The Honorable Samuel Bodman
Secretary of Energy, United States of America

Samuel Wright Bodman was sworn in as the 11th Secretary of Energy on February 1, 2005 after the United States Senate unanimously confirmed him on January 31, 2005. He leads the Department of Energy with a budget in excess of $23 billion and over 100,000 federal and contractor employees.

Previously, Secretary Bodman served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury beginning in February 2004. He also served the Bush Administration as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce beginning in 2001. A financier and executive by trade, with three decades of experience in the private sector, Secretary Bodman was well suited to manage the day-to-day operations of both of these cabinet agencies.

Born in 1938 in Chicago, he graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Cornell University. In 1965, he completed his ScD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the next six years he served as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and began his work in the financial sector as Technical Director of the American Research and Development Corporation, a pioneer venture capital firm. He and his colleagues provided financial and managerial support to scores of new business enterprises located throughout the United States.

From there, Secretary Bodman went to Fidelity Venture Associates, a division of the Fidelity Investments. In 1983 he was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Fidelity Investments and a Director of the Fidelity Group of Mutual Funds. In 1987, he joined Cabot Corporation, a Boston-based Fortune 300 company with global business activities in specialty chemicals and materials, where he served as Chairman, CEO, and a Director. Over the years, he has been a Director of many other publicly owned corporations.

Secretary Bodman has also been active in public service. He is a former Director of M.I.T.'s School of Engineering Practice and a former member of the M.I.T. Commission on Education. He also served as a member of the Executive and Investment Committees at M.I.T., a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a Trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the New England Aquarium.

Secretary Bodman is married to M. Diane Bodman. He has three children, two stepchildren, and eight grandchildren.
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K.R. (Kaj) den Daas
Chairman Philips Lighting North America &
CEO BU Lamps North America
Executive VP of Philips Lighting B.V.

Philips is the world’s largest lighting producer, manufacturer and marketer of products for industrial, commercial and consumer use.  With the U.S. headquarters in Somerset, NJ, Philips Lighting Company sells more than 2500 lighting products into the retail, industrial/commercial, consumer and OEM markets.  Philips Lighting employs almost 10,000 people in manufacturing, sales and distribution facilities throughout North America.

• Member PLG (Philips Leadership Group – top 100 of Royal Philips Electronics)
• Member Sustainability Board Royal Philips Electronics
• Chairman of the Board of Directors – EMGO N.V. (a 50/50 JV between Osram and Philips)
• Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors – Philips & Yaming Co. (a 40/60 JV between Yaming and Philips)
• Member of the Global Philips Lighting Executive Committee
• Chair of a number of internal PD Lighting and BG Lamps Boards
• Director of Valmont Industries, Inc.; a NYSE listed world leader in irrigation equipment and structures for communications, utility, lighting and traffic. See www.valmont.com

Achievements

• Has successfully turned around loss-giving activities in Europe, thereby increasing the profitability of BG Lamps.
• Has led Philips Lighting’s entry in China, where we are now the # 1 lighting company with over 15% market share in Lamps.
• Co-founder and strong supporter of the Philips Lighting Business Excellence Program (BEST) which goal is to ensure that Philips Lighting is recognised as a world class performing company.
• Through his commitment to the Philips Lighting environmental EcoVision program, has helped the company realise its environmental goals. Under his leadership, the newly created Sustainability Policy Team is now extending this to social and economic matters.
• Is actively involved in attracting and retaining talent for Philips Lighting through his participation in Development Centres for Potentials and his involvement with the Black Belt program.

Education

• Doctoral degree in Business Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• Advanced Management Programme, INSEAD Fontainebleau, France

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Jeff M. Fettig
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Whirlpool Corporation

Jeff M. Fettig became Whirlpool Corporation's chairman and chief executive officer, effective January 2006. Previously, he was elected to the position of chairman, president and chief executive officer in July 2004. He served as president and chief operating officer, and was elected to the Whirlpool board of directors, from June 1999. 
Fettig joined Whirlpool in 1981 as an operations associate. He held a number of managerial positions in operations, sales, planning and product development before being promoted to vice president, marketing, KitchenAid Appliance Group in July 1989. In October 1990, he was named vice president, marketing, for the Philips Whirlpool Appliance Group of Whirlpool Europe B.V., the company's European subsidiary, and was named vice president, group marketing and sales, North American Appliance Group, in October 1992. In 1994 he was named an executive vice president of Whirlpool and president, Whirlpool Europe and Asia.
A native of Tipton, Ind., Fettig holds a bachelor's degree in finance and a master's of business administration degree from Indiana University.
Whirlpool Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, with annual sales of more than $18 billion, more than 73,000 employees, and more than 70 manufacturing and technology research centers around the world. The company markets Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Amana, Brastemp, Bauknecht and other major brand names to consumers in nearly every country around the world.
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Robert Foster
Mayor, City of Long Beach

Bob Foster is a widely-respected business leader, community activist and devoted family man who has lived in Long Beach for many years. Bob and his wife Nancy have been married for 37 years and have two grown sons and three grandchildren.

