Past Speakers 2007-2011

2011–2012

Charles Fishman

Investigative Journalist

Paul Gilding

Independent Writer, Advisor, and Advocate for Action on Climate Change and Sustainability

Gary Hirshberg

Chairman, President, and CE-Yo
Stonyfield Farm

Bart Houlahan

Co-Founder
B Lab

Katie Kross

Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment (EDGE)
Duke Fuqua School of Business

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology
Boston College

Jigar Shah

CEO and Founder
Carbon War Room and Sun Edison, respectively

2010–2011

Mary Armstrong

Vice President
Environmental, Health, and Safety
The Boeing Company

Mark Buckley

Vice President of Environmental Affairs
Staples, Inc.

Steve Cowell

Founder, Chairman, CEO
Conservation Services Group

Vivienne Cox

Former EVP of BP Alternative Energy
Non-Executive Director of Rio Tinto and Climate Change Capital

Rear Admiral Philip Hart Cullom

Director, Chief of Naval Operations
U.S. Navy, Energy and Environmental Readiness Division

Martin Fleming

Vice President Corporate Strategy
IBM Corporation

Sheri Flies

Costco Wholesale Corporation

Jeffrey Hollender

Co-Founder & Executive Chair
Seventh Generation

Kook-Hyun Moon

President
New Paradigm Institute

Raymond Offenheiser

President
Oxfam America

Dara O’Rourke

Founder, Chief Sustainability Officer
GoodGuide

Roger Saillant

Executive Director
Fowler Center for Sustainable Value
Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Jonathan Schwarz, Chris Robbins, and Michael Ehlenfeldt

Co-Founders & Executive Chef, respectively
Stone Hearth Pizza

2008–2009

Shai Agassi

Founder and CEO
Better Place

Alan AtKisson

President and CEO
AtKisson Group

Jason Clay

Senior Vice President Market Transformation
WWF

Ann Maura Connolly

Chief External Affairs Officer and Senior Vice President

Martin D. Madaus, PhD

Chairman of the Board, President, CEO
Millipore Corporation

Linda A. Mason

Chair, Mercy Corps
Chairman and Co-Founder, Bright Horizons Family Solutions

2007–2008

Milton Bevington

Clinton Climate Initiative

Peter Capozucca

Deloitte Consulting

Robin Chase

CEO of GoLoco.org
Co-Founder and former CEO of Zipcar

Jack Groh

Director
NFL Environmental Program

Bruce Jamerson

Mascoma Corporation

Charles Kane

CFO of OLPC
One Laptop per Child: Sustainability through Knowledge and Development

Dr. Jim Kim

Co-Founder of Partners in Health

Rich Liroff, PhD

Executive Director
Investor’s Environmental Health Network

Dr. Bill Rodriguez

Leads, Research Program in Global Health
Massachusetts General Hospital

Robert Zubrin

Pioneer Astronautics


For more information about MIT Sloan’s Sustainability Initiative, contact Jason Jay, Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Business & Society
Tel: (617) 253-0594 , E-mail: jjay@mit.edu