor The Economist Bruce Stokes International Economics Columnist Janos Pasztor National Journal Director, Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team Erica Stone United Nations President American Himalayan Foundation Mark Tercek President and Chief Executive Officer The Nature Conservancy 3 Xueman Wang Rapporteur Senior Counsel on Carbon Finance Vinca LaFleur World Bank Partner West Wing Writers Shiqiu Zhang Professor, College of Environmental Science and Engineering Peking University Special Guests Harriet (Hattie) Babbitt Vice Chair World Resources Institute Peggy Clark Managing Director Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative Raji Jagadeesan Chief of Staff, Global Economy and Development The Brookings Institution Maryanne McCormick Director of Development, Blum Center for Developing Economies University of California, Berkeley Adele Morris Fellow and Deputy Director, Climate and Energy Economics The Brookings Institution Marcos Athias Neto Senior Climate Change Advisor CARE USA Peter A. Reiling Executive Vice President The Aspen Institute Brooke Shearer Executive Director Turquoise Mountain Foundation (USA) Jane Wales President and Chief Executive Officer The World Affairs Council of Northern California 4 .