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Gary Nabel
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Lily Asquith
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Steven Stone
Steven Stone is the chief of the United Nation Environment Program or UNEP’s Geneva-based Economics and Trade Branch. Dr. Stone holds a PhD in Resource Economics from Cornell University and has more than 15 years of professional experience in environmental and natural resource management. Prior to his position with UNEP, Dr. Stone worked for the ... >>
Vernon Roan
Vernon P. Roan chairs the Review of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Research and Development Program for the National Research Council. Dr. Roan is the retired director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Florida, where he has been a faculty member for more than ... >>
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