Speakers
Dr Jean Botti
Chief Technical Officer (CTO), EADS
Dr. Jean J. Botti, born on 14 April 1957, is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of EADS and a member of the EADS Executive Committee. He has corporate responsibility for Technology, Quality and Information Technology. Prior to assuming this position in May 2006, Dr. Botti served as the business line executive for Powertrain and Executive Director Fuel Cells with Delphi Corporation.
Dr. Botti began his career in 1978 at Renault and became Senior Project Engineer. He joigned Genaral Motors in the United States in 1989. In 1990, he became Staff Project Engineer at the Saginaw Steering Systems Division of General Motors. From 1992 until 1997, Botti returned to France as its Director of European Engineering and was then named Director Customer Solution Center, a position he continued to hold with the Delphi Corporation until 2002. From that year on until 2004, he managed the newly created corporate Dynamics, Propulsion and Thermal Innovation Center as the Chief Technologist.
Dr. Botti holds 12 patents and four defensive publications for his work at GM and Delphi and was elected as a Delphi Hall of Fame fellow. He also holds 11 patents outside of Delphi. Dr. Botti graduated from I.N.S.A. Toulouse in 1986 with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. He also earned an MBA from Central Michigan University in 1991, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris in 1995.
Dr. Botti was awarded the General Motors President Council Award in 1998
and is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He is a member of
various engineering and technology societies and the Centre National Recherche
Technologique (CNRT) in Belfort, France. In 1991, he completed a Management
of Research and Development course at the Massachussets Institutes of Technology
(MIT).
Dr. Botti has been elected to the European Research Board as the representative
for Aeronautics and Space and he is Board member of ONERA (the French research
institute for Aeronautics and Space). He is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical
Society (UK). He also was awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree from University
of Bath in the UK.
Dr Robert F. Brammer
Vice President for Advanced Technology and CTO, Northrop Grumman Information
Systems
Dr. Robert F. Brammer is vice president for Advanced Technology and chief technology officer (CTO) for Northrop Grumman's Information Systems (IS) sector. In this role, he is responsible for the overall technology strategy and Independent Research and Development (IRAD) programs, technology and research partnerships, technical talent development and intellectual property management. Current major NGIS technology investment areas include advanced wireless, satellite, and optical networks, information operations and security engineering, command and control systems, human factors in system design, large-scale information and knowledge management, high performance computing and networking applications, weather and climate modeling, public health, bioinformatics, geospatial technology, enterprise systems and managed services, robotics, service oriented architectures, and software and enterprise architecture. These investment projects include major collaborations with leading technology companies and research universities.
He previously served as the vice president for Advanced Technology and Quality and CTO for Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology (IT) sector. In that role, he was responsible for the sector’s technology strategy and investments, for solution architecture and technology oversight on major programs and proposals, and for quality management throughout the sector. He also managed the IT sector’s Technical Fellows program and Technical Mentoring program, recognizing and developing the sector’s top technology talent.
Prior to assuming IT sector responsibilities, Dr. Brammer worked for TASC, an advanced technology division of Northrop Grumman, serving as its CTO and, previously, as director of its Physical Sciences Division. In his CTO position he was responsible for TASC’s technology strategy and investments, and also worked on a dual assignment as the CTO for Primark, a previous TASC parent corporation, where he led technology infusion from TASC into Primark’s global financial information businesses, emphasizing telecommunications, web technology, security, and analytics. In his director role, Dr. Brammer led numerous research and development programs in high-performance computing, digital image processing and geophysical sciences for programs within the U.S. national security community. He also led the development of the first commercial weather satellite ground station, as part of a real-time commercial weather information business.
Before joining Northrop Grumman, Dr. Brammer was with NASA where he worked on Apollo and Skylab with a focus on real-time software for tracking, command, telemetry, and communications.
Dr. Brammer has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of Maryland. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi and is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He received achievement awards for work on the Apollo program and for principal investigator research on NASA and NOAA satellite remote-sensing programs. He is a Fellow of both the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers and the American Meteorological Society. He is also a senior member or member of several other professional societies, including the IEEE, MAA, SIAM, SMPTE and AGU. Dr. Brammer has published numerous scientific and technical research papers.
He has served on advisory boards for the Department of Defense (Defense Science Board), the National Academy of Sciences, the Naval Studies Board, the National Science Foundation, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and NASA. He is also a member of the External Relations Council for the Internet2 Consortium, the Virginia governor’s Broadband Roundtable, the Dean’s Council for the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and the board of visitors for the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland. Dr. Brammer was recently named by Security Magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in the security industry and by ExecutiveBiz as one of the top ten CTOs in the Greater Washington DC area to watch in 2009.
Mattia Cavanna
Senior Vice President International Programmes, Energy, Logistics, Finmeccanica
Group Services
Mattia was born in Novara, Italy. He spent part of his childhood in France, and after graduating as Engineer at the Politecnico di Milano in 1996 he moved to United Kingdom where he worked for the engineering and environmental hydraulics Company HR Wallingford, pursuing Business Studies specialization course at the Oxford College of Further Education. In 1998 he joined the business consulting firm Accenture, where he worked for seven years becoming Manager in the Strategy Business Line, participating in major change management programs in the Oil & Gas, Electricity and Government sectors, while supervising the Accenture Foundation’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. Since 2005 he works for Finmeccanica, the Italian Group operating globally in the aerospace, defence, security, helicopters, energy and transportation sectors, with over 77.000 employees and 20B€ turnover.
