Tim Barclay was a high school math and science teacher for seventeen years and Head of Cambridge Friends School, a K-8 school, for nine years. He worked on math and science curriculum reform during those years with the Elementary Science Study and afterwards at TERC, a Cambridge non-profit, for another thirteen years, before retiring in 2002. In addition to writing curriculum units, he is the author of a book on Learning BASIC Programming as well as numerous journal articles on math and science teaching. A life-long bird watcher, he is interested in working to achieve an environmentally sustainable planet.
May Berenbaum is the Swunland Professor at the University of Illinois Champaign- Urbana and head of the Department of Entomology. Her research focuses on the chemical interactions between herbivorous insects and their host plants, and the implications of such interactions on the organization of natural communities and the evolution of species. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2011 Tyler Environmental Prize, Robert MacArthur Award, the E.O.Wilson Naturalist Award. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Entomological Society of America and National Associate of the National Academies and Research Council.
Leslie Brunetta was the Assistant Editor of the Alumni Magazine Consortium at Johns Hopkins University and a case writer for the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University . She is currently a free-lance writer. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Technology Review, the Sewanee Review, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Regional Review, and other publications. Her commentaries have aired on Morning Edition and All Things Considered on National Public Radio. She is the author of “Spider silk: Evolution and 400 Million years of spinning, waiting, snagging and mating with Catherine Craig.
Catherine Craig is the President and founder of CPAL International. She is a member of the research staff of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University . Previously she served as an Associate Professor on the biology faculty at Yale University . She is a recent fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Association of University Women and a Science Scholar at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute. Dr. Craig has been the recipient of grants from both public agencies and private foundations including from the National Science Foundation, the Whitehall Foundation, and the National Geographic Society. She is the author of the recent book Spider webs and silk: tracing evolution from molecules to genes to phenotypes (Oxford , 2003) and co-author of Spider silk: Evolution and 400 Million years of spinning, waiting, snagging and mating with Leslie Brunetta.
Nadia Rabeshala Horning is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College (Vermont). Her research interests include the politics of biodiversity conservation, community-based natural resource management, and development politics in Sub-saharan Africa. A native of Madagascar, she has studied the intersection of development and conservation issues since 1989 and has been an influential critic of the international conservation movement in Madagascar. Her current research examines why deforestation persists in Madagascar, Uganda and Tanzania despite conservation efforts to control it.
Walter Simons has had 30 years of executive experience planning and implementing partnership activities in a wide range of developing countries, involving governments, industry, the UN system, NGOs and bilateral agencies. He has also helped to establish innovative UN system programs and private sector enterprises to carry out these cooperative activities. His earlier commercial experience included consulting and management assignments for international corporations and foreign governments.
James Toupin was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and the law school at University of California at Berkeley. He brings to the CPALI board an extensive background in international trade and intellectual property law. After a period in private practice, he worked for almost fifteen years at the US International Trade Commission, serving as Deputy General Counsel, where, among other duties, he helped negotiate the World Trade Organization and NAFTA treaties. For the past nine years, before retiring in March 2010, he was the General Counsel of the US Patent and Trademark Office. His work there included helping frame the United States government's positions on intellectual property issues in the Supreme Court.
Robert Weber is a Senior Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories where he leads a practice that combines strategy, technology valuation, and advanced process modeling and experiments. He has served as Chairman of the 2000 Gordon Research Conference on Catalysis, Associate Editor of the Journal of Catalysis and is a member of the editorial board of Energy and Fuels.
Advisors and previous board members
Hans Herren
Diane Raines Ward
Matthew Hatchwell
Bob Wolf
I. Relanson
Kris Norvig
Kris Norvig
Kris Norvig
M. Ratsimbazafy