Bob has worked at Southern California Edison since 1984, first heading a local office and eventually becoming president of the company in 2002. Under Bob's leadership, Edison developed the largest renewable, clean energy programs (solar, geothermal, biomass and wind) in the country.

Before his work with Southern California Edison, Bob worked for the California State Senate and the California Energy Commission where he helped develop legislation that established statewide energy efficiency standards. A graduate of San Jose State University, Bob has an undergraduate degree in Public Administration and PhD level coursework in political theory. Always an active supporter of kid's sports, Bob coached his son's Little League teams for 10 years taking one of the teams to the Little League World Series in 1983.

Bob has worked hard to support many local community groups like the Public Corporation for the Arts and International City Theatre. Bob served as a trustee of the California State University System. He also is a member of the Long Beach Public Library Foundation and Friends of the Long Beach Library, and is active on the board of the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific and the Advisory Board of Long Beach Memorial Miller Children's Hospital.

Tanja Gönner
Environmental Minister, Federal State of Baden-Württemberg

The 38-year-old Environment Minister Tanja Gönner comes from Sigmaringen in the Hohenzollern region.  After training with the higher judicial service to become a qualified judicial officer, she began studying jurisprudence at the University of Tübingen in 1993. Qualified as a lawyer, she worked in a law office in Bad Saulgau as partner beginning in 1999.  During this period she was also deputy national chairwoman of the Junge Union Germany (Youth Organization of the German Conservative Party).

In 2002, she was eleceted a member of the Bundestag in her constituency in Sigmaringen-Zollernalb.  As a member of the Committee for the Environment, Conservation and Reactor Safety, her work concentrated on environmental policy. As committee referee she was responsible in particular for matters of environmental and waste law.  In addition, she was a member of the Sustainability Advisory Board of the Bundestag, of the Federalism Commission, and of the Working Party “Reduction of Bureaucracy”.

In the Summer of 2004, she was appointed Social Services Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg.  Since the cabinet reshuffle in April 2005, she now heads the State Ministry of the Environment.  In addition, she is a longstanding member of the CDU (German Conservative Party) National Executive Board and of the National Committee for the Environment of the CDU Germany.

Minister Gönner stands for the expansion of renewable energies in Baden-Württemberg (focusing on waterpower, biomass, and geothermics).  Her objective is to double the share of renewable energies by the year 2010 to 11.5 percent of electricity production and 4.8 percent of primary energy consumption.  During her term of office the appropriations for climate protection have been appreciably enlarged. With the key support program “Climate Protection Plus”, as a nationwide first the grants for measures to improve energy efficiency in buildings are computed specifically according to the sum of the CO2 which they save.  Ms. Gönner has publicized innovative methods of boosting energy efficiency (founding of regional energy agencies, energy efficiency round tables for regional business) as models for other German states and has done much to shape CO2 emission trading at the national level with proposals for her own.  Her latest initiative, a bill which would make the use of renewable energies in residential buildings (20 percent in new buildings, 10 percent in existing buildings) obligatory, has gained nationwide attention for her work.
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James P. Leape
Director General, World Wildlife Fund International

Leape, a 49-year-old American, has worked in nature conservation for more than 25 years. He began his career as an environmental lawyer, working on environmental protection cases in the United States, advising the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and co-authoring a leading American text on environmental law.

Leape joined WWF-US in 1989 and for ten years directed its international conservation programmes, serving as Executive Vice-President. In that role, he helped shape the global strategy of the WWF network and represented WWF in numerous international fora. Since 2001, he has directed the conservation and science initiatives of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic associations in the United States.
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Robert A. Malone
Chairman and President, BP America, Inc.

Robert (Bob) Malone is BP's chief representative in the United States. He is based in Houston, Texas where BP business units are involved in oil and natural gas exploration and production, refining, chemicals, supply and trading, pipeline operations, shipping and alternative energy. He is also a member of the BP executive management team.

Bob Malone holds a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a Master of Science in Management.