He is currently SVP of International Programs, Energy & Transportation Logistics in Finmeccanica Group Services. In his capacity of senior manager he drives a cross-functional Task Force investigating the potential use of innovative aerospace & defence solutions as a response to global challenges in the energy, environmental, mobility, health and climate change domains. Being also in charge of the reduction of the Group energy and transportation spend, he is leading programs aimed at generating efficiency opportunities, reducing costs and associated greenhouse-gasses emissions. He is part of the Group internal Advisory Committee on Sustainability that contributed to the admission of Finmeccanica to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. He also coordinates the Group international Sourcing offices based in Beijing, New Delhi and Washington, scouting for alternative sources of supply in strategic geographic areas.
His business and educational skills in innovation and sustainability took him to actively participate in the research projects and dissemination initiatives of the Aspen Institute, the World Energy Council, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa and the Major’s Office in Rome. He was previously enrolled in the German Marshall Memorial Fellowship Program and the Young Leaders Program sponsored by the Council of the US & Italy and contributed to the international Astrophysics Working Group on the SKA Radioscope Project. He lives in Rome with his wife, son and daughter.
Colonel Robert Charette Jr.
Director Expeditionary Energy, US Marine Corps
Colonel Bob “Brutus” Charette Jr. was born in Scranton, PA. He enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves in 1985 and attended boot camp at Parris Island, SC. He then attended Officer Candidate School in Quantico, VA and was commissioned August 1986. He has earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry from Delaware Valley College (1986), Masters of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix (2002), and a Masters of National Security Strategy from the National War College (2007).
Major professional schools attended; The Basic School (1986), Naval Fight Training (1988), FA-18 Flight Training (1989), Navy Fighter Weapons School (1991), Tactical Air Control Party School (1993), Weapons and Tactics Instructor course (1994), and Aviation Safety Officers course (1998), Army Command and General Staff College (2000-2001), Marine Corps Commanders course (2004), and the National War College (2007).
Units served and billets; VMFA-235 Embarkation and Pilot Training Officer (1989-1993), 3d Battalion/3d Marines Air Officer and Operations Officer (1993), VMFA-312 Admin Officer and Pilot Training Officer (1993-1995). VMFA-451 Aircraft Maintenance Officer and Operations Officer (1995-1997), Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron-1 FA-18 Instructor, Director of Safety and Standardization, and Tactical Aircraft Department Head (1997-2000). I Marine Expeditionary Force G-5 CENTCOM Planner (2001), Task Force-58 Air Officer (2001-2002), VMFA-314 Executive Officer (2002-2003), VMFA-323 Commanding Officer (2003-2005), Marine Aircraft Group-11 Operations Officer (2005-2006). Joint Staff J8, Chief Joint Requirements Oversight Council Secretariat (2007-2009). Joint Chief of Staff Working Group, USMC Representative (2009). Director, Expeditionary Energy Office (2009-Present) as such Col Charette is tasked with analyzing, developing and directing the USMC Energy Strategy.
Participated directly in the following combat operations; Operation Desert Storm, Kuwait/Iraq (1991), Operation Southern Watch, Iraq (1995), Operation Deliberate Force, Bosnia (1995), Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan (2001-2002), Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq (2005). He also participated in three deployments to the Western Pacific, two in support of the Unit Deployment Program (1992 and 1996). In addition, Col Charette has made three deployments afloat, one aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) with Carrier Air Wing 8 (1995), and two aboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) with Carrier Air Wing 9 (2003 and 2005).
His personal decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service, Meritorious Service Medal with two gold stars, Air Medal with combat distinguishing device, Air Medal Strike/Flight Award numeral six, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with combat distinguishing device and two gold stars, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and seven Sea Service Deployment ribbons. He has earned “Top Ten” honors with Carrier Air Wing 8 and Carrier Air Wing 9. Col Charette was awarded the 1996, “Alfred A. Cunningham Award” for being selected as the Marine Corps’ Aviator of the Year. Colonel Charette is married to the former Donna Nardini of Thornwood, New York. They have two sons, Robert and John.
Nancy Colleton
President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Nancy Colleton is the President of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization located in Arlington, Virginia. She specializes in advancing environmental information capabilities and services—primarily Earth observations—and works to communicate its critical role in responding to global challenges such as climate change. Ms. Colleton also leads the Alliance for Earth Observations—an informal confederation of industry, academic, and nongovernmental organizations that works to ensure the rapid and broad delivery of the timely, comprehensive, and accurate environmental information for improved decision-making. Affiliations include:
- Member, Committee on Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade of the National Research Council;
- Co-chair, Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG) of the NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB);
- Lead, Specialty Group on Environmental Information for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- Board Member, of the GeoEye Foundation;
- Member, Editorial Board of Imaging Notes Magazine;
- Member, International Program Committee, American Astronautical Society; and
- Member, Women in Aerospace (WIA)
Nick Cook
CEO and Founder, Dynamixx
From 1987 to 2001, he was Aerospace Editor of Jane’s Defence Weekly, the leading international defence journal. He remained the magazine’s Aerospace Consultant until 2009 when he set up Dynamixx, the world’s first environmental and defence sector consultancy. Dynamixx is also an on-line forum, publishes the quarterly E2DI (Energy and Environmental Defence International) Journal and organizes the annual E2DS (Energy, Environmental Defence and Security) conference series.
A respected commentator on defence and security issues, his views and analysis were sought by UK, US and other world news media during the 1991 and 2003 wars against Iraq and major conflicts in between.
