Speakers
Andrew (Sandy) Askland is Director of the Center for Law, Science
& Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU, where he
teaches courses in Privacy and Economics and the Law. He also has research
interests in environmental ethics and bioethics and in moral and political
theory generally. Askland is a member of the American Philosophical
Association. Previously, he was a visiting professor at the University of
Guam and at Vilnius University in Lithuania, an adjunct professor at the
University of Colorado, and practiced law in Maryland and Wash., D.C.
Paul Schiff Berman is Dean and Foundation Professor of Law at the
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU. Berman’s scholarship focuses on
the intersection of international law, conflict of laws, cyberspace law and
the cultural analysis of law. Before arriving at ASU, he was the Jesse Root
Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He served
as law clerk to then Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards, of the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and for U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Elizabeth A. Corley is the Lincoln Professor of Public Policy,
Ethics & Emerging Technologies, and an Associate Professor in the School of
Public Affairs at ASU. Her research interests focus on technology policy,
specifically the social, ethical and policy implications of emerging
technologies, and environmental policy. Corley is a Co-Principal
Investigator for the National Science Foundation-funded Center for
Nanotechnology in Society at ASU. Her new book, Urban Environmental
Policy Analysis: Toward Sustainability, co-authored with Heather E.
Campbell, will be published by M.E. Sharpe in 2012. Corley serves on the
editorial boards for Research Evaluation and Evaluation and
Program Planning.
Robert Falkner is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Senior
Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance. He directs the Nanotechnology
Policy and Regulation programme at LSE. In 2008-2009, he coordinated an
international research project on European Union and United States
nanomaterials regulation, which resulted in the publication of the Chatham
House report, Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies: Towards
Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation (2009). Among his most recent
publications is Business Power and Conflict in International
Environmental Politics (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Daniel J. Fiorino is an Executive in Residence at American
University in Washington, D.C., and Director of its Center for Environmental
Policy. Fiorino previously held several management and advisory positions at
the Environmental Protection Agency, including Associate Director of the
Office of Policy Analysis, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Administrator for
Policy, and Director of the National Environmental Performance Track. He is
the author or co-author of four books and more than two dozen journal
articles and book chapters. His writing has been recognized with nine
national awards, including the 2007 Brownlow Award of the National Academy
of Public Administration for The New Environmental Regulation.
Steffi Friedrichs is the Director-General of the Nanotechnology
Industries Association, globally the only industries-focused trade
association in nanotechnology, which provides a sector-independent,
responsible voice for the industrial nanotechnologies supply chains. She has
represented the nanotechnology industry with expert advice and evidence to
numerous national and international expert committees and regulatory
organizations, initiated in-depth programs in support of the ongoing
advancement of nanotechnologies, and participated in stakeholder debates and
citizen’s engagement panels. Friedrichs is a former Senior Nanotechnology
Consultant at The Technology Partnership. She is a member of the Board of
Editors for NanoEducation, and is a member of several expert
panels/boards regarding regulatory-, safety- and innovation-aspects of
nanotechnologies.
Greg M. Garcia, an attorney at Polsinelli Shughart PC, has
substantial litigation experience in commercial, insurance and personal
injury matters, and he has obtained favorable jury verdicts and represented
clients at the appellate level. Garcia is trained in the legal and business
aspects of the biosciences, and he also focuses on the environmental,
regulatory and liability issues associated with the biosciences and the use
of nanotechnology in manufacturing. He is a Commissioner on the Arizona
Biomedical Research Commission, which supports translational medical
research and the State of Arizona’s investment in the biosciences, and he is
a member of the Arizona BioIndustry Association, where he chairs the
Government Affairs Committee. Garcia also participates in the Biotechnology
Committee of the Section of Science and Technology Law of the American Bar
Association.
Charles Geraci is a Senior Scientist and Coordinator of the
Nanotechnology Research Center at the National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH). Geraci provides overall coordination and
strategic guidance to the nanotechnology research program, and collaborates
internationally with other country programs on various aspects of
nanotechnology workplace safety and health. He has authored or co-authored
many of the papers that have helped set the direction for proactive thinking
in nanotechnology safety and health, and manages several nanotechnology
projects that focus on the development and dissemination of workplace risk
management guidelines. Geraci also sponsors the NIOSH nanotechnology field
team that is conducting visits to nonmaterial producers and users to
characterize exposures, evaluate controls and develop best practices.
Edward R. Glady, Jr. is an attorney at Polsinelli Shughart PC,
where much of his practice involves scientific and technological issues in
diverse areas, including environmental, toxic tort, mass tort, product
liability, manufacturing, construction and aerospace. Glady also has
extensive experience in insurance law and has represented clients in most
states and in several foreign countries. While attending Georgetown
University Law School, from which he graduated with honors, he worked for a
prominent Washington, D.C., intellectual property firm. Glady has practiced
law for nearly 30 years, focusing much of his time on representing clients
in risk management, dispute resolution and litigation.
Kiril Hristovski is an Assistant Professor of Environmental
Technology at the College of Technology and Innovation at ASU, and a member
of the civil, environmental and sustainable engineering graduate faculty at
the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, also at
ASU. Hristovski teaches and researches in the areas of environmental
implications and applications of nanomaterials, water and wastewater
treatment technologies, emerging contaminants, solid and hazardous waste
management, environmental chemistry and emergency management.