Bob Malone started his career in 1974 as a junior metallurgical engineer at Kennecott Copper Corporation in Ely, Nevada. Over the next 4 years, he had various plant and environmental engineering roles which in 1977 lead to an operational leadership position as Director of Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) for the Nevada division. In 1979, Bob became the Manager of Safety and Security for the western mining division located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and then went on to become Assistant to the Chairman and President of Kennecott Corporation in 1980.

In 1981, Kennecott was acquired by Standard Oil of Ohio (SOHIO), and in 1987, British Petroleum acquired SOHIO, and Kennecott became part of BP Minerals America. During this period, Bob was the Director of HSE for both Kennecott and BP America.

From 1988 to 1989, Bob was a Sloan Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His next BP post was the Vice President of Operations at the Carborundum Company of Niagara Falls - a subsidiary of BP America, Inc. In 1993, he became President of BP Pipelines Alaska, and then in 1996, Mr. Malone was appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (APSC), operator of the Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline.

After four years of running APSC, Bob became Western Regional President for BP America until 2002 when he became Chief Executive of BP Shipping Limited responsible for BP's global shipping operations. He was appointed into his current role as Chairman and President of BP America Inc in mid 2006. He was also named Executive Vice President of BP plc and a member of the group chief executive committee.

Mr. Malone has served on the California Climate Action Registry Board of Directors, the Board of the National Petroleum Council, and was a member of the Board of Regents for the University of Alaska system. He is on the Board for the Alliance to Save Energy, the Executive Committee for the American Petroleum Institute and is a member of the Business Roundtable Organization.
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Jackalyne Pfannenstiel
Chair, California Energy Commission

Jackalyne Pfannenstiel was appointed to the California Energy Commission on April 20, 2004, by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. She was named Chairman in June 2006.

The five members of the Energy Commission are appointed by the Governor for staggered five-year terms and require Senate confirmation. By law, four of the five members of the Energy Commission are required to have professional training in specific areas - engineering or physical science, environmental protection, economics and law. One commissioner is appointed from the public-at-large. Commissioner Pfannenstiel fills the environmental protection position.

Ms. Pfannenstiel, of Piedmont, has been an energy policy and strategy advisor from 2001 to 2004. Previously, she was vice president for planning and strategy with PG&E Corporation. She joined PG&E in 1980 and held positions in the areas of rates, regulation, and planning. Her earlier work was with the California Public Utilities Commission where she served as a senior economist from 1978 until 1980. Before moving to California, Ms. Pfannenstiel was an economist with the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission.

Ms. Pfannenstiel holds a master degree in economics from the University of Hartford and an undergraduate degree, also in economics, from Clark University.

The Honorable Tim Pawlenty
Governor, State of Minnesota

Tim Pawlenty was first elected governor in 2002, with the state facing a $4.5 billion budget deficit—the largest in state history. Just months after Pawlenty took office, the legislature adopted his plan to eliminate the deficit without raising taxes. In 2005, Governor Pawlenty balanced the state budget again without raising taxes. At the end of 2006, it was announced that under Pawlenty’s leadership, Minnesota’s $4.5 billion deficit had been transformed into a $2.2 billion surplus.

Besides bringing Minnesota from historic budget crisis to financial security, Pawlenty fought for and oversaw passage of a dramatic overhaul and improvement of the state's education standards; an $800 million increase in K-12 education spending along with a nation-leading teacher performance pay program; health care reforms that led to a zero percent premium increase in the state insurance program; significant welfare reform; tort liability reform; a range of new government efficiency initiatives; the creation of a nation-leading prescription drug website; and a doubling of the state's ethanol standard to increase use of renewable fuels and reduce dependence on foreign oil.

Pawlenty grew up in South St. Paul, Minnesota. The only child in his family to graduate from college, he attended the University of Minnesota and practiced law in the private sector. His public service career includes serving as a criminal prosecutor, Eagan City Councilmember, and ten-year member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, including four years as House Majority Leader.

Pawlenty serves as Chair of the National Governors Association and on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, the Achieve Inc. Board of Directors, and the James B. Hunt Jr. Institute Board of Directors. He is Chair of the Midwestern Governors Association and is a former chair of the Governors Ethanol Coalition.

Pawlenty and his wife Mary have two daughters.

The Honorable Mark Pryor
United States Senator (D-AR)

On January 7, 2003, Mark Lunsford Pryor was sworn in as Arkansas's 33rd senator. As a candidate, he pledged to be a strong voice for the people of Arkansas - one who would always put their interests first. As a U.S. Senator, he works every day to fulfill that promise.