Cook is routinely invited to speak around the world on a variety of topics
from the future of aerospace and defence technology to global energy and
science issues, including those highlighted in his book The Hunt for Zero
Point. His audiences include major aerospace corporations, government think-tanks,
schools and universities.
Cook has a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Exeter University.
He is married with two children and lives in London.
Dr Marko Erman
Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Officer, THALES
Dr Marko Erman graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1977, and got a second Engineer diploma from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in 1980. He obtained a PhD diploma from Solid State Physics at the University of Orsay and a Doctorat d’Etat es Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.
Dr Erman spent several years managing research activities within Philips as Director of Exploratory Research Division and then Director of Professional Imaging Division. After joining Alcatel in 1991, he became within the Corporate Research Center, the Director of the Opto-electronic components Division of Alcatel in 1993, and in 1997, Director of the Optical Systems Department. In 2001, he was appointed Chief Technical Officer & Vice President Strategy of Alcatel Optronics. In 2003, he joined Thales as Director of Research & Technology of the Land & Joint Systems Division. In April 2009, Marko Erman was appointed Chief Technical Officer of Thales.
In February 2010, Marko Erman became a member of the Executive Committee,
Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of the Thales Group. Dr
Erman has received the Blondel Award and is member of the French Academy
of Technology.
Lorenzo Fiori
Chief Technical Officer, Finmeccanica
Born in Milan on 20th of January 1959.
Graduated in Mechanics and Electronics Engineering at the University “Politecnico
di Milano” Spent almost 25 years in Aerospace and Defense, with several
appointments and with increasing responsibility, ranging from design &
development, to quality assurance, marketing and sales, operations and program
management, strategy planning, in radar and optronics field.
Since 2007 joined Finmeccanica Corporate as VP for Strategy Development
and appointed last July 2010 as SVP - Chief Technical Director.
Dr Michael H. Freilich
Director, Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA
Michael H. Freilich is the Director of the Earth Science Division, in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. Prior to coming to NASA, he was a Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. He received BS degrees in Physics (Honors) and Chemistry from Haverford College in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Univ. of CA., San Diego) in 1982. From 1983-1991 he was a Member of the Technical Staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dr. Freilich’s research focuses on the determination, validation, and geophysical analysis of ocean surface wind velocity measured by satellite-borne microwave radar and radiometer instruments. He has developed scatterometer and altimeter wind model functions, as well as innovative validation techniques for accurately quantifying the accuracy of spaceborne environmental measurements.
Dr. Freilich served as the NSCAT Project Scientist from 1983-1991 and as the Mission Principal Investigator for NSCAT from 1992-1997. Until he relinquished his project posts to join NASA HQ, he was the Mission PI for QuikSCAT (launched in June, 1999) and SeaWinds/ADEOS-2 (launched in December, 2002). He was the team leader of the NASA Ocean Vector Winds Science Team and is a member of the QuikSCAT, SeaWinds, and Terra/AMSR Validation Teams, as well as the NASDA (Japanese Space Agency) ADEOS-2 Science Team.
Dr. Freilich has served on many NASA, National Research Council (NRC), and research community advisory and steering groups, including the WOCE Science Steering Committee, the NASA EOS Science Executive Committee, the NRC Ocean Studies Board, and several NASA data system review committees. He chaired the NRC Committee on Earth Studies, and served on the NRC Space Studies Board and the Committee on NASA/NOAA Transition from Research to Operations.
His honors include the JPL Director’s Research Achievement Award (1988), the NASA Public Service Medal (1999), and the American Meteorological Society’s Verner E. Suomi Award (2004), as well as several NASA Group Achievement awards. Freilich was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2004.
Freilich’s non-scientific passions include nature photography and soccer refereeing at the youth, high school, and adult levels.
U.S. Navy
Captain Gallaudet was born in Los Angeles, California and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with distinction in 1989, receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Science (Oceanography). He also received a Master’s Degree in Science (Oceanography) and Doctoral Degree from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1991 and 2001, respectively. His research in oceanography, remote sensing, and digital signal processing has been published in Remote Sensing of the Environment, IEEE Proceedings, and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Captain Gallaudet has served in a variety of sea tours, including hydrographic survey ships USNS HARKNESS and USNS BOWDITCH, the amphibious assault ship USS PELELIU, the Fleet Flagship USS LASALLE, and the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK. During his assignment onboard KITTY HAWK, CAPT Gallaudet received the Commander, Naval Air Forces Leadership Award for his performance as an officer of the deck during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. His last shore-based assignment was as Commanding Officer of the Naval Oceanography Special Warfare Center, where his officers and sailors deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan to conduct technical surveillance and provide tactical environmental predictions to Navy Special Warfare (SEALs) units during Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
Captain Gallaudet presently serves as the Deputy Director for the Navy’s
Task Force Climate Change on the staff of the Oceanographer of the Navy.
He was the principal author of the Navy Arctic Roadmap (2009) and Navy Climate
Change Roadmap (2010), and acts as the senior subject matter expert on the
Navy staff for Arctic and Climate Change matters. He contributed to the
Arctic and Climate Change guidance in the Department of Defense’s 2010 Quadrennial
Defense Review (QDR), and he is an advisor to the White House National Security
Staff’s Arctic Interagency Policy Committee. Captain Gallaudet serves on
a variety of U.S. Government working groups and staffs concerned with Arctic
and Climate Change science and policy.
The Hon Tom Hicks
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Navy (Energy)
Tom Hicks was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy in March 2010. Mr. Hicks serves as the Secretariat focal point on all matters pertaining to the Department of Navy’s energy conservation, energy efficiency, energy sources, and green initiatives.
