Featured Speakers:

Joan L. Bavaria
David Crockett
John Elkington
Chad Holliday
Peter M. Kimm
William McDonough
C.K. Prahalad
Jane Pratt

William McDonough is a designer, educator, writer, speaker, and one of the main shapers and proponents of the Next Industrial Revolution. He has received high praise for his work as a designer of ideas, principles, and things including fabrics, buildings, and communities. His thought and projects seek constant to balance economy, ecology, and social equity. Time magazine (2/22/99) recently concluded that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that--in demonstrable and practical ways--is changing the design of the world."

William McDonough is the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners and is recognized as one of the world's leading designers. In May 1996, he received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the nation's highest environmental award, from President Clinton in a ceremony at the White House, and in 1999 he has been named "Designer of the Year" by Interiors magazine, and one of the "Heroes for the Planet" by Time. Mr. McDonough is also Dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture in Charlottesville, where his practice is located, the founder and creative director of the institute for Sustainable Design, and founding principal of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry.

Acclaimed for his creative and effective building designs, he is also recognized as the leader in the field of ecologically intelligent architecture. William McDonough believes firmly in minimizing human impact on the environment by modeling design on the elegance and efficiency of natural systems. Through this approach, he has produced numerous environmentally friendly, economically responsible buildings for corporate, commercial, institutional and residential clients.. As Principal of William McDonough + Partners (www.mcdonough.com), he leads the conceptualization, design and execution of all the office's work.

Chad is the first DuPont chief executive with extensive experience outside the United States, having been based in Tokyo, Japan, for seven years as head of DuPont's Asia Pacific operations. In his 28-year DuPont career, Chad has touched virtually every DuPont business - from fibers and chemicals to agricultural products and biotechnology. His diverse assignments have spanned nearly all key functional areas: manufacturing, marketing, finance, planning and business management.

Chad grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, where he learned the value of hard work and getting along with people. He fully expected to take over his father's industrial equipment distribution business - until his senior year in college when his father sold the business. An industrial engineer by training, Chad parlayed a summer job at DuPont into a full-time position in 1970. Since then, he advanced through various manufacturing and supervisory assignments to product planning and marketing positions and, more recently, to executive responsibilities and his current role as CEO.

For more information about DuPont visit their website at www.dupont.com.

Jane Pratt is President and CEO of The Mountain Institute, (www.mountain.org/index.html) a non-profit dedicated to conserving the natural and cultural heritage of mountain regions and promoting sustainable development for mountain communities.

Her academic focus has been on large-scale systems behavior, pursued in a variety of disciplines. After receiving her Sc.B. in Zoology from University of Michigan in 1964, she went on to study in Yale University's Southeast Asian language program before completing her Ph.D. in Political Science at M.I.T in 1974.

Prior to joining The Mountain Institute in 1994, she served in various executive positions at the World Bank, including Chief, World Bank Office of Earth Summit (UNCED) Coordination; Chief, Environmental Operations and Stategy; and Advisor to the Senior Vice President for Environmentally Sustainable Development. In these positions, she was responsible for introducing national environmental action plans, and was instrumental in adoption of environmental assessment in the Bank. She has lived and worked in East and South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and Latin America. Prior to joining the Bank, Dr. Pratt was Group Leader for Environmental Assessment and Strategy at MITRE Corporation where she led environmental impact assessments of energy, drug eradication, and large-scale land use programs.

She has served on the Boards of the Millenium Institute, Foundation for International Training, International School of Washington, D.C., and University of Michigan's Corporate Environment Management Program, and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the U.N. Environmental Programme's Global 500 Award.

C.K. Prahalad, the Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Admininstration at the University of Michigan Business School, in Ann Arbor, specializes in corporate strategy and the role and value added of top management in large, diversified, multinational corporations. His books include Competing for the Future (1994), co-authored with Gary Hamel and printed in fourteen languages, was named the Best Selling Business Book of the Year in 1994; and Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision (1987), co-authored with Yves Doz. He is also the author of numerous award-winning articles. Harvard Business Review awarded McKinsey Prizes for: "The End of Corporate Imperialism", co-authored with Kenneth Lieberthal (1998); "The Core Competence of the Corporation", co-authored with Gary Hamel (1990), and "Strategic Intent", also co-authored with Gary Hamel (1989); "Weak Signals vs. Strong Paradigms", published in the Journal of Marketing Research (1995), was awarded the 1997 ANBAR Electronic Citation of Excellence; "The Dominant Logic: A New Linkage Between Diversity and Performance" (1986), co-authored with Richard Bettis, was selected the Best Article published in the Strategic Management Journal for the period 1980-88; "The Role of Core Competencies in the Corporation" (1993) received the 1994 Maurice Holland Award as the Best Paper published in Research Technology Management in 1993; "A Strategy for Growth: The Role of Core Competence in the Corporation" won the European Foundation for Management Award in 1993.

A prominent world-class figure, Professor Prahalad has consulted with the top management of many of the world's foremost companies, such as Ahlstrom, AT&T, Cargill, Citicorp, Eastman Chemical, Oracle, Philips, Quantum, Revlon, Steelcase, and Unilever. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of NCR Corporation.