Since arriving in Washington, Pryor has worked with both Democrats and Republicans to put partisan differences aside and pass meaningful legislation for our nation. During the 109th Congress Pryor joined thirteen of his colleagues, 7 Democrats and 7 Republicans, and formed the "Gang of Fourteen." This bipartisan group worked to neutralize a political meltdown in the U.S. Senate. These efforts have resulted in building the types of relationships necessary to be an effective legislator in the Senate. He has also, through bipartisan cooperation, been able to secure crucial funding for Arkansas military installations and promote a variety of state interests including Little Rock Central High School and the historic Hot Springs Bath Houses.
Pryor has spent much of his time in office fighting for military personnel and their families. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 108th Congress, he promised our soldiers that while they were away protecting us, he would be in Washington protecting them. Keeping this promise in mind, Pryor introduced and successfully passed the Tax Relief for Americans in Combat Act, which allows soldiers collecting combat pay to also take full advantage of other tax provisions, such as the Child Tax Credit. In the 110th Congress, Pryor returns to the Armed Services Committee and is committed to improving the lives of our soldiers and their families.
In 2004, Congress also passed Senator Pryor's SACRIFICE Act which helps families receive more timely and reliable medical information from the Department of Defense when their loved ones are injured in combat. Additionally, the legislation calls for funding increases to help military medical units provide our soldiers with the best care possible when they are wounded on the battlefield.

Senator Pryor is one of the few Senators to serve on six committees. As a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee he is working to prepare Arkansas to meet the transportation, technology and communications challenges we will face in the 21st century. As part of this role, Pryor was selected to serve as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Product Safety and Insurance. This leadership position allows him to continue the work he started as Arkansas Attorney General - protecting consumers and businesses from the dishonest and corrupt.

Pryor continues to serve on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee where he works with the Department of Homeland Security to protect the nation from the threat of domestic terrorism. He also fights to ensure that local governments, especially in rural America, are given the training and resources they need to keep their communities safe.

As a member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, Senator Pryor proudly promotes the interests of those enterprises he calls "Arkansas' economic backbone." He has worked to bolster minority business ownership, increase investment in rural areas and ensure that those who live on Main Street share in the financial successes of Wall Street.
In addition, Pryor serves on the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Ethics Committee.

Pryor was first elected to public office in 1990 as a member of the Arkansas State House of Representatives. In 1998 he was elected Arkansas' Attorney General, making him the youngest chief law-enforcement officer in the nation. Pryor proved early on in his career that people matter more to him than politics. He worked with and listened to all interests to help make Arkansas a better place to live, work and raise a family. Pryor worked with Democrats and Republicans to toughen laws against drunk drivers, enact legislation to protect children on the Internet, prohibit unwanted telemarketing calls, and helped put in place the Morgan Nick Alert System, which helps to locate missing and exploited children.

Pryor was born in Fayetteville on January 10, 1963 and grew up in both Arkansas and the Washington D.C. area. He received a B.A. in History and his law degree from the University of Arkansas and worked in private legal practice for over ten years. He and his wife, Jill, have a son and a daughter, Adams and Porter.
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James E. Rogers
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Duke Energy

Jim Rogers is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy. He was named chairman in January 2007, following the separation of Duke Energy’s natural gas businesses into a new publicly traded company, Spectra Energy.

Rogers has more than 18 years of experience as a chief executive officer in the electric utility industry. He was named president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy following the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006. Before the merger, Rogers served as Cinergy’s chairman and chief executive officer for more than 11 years. Prior to the formation of Cinergy, he joined PSI Energy in 1988 as the company’s chairman, president and chief executive officer. He served as executive vice president of interstate pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group before joining PSI. Before joining the Enron Corp., Rogers was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.

Before joining that firm, Rogers was deputy general counsel for litigation and enforcement for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Previously, Rogers served as assistant to the chief trial counsel at FERC, as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky, and as assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he acted as intervener on behalf of state consumers in gas, electric and telephone rate cases. He was a reporter for the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader from 1967 to 1970.

In the course of his career, Rogers has served more than 40 cumulative years on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a director of Fifth Third Bancorp and Cigna Corporation. He has served as a director of Duke Realty Corporation, Cinergy Corporation, PSI Energy, Bankers Life Holding Corporation, Irkutskenergo AO (a Russian utility) and Indiana National Bank.

He is immediate past chairman and ex officio member of the Executive Committee of the Edison Electric Institute. He serves as a member of the board of directors and the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute, and is a board member of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. Rogers also serves on the boards of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Business Roundtable, National Coal Council, American Gas Association, National Petroleum Council, and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

Rogers is chairman of the Edison Foundation and serves as co-chair of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency and the Alliance to Save Energy. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Energy and Climate Change Working Group of the Clinton Global Initiative. He has testified 16 times on energy and environmental policies before congressional committees.
Rogers also serves on numerous civic boards and has published numerous articles on energy and environmental issues. He currently co-chairs an Arts & Science Council (ASC) initiative to enrich cultural resources in the Charlotte area.

