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Graciella Chichilnisky
Dr. Chichilnisky is the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair of Mathematics and Economics and is a lead author of the Nobel – Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  Dr. Chichilnisky is a tenured Professor of Statistics at Columbia University in New York and is Director of Columbia’s Center for Risk Management (CCRM).  Dr. Chichilnisky created Columbia’s Program on Information and Resources (PIR), which is focused on transforming the University’s teaching and research agenda to reflect the growing trend towards globalization and sustainable development. 

The author of thirteen books and some 200 scientific articles published in the preeminent academic journals covering economics, finance and mathematics, Professor Chichilnisky holds two Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in Mathematics and in Economics respectively.

 
     
     
 
Joel Hunter
During his tenure as Senior Pastor, Mr. Hunter has seen Northland, his church in Orlando, FL grow from 200 to a congregation of 12,000 since 1985.  A respected leader in the Evangelical community, Mr. Hunter serves on the board of the World Evangelical Alliance (420 million constituents) and the National Association of Evangelicals (30 million members).  He has been featured in national publications including Newsweek and The New York Times, as well as programs such as The Early Show, Nightline and Anderson Cooper 360

Author of several books, including Earth Wise:  A Biblical Response to Environmental Issues and A New Kind of Conservative, Dr. Hunter is also partnering with other groups to accomplish common goals. He is working with respected members of the scientific community to call attention to human-caused threats to the environment. Additionally, as a delegate to the US-Islamic World Forum held in Doha, he is seeking to build a dialog between Muslim and Christian communities. Grist magazine named him among the top 15 religious environmental leaders in the world, along with the Pope and the Dali Lama. 
 
     
     
 

Harvey Ruvin 
Mr. Ruvin is Miami-Dade County Clerk of the Courts and Vice Chairman, Executive Committee of ICLEI, the 15 member governing body of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI).  ICLEI is composed of 600 local governments from all over the planet, seeking pro-active ways to combat global environmental and sustainability concerns. He serves as President of USA - ICLEI. Inc. - the corporate entity operating the organization's efforts in America.  Mr. Ruvin’s national service achievements include terms as President of the National Association of Counties (NACo), as a member of the Sustainable Communities Task Force of President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, President Carter’s Council on Energy Efficiency, Presidents Ford and Carter’s Intergovernmental, Science, Engineering and Technology Advisory Panel to the Office of the Science Advisor to the President, served three years on the Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations and chaired its Research Committee under Presidents Reagan and Bush.

Mr. Ruvin is a graduate Industrial Engineer (University of Florida 1959) and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami Law School.

  
     
     
 

Joe Holland
Dr. Holland is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at St. Thomas University. A philosopher and theologian specializing in the relationship between religion and society, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile. He is Senior Scholar with the International Consortium on Religion and Ecology in Washington DC, a member of the Associate Faculty of New York Theological Seminary in New York City, Adjunct Professor at Drew University’s School of Theology in Madison NJ, and State Coordinator of the Florida Council of Catholic Scholarship. In addition, he is President of the United States federation of Pax Romana - International Catholic Movement for Intellectual & Cultural Affairs, a more than eighty-year-old global network of intellectuals and professionals with headquarters in Geneva and committed to human rights especially in the third world. Lastly, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Human Rights Institute of the Saint Thomas University School of Law and Chairperson of its Academic Committee.  He also holds an appointment as a Visiting Professor at the Universidad National del Altiplano in Puno, Peru, and he regularly teaches at the Universidad San Andres Mayor in La Paz, Bolivia.

Prior to his present position, Dr. Holland served on the staff of the Center of Concern, a Washington DC international research and educational institute founded by the Jesuits and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and later as the founding Executive Director of PILLAR, a research and educational institute for international Catholic lay leadership at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He has published countless articles and a dozen books.

Dr. Holland has lectured at Harvard, Notre Dame, Princeton, and many other Universities in the United States, as well as at the Institut Catholique in Paris, France, Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, the Pontifical Catholic University in São Paulo, Brazil, the Pontifical Catholic University in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the University of San Andres Mayor in La Paz, Bolivia, and the National University of the Altiplano in Puno, Peru. In 1986 he received the Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice, and in 2002 he was awarded the Athena Medal of Excellence by the Andean University of Peru.