President
The Chattanooga Institute

David Crockett serves as both President of the Chattanooga Institute and an elected City Councilman of the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.A.

He was named President of The Chattanooga Institute in 1997. The Chattanooga Institute was incubated by the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce and is principally funded through private and corporate interests. The mission of the Chattanooga Institute is to assist in building sustainable and competitive communities and companies through innovative Education, Design, Technology, Policy and Partnerships---locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

The Chattanooga Institute is actively involved in networking with cities, companies and universities nationally and internationally on themes of Sustainable Development.

The Institute is also collaborating on the creation of a model Eco-Industrial Park and The National Center for Sustainability in Chattanooga. The National Center is a development that includes a Trade Center/Hotel, Conference Center, Business/Technology Center, Design and Resource Center and an Interactive Pavilion that will model cities and companies of the future. These projects are key to the Chattanooga regional strategy to be an international conferencing, education, technology and manufacturing center for sustainable practices.

Mr. Crockett is a frequent national and international keynote speaker on the subject of economic development, sustainability and the environment. Participation in conferences in cities in over 30 states and numerous international venues led a magazine to refer to Chattanooga's strategy as an "Expeditionary Strategy" for Sustainability.

Prior to becoming President of The Chattanooga Institute, Mr. Crockett spent over 20 years with the IBM Corporation in marketing and headed his own consulting company. Mr. Crockett received his business degree from the University of Alabama and served as an officer in the U.S. Army.

Mr. Crockett is also in his third term as a City Councilman in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is chairman of the City Council's Economic Development, Environment and Planning Committees. He has been instrumental in formulating and implementing Chattanooga's strategy for using the environment and sustainability as central themes for integrating education, economic development, urban planning and quality of life initiatives.

Mr. Crockett has served on boards and advisory groups including; the President's Council on Sustainable Development, the National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology, the Climate Institute, the Zero Emissions Research Initiative The Aldo Leopold Society and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Challenger Center. In 1995, he was national co-chairman of the Private Enterprise Government Interface Committee for Environmental Technologies and, at the request of Vice President Gore, spoke on Sustainable Economic Development opportunities at President Clinton's 1995 Economic Roundtable.

Chattanooga's innovative initiatives in urban renewal, affordable home ownership programs, environment, a zero-emission battery powered bus fleet and city wide public visioning have earned Chattanooga numerous national and international awards.

Chattanooga was the site of the Southeast Regional Meeting of the president's Council on Sustainability in 1995. In 1996, the city received the President's Award for Sustainable Development. Chattanooga was the first North American City to be named as a "Best Practices" City by the United Nations Summit of Cities held in Istanbul in 1996 (HABITAT II) and was honored as one of the "Twelve Best Practices" in the world at that conference. Chattanooga also received the Tokyo Award for Improving the Human Living Environment from the governor of Tokyo at that conference.

As a result of these initiatives, awards and an aggressive marketing campaign Chattanooga has received perhaps more national and international newspaper, magazine, and television documentary coverage than any American city on the subject of urban renewal and Sustainable Development including recent cover stories in U.S. News and World Report and Parade Magazine.

National and international delegations of business, government and community leaders are visiting the city in unprecedented numbers to exchange ideas for developing sustainable practices.

A co-founder of SustainAbility in 1987, John Elkington is one of Europe's leading authorities on sustainable development and on environmental strategies for business. In 1989, he was elected to the UN Global 500 Roll of Honour for his 'outstanding environmental achievements'. Since 1974, he has undertaken consultancy work for a wide range of national and international government and non-governmental agencies, including IIED, OECD, SIDA, UNDP, UNEP, USAID, WRI and WWF. He has worked for corporate clients such as ABN-AMRO, Anglian Water, ASG, Astra, BAA, BP, BP Chemicals, British Airways, British Airways Holidays, British Telecom, Dow Europe, Glaxo, ICI Group and ICI Polyurethanes, IBM, Manweb, Monsanto, Neste, Norsk Hydro, Novo Nordisk, Procter & Gamble, SCA Graphic Paper, Shell (Chemicals/UK/International), Sydney Water, Tioxide, Unilever, Volvo Car Corporation and Welsh Water.

John has spoken at several hundred conferences and other events throughout the world, notably the 20th Anniversary OECD Environment Committee Conference (Paris), Globe '90 (Vancouver, 1991), the Second World Industry Conference on Environmental Management (WICEM 2, Rotterdam, 1993), the 1993 Greening of Industry Conference (Cambridge, MA), the Second Southern African Industry Conference on Environmental Management (SAICEM 2, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 1994), the UN Global 500 Corporate Environmental Excellence Conference (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1995), the first and second Greenpeace Business Conferences (London, 1996, 1997), Globe '98 (Vancouver 1998) and the Rabobank 100th anniversary conference (Zeist, 1998).