Kristen M. Kulinowski is a Faculty Fellow in the Department of
Chemistry, and Director for External Affairs for the Center for Biological
and Environmental Nanotechnology at Rice University. She is Director of the
International Council on Nanotechnology, an international, multi-stakeholder
organization that develops and communicates information regarding potential
environmental and health risks of nanotechnology in order to foster risk
reduction while maximizing societal benefit. Kulinowski is the principal
investigator on an OSHA grant to develop and disseminate training materials
for safe handling of nanomaterials in the workplace, and she co-authored a
guidance document on the subject for the National Institute for
Environmental Health Sciences.
Philip H. Lippel is a consultant on nanoscience and emerging
technologies for The NanoBusiness Alliance. Lippel has worked on a variety
of technical, policy and science communication issues at the national and
international level in fields including nanotechnology, science education
and workforce, informatics, telecommunications and commercialization of
emerging technologies. He has provided top level scientific support to the
leadership of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative, helped to keep
current Congress, the public and other interested parties on federally
funded nanotechnology research and development, and liaised with companies,
NGOs and state agencies interested in nanotechnology commercialization.
Timothy F. Malloy is a Professor in the School of Public Health
and the School of Law at UCLA, and Faculty Director of the interdisciplinary
UCLA Sustainable Technology and Policy Program. Malloy joined the faculty
after working in private practice and at the Environmental Protection
Agency. His research interests focus on environmental, chemical and
nanotechnology policy, regulatory policy and organizational theory, with
particular emphasis on the relationship between regulatory design and
implementation and the structure of business organizations. Malloy has
worked and written extensively in the area of risk governance and pollution
prevention, melding together his academic interests with his work in the
Sustainable Technology and Policy Program.
Gary Marchant is the Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies,
Law and Ethics, and Executive Director, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Professor of Life Sciences, and
Associate Director, Origins Project, all at ASU. Marchant teaches and
researches in the areas of environmental law, risk assessment and risk
management, genetics and the law, biotechnology law, food and drug law,
legal aspects of nanotechnology and law, science and technology. Prior to
joining the ASU faculty in 1999, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C.,
office of the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where his practice focused on
regulatory issues.
Terry Medley is Global Director of Corporate Regulatory Affairs at
DuPont, and has more than 30 years of experience in science, environmental
and regulatory matters with a particular focus in biotechnology,
nanotechnology and environmental protection laws. Medley is a member of The
National Academies, the National Research Council’s Board on Environmental
Studies and Toxicology and the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for
Bioethics’ External Advisory Board. He is the Chair of the Business Industry
Advisory Committee (BIAC) Nanotechnology Committee, and the BIAC delegation
lead to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Working
Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials.
John C. Monica Jr., an attorney at Porter Wright, has considerable litigation experience in defending national and international products liability claims for Fortune 500 companies. Monica is a nationally recognized authority on nanotechnology environmental, health and safety, insurance, consumer product and product liability issues. He wrote the full-length legal treatise, Nanotechnology Law, first published by West/Thomson/Reuters. As a member of the American National Standards Institute and American Society for Testing and Materials, Monica participated in the development of voluntary international nomenclature and EHS standard for the nanotechnology industry. He was named in 2009 as one of the top ten experts in environmental, health and safety issues related to engineered nanoscale materials.
Jeff Morris is the
Environmental Protection Agency’s National Program Director for
Nanotechnology, where he manages the agency’s Nanomaterials Research
Program. Morris led the development of EPA’s 2007 Nanotechnology White Paper
and the 2009 EPA Nanomaterials Research Strategy. He also co-leads the U.S.
delegation to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s
Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials, and co-chairs the Working
Party’s test guideline’s steering group.
Steve Owens is Assistant
Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention at
the Environmental Protection Agency. Owens manages the nation’s regulatory
and scientific programs on pesticides and industrial chemicals, and oversees
many collaborative pollution prevention programs. He was the longest-serving
(2003-2009) Director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in
the agency’s history, where he provided executive leadership and set overall
agency policy and priorities. He made protecting children from toxic
exposures a top priority, and among many other initiatives, he helped launch
Arizona’s Children’s Environmental Health Project and established an Office
of Children’s Environmental Health. An attorney, Owens also practiced
environmental law in Phoenix for 14 years, and is a former President of the
Environmental Council of the States.
Jennifer Sass is a Senior
Scientist in the Health and Environment program of the National Resources
Defense Council, and a Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University
in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. Sass is an
expert in U.S. chemical policy and regulations, and has published more than
three dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals, presented testimony in the
U.S. Congress, and participated in U.S. government scientific advisory
committees.
Jeffrey Wong is the Chief
Scientist at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control,
California Environmental Protection Agency. Wong manages efforts in
environmental measurements, biological and exposure monitoring, toxicology
and risk assessment, pollution prevention and technologies. Wong previously
was involved in forensic investigations for law enforcement. He has served
on study committees for the National Academy of Sciences, the EPA and the
Department of Energy, and has worked in areas related to the management and
disposal of nuclear materials. Wong is leading efforts focused on
nanotechnologies, emerging contaminants and green chemistry.