Mr. Hicks joined the Department of the Navy from the U.S. Green Building Council where he held several executive roles. As Vice President of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system, Mr. Hicks led the development and implementation of all LEED rating systems. During his tenure, he led the three-fold growth of LEED activity as well as the expansion of the LEED family of rating systems from four to ten unique rating systems. As Vice President for International Programs, Mr. Hicks led the development of USGBC’s international enterprise quadrupling global activity in LEED in two years. Most recently, he spearheaded a new strategic venture on behalf of USGBC – the Building Performance Initiative – to ensure that all green buildings meet or exceed their energy and environmental performance goals.
From 1996 to October 2004, Mr. Hicks was a Senior Program Manager at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency within the Energy Star for Buildings program. In this role, Mr. Hicks served as the principal architect of the Energy Star commercial building rating system, the nation’s largest and best-known energy efficiency initiative which has been utilized to assess the energy performance of over 70,000 buildings totaling over 10 billion square feet of floor space nationally.
From 1992 to February 1996, Mr. Hicks led the formation of the energy efficiency program for the U.S. Navy Public Works Center Washington. In this capacity, Mr. Hicks created and led the team which performed energy audits on over 15 million square feet of floor space and completed energy efficiency upgrades totaling more than $50 million in value at various U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps installations.
Mr. Hicks received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland.
Dr John P. Holdren
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President's
Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
Dr. John P. Holdren is Assistant to the President for Science and Technology,
Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and
Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
(PCAST). Prior to joining the Obama administration Dr. Holdren was Teresa
and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program
on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy
School of Government, as well as professor in Harvard's Department of Earth
and Planetary Sciences and Director of the independent, nonprofit Woods
Hole Research Center. Previously he was on the faculty of the University
of California, Berkeley, where he co-founded in 1973 and co-led until 1996
the interdisciplinary graduate-degree program in energy and resources. During
the Clinton administration, Dr. Holdren served as a member of PCAST through
both terms and in that capacity chaired studies requested by President Clinton
on preventing theft of nuclear materials, disposition of surplus weapon
plutonium, the prospects of fusion energy, U.S. energy R&D strategy,
and international cooperation on energy-technology innovation.
Dr. Holdren holds advanced degrees in aerospace engineering and theoretical
plasma physics from MIT and Stanford. He is a member of the National Academy
of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, as well as a foreign member of the Royal Society of
London. He served as a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Board of Trustees
from 1991 to 2005, as Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee
on International Security and Arms Control from 1994 to 2005, and as Co-Chair
of the independent, bipartisan National Commission on Energy Policy from
2002 to 2009. A former president of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, his awards include a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship,
the John Heinz Prize in Public Policy, the Tyler Prize for Environmental
Achievement, and the Volvo Environment Prize. In December 1995 he gave the
acceptance lecture for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences
on Science and World Affairs, an international organization of scientists
and public figures in which he held leadership positions from 1982 to 1997.
Dr Ray O Johnson
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation
As an Officer of the Corporation and a member of the executive
leadership team Dr. Johnson guides the Corporation’s technology vision and
provides corporate leadership in the strategic areas of technology and engineering,
which include more than 70,000 people working on more than 4,000 programs.
Dr. Johnson also leads the Corporation’s Advanced Concepts Organization and the Center for Innovation, a world-class laboratory for collaborative experimentation and analysis involving Lockheed Martin, its customers, and industry partners. He currently serves as a member of the Sandia Corporation, National Math and Science Initiative, and the Hispanic College Fund Boards of Directors and as a member of the Project Lead the Way Advisory Board. Dr. Johnson is a member of the Governing Board of the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and a sponsor of the DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program.
Dr. Johnson is on the US National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) Technology
Innovation Program (TIP) Advisory Board. He is on the Board of Directors
of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the Virginia Center for
Innovative Technology. He is a member of the Virginia Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Investment Authority and the Maryland Federal Facilities Advisory Board.
Dr. Johnson is a member of the Board of Visitors for the A. James Clark
School of Engineering at the University of Maryland and on the Dean’s Advisory
Council for the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
Before joining Lockheed Martin, Dr. Johnson was the Chief Operating Officer
for Modern
Technology Solutions, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia.
Prior to that, he held a variety of increasingly responsible executive positions with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), including Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Concepts Business Unit. In addition to executive leadership and management positions, Dr. Johnson has a proven track record in strategic planning, program development, program management, and venture capital funding. He previously served on the boards of two biotechnology companies.
He is a Full Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi. Dr. Johnson Chairs the Council on Competitiveness Technology Leadership and Strategy Initiative and he is the Chairman of the USA Science & Engineering Festival Advisory Board.
Dr. Johnson was a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board from
2001 to 2005. As an Air Force Officer, his career included assignments in
laser physics, systems design and analysis, electro-optic systems research
and development, survivability, and command and control. Born in Kansas
City, Missouri, Dr. Johnson holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Oklahoma State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Mary E. Kicza
Assistant Administrator for Satellite & Information Services, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Mary E. Kicza is the NOAA Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services. NOAA Satellite and Information Service is dedicated to providing timely access to global environmental data from satellites and other sources to promote, protect, and enhance the Nation’s economy, security, environment, and quality of life. In this role, Ms. Kicza leads the acquisition and operation of the Nation’s civil operational environmental satellite system. She also leads efforts for research and development of products and programs to archive and provide access to a variety of Earth observations via three national data centers.
