Martina Bianchini
Martina Bianchini is Director of EU Government Affairs & Public Policy for The Dow Chemical Company and the head of the company's EU Liaison Office in Brussels. In this capacity, she shapes industry advocacy strategies on Dow's priority areas in the European Union and ensures the consistent adoption of a transatlantic and global approach to future chemicals policies. Prior to joining Dow in 2001, Ms. Bianchini worked for 14 years at the agricultural company Monsanto in a number of different assignments in environmental, regulatory, public and government affairs, both in the United States and in Europe. She holds a bachelors degree in earth sciences from the University of Trier in Germany and a master of science in Environmental Toxicology from Louisiana State University.

Ave M. Bie
Ave M. Bie is a partner in the public utilities and government relations practice groups at Quarles & Brady LLP, where she works on state and federal issues for clients at the firm's six offices nationwide. She has served as the Deputy Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing and is a former Chairwoman of the Public Service Commission (PSC) of Wisconsin. Under her leadership, the PSC moved to deal with critical infrastructure challenges to meet the needs of transmission, generation, and Wisconsin consumers. Ms. Bie has a wide range of government experience coupled with an extensive knowledge of the inner workings of government regulation and licensing. Ms. Bie is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Martin Bigg
Martin Bigg is the Head of Industry Regulation in the Environment Agency based in Bristol, United Kingdom. His group develops strategy and policy for the regulation of the largest, most technically complex, and potentially most polluting industries in England and Wales. Mr. Bigg is responsible for the implementation and operation of the EU Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and the EU Control of Major Accidents and Hazards Directive. Martin holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Bristol, a master of science from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and a Ph.D. from the University of Salford near Manchester.

Robert Donkers
Robert Donkers is the current Counselor for Environmental Affairs at the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC. Previously, he served as Acting and Deputy Head of the Chemicals Unit in the Environment Directorate-General of the European Commission, where his responsibilities included coordinating the development of the Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) policy and legislative framework. He was the chief EU negotiator on the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and also took part in several other international negotiations related to chemical substances and sustainable development. Mr. Donkers holds a masters degree in economics and in public and international law from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Peter Kessler
Peter Kessler is a Senior Policy Advisor with Ecologic, Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, and also served as a former Deputy Secretary and Water Director in the Hessian Environmental Ministry located in Wiesbaden, Germany. In this position, he was responsible for water management and soil protection, including reclamation of contaminated sites. He was also involved in both national and international institutions for the protection of the Rhine. Since 2004, Mr. Kessler has worked as a consultant in environmental and administrative management. In Europe, he has dealt primarily with the transposition and implementation of the Water Framework Directive and with transboundary river basin management. In developing countries, Mr. Kessler has worked on institution building and the development of environmental legislation. Mr. Kessler has studied at the University of Heidelberg, the Free University in Berlin, the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Bologna Center.

Klaus Kögler
Klaus Kögler serves as Head of the Sustainable Production & Consumption Unit in the European Commission Directorate-General for Environmental Affairs. After starting his career in the international mining industry, he joined the European Commission in 1990 to work in research programs on industrial production technologies, mining, recycling, and environmental technologies. Mr. Kögler was responsible for implementation of special research funding programs for Small and Medium Enterprises, and he has directed the development of Integrated Product Policy, the Thematic Strategy on Waste Prevention and Recycling, and European legislation on waste management. Mr. Kögler received a Ph.D. for research on heavy metals in groundwater and soil.

Jeffry C. Muffat
Jeffry C. Muffat serves as Manager of Environmental Regulatory Affairs, Environmental Health and Safety Operations for 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota. In this position, Mr. Muffat manages critical environmental issues for 3M, coordinates 3M's participation in voluntary programs, and ensures corporate wide compliance with all environmental regulatory requirements. He has been extensively involved in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys Clean Air Act since 1977. Mr. Muffat also manages 3M's Emission Reduction Credits program to maximize corporate participation in projects that are beneficial to the environment, and he was the chief architect for the 3M St. Paul Tape Plant Flexible Air Permit, which was completed in 1992. Mr. Muffat is a member of the EPA's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and the Air & Waste Management Association, and he is a past member of the Environmental Markets Association Board of Directors. He received his bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1974 from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Rick Otis
Rick Otis is part of the senior management team responsible for policy, rulemaking, and innovation activities in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Since beginning his career at the EPA in 1980, Mr. Otis has developed an extensive understanding of the mechanisms used by federal agencies, Congress, the Executive Office of the President, and interest groups to establish and implement national environmental policy. His experience has fostered his interest in the political, institutional, procedural, public opinion, and communications challenges associated with successful achievement of innovative change. Mr. Otis received a bachelor of arts from Ithaca College and a M.B.A. from Cornell University, both in the state of New York.

Joanne Scott
Joanne Scott is a Professor of European Law and the Director of the Centre for Law and Governance in Europe at University College London. She works in the areas of EU law and the law of the World Trade Organization, and she recently published a book on the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. Ms. Scott is also co-editor of Law and New Governance in the EU and the US, which explores the emergence of new approaches to governance from a legal perspective and examines the relationship between constitutionalism, law, and new governance. She has previously served as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School.

Raymond Van Ermen
Raymond Van Ermen is the Executive Director of the European Partners for the Environment, a network of organizations, companies, trade unions, and related groups working on sustainable development. He also serves as a member of the International Sustainable and Responsible Investment Advisory Committee for the investment bank Fortis and as rapporteur of the Permanent Forum of Civil Society working on European governance issues. Raymond Van Ermen's fields of expertise include resource efficiency, investment and purchasing power, synergies and system change. He is co-author of a book on innovation and governance in the European Union.

Ingmar von Homeyer
Ingmar von Homeyer is a Senior Fellow at Ecologic, Institute for International and European Environmental Policy in Berlin. He has studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses mainly on EU environmental policy and governance. Recent publications include: Democracy in the European Union: Towards the Emergence of a Public Sphere (with Liana Giorgi and Wayne Parsons, eds.), London, Routledge (2006); "The EU Deliberate Release Directive: Environmental. Precaution versus Trade and Product Regulation" in Sebastian Oberthr and Thomas Gehring (eds.): Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental Governance: Synergy and Conflict among International and EU Policies, Cambridge/London, The MIT Press (2006), pp. 259-283.

Graham Wilson
Graham Wilson is a Professor and Chair in the Political Science Department and at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current research focuses on regulatory reform efforts in Wisconsin and involves collaboration with state legislators, agencies, environmental groups, and business organizations. His goal is to achieve greater environmental performance from business through collaboration and cooperation rather than through top-down approaches. Professor Wilson is the recipient of numerous grants to study environmental policymaking and regulatory innovation. He holds bachelors and doctoral degrees from Oxford University and a master of arts from the University of Essex.

Jonathan Zeitlin
Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves as Director of two campus centers, the European Union Center of Excellence and the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy. Professor Zeitlin's research focuses on the comparative and historical analysis of socioeconomic governance, business organization, and employment relations in contemporary Europe, and his current projects include a collaborative study of "Governance as Learning" funded by the Dutch National Science Foundation. Mr. Zeitlins recent publications include Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2005.

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