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General Session and Keynote Speakers
John Brock
President and CEO, Coca-Cola Enterprises
Inc. |
Douglas
Conant
President and CEO, Campbell Soup Company |
Cal Dooley
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Grocery Manufacturers Association |
Dan Esty
Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law
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Lord Michael Hastings
Global Director for Citizenship and
Diversity, KPMG LLP |
Kevin
Havelock
President, Unilever USA
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Stephen L. Johnson
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency |
Audrone (Audra) Karalius
Vice President
Sustainability, Environment and Safety
Sara Lee Corporation |
Dr. Lester Lave
Higgins Professor of Economics and University Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University
Director, Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative
Co-Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center |
Peter A.
Seligmann
Chairman and CEO, Conservation International |
Gerald A. Steiner
Executive Vice President Commercial Acceptance,
Monsanto Corporation |
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John Brock
President and CEO
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
John Brock joined Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world’s
largest marketer, distributor and producer of Coca-Cola
products, in April 2006. Coca-Cola Enterprises sells
approximately 80 percent of The Coca-Cola Company's
bottle and can volume in North America.
Prior to joining Coca-Cola Enterprises, Brock served as
chief executive officer of InBev, the world's largest
beer brewer by volume. Before his InBev tenure, he held
numerous posts at Cadbury Schweppes and Dr.
Pepper/Seven-Up Bottling Group, most recently serving as
chief operating officer of Cadbury Schweppes and
chairman of Dr. Pepper/Seven-Up Bottling Group from
March 2000 to January 2003. During this time Brock was
named Beverage Industry Magazine's 2000 Executive of the
Year. Before joining Cadbury Schweppes in 1983, Brock
began his CPG career at Procter & Gamble Company.
Brock was recently named chairman of the Americas for
the International Business Leaders Forum. He is a
director of Dow Jones & Company and previously served as
a director of The Campbell Soup Company and Reed
Elsevier, Plc in London.

Douglas Conant
President and CEO
Campbell Soup Company
Douglas R. Conant was appointed president and chief
executive officer of Campbell Soup Company in January
2001, at which time he was also elected a director of
the company. Conant is Campbell’s 11th leader in the
company’s nearly 140-year history.
Conant joined Campbell with 25 years of extensive food
industry experience from three of the world’s leading
food companies: General Mills, Inc., Kraft Foods, Inc.,
and Nabisco, Inc. Conant began his career in 1976 in
marketing at General Mills, Inc. After 10 years with
General Mills, he then moved to Kraft, where he held top
management positions in marketing and strategy.
Immediately prior to joining Campbell, Conant was
president of the $3.5 billion Nabisco Foods Company,
where he led that unit to five consecutive years of
double-digit earnings growth.
Conant is a director of Applebee’s International, Inc.,
chairman of the board of directors of Students in Free
Enterprise (SIFE), chairman and trustee of The
Conference Board, a trustee of the International Tennis
Hall of Fame, and was elected chairman of the GMA Board
of Directors in November 2007.

Cal Dooley
President and Chief Executive Officer
Grocery Manufacturers Association
Cal Dooley was named president and chief executive
officer of the Food Products Association (FPA) in 2005.
Under his leadership, FPA merged with the Grocery
Manufacturers Association (GMA) in 2006 and today Dooley
serves as president and chief executive officer of GMA.
Dooley served as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from 1991 to 2004, representing the 20th
District of California. He served on the House
Agriculture Committee and was ranking minority member of
the Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations,
Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. He also served on the
House Resources Committee. Dooley is a fourth-generation
farmer and partner in Dooley Farms, growing cotton,
alfalfa and walnuts in California's San Joaquin Valley.

Dan Esty
Director
Yale Center for Environmental Law
Dan Esty is Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and
Policy at Yale University with faculty appointments in
both Yale’s Environmental and Law Schools. He is
director of the Yale Center for Business and Environment
and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy.
Formerly a senior official at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Esty is one of the world’s leading
experts on corporate environmental strategy. He and his
consulting group, Esty Environmental Partners, have
advised CEOs and top executives from Dow, Hanes,
Honeywell, Ikea, Kerr-McGee, Limited Brands, Nokia,
Northeast Utilities, Shell and more than a dozen other
companies in the United States, Europe and Asia. Dan
helped establish and continues to serve on environmental
advisory boards at The Coca-Cola Company and Unilever.
Esty is the author or editor of nine books and numerous
articles on environmental policy issues and the
relationships between the environment and trade,
competitiveness, governance, development and
environmental performance. His recent prizewinning book,
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental
Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build
Competitive Advantage, explains why environmental
thinking has become a core element of business strategy
and how corporate environmental efforts can generate
significant market opportunities.

Lord Michael Hastings
Global Director for Citizenship and Diversity
KPMG LLP
Lord Michael Hastings is the global head of corporate
social responsibility (CSR) for KPMG LLP where he
directs the firm’s global CSR strategy, building
recognition programs and developing new opportunities
for corporate citizenship appropriate to different
markets and geographies.
He represents the company on the Global Corporate
Citizenship International Committee of the World
Economic Forum and serves on the oversight board for
Students in Free Enterprise. He also represents KPMG as
a member of the World Business Council on Sustainable
Development.
Before joining KPMG, Hastings served as the British
Broadcasting Company’s first head of CSR, where he led a
range of corporate and business responsibility programs.
He has also served on the U.K’s Commission for Racial
Equality, and is currently chairman of Crime Concern,
the U.K’s leading non-governmental crime prevention
organization. He was appointed a Commander of the
British Empire in 2002 in recognition of his work in
community safety and made an Independent Life Peer in
2005.