Ms. Kicza is a leader in the international Earth observation community, serving as the NOAA Principal to the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and former Chair of the CEOS Strategic Implementation Group. In this capacity, she leads efforts to coordinate global satellite-based observations among international space agency partners to further the development of a Global Earth Observation System of Systems. In addition, Ms. Kicza serves as the Co-Chair of the NOAA Observing Systems Council, a group which coordinates observing systems requirements and provides resource recommendations for NOAA’s observation platforms. She is also a member of the NOAA Executive Council, NOAA’s executive decision making body.
Before coming to NOAA, Ms. Kicza was the Associate Deputy Administrator for Systems Integration at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As a senior leader within NASA, she was responsible for assuring that the mission and mission support elements were effectively aligned and integrated. She served previously as the Associate Administrator for Biological/Physical Research, the Associate Center Director for Goddard Space Flight Center, the Assistant Associate Administrator for Space Science, and the Deputy Director of the Solar System Exploration Division. Ms. Kicza began her career as an engineer at McClellan Air Force Base in California, before joining NASA in 1982 as a lead engineer supporting the Atlas Centaur and Shuttle Centaur launch vehicles.
Ms. Kicza has served with distinction in a variety of technical, managerial, and leadership posts, supporting the development, launch, and operation of satellite systems as well as multi-faceted research and development programs. She has significant experience in building and maintaining effective relationships with the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Defense Department, Congress, the aerospace industry, and a diverse research community. Ms. Kicza has earned a Presidential Rank Award, two SES Meritorious Service Awards, NASA’s Distinguished Service and Scientific Achievement Medal, a Department of Commerce Gold Medal, and numerous other awards.
Ms. Kicza received her Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from California State University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Florida Institute of Technology.
Pontus de Laval
Senior Vice President Technology, Saab
Pontus de Laval holds the position as Chief Technology Officer of Saab AB since 2005. Before this Mr de Laval served as head of the company’s Electronic Warfare division. In his career he has served in various managerial positions, all related to product development. Mr. de Laval started his career in 1986 as an Electronics Engineer working with radar technology.
Mr. de Laval received his master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In addition, he has an Executive MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics.
Mr de Laval serves in the boards of various Swedish research committees
and in Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg.
Dr Alexis Livanos
Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Northrop Grumman
Corporation
Dr. Alexis C. Livanos is the chief technology officer and corporate vice president for Northrop Grumman. In this transformational role, he is responsible for leading the company’s development and insertion of cutting-edge technologies to address the evolving requirements of customers. He also serves on the company’s corporate policy council. Livanos is also a research professor at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering.
Prior to this, Livanos was corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman Space Technology, responsible for the strategic direction and operations of the sector, which developed a broad range of systems at the leading edge of space, defense and electronics technology. Prior to that, Livanos served as vice president and general manager of the Systems Development and Technology and Space Sensors Division in the Electronic Systems sector.
Before joining Northrop Grumman in 2003, Livanos served as executive vice president of Boeing Satellite Systems, where he was responsible for technology, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management, and strategic relationships and ventures. He also served as deputy general manager for the former TRW Electronic Systems and Technology Division and later as executive vice president of operations for Space Systems/Loral. During his career, Livanos participated in the successful launch of 46 satellites and has more than 30 years experience in research and applications in the fields of microelectronics, solid-state physics, electro-optics and signal processing.
Livanos earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (with honors), a master’s degree in engineering science, and a doctorate in engineering science and physics from the California Institute of Technology. He also taught applied physics at Caltech for two years as a post-doctorate fellow.
In 2009, Livanos was appointed to the Defense Science Board reporting to the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, Ashton Carter. In 2008, he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. That year he also received the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award, the International von Karman Wings Award from the Aerospace Historical Society, and the IS Executive Leadership Award given by the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is a senior fellow of the California Council on Science & Technology. He is chairman of the Science Advisory Council for GALCIT and a member of the Visiting Committee for Caltech’s Division of Engineering and Applied Science. He is on the Board of Councilors for the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He also serves on the UCLA Visiting Committee for Science and Technology. Livanos is a member of the IEEE and AFCEA, and an associate fellow of the AIAA. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Space Foundation, Planetary Society and National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose
120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in
aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical
services to government and commercial customers worldwide.
The Hon Ray Mabus
United States Secretary of the Navy
Ray Mabus is the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy. As Secretary, he leads America’s Navy and Marine Corps and is responsible for an annual budget in excess of $150 billion and almost 900,000 people.
The Secretary of the Navy is responsible for conducting all the affairs of the Department of the Navy, including recruiting, organizing, supplying, equipping, training, and mobilizing. Additionally, he oversees the construction, outfitting, and repair of naval ships, equipment and facilities, and is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies and programs that are consistent with the national security policies and objectives established by the President and the Secretary of Defense.
Prior to joining the administration of President Barack Obama, Mabus served in a variety of top posts in government and the private sector. In 1988, Mabus was elected Governor of Mississippi. As the youngest governor of Mississippi in more than 100 years at the time of his election, he stressed education and job creation. He passed B.E.S.T. (Better Education for Success Tomorrow), one of the most comprehensive education reform programs in America, and was named one of Fortune Magazine’s top ten education governors. He was appointed Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the Clinton Administration in 1994. During his tenure as Ambassador, a crisis with Iraq was successfully averted and Saudi Arabia officially abandoned the boycott of United States businesses that trade with Israel. He also was Chairman and CEO of Foamex, a large manufacturing company, which he led out of bankruptcy in less than nine months paying all creditors in full and saving equity. Prior to becoming Governor, he was elected State Auditor of Mississippi and served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the cruiser USS Little Rock.
