Chair Joan Konner is professor and Dean Emerita of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she served as dean from 1988 to 1997, and as publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review for eleven years. Before joining the faculty, she worked in public and commercial television for twenty-six years, producing and writing more than fifty documentaries. Her work has been honored by almost every major award for broadcast journalism, including fifteen Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Award, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Television and Radio.

Steve Curwood is the executive producer and host of National Public Radio's Living On Earth, which he created in the spring of 1990. He has reported for NPR, the Boston Globe, WBUR-FM, and WGBH-TV in Boston. Mr. Curwood has shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his education reporting, and he lectures in environmental science and public policy at Harvard University.

An executive producer at CNN, Peter Dykstra oversees the network’s science, technology, and environment unit, as well as the weekly program Next@CNN. His special program investigating allegations of human hardships caused by the Endangered Species Act and other environmental laws won the Environmental Media Association’s award for newsmagazine programming, and his environmental program Earth Matters received a National Headliner Award. In 1993, he shared an Emmy Award for coverage of the Mississippi River floods. Mr. Dykstra also served on the board of directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Francis Hatch has spent most of his life in public service and for sixteen years was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature. During that time, he authored the nation’s first wetlands protection legislation, which still bears his name as the Hatch Act. Before entering politics, he worked in advertising, public relations, and as a journalist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He is currently chairman of the John Merck Fund, a charitable foundation, and an honorary board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The national coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970, Denis Hayes today is president and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation and chairs the board of the International Earth Day Network. Mr. Hayes has served as director of the federal Solar Energy Research Institute, practiced law in Silicon Valley, taught engineering at Stanford University, and been a visiting scholar at the Smithsonian. He has published more than 100 articles on environmental themes and his three books on energy have appeared in a half-dozen languages.

Former editor-in-chief of New Times and the Village Voice, Jonathan Z. Larsen is a freelance writer who serves on the editorial boards of the Columbia Journalism Review and OnEarth Magazine. He began his journalism career at Time in 1963, where he held numerous positions from Saigon bureau chief to Hollywood reporter. He has written for a wide range of publications, including Life, New York Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, and Manhattan inc.

Anthony Lewis was a columnist for the New York Times for thirty-one years until he retired in 2001. During his newspaper career he was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes: the first, in 1955, for a series on the dismissal of a Navy employee, and the second, in 1963, for his coverage of the Supreme Court. As a Neiman Fellow in 1956, Lewis studied at Harvard Law School, where he later served as a lecturer for fifteen years. He has taught at a number of American universities as a visiting professor, including Columbia and the universities of California, Illinois, and Arizona. He is the author of three books: Gideon’s Trumpet, Portrait of a Decade, and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment.

Dr. Jane Lubchenco is Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University, where her research is focused on biodiversity, climate change, sustainability science, and the state of the oceans. She is a past president of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and is a member of the National Science Board, nominated by former president Bill Clinton. Dr. Lubchenco has received numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, seven honorary degrees, and the 2002 Heinz Award in the Environment.

John G. H. Oakes, son of John B. Oakes, is the publisher of Four Walls Eight Windows, an independent book publishing house in New York City. A former editor for Grove Press and Henry Holt, he has written for, among others, the Associated Press, the Review of Contemporary Fiction and the International Herald Tribune. Editor of the anthology In the Realms of the Unreal: Writings of the “Insane,” he was recently named a knight in the Order of Arts and Letters by the government of France.

Gerard Piel is the founding editor and publisher of Scientific American. Piel ran the magazine from 1948 to 1986, during which time he grew its circulation to 1,000,000 worldwide. Among the many awards his career in science journalism has earned him are UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Arches of Science Award. His most recent book, published in 2001, is The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the 20th Century.

One of the world’s preeminent biologists, Dr. Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard, where he has been a faculty

member since 1956. Dr. Wilson has written twenty-one books, two of which have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes: On Human Nature and The Ants, co-authored with Bert Hölldobler. In addition, Dr. Wilson has written more than 370 articles, most for scientific journals, and has received some seventy-five awards in international recognition for his contributions to science and humanity. He is also the recipient of twenty-seven honorary doctoral degrees from North America and Europe.