Chairman of the Board, John Dutton 

JOHN DUTTON is qualified Chartered Management Accountant and previously a lecturer at the University of Aston Business School, John developed his career in Finance in the electronics and automotive industries. During this period he also held two internal Organisational Development Consultant roles where he led several major Organisation Development assignments in various countries. His final position before becoming an independent consultant was Finance and Commercial Controller for a multinational automobile manufacturer, responsible for extensive subsidiaries and joint ventures throughout Africa. His background enables him to offer a combination of commercial management skills and insights into people issues. He has worked in many sections of the economy including a healthcare community unit and an overseas healthcare development charity.

Professor Paul Arthur Berkman
 
PAUL ARTHUR BERKMAN integrates science, policy and information technology with global perspectives that are relevant to the future of humankind. He is Head of the Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme at the Scott Polar Research Institute (www.spri.cam.ac.uk/research/aog/) and Research Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara. He also is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of EvREsearch LTD, which utilizes its patented Digital Integration System (DigIn®) for government, business and education applications.
Paul is an interdisciplinary scientist with formal training in oceanography and ecology. He focuses on science-policy interactions in international governance, particularly with regard to the cooperative management of transboundary resources and international spaces that exist beyond national jurisdictions. His principal activities currently involve the: (1) "North Pole as a pole of peace" with the High Seas in the central Arctic Ocean as an undisputed international space; (2) conceptual development and practical implementation of environmental security in the Arctic Ocean; and (3) science-policy lessons from the first fifty years of the Antarctic Treaty System.
Paul Berkman has wintered, scuba-dived under the sea-ice and lead government-sponsored research expeditions to Antarctica. He is the author of Science into Policy: Global Lessons from Antarctica (Academic Press, 2002). Paul has a master's degree and doctorate in biological oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. Paul came to the University of Cambridge in 2007-08 initially as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to plan the Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interaction in International Governance (www.atsummit50.aq) that was convened at the Smithsonian Institution on the 50th anniversary of the signature-day for the Antarctic Treaty in the city where it was adopted "in the interest of all mankind." For more details see (www.spri.cam.ac.uk/people/berkman)
He also has received the Antarctic Service Medal from the United States Congress as well as a NASA Faculty Fellowships at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Byrd Fellowship at the Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan; and Erskine Fellowship in the Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Professor David Cope

DAVID COPE is currently Director, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, UK Parliament. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University’s international postgraduate college. His fascination with the environment developed at an early age and while an undergraduate at Cambridge he was an avid attender at lectures at the Scott Polar Research Institute and took part in expeditions to measure glacier ice flows in Iceland and Norway.

Originally specialising in population economics, his career began when he was appointed to an innovative ‘interdisciplinary’ lectureship at Nottingham University, teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate courses ranging from Engineering to Theology, in particular, the first university courses in ‘Futures Studies’ in the UK.

At Nottingham, he developed an interest in energy and environmental economics and, with colleagues, built up a research programme with projects that ranged from the problems of radioactive waste disposal to the energy consumption of alternative urban structures. A scholarship from the US Embassy in London enabled him to develop his thinking on the provision of scientific and technological analysis to non-specialists, particularly legislatures, through a period of time with the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment in Washington DC.

In 1981, he joined the International Energy Agency, the energy ‘club’ of the industrialised countries, based in Paris, as environmental team leader, providing advice to member governments, private companies and voluntary sector organisations, especially on pollution control from fossil fuels and on nuclear power.

By 1986, a surfeit of international business missions encouraged him to return to the UK and to Cambridge as the Executive Director of the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development, a charitable research institute, where he remained for 11 years. Here he worked on subjects as varied as the implications of the 1986 Chernobyl incident for the UK, the organisation of the largest ‘environmental audit’ ever conducted of a UK private enterprise, aspects of the UK’s ‘greenhouse gas’ reduction strategy and packaging and the environment.

This period of his career found David increasingly involved in research studies in the USA, Canada and East Asia, with fellowships at the University of Hong Kong and the East-West Center in Hawaii. In particular, he participated in several projects that involved extensive research in Japan. The attractions of that country meant that, in 1997, he readily accepted an invitation to become Professor of Energy and Resource Economics at Doshisha University in Kyoto; Japan’s second oldest private university.

Plans for an extended stay in Japan were however, revised when he was offered his current position as Director of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) at the Houses of Parliament. This is a joint office of both Houses, created in 1989. In April 2001, it became the first new permanent institution of the UK Parliament for nearly 40 years. POST’s role is to ensure that individual members and committees of both Houses are sufficiently well informed to enable them to conduct effective scrutiny of government policy and to anticipate the full effects of prospective legislation and general developments in science and technology.

David is a trustee of the Canada-UK Colloquia, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the International Polar Foundation, UK. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Energy Institute and the Royal Geographical Society.

His main recreations are listening to Handel, Purcell and Wagner, hill walking, especially in the Peak District, travelling throughout East Asia, particularly the more remote parts of Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and astronomy.
 

