This meeting is by invitation only. Please contact John Mataya at 202-962-3263 for registration information.
Meeting description:
This workshop will address critical issues concerning growth, transportation and the environment in metropolitan Washington. The workshop is being organized as part of the Greater Washington 2050 regional initiative that is intended to improve the quality of life for Washington area residents over the next 40 years by fostering stronger regional awareness, leadership and action. The workshop will be a full-day event, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on November 20, 2008 at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG).
The workshop is designed to foster creative thinking about how important global, national and regional trends in energy and the environment, the economy, technology and migration patterns might evolve and influence our future. The alternative scenarios providing the framework for the workshop discussions are not forecasts, but they will be informed by research. Participants will focus on how regional leaders should prepare for and react to developments to ensure our region remains competitive in the face of a wide range of possible future conditions. We believe the workshop will influence how regional leaders think and talk about the possibilities ahead.
The workshop will include all the members of the Greater Washington 2050 Coalition and a diverse group of regional leaders from the business and civic community along with leaders from the local and federal public sectors in metropolitan Washington. The scenarios developed during this workshop will be incorporated into the Greater Washington 2050 process, including the regional public engagement process and the effort to draft a regional compact. This event is being financially supported by COG, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) and the D.C. Office of Planning.
Led by COG and a coalition of public, business, civic and environmental stakeholders, Greater Washington 2050 will build on what many now believe is an opportunity for convergence on big issues of growth, transportation and the environment.
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Expert Panel
Economy
Alice M. Rivlin, visiting professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University and a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at Brookings. She directs Brookings Greater Washington Research. Before returning to Brookings, Ms. Rivlin served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board (1996-99). She was director of the White House Office of Management and Budget in the first Clinton Administration. She also chaired the District of Columbia Financial Management Assistance Authority. Ms. Rivlin was the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office (1975-83). She was director of the Economic Studies Program at Brookings. She also served at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Ms. Rivlin received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, taught at Harvard, George Mason, and The New School Universities, has served on the Boards of Directors of several corporations, and as President of the American Economic Association. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange. She is a frequent contributor to newspapers, television, and radio, and is currently a regular commentator on Nightly Business Report. Her books include Systematic Thinking for Social Action (l971), Reviving the American Dream (1992), and Beyond the Dot.coms (with Robert Litan, 2001). She is co-editor of the Restoring Fiscal Sanity series: Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget (2004, with Isabel Sawhill) Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2005: Meeting the Long-Run Challenges (with Isabel Sawhill), and Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge (with Joseph Antos), as well as of The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution (2001, with Robert Litan). Ms. Rivlin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. She received a B.A. in economics from Bryn Mawr College; and a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in economics 1958. She is married to economist Sidney G. Winter, who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She has three children and four grandchildren. For more information visit http://www.brookings.edu/experts/r/rivlina.aspx
Politics, Community and Metropolitan Washington
Kojo Nnamdi is host of The Kojo Nnamdi Show , a live talk show produced by WAMU 88.5 that airs weekdays at noon. On Fridays at noon, Nnamdi hosts The Politics Hour on WAMU 88.5. Nnamdi is also seen on WHUT-TV at 8:00 p.m., Fridays and at 7:30 p.m., Sundays, as the host of Evening Exchange with Kojo .
"Maybe the best radio interviewer in town" according to The Washington Post , host Kojo Nnamdi welcomes a lineup of interesting and provocative guests who offer new perspectives about current events, political issues, social policy, art, science, and other topics. The show encourages listener calls, creating a dynamic dialogue about issues that are important or interesting to the Washington, D.C., region.
Nnamdi is a native of Guyana who immigrated to the United States in 1968 to attend college and explore the civil rights movement. Since 1985, he has hosted Evening Exchange , a public affairs television program broadcast by WHUT-TV at Howard University. From 1973 to 1985, Nnamdi worked at WHUR-FM, where he served as news editor and then news director, producing the award-winning local news program The Daily Drum .
In 2003, the Library of Congress selected Nnamdi as the keynote speaker for African American history month, and in 2001, he was honored as a civil rights hero by the National Council for Community Justice.
In 2005, he was named a "Washingtonian of the Year" by Washingtonian magazine, saying, "Radio is more fun, more intimate than TV. I always want to make sure people are listening to something that helps them make intelligent decisions about their lives." DCist , "a website about the Washington, D.C. area and everything that happens there," named Nnamdi one of "DC's Most Influential People" in 2007. Also in 2007, Washingtonian named Nnamdi one of the “150 Most Influential People in Washington.”
In addition to his hosting duties, Nnamdi has chaired the board of the Public Access Corporation of Washington, D.C., since 1997. He is also active in Guyaid, an organization devoted to the welfare of children in Guyana.
Kojo has served on the Board of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center since 2003. A proud nationalized American citizen for more than 20 years, Kojo's passions include cricket, Caribbean Carnival, poetry, jazz, and jogging. For more details, visit the Kojo Nnamdi Show's website http://wamu.org/programs/kn/
Technology, Business and Innovation
William Halal, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and Innovation at George Washington University. An authority on emerging technology, strategic planning, knowledge, and institutional change, he has worked with General Motors, AT&T, SAIC, MCI, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, International Data Corporation, the DoD, the Asian Development Bank, foreign companies, and various government agencies. Bill recently substituted for Peter Drucker in giving a talk to 2000 managers at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Halal's work has appeared in journals such as Nature/BioTechnology, California Management Review, Strategy & Business, Knowledge Management Review, Academy of Management Executive , Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Human Relations, Systems & Cybernetics , and Technological Forecasting . He has also published in popular media like The New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Toronto Globe & Mail, Advertising Age , Executive Excellence, and The Futurist . He has produced six books: The New Capitalism (Wiley, 1986), Internal Markets (Wiley, 1993), The New Management (Berrett-Koehler, 1996), The Infinite Resource (Jossey-Bass, 1998), 21 st Century Economics (St. Martin's Press, 1999), and Technology's Promise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Prof. Halal is the founder of TechCast, a web-based system that pools the knowledge of experts to forecast breakthroughs in all technical fields - “A Virtual Think-Tank Tracking the Technology Revolution.” He also co-founded the Institute for Knowledge & Innovation as a collaborative effort between the GW School of Business and the School of Engineering .
Bill studied engineering, economics, and the social sciences at Purdue and Berkeley. Previously, he was a major in the U.S. Air Force, an aerospace engineer on the Apollo Program, and a Silicon Valley business manager. He serves on advisory boards of the World Future Society and other organizations. His work has received prominent recognition. One paper, "Beyond the Profit-Motive," won the 1977 Mitchell Prize and an award of $10,000, and he received a medal from the Freedom Foundation for Excellence in the Study of Enterprise. Macmillan's Encyclopedia of the Future ranked him among “The World's 100 Most Influential Futurists,“ including H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Alvin Toffler, and Daniel Bell. For more details, see Bill's website www.billhalal.com
Global Climate Change
Anna Motschenbacher is a Solutions Fellow for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change where she works for the Director of Innovative Solutions. Her responsibilities include researching and communicating information on state-and regional-level climate change policy and technological solutions for reducing greenhouse gases. She also engages in Pew Center analytic work on technological solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change and oversees Pew Center reports.
Prior to joining the Pew Center, Ms. Motschenbacher worked for the State of Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources. She has also worked as an outreach science educator throughout Alaska. Ms. Motschenbacher holds a B.A. in public policy analysis and geology from Pomona College and an M.S. in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley. For more information, please visit the Pew's Global Climate Change website http://www.pewclimate.org/