In June 2010, President Obama asked Secretary Mabus to prepare a long-term recovery plan for the Gulf of Mexico in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. After extensive travel and many meetings, his report “America’s Gulf Coast: A Long-Term Recovery Plan After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” was released in September 2010. The report was met with broad bi-partisan support.
Secretary Mabus is a native of Ackerman, Mississippi, and received a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Mississippi, a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a Law Degree from Harvard Law School. He has been awarded the U.S. Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, the U.S. Army’s distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Martin Luther King Social Responsibility Award from the King Center in Atlanta, the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Achievement Award, the King Abdul Aziz Award from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Mississippi Association of Educators’ Friend of Education Award.
Jonathan T. Malay
Director, Civil Space & Environment Programs, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Washington Operations
Jonathan Malay is Director of Civil Space & Environment Programs in the Washington Operations of Lockheed Martin Corporation. He serves as the company’s senior business development specialist interacting with both NASA and NOAA headquarters on a day-to-day basis.
He began his career in 1973 as a Navy Surface Warfare Officer and was subsequently selected for specialist duty in meteorology and oceanography. In the 1980’s he further specialized in space-based remote sensing and was a finalist for NASA Astronaut selection. He retired from active duty at the rank of Commander in 1993 after two at-sea tours and various assignments including the Naval Space Command, the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy, and the National Reconnaissance Office.
As a civilian, after working briefly at Orbital Sciences Corp. and at the Satellite and Information Service of NOAA, he joined Ball Aerospace in 1995 and then Lockheed Martin in 2003.
Mr. Malay holds degrees in Oceanography and Meteorology from the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a Fellow and Past-President of the American Astronautical Society (AAS), an Associate Fellow and current Region I (Northeast US) Director of the American Institute for Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), and is also a Fellow and current President of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is the author of the 2003 novel Seraphim Sky and co-author of the 2004 National Geographic Encyclopedia of Space. He resides in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Arun Majumdar
Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)
Arun Majumdar became the first Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), the country’s only agency devoted to transformational energy research and development, in October 2009.
Prior to joining ARPA-E, Majumdar was the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His highly distinguished research career includes the science and engineering of energy conversion, transport, and storage ranging from molecular and nanoscale level to large energy systems. In 2005, Majumdar was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for this pioneering work.
At Berkeley Labs and UC Berkeley, Majumdar helped shape several strategic initiatives in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy storage. He also testified before Congress on how to reduce energy consumption in buildings. Majumdar has also served on the advisory committee of the National Science Foundation's engineering directorate, was a member of the advisory council to the materials sciences and engineering division of the Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Sciences, and was an advisor on nanotechnology to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Additionally, Majumdar has served as an advisor to startup companies and venture capital firms in the Silicon Valley.
He received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.
Dr Berrien Moore III
VP Weather & Climate Programs Dean, College of Atmospheric & Geographic
Sciences, Chesapeake Energy Corporation Chair in Climate Studies Director,
National Weather Center
Dr. Berrien Moore III is an internationally recognized Earth scientist.
He has published extensively on the global carbon cycle, remote sensing,
mathematics, and environmental policy. In recognition of his lifelong dedication
to science and service, Moore has been the recipient of numerous honors,
including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for outstanding service
to the agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Administrator’s
Recognition Award, and the 2007 Dryden Lectureship in Research by the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Berrien Moore III joined the University of Oklahoma in 2010. He currently
serves as Vice President for Weather and Climate Programs, Dean of the College
of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, and Director of the National Weather
Center. He also holds the Chesapeake Energy Corporation Chair in Climate
Studies in the School of Meteorology.
Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma, Moore was the Executive Director
of Climate Central, a nonprofit organization based in Princeton, New Jersey
and Palo Alto, California, which is dedicated to providing public, business
and civic leaders and policymakers with information about climate change
and potential solutions.
From 1988 to 2008, Moore was the Director of the Institute for the Study
of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire and held
the position of Distinguished University Professor. He has been a visiting
research scientist at the Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Marines, Universite
Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and at the Institute of Meteorology at the
University of Stockholm. He also served as a Senior Research Fellow at the
East-West Center in Honolulu and as a Fellow at the Marine Policy and Ocean
Management Program at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Moore served as chair for the Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme from 1998 to 2002. He also has been engaged with senior management of NASA in a variety of roles, including chairing its highest-ranking science and applications advisory committee, and he has lent his leadership and expertise across a broad range of boards and committees of the National Academy of Science. Most recently, he was co-chair of the Academy’s first Decadal Survey in Earth science and applications from space. His current service includes the Committee of Earth Studies of the National Research Council, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Advisory Council, and the Board of Directors of the University of New Hampshire Foundation.
Robert S. C. Munier
Vice President, Marine Facilities and Operations, Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution
Mr. Munier is a member of the WHOI directorate and is responsible for research
vessels, shipboard scientific services, the National Deep Submergence Facility,
the Center for Ocean, Seafloor and Marine Observing Systems, imaging and
visualization and scientific diving. He also has executive responsibility
for several projects, including the Replacement Human Occupied Vehicle (RHOV
Alvin), Coastal Global Scale Nodes of the Ocean Observing Initiative (CGSN/OOI)
and coordination of WHOI’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Prior to joining WHOI in March 2010, Mr. Munier was Managing Director at Tyco Telecommunications where he was responsible for global solutions for undersea systems. Previously, he held the position of Managing Director for Engineering and Construction at Tyco, responsible for the delivery of marine and terrestrial infrastructure for undersea cable systems. Prior to joining Tyco, Mr. Munier was Vice President of the General Offshore Corporation, an international marine technical services firm and before that he was President of Wolff and Munier International.
