Welcome from The George Washington University Community
BEN VINSON III, PH.D., Dean, The George Washington University Columbian School of Arts and Science

Welcome from the Ad-Hoc Industry Natural Resource Management Group
BARBARA J. GOLDSMITH, Director, Ad-Hoc Industry Natural Resource Management Group and President, Barbara J. Goldsmith & Company LLC

WESLEY LOHEC, Vice President, Health, Safety and the Environment, Chevron Corporation

MARK TERCEK, President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy and Author, Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature (2013)

Introduced by: TOM GEIER, Manager, Government Affairs, 3M

The segment will include four speaker presentations that will identify and discuss each of the four game changers affecting natural resource practices and policies in 2013 and beyond. This will be followed by a suite of presentations by three or four speakers representing different stakeholder groups who will discuss how the game changers can affect their respective natural resource management, liability and restoration policy and practice decisions.

Understanding Today’s Game Changers

Facilitator:

BARBARA GOLDSMITH

Presenters:

Economic Efficiency
SUSAN DUDLEY, Director, Regulatory Studies Center, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, The George Washington University and Former Administrator, Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President

Risk Trade Offs
RAGNAR LOFSTEDT, Professor and Director, King’s College Center for Risk Management, London, England

Energy Development
RANDALL LUTHI, President, National Ocean Industries Association and Former Director, Minerals Management Service, US Department of the Interior

Biodiversity

LYNN SCARLETT, Visiting Scholar and Co-Director, Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth, Resources for the Future and Former Deputy Secretary of the Interior

Perspectives and Influences of the Game Changers

Facilitator:
LEROY (LEE) PADDOCK, Associate Dean for Environmental Studies, The George Washington University Law School

Presenters:

MARY DRAVES, Director, Global Remediation, The Dow Chemical Company

TERRENCE, ENK, PH.D., Senior Environmental Scientist-Wildlife & Ecology, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold

IONE TAYLOR, PH.D., Associate Director, Energy and Minerals, and Environmental Health, US Geological Survey (USGS)

DAN ASHE, Director, US Fish and Wildlife Service

Introduced by: MARGARET O'GORMAN, President, Wildlife Habitat Council

This segment will include presentations and discussions that are intended to encourage recognition of three continuing challenges often inherent in natural resource liability practice today: the need for front end targets and vision; the adequacy of data to make decisions; and ways to return resources more quickly to the communities that use them. The presentations will also include possible solutions to these challenges. The presentations will be followed by open discussion and Q&A with the Symposium audience.

Moderator:
MARCUS PEACOCK, Former Deputy Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency and Former Minority Staff Director, US Senate Committee on the Budget and

Panelists:

Front End Planning to Provide a Substance and Process Framework
PHILIP GOODRUM, Ph.D., Senior Managing Scientist, Integral Consulting
DAVE CHARTERS, Environmental Scientists, Superfund Remediation annd Technology Innovation, US Environmental Protection Agency (Tentative)

Processes for Determining Data Adequacy
ROBERT HADDAD, PH.D., Chief, Office of Response and Restoration, US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
BRIAN ISRAEL, Partner, Arnold & Porter, LLP

Faster Return of Resources to Local Community Use
MARGARET O'GORMAN, President, Wildlife Habitat Council

BARBARA J GOLDSMITH and Others