Jerry Cope 

 
Following an early career in Human Resourcs and then a move into Strategy, JERRY COPE became Group Managing Director of Royal Mail and started the recovery of the company. He succeeded in turning it into a profitable business, delivering record levels of service quality. Jerry is a successful executive coach, a facilitator for a number of Leadership Development and Culture Change Programmes, and a specialist consultant in Organisational Development and HR.  Jerry is also former Chair of Kingston University and current Chair of the Prison Service Pay Review Body. He has also worked for a number of years with the Pilotlight Organisation, helping charities to develop their strategies.

 
R. Andreas Kraemer

ANDREAS KRAEMER is active in sustainable development, environment policy, climate and energy policies for over 20 years, R. Andreas Kraemer has been Director of Ecologic Institute since its foundation in 1995. In April 2008, he became chairman of the Ecologic Institute in Washington DC - Ecologic’s newly incorporated presence.
Since 1993 he is also a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University, lecturing on European integration and environmental policy in the Duke in Berlin Program. Andreas is Co-Chairman of the advisory board of OekoWorld, setting criteria for global investment for a group of ethical and 'green' investment funds or mutual trusts, and of Oekom Research, a rating agency specialising in corporate and governmental or 'sovereign' debtors' ethics and sustainability. He also serves on the Boards of the Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development and the French-Alsatian NGO Solidarité Eau Europe, and is a coordinator of the British German Environment Forum. He is also a board member of Oekom Verlag, a publishing house dedicated to sustainable development, based in Munich, Germany.
With a strong background in institutional analysis and capacity building in sustainable development, environmental policy and resource management, he now focuses on integrating environmental concerns into other policies, notably EU General Affairs and external relations, including trade, development, foreign affairs and security policy. He is particularly engaged in strengthening Transatlantic relations and cooperation on environment, climate and energy security.
Andreas was awarded a fellowship by the Prince of Wales’ Business and the Environment Programme, and a scholarship by the Carl Duisberg Stiftung (now InWent).
Previous to the founding of Ecologic, Andreas worked for a range of policy institutes: Science Center Berlin (WZB), the Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW) and the Research Unit Environmental Policy of the Free University of Berlin (FFU). From 1991 to its closure in 1995, he was Senior Fellow at the Bonn office of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP).
R. Andreas Kraemer was born in Dortmund, Germany, and worked in the petrochemical industry before studying environmental engineering and sciences at Institute fuer Technischen Umweltschutz of the Technische Universität Berlin and the Université de Paris Diderot. He lives in Berlin with his wife and two daughters.

David W. H. Walton

After finishing a degree in Botany at Edinburgh University DAVID WALTON went on a university expedition in 1967 to Iran researching animal diseases. On returning to the UK he went immediately down to Antarctica beginning a career with British Antarctic Survey (BAS). For the next 39 years David worked for BAS in a variety of research and management posts, gaining a PhD from Birmingham University. He was responsible for all the environmental management and conservation, mapping, databases and information management including the provision of scientific information to the educational system and the public, and was awarded the Polar medal for his contributions to Antarctic research. David is currently a Visiting Professor at Liverpool University.

Establishing the international journal Antarctic Science in 1989 David has since run it as Editor in Chief. The journal currently uses its profits for charitable support of young Antarctic scientists.

He also headed the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) delegation to the annual Antarctic Treaty meetings from 1992 until 2006 and was awarded the first SCAR Medal for International Scientific Collaboration in 2006. David has recently been involved in reviews of the Antarctic programmes of Germany and South Africa and is presently involved in writing the history of SCAR and researching a book on Antarctic Science and politics.

Ambassador Kenneth S. Yalowitz
 
AMBASSADOR YALOWITZ was appointed to the Norman E. McCulloch, Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, July 1, 2003.

Ken completed his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin and holds a Russian Institute Certificate, MA and Master of Philosophy degree from Columbia University. He speaks Russian. He retired from the US Department of State on September 30, 2001 after 36 years as career diplomat and member of the Senior Foreign Service. He served twice as a U.S. ambassador: to the Republic of Belarus from 1994-1997; and to Georgia from 1998-2001. His other foreign assignments included two tours of duty in Moscow, The Hague and the US Mission to NATO in Brussels. His domestic assignments have included country director for Australia-New Zealand Affairs, deputy director for economics of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs, and Congressional Foreign Affairs Fellow. Ambassador Yalowitz previously taught political science at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He also served as the Area Studies Chair on the former Soviet Union (1993-94) and Dean of the Senior Seminar (1997-98) at the Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. government’s training institution for preparing American diplomats and other professionals for foreign service.

He has won a variety of awards for conflict prevention and for overall diplomatic performance. He was chosen for the Ambassador Robert Frasure award for peacemaking and conflict prevention in 2000 for his work to prevent the spillover of the Chechen war into Georgia.

He has been adjunct professor of government at Georgetown University, visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and a diplomat-in-residence at American University. He is also a member of the Institutional Review Board of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the Board of Directors of the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, the Advisory Board for the Vermont Law School International and Comparative Law Program, and the Board of Directors of the Open Spaces Foundation. In 2009, he was invited to join the American Academy of Diplomacy, which is a private, non-profit, non-partisan, elected organization whose active membership is limited to men and women who have held positions of high responsibility in crafting and implementing American foreign policy.

He is married to Judith Gold Yalowitz and has one son, Andrew.

Administrative Director - Julie A. Hambrook Berkman, PhD