Mr. Munier serves on a variety of ocean industry boards and committees that provide leadership in technology development and business practices. He has published numerous papers on a variety of ocean-related topics and has presented to technical and general audiences all over the world.
Mr. Munier has an undergraduate degree in geology from Middlebury College
and advanced degrees in ocean engineering and business from the University
of Miami and Florida Atlantic University, respectively. He lives in Falmouth,
Massachusetts.
Christophe Nussli
Programme Manager, Climate Change, Institutional and Business Development,
Thales
He started his career in 1989 as a warfare system designer at Dassault, and joined the Alcatel group in 1992 for the development of GSM products.
He joined the Space division of Alcatel in 1996 as a system engineer for the satellite mobile broadcast projects Worldspace and XM radio, and from 2000 held several positions in the Marketing and sales department of Alcatel Space, including Business development director in charge of Mobile Systems.
He was appointed Strategy & Business Development Vice President at Alcatel Mobile Broadcast for the Alcatel “Unlimited Mobile TV” initiative that lead to the European Solaris Satellite Mobile TV & Radio project in 2006.
Consecutive to the transfer of Alcatel Space activities to the Thales group in 2007, he has been in charge of coordinating and harnessing the business opportunities linked to environmental and Climate Change issues for Thales Alenia Space. He is representing Thales at the governing board of the Climate Knowledge & Innovation Community of the European Institute of Technology (EIT) ; he is also co-author of several scientific publications related to the use of space technologies for climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
He received a Master of Electrical Engineering and a PhD degree in Solid State physics and micro-electronics
Frank W. Nutter
President, Reinsurance Association of America (RAA)
Frank Nutter has been president of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) since 1991. He held the same position with the RAA from 1981-1984.
In the interim, he was president of the Alliance of American Insurers and the Property Loss Research Bureau, which have now merged to be part of the PCI (Property Casualty Insurance Association of America).
Mr. Nutter currently serves on the Board of the International Hurricane Research Center; the Advisory Board of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, an adjunct to the Harvard University Medical School; the Board of the Angus Robinson, Jr., Memorial Foundation; and the Advisory Board of the OECD’s International Network for the Financial Management of Large Scale Disasters. He formerly served on the Council of the American Meteorological Society; the Board of the University Center for Atmospheric Research, a consortium of universities managing the National Center for Atmospheric Research sponsored by the National Science Foundation; and the Board of the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences.
He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Worker’s Compensation Research Institute, and the Board of Overseers of the Institute for Civil Justice, a subsidiary of the Rand Corporation.
Mr. Nutter has a Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Nutter was an officer in the U.S. Navy and is a Vietnam veteran. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Insurance Broadcasting’s 2011 List of the 100 Most Powerful People in the Insurance Industry.
Liz Porter
Vice President, New Business Initiatives, Lockheed Martin
Liz Porter is Vice President of New Business Initiatives for Lockheed Martin Corporate Engineering and Technology (CE&T). Ms. Porter assumed her current position on March 15, 2011. In this role, Ms. Porter works closely with the Lockheed Martin Business Areas in leading the development and implementation for adjacent emerging markets, placing major emphasis on growth areas that include energy, water, cyber security, and healthcare IT.
Prior to serving as Vice President of New Business Initiatives, Ms. Porter was the Director of Energy Initiatives, where she was responsible for all aspects of CE&T’s Energy and Climate Change Campaign. Ms. Porter has demonstrated her technical leadership and program management expertise across several Business Areas where she has led engineering teams in performing on numerous systems integration and software development projects.
Beginning her professional career as an engineer in 1993 at General Electric Astro Space in East Windsor, NJ where she held assignments of increasing responsibility in a variety of electrical engineering and project management related areas, including, design and integration of solar arrays, electrical power subsystems, and subcontracts management for a variety of military and commercial satellite programs.
Ms. Porter received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pa., and an MBA from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Mark E. Russell
Vice President of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance, Raytheon
Mark E. Russell is vice president of Engineering, Technology and Mission
Assurance for Raytheon Company. He assumed the position in July 2008, and
was elected a company officer in June 2008. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN),
with 2010 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing
in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the
world. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people
worldwide.
Russell guides the company’s vision and provides corporate leadership in
the strategic areas of technology and research, engineering, operations,
performance excellence, programs security, Raytheon Six SigmaTM and Mission
Assurance. He is responsible for 45,000 world-class people working on more
than 8,000 programs.
Prior to leading Raytheon’s engineering organization, Russell was vice president
of engineering for Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business.
In this role, he was responsible for leading IDS’ engineering activities,
including the capture and management of technology and advanced programs;
coordination of strategic architecture initiatives; development and production
of advanced semiconductor products at Raytheon RF Components; continuous
improvement of processes and tools; and product development.
Russell has worked in design engineering, operations, field testing, and
project and program management for state-of-the-art radar, missile and communication
systems including Patriot, HLDA1, Wide Band Gap Semiconductor (WBGS), Terminal
High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) System, Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile
Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS), Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX), Cobra
Judy Replacement, Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) and the DDG 1000 destroyer.
He has overseen the management of production facilities, including the Advanced
Products Center and Raytheon RF Components. He has also served as director
of surface radar engineering, and the Radar Design and Electronics Center
for Raytheon’s Electronic Systems business, and he has expertise in the
development of microwave systems and components.
Russell has published 16 peer-reviewed papers on active electronically steered
arrays and radar systems, missiles, photonic technology, solid-state transmitters
and communications systems. He holds 36 patents in the areas of microwave
and millimeter wave components, high-range resolution radar applications
and missile seekers.
