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Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics Conference
Leaders From Diverse Sectors Will Convene to Address Key Risks and Opportunities
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2010 – At The Wall
Street Journal's third annual ECO:nomics conference, leaders such as
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu; Robert Iger, president and chief
executive officer of The Walt Disney Company; Peter Voser, chief executive
of Royal Dutch Shell and other top industry and policy experts will tackle
the most urgent issues in business and the environment. The conference will
be held March 3-5, 2010 in Santa Barbara, Calif. at Bacara Resort & Spa.
With its highly interactive format, ECO:nomics 2010 will bring together the
best minds in business and policy to uncover the real risks and
opportunities emerging during this time of regulatory and economic
uncertainty. The conference will focus on the strategic challenges faced by
decision-makers from industries such as energy, manufacturing, consumer
goods, finance, infrastructure, automotive and others as prospects for a
global carbon-emissions constraint remain in flux and the recession
persists.
ECO:nomics is unique in that it convenes leaders from diverse sectors to
address upcoming challenges on a highly strategic level.
Participants in ECO:nomics 2010 include the following influencers:
-- Tom Albanese, chief executive, Rio Tinto
-- Gabriel Alonso, chief executive officer, Horizon Wind Energy
-- Gregory Arnold, managing partner, CE2 Capital Partners
-- Gregory H. Boyce, chairman and chief executive officer,
Peabody Energy
-- Peter Bradford, vice chair, The Union of Concerned Scientists
-- Navin Chaddha, managing director, Mayfield Fund
-- Steven Chu, secretary, U. S. Department of Energy
-- Andris E. Cukurs, chief executive officer, North American
Subsidiary; Suzlon Wind
Energy Corporation
-- Kevin Czinger, president and chief executive officer, CODA
Automotive
-- John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
-- Richard Edelman, president and chief executive officer,
Edelman
-- Nicholas Moore Eisenberger, managing principal, GreenOrder
-- Daniel Esty, professor of environmental law and policy, Yale
University
-- Jason Grumet, president, Bipartisan Policy Center
-- David G. Hawkins, director of climate programs, Natural
Resources Defense Council
-- Lewis Hay, III, chairman and chief executive officer, FPL
Group
-- Paul Holland, general partner, Foundation Capital
-- Robert A. Iger, president and chief executive officer, The
Walt Disney Company
-- Vinod Khosla, managing partner, Khosla Ventures
-- Amory Lovins, chairman and chief scientist, Rocky Mountain
Institute
-- Mindy S. Lubber, president, Ceres
-- Michael G. Morris, chairman, president and chief executive
officer, American Electric
Power
-- Pat Mulroy, general manager, Southern Nevada Water Authority
-- Rajendra Pachauri, chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change
-- T. Boone Pickens, chairman, BP Capital Management
-- Gwen Ruta, vice president, corporate partnerships,
Environmental Defense Fund
-- Ann Marie Sastry, chief executive officer, Sakti3
-- Willie Soon, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics
-- J. Craig Venter, chief executive officer, Synthetic Genomics
-- Peter Voser, chief executive, Royal Dutch Shell
-- John M. Woolard, president and chief executive officer,
BrightSource Energy
-- Daniel Yergin, chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
(CERA)
ECO:nomics will be hosted by editors of the Wall Street
Journal, including Alan Murray, deputy managing editor and
executive editor, online; Kimberley Strassel, editorial board
member; and Jeffrey Ball, environmental news editor. Penetrating
interviews with the luminaries will focus on the impact of
environmental issues on the CEO and will go beyond short-term
tactics to assess future prospects in the hottest areas, from
the viability of new technologies to the outlook for fossil
fuels to continuing policy uncertainty. Participants will
benefit from the Journal's analytical focus on the
insights of the world's most influential leaders.
"The Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics conference has
become the premier forum for chief executives, entrepreneurs and
thought leaders to address the most pressing risks and spark
discussions about how to capitalize on environmental issues
facing companies around the world," said Mr. Murray.
For more information about The Wall Street Journal's
2010 ECO:nomics conference, please go to
http://economics.wsj.com/
About The Wall Street Journal
Founded in 1889, The Wall Street Journal is the world's
leading business publication. Boasting more than two million
subscribers, the Journal is the largest newspaper by
total paid circulation and has the largest individually paid
circulation of the top 25 U.S. newspapers. The Wall Street
Journal franchise, with a global audience of 3.8 million,
also comprises The Wall Street Journal Asia, The Wall Street
Journal Europe and The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com,
the leading provider of business and financial news and analysis
on the Web with more than one million subscribers and 26 million
users per month. WSJ.com is the flagship site of The Wall Street
Journal Digital Network, which also includes MarketWatch.com,
Barrons.com and AllThingsD.com. The Wall Street Journal Radio
Network services news and information to more than 375 radio
stations in the U.S. The Journal holds 33 Pulitzer
Prizes for outstanding journalism, and, in 2009, was ranked No.
1 in BtoB's Media Power 50 for the 10th consecutive year.
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