Rogers attended Emory University and earned a bachelor of business administration and a juris doctorate degree from the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of the Kentucky Law Journal and Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society. He was named to the Hall of Fame at the Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics and the Hall of Fame of the College of Law, both of the University of Kentucky.  

Rogers has been honored with various awards and recognition:  the 1996 Energy Daily Corporate Leadership Award; the 1998 Hebrew Union College Cincinnati Associates Tribute Honoree; the 2004 National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) Distinguished Service Citation; the 2005 Keystone Center Leadership in Industry Award; the 2005 Ronald McDonald House Lifetime Achievement Award; and the 2006 Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee, Cincinnati Chapter. He also received an honorary doctor of law degree from Indiana State University and an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Queens University of Charlotte.
In 2007, Rogers was a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a prestigious honor given annually by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO). The medals recognize American citizens of diverse ethnic backgrounds for their outstanding contributions to their communities, their nation and the world. Each year, the names of the award recipients are listed in the Congressional Record.

The Birmingham, Ala., native was born in 1947. Rogers and his wife, Mary Anne, have two daughters, a son and seven grandchildren.

Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers. The company has nearly 37,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Midwest and the Carolinas, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky. In addition, Duke Energy has more than 4,000 megawatts of electric generation in Latin America, and is a joint-venture partner in a U.S. real estate company.

Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available on the Internet at: www.duke-energy.com.
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R.K. Stewart
President, American Institute of Architects

The AIA’s 83rd president, RK Stewart, joined Gensler’s San Francisco office in 1988, where he has managed award-winning architecture and historic renovation projects. In addition to his responsibilities as a principal and project director, he serves on the firm’s technical steering committee.

RK earned a bachelor of environmental design degree from the University of Kansas, followed by an MArch from the University of Michigan. He began his career teaching at the schools of architecture at Louisiana State University and Mississippi State University. After working for a small architecture firm in Wyoming, RK returned to his Midwestern roots, joining Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s Chicago office, executing projects in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, California, and Illinois. Agreeing to serve as director of computer operations, RK transferred to the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. He then moved to San Francisco, where he worked with Heller Manus Architects prior to joining Gensler.

First elected an Institute vice president in 2004, RK was re-elected for a second term in 2005. His first term focused on emerging professionals issues; in 2005, RK led the Advocacy Committee in its inaugural year. AIA service includes California regional director (2000–2003), AIA California Council President (2000), and vice president for education and practice (1997–1998). He was president of AIA San Francisco (1996) and a member of its board of directors (1993–1994). Active in, regulatory issues, RK has served on the national Codes and Standards Committee (2001–present), participated in AIA’s response to the Justice Department’s ADAAG rule-making process (2005), and was IDPCC cochair (2004).

RK has been a member of BOMA San Francisco and San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR). He was a member of the International Alliance for Interoperability-North America board of directors (1998–2001). Licensure is an area of interest and RK serves with the California Architects Board (CAB), including the Professional Qualifications

Timothy E. Wirth
President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund

Timothy Wirth is the President of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund. These organizations were founded in 1998 through a major financial commitment from R.E. Turner to support and strengthen the work of the United Nations.

Wirth began his political career as a White House Fellow under President Lyndon Johnson and was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education in the Nixon Administration. Wirth then returned to his home state and successfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District from 1975-1987. In the House, he concentrated his efforts in the areas of communications technology and budget policy. In 1986, Wirth was elected to the U.S. Senate where he focused on environmental issues, especially global climate change and population stabilization. Wirth chose not to run for re-election.

Following those two decades of elected politics, Wirth served in the U.S. Department of State as the first Undersecretary for Global Affairs from 1993 to 1997. In this position he coordinated U.S. foreign policy in the areas of refugees, population, environment, science, human rights and narcotics.

As President of the UN Foundation since its inception in early 1998, Wirth has organized and led the formulation of the Foundation’s mission and program priorities, which include the environment, women and population, children’s health and peace, security and human rights. The Foundation also engages in extensive public advocacy, resource mobilization, and institutional strengthening efforts on behalf of the UN.

Prior to entering politics, Wirth was in private business in Colorado. He is a graduate of Harvard College and holds a PhD from Stanford University. The recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, he also served as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. Wirth is married to Wren Wirth, the President of the Winslow Foundation; they have two grown children and three grandchildren.
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