Outside of Raytheon, Russell provides leadership on the Board of Directors
of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering and Valeo Raytheon
Systems. He is involved in the University of Massachusetts K-16 Engineering
Collaborative and the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research
Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), and
he is Raytheon’s campus executive for the University of Massachusetts.
Russell graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell with a bachelor’s
degree in electrical engineering. He joined Raytheon after graduation, and
then attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the Raytheon
Advanced Study scholarship program, earning a master’s degree in electrical
engineering. The universities have both honored Russell for his career accomplishments
with distinguished alumni recognition.
Russell has completed several Raytheon management programs, including the
Executive Leadership Summit and Business Leadership Program, and is a qualified
Raytheon Six Sigma Specialist. Russell is a member of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (AIAA).
Karen Sloneker
Director, Customer Services and Marketing, AEP Ohio
As director of customer services and marketing for AEP Ohio, Karen Sloneker
is responsible for energy efficiency and peak demand response programs,
alternative energy resource programs and customer service for AEP Ohio’s
1.5 million customers. In addition, she is project director for AEP Ohio’s
gridSMART demonstration project.
With 30 years of experience at AEP, Sloneker has held various positions in engineering, information technology, customer service, and marketing departments. Sloneker earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1982 from The Ohio State University and also completed the Management Development Program.
Bruce E. Snider
Director of Technology, Raytheon Network Centric Systems
Bruce Snider is the Director of Technology for Raytheon’s Network Centric
Systems (NCS) Texas Engineering and Technology department. In this capacity,
he is responsible for ensuring that NCS’ technology strategy is defined
and developed and that needed technologies are acquired through multiple
sources, including contracted research and development (R&D), internal
R&D investments, strategic partnerships with industry, universities
and our customers.
Bruce has a 25+ year career at Raytheon in business management, engineering, technology development, program management and business strategy development. His prior responsibilities have included leading strategy development and program management activities for Science and Technology Initiatives.
Bruce holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State
University.
Rear Admiral David W. Titley
Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy
A native of Schenectady, N.Y., Rear Admiral Titley was commissioned through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Commissioning program in 1980.
Titley served over 10 years at sea, including a tour as navigator aboard USS Farragut (DDG 37), and tours as oceanographer aboard USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3), USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Carrier Group Six and U.S. 7th Fleet.
Shore tours include serving on the staff of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and as the senior military assistant to the director of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Titley has commanded the Fleet Numerical Meteorological and Oceanographic Center in Monterey, and was the first commanding officer of the Naval Oceanography Operations Command. He served his initial flag tour as commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command.
Education includes a B.S. in Meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University, a M.S. in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography and Ph.D. in Meteorology, both from the Naval Postgraduate School. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI on Foreign Politics, International Relations and National Interest, and is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
In 2009, Titley assumed duties as oceanographer and navigator of the Navy and director, Task Force Climate Change.
Dr John J. Tracy
Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President - Engineering, Operations
& Technology, Boeing
Dr. John Tracy is Boeing chief technology officer and senior vice president of Engineering, Operations & Technology. In this position, he oversees the development and implementation of Boeing’s technology investment strategy and provides strategic direction to functions, business organizations and initiatives involving more than 100,000 employees. These include Boeing’s Engineering, Operations and Supplier Management functions, the company’s Information Technology, Research & Technology, Test & Evaluation, Intellectual Property Management, and Environment, Health and Safety organizations and Boeing’s Development Process Excellence and Information Services/Management initiatives.
Previously, Tracy was vice president of Engineering & Mission Assurance for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. Tracy had functional management responsibility for the IDS engineering processes, engineering tools, and the 32,000-person engineering team.
In addition to being a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Tracy has authored more than 30 publications, received numerous Hispanic Engineering honors, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
Tracy earned his PhD in Engineering from the University of California - Irvine, and has a Master's and Bachelor's in Physics from California State University at Los Angeles and Dominguez Hills, respectively.
Carlo Viviani
Director for Energy and Climate change, Department for EU Affairs Italian
Prime Minister's Office
Carlo Viviani is Director for Energy and Climate change in the Department for European Affairs of the Italian Prime Minister’s Office.
His responsibilities include coordination, definition and representation of the Italian position in the policy making of the European Union on energy and climate change, but also on environment and the Lisbon Strategy (now Europe 2020). In this position, he has been at the center of all the negotiations related to the EU Energy and Climate Change package, such as those on renewable energies, on emissions trading, on auctioning of emissions allowances, on carbon capture and storage, and on the emissions of automobiles and commercial vehicles.
Carlo represents his Department in the National Committee for Greenhouse Gases and in the board of the World Energy Council (Italy). He is a member of the National Working Group on the selection of innovative RES and CCS projects under the NER-300 European initiative.
In 2010, Carlo has been admitted to the Catto Fellowship Program on environmental leadership of the Aspen Institute (USA). He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and of Aspen Institute Italia.
Carlo took a Laurea in Economics summa cum laude at LUISS in 1991. After the military service, in 1993 he joined the Office of the President Emeritus of the Italian Republic, Sen. Francesco Cossiga, as Economic and EU affairs advisor; since 1999-2005, he also was his Director for Press and Communication. In 2001-2005, he was Economic Advisor on innovation, research policies, and FDI attraction at Ambrosetti-European House, Milan.
Since 1993, Carlo has been researching, publishing and teaching Economic Policy and European Economic Policy at LUISS “Guido Carli” University in Rome |
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