John is Chairman of The Environment Foundation; member of the Board Environment Committee at Anglian Water; member of the European Union Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development; member of the Storebrand Environmental Advisory Board; member of the Advisory Council of CERES; member, Steering Committee, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI); member of the Advisory Committee of Business in the Environment (BiE); an Honorary Fellow of the University of Dundee's Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR); member of the New Renaissance Group; and a member of the Councils of the Institute for Social and Ethical Accountability (ISEA), the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) and the Institute of Environmental Managers (IEM).

John Elkington is the author or co-author of over 30 books and published reports, including the No.1 best-selling Green Consumer Guide. His book Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business (Capstone Publishing, 1997) was a finalist in the 'Global Business Book of the Year Award, organised by the Financial Times and Booz-Allen Hamilton. His fourteenth book, and his seventh with Julia Hailes, appeared in July 1998. This is Manual 2000: Life Choices for the Future You Want (Hodder & Stoughton, 1998).

His latest published reports, for UNEP and co-authored, are The 1997 Benchmark Survey, published in November 1997, The CEO Agenda: Can Business Leaders Satisfy the Triple Bottom Line?, published in April 1998, The Non-Reporting Report, published late in 1998, and The Social Reporting Report (January 1998). He has written hundreds of articles for newspapers, magazines and journals, and was Editor of Biotechnology Bulletin from 1982 to 1995, producing over 170 issues. He currently contributes regular columns to The Guardian and Tomorrow magazine.

From 1983-88, John ran an environmental consultancy, subsequently merged into SustainAbility. He was a co-founder of Environmental Data Services Ltd (ENDS) in 1978, was founder-Editor of the highly respected ENDS Report, and Managing Director of ENDS 1981-1983. Prior to that he worked as Senior Planner and Associate at Transport & Environment Studies (TEST: 1974-1978).

Co-Chair
CERES (Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies)

Joan Bavaria has served as Founding President and CEO of Trillium Asset Management Corporation (formerly Franklin Research & Development Corporation) since its incorporation in 1982. An employee-owned investment advisor with thirty two employees and approximately $625 million under management, Trillium services clients with a concern for the social and environmental impacts of their investments. The company has published research on social issues and investments since 1982, works with clients and companies on their social and environmental management issues, contributes significant resources to social activism and community work, and donates 5% of its before-tax profits to charitable causes.

Ms. Bavaria has also served as founding Co-Chair of CERES since 1989, when the Coalition released the ten principles for environmental management now known as the CERES Principles. With CERES, Joan works with companies who have endorsed the Principles or who are interested in CERES around environmental reporting, community outreach and various environmental justice issues. The list of CERES endorsing companies includes local Polaroid, Timberland, and Ben & Jerry's; but also General Motors, BankAmerica, IT&T Industries, and Sun Company, the first Fortune 500 firm.

In 1981, Joan co-founded the Social Investment Forum, an organization of research, advisory, banking and community loan fund organizations engaged in socially responsible investing. She served as President of the Forum for four years and on the Board for eight years.

Ms. Bavaria is currently a Board member and Secretary of Green Seal and Board member and Vice President of LightHawk, pilots for the environment. Joan has served as Chair of the National Advisory Committee for Policy & Technology's subcommittee, Community Based Environmental Policy, which advises the EPA. She is on the Advisory Board of the Greening of Industry Network and also served on the Boards of Directors of The Council on Economic Priorities for twelve years and the Industrial Cooperative Association Loan Fund for ten. For the past 15 years, Ms. Bavaria has been widely published and has done extensive public speaking and media work. She served as an Investment Officer of the Bank of Boston from 1967 to 1975. Her college education included Massachusetts College of Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Chartered Financial Analyst program. She has two grown sons, both of Marblehead.

Peter M. Kimm is the Executive Director of the United States-Asia Environmental Partnership, an interagency program led by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Before his appointment to his current position, Kimm served for four years as the senior career official in the USAID Environment Center where he supervised the operations of offices responsible for natural resources, energy, and urban programs. For more than 20 years, Kimm was Director of Urban Programs for USAID, specializing in urban policy and finance, the urban environment, and local government.

Kimm's Asia experience began with U.S. Army service in the Korean War in 1952 and 1953, where he led a combat construction unit. He then returned to Korea in 1972 to establish a USAID Regional Urban Development Office (RUDO) which implemented urban activities in the region, including a large housing program. Similar RUDOs were later set up in Thailand, Indonesia, and India. Kimm has been heavily involved in urban environmental activities in Asia for the past 25 years.

As the top career U.S. government official dealing with urbanization in the developing world, Kimm has received many awards and substantial recognition. In 1996 at the United Nations in New York City, he received the highest honor awarded by the United Nations Center for Human Settlements for his contribution to resolving the housing and urbanization needs of the world's poor. Other awards include decorations from the governments of Korea, Ecuador and Costa Rica, the Rank Award of Distinguished Executive in the U.S. Senior Executive Service, and designation as outstanding alumnus in the field of public service by his alma mater.

Before joining USAID, Kimm worked for the private sector in housing and construction in New York City and Latin America. He is a licensed professional engineer and a graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.