Mindy Lubber
(Ceres)
Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres, the
leading U.S. coalition of investors and
environmental leaders working to improve
corporate environmental, social and governance
practices. She also directs the Investor Network
on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance that
coordinates U.S. investor responses to the
financial risks and opportunities posed by
climate change.
INCR activities include organizing the
Institutional Investor Summit on Climate Risk at
the UN Headquarters, hosting fiduciary training
programs for pension fund trustees, producing
research reports to improve investor
understanding of climate risk, and coordinating
engagement of its members with companies, money
management firms, and policy makers.
Ms. Lubber has held leadership positions in
government as the Regional Administrator of the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; in the
financial services sector as Founder, President
and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an
investment firm managing environmentally
screened mutual funds; in the private sector as
the President of an environmental law and policy
consulting group; and in the not-for-profit
sector for more than a decade leading
environmental and public interest law
organizations, including the National
Environmental Law Center, which she founded. She
was the Senior Advisor and Communications
Director to former Governor Michael Dukakis, and
for a decade, held leadership positions with the
Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG),
including Chairwoman of the Board of Directors.
Ms. Lubber holds a Masters Degree in Business
Administration.
Lewis
Milford
(Clean Energy States Alliance)
Lewis Milford is President of Clean Energy Group
(CEG) and Executive Director of Clean Energy
States Alliance (CESA). Prior to founding CEG,
Mr. Milford was Vice President of Conservation
Law Foundation, New England’s leading
environmental organization where he directed the
Energy Project. Previously, he practiced
environmental law for a private firm and as the
New York Assistant Attorney General. He is
co-author of The Wages of War, a social history
chronicling America’s treatment of its military
veterans, published by Simon & Schuster. He has
a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and
is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers College.
Dr. Robert
Muir-Wood
(Risk Management Solutions)
Dr. Robert Muir-Wood
is
chief research officer at RMS. Dr. Muir-Wood has
more than 20 years of experience developing
probabilistic catastrophe models and has
collaborated with the insurance industry over
the past 15 years to improve catastrophe
analysis accuracy. Dr. Muir-Wood received his
degrees and was an Earth Sciences Research
Fellow at Cambridge University.
"The
Impact of Extra Tropical Transition on Hurricane
Risk in the Northeast U.S.," 26th Annual
Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical
Meteorology, May, 2004
"Climate Chaos," Risk & Insurance,
March 1, 2004