Kevin Havelock
President
Unilever USA
In his 22 year career with Unilever, Kevin Havelock has
worked for and led Unilever businesses across the world.
In April 2007, Havelock was appointed president Unilever
USA, responsible for Unilever’s U.S. businesses which
include well known brands such as Dove, Lipton, Suave,
Hellmann’s, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Axe and
Country Crock. Seventeen thousand people work for
Unilever in the U.S. and the company’s U.S. retail sales
total $10 billion.
Over the years, Havelock has taken on roles with
increasing responsibility, including in 1997, serving as
chairman of Unilever Foods France; in 2000, was named
chairman of Unilever Arabia, where he was responsible
for eight countries across the Middle East; in 2004, was
appointed chairman of Unilever Foods UK. In March 2006,
Havelock became chairman, Unilever UK, responsible for
the UK operating companies with 9,000 employees and
sales of $2.8 Billion.

Stephen L. Johnson
Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
On May 2, 2005, Stephen L. Johnson was sworn in as
the 11th administrator of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. As administrator, he leads EPA’s
efforts to protect human health and the environment,
managing more than 17,000 agency employees nationwide
and overseeing an annual budget of $7.2 billion.
As a scientist and 26-year veteran of the agency,
Administrator Johnson brings a strong scientific
background and wealth of experience to his role as the
nation’s top environmental official and head of the
premier environmental agency in the world. Prior to
becoming administrator, he held several senior-level
positions, including acting administrator, deputy
administrator, acting deputy administrator, and
assistant administrator of EPA’s Office of Prevention,
Pesticides and Toxic Substances. He has received
numerous awards and commendations, including the
Presidential Rank Award – the highest award that can be
given to a civilian federal employee.

Audrone (Audra) Karalius
Vice President
Sustainability, Environment and Safety
Sara Lee Corporation
As the vice president of environment and safety for Sara
Lee Corporation, Audra Karalius is responsible for the
company’s global environmental and safety strategy.
Since joining Sara Lee in May 2006, her role has
expanded to champion Sustainability, leading Sara Lee’s
effort to advance its sustainability position globally.
Prior to joining Sara Lee, Audra was vice president of
environment, health, and safety at Nalco Chemical
Company, and director of environment, safety, and
health/quality assurance oversight at Argonne National
Laboratory.
Throughout her career, Audra has been actively involved
with leading industry organizations through board
memberships and frequent lectures. In 2006, Audra
founded and chaired the Food & Beverage Industry
Sustainability Roundtable, which started as a
sustainability discussion forum working to define
sustainability parameters for the food and beverage
industry. It grew into the GMA Food, Beverage & Consumer
Products Sustainability Principles Team which she
currently chairs. Additionally, she serves on the GMA
Sustainability Leadership Team. Audra also belongs to
the Conference Board Chief ES&H Officers Council, the
Corporate Responsibility Officer, and the Food Industry
Environmental Council. Most recently, she spoke at the
2007 Food Industry Environmental Council Conference
about sustainability for the food & beverage industry.

Dr. Lester Lave
Higgins Professor of Economics and University Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University
Director, Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative
Co-Director,
Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center
Lester B. Lave is the Harry B. and James H. Higgins
Professor of Economics and University Professor at
Carnegie Mellon University. He is also director,
Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative, and
co-director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry
Center. His teaching and research interests include
applied economics, political economy, quantitative risk
assessment, safety standards, modeling the effects of
global climate change, public policy concerning
greenhouse gas emissions, and understanding the issues
surrounding the electric transmission and distribution
system. Lave was elected to the Institute of Medicine of
the National Academy of Sciences, is a past president of
the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), and won the SRA’s
Distinguished Achievement Award. He has received grants
from the National Science Foundation, Environmental
Protection Agency, Department of Energy, other federal
and state agencies, many foundations and companies. He
served on a White House taskforce in the Carter
Administration as a technical expert to a White House
conference on global warming, and as a lecturer in Japan
and Korea for the U.S. State Department. Lave has
testified before Congress on many occasions.

Peter A. Seligmann
Chairman and CEO
Conservation International
Peter A. Seligmann co-founded Conservation International
(CI) in 1987 and has been a leader in conservation
efforts for the past 25 years. During his stewardship,
CI has earned a reputation as an organization on the
cutting edge of conservation, creating innovative and
lasting solutions to biodiversity and sustainable
development problems. He has developed strong
conservation partnerships between CI and leaders in
industry, science, government and entertainment, both in
the United States and abroad.
Under Seligmann’s leadership, CI has pioneered
conservation tools that are economically sound,
scientifically based and culturally sensitive. CI has
grown to be a major international conservation leader
with field offices in 45 countries and major influences
in science and business.
Seligmann serves on the advisory councils of the Jackson
Hole Land Trust, Ecotrust and other not-for-profit
organizations, including the Wild Salmon Center.
President Clinton named him a member of the Enterprise
for the Americas Board in 2000.

Gerald A. Steiner
Executive Vice President Commercial Acceptance
Monsanto Corporation
Jerry Steiner is executive vice president, commercial
acceptance, with responsibility to lead Monsanto’s
global corporate government and public and industry
affairs, as well as develop business with downstream
partners in the grain and food industry. Steiner has
worked for Monsanto for over 24 years and has been
involved in biotechnology issues for more than a decade.
From 1996-1998, Steiner led the Global Product Strategy
Group. He lived in Brussels for two years, serving as
the general manager of Monsanto's Europe/Africa
business, after which time he led Monsanto's Corporate
Strategy Group. Steiner was appointed to his current
position in June 2003.
Steiner is actively involved in the industry as chairman
of the CropLife International Biotech Strategy Council
and the Council for Biotech Information. He is a board
member of The Keystone Center, Corporate Council on
Africa and a member of the International Food and Ag
Trade Policy Group (IPC).
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