Plenary Roundtable
BIODIVERSITY Value, Losses and Consequences
What does the science tell us? What are the needs?

• Moderator: Larry Nielsen, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, North Carolina State University
• Millenium Ecosystem Assesment- Harold Mooney, Stanford University (PowerPoint)
• Biodiversity and Health- Eric Chivian, M.D.,  Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, and Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (PowerPoint)
• Integrating Biological and Cultural Diversity- Claudia Sobrevila, Senior Biodiversity Specialist, The World Bank (PowerPoint)
• Marine Biodiversity-Carl Safina,   President, Blue Ocean Institute, Stony Brook University

Plenary Roundtable
21st Century Conservation - What Now?

• Moderator: Ron Pulliam, Professor of Ecology, University of Georgia
• Susan Haseltine, Associate Director for Biology, United States Geological Survey
• Jane Elder , Principal, Jane Elder Strategies
• William J. Sutherland , Miriam Rothschild Professor in Conservation Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
• Lara Hansen , Chief Scientist and Executive Director of EcoAdapt

NCSE Lifetime Achievement Awards

• George Rabb, President Emeritus, Chicago Zoological Society
• Peter H. Raven,  Director, Missouri Botanical Garden  
• Edward O. Wilson ,  Pellegrino Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University 
• Moderator: Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, Former Direcctor of National Science Foundation

• Thomas L. Friedman,  New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author (PowerPoint)
• Special Remarks: Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biodiversity

Roundtable
Synthesis
Bringing together the various elements discussed at this conference into a coherent strategy.

• Moderator: Thomas Lovejoy,   President, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment (PowerPoint)
• Sir Peter Crane , John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, University of Chicago
• Ann Bartuska, Deputy Chief for Research and Development, USDA Forest Service, Research and Development
• Peter Seligmann, Chairman and CEO, Conservation International
• John Wiens , Chief Conservation Science Officer, PRBO Conservation Science
• Lynn Scarlett,  Deputy Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior 

Roundtable
Putting Biodiversity into the Next Administration and Congress

• Moderator: Bruce Babbitt, Former Secretary of Interior
• Mary Glackin, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Rodger Schlickeisen, President and CEO, Defenders of Wildlife
• Representative Jay Inslee,  (D-WA)
• Representative James P. Moran, (D-VA 8th)
• Dan Martin, Former Senior Managing Director, Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund
  Environmental Policy Advisor to the Obama campaign 
• Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Representative Rush Holt, (D- NJ)