Harrison Fraker

Chosen as the fifth Dean of the College of Environmental Design, Harrison Fraker was educated as an architect and urban designer at Princeton and Cambridge Universities and is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar, daylighting and sustainable design research and teaching. He has pursued a career bridging innovative architecture and urban design education with an award-winning practice. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for creating a new College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota and was appointed the founding Dean. He was granted Fellowship in the AIA College of Fellows for his distinguished career of bridging education and practice.

He has published seminal articles on the design potential of sustainable systems and urban design principles for transit oriented neighborhoods. He teaches design studio and believes in integrating pragmatic and theoretical analysis to create new knowledge about the most critical environmental design challenges facing society. He is currently pursuing his beliefs through a whole systems design approach for entirely resource-self-sufficient, transit-oriented neighborhoods of 100,000 people in China.

"Meeting of the Minds promises to be a unique opportunity -- to explore linkages connecting the city's built environment with the vehicles of tomorrow; to investigate the underlying trends reshaping design ideas and practices; to create the ground for a more sustainable future; to imagine a world beyond petroleum, beyond sprawl and beyond the dulling confines of modern urban forms".

-Harrison Fraker
Dean, College of Environmental Design
University of California at Berkeley

Elizabeth Deakin

Elizabeth Deakin is Director of the University of California Transportation Research Center and Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, where she also is an affiliated faculty member of the Energy and Resources Group and the Master of Urban Design group. She is co-director of the UC Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies Initiative, which involves nearly 100 faculty members from 12 departments. Deakin's research focuses on transportation and land use policy and the environmental impacts of transportation. She has published over 100 articles, book chapters, and reports on topics ranging from environmental justice to transportation pricing to development exactions and impact fees. She currently is conducting a study benchmarking transit-oriented development and developing TOD guidelines for the Federal Transit Administration.

Among her recently completed projects are the development of transit investment policy in for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District Board, a system plan for express bus services for the San Francisco Bay Area, and the development of a plan for revitalization of San Pablo Avenue from Oakland through El Cerrito, CA. Other recent studies investigate the efficacy and acceptability of transportation pricing strategies and the emissions reduction potential of transportation demand management measures.

Deakin served as chair of the Congressionally-mandated National Academy of Sciences' Advisory Board on Surface Transportation-Environmental Research, which recommended a new transportation-environmental research program that was recently enacted into law. She has been active in a number of government posts including city and county transportation commissions and state advisory boards.

Deakin holds degrees in transportation systems analysis and political science from MIT as well as a law degree from Boston College.

Steven Chu

Steven Chu is Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he was at Stanford and Bell Laboratories. His research includes tests of fundamental physics, the development of methods to laser cool and trap atoms, polymer physics, and single molecule biology. He is become active in the energy problem and is co-chairing an InterAcademy Council (IAC) study “Transitioning to Sustainable Energy”.

Chu has numerous awards, including the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Sinica, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Korean Academy of Science and Engineering. At Stanford, he helped start Bio-X, a multi-disciplinary initiative linking the physical and biological sciences with engineering and medicine.

Chu serves on the Boards of the Hewlett Foundation, the University of Rochester, NVIDIA and the Scientific Board of the Moore Foundation, Helicos and NABsys. He has served on a number of other committees such as the Augustine Committee that produced “Rising Above the Gathering Storm”, the Advisory Committee to the Directors of the NIH and the National Nuclear Security Agency, the Executive Committee of the NAS Board on Physics and Astronomy. Professor Chu received A.B. and B.S. degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Rochester, a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley, and ten honorary degrees.

Tim Campbell

Tim Campbell has worked for more than 30 years in urban development with experience in scores of countries and hundreds of cities in Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. His areas of expertise include strategic urban planning, city development strategies, decentralization, urban policy, and social and poverty impact of urban development.

Tim Campbell retired from the World Bank in December of 2005 after more than 17 years’ experience. At the Bank, he headed WBI’s urban team, founded and led the Urban Partnership, which was responsible for identifying changing demand and developing new Bank products and services for cities. He was the Bank-wide coordinator for City Development Strategies (CDS), a new analytical tool focusing on cities as the unit of analysis in national development. From 1995 to 1997, he served as a member of the Advisory Group in Latin America and the Caribbean Region and was the Region’s Chief of the Urban and Water Unit from 1993-1995.

Before joining the Bank, his consulting clients included private sector firms, governments, and international organizations. He lived in rural and small town Costa Rica for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer.

In addition to many policy papers on decentralization and urban policy, Mr. Campbell has authored several books. The Quiet Revolution, explores the rise of political participation in cities with the onset of decentralization in Latin America from 1983-1995 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003). A second book Leadership and Innovation (World Bank, 2004) is a collection of case studies about the innovation process in leading local governments in Latin America.

He holds a B.A. in Political Science from U. C. Berkeley (1966), a Master's in City and Regional Planning from U.C. Berkeley (1970) and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning from M.I.T. (1980).

Gordon Feller

For more than 25 years Gordon Feller has been building partnerships around urban environmental and urban transport issues that link private sector, public sector, independent sector and academia.

Whether as a consultant to Chevron, Citigroup, Bechtel or to World Bank, Government of Canada, and World Urban Forum: in every case Gordon links key partners together around projects that cross boundaries and accelerate forward movement towards a more positive future.

As CEO of Urban Age Institute he advises governments, foundations and multinational companies on urban sustainability issues. "Urban Age Magazine" was founded inside the World Bank in 1992; an international non-profit -- with program activities in Asia, Africa and Europe -- was spun off nearly 10 years later.

More than 400 of Gordon's articles, commentaries and editorials have appeared in 100+ magazines and newspapers. In periodicals ranging From the Financial Times of London to TIME and Fortune, Gordon has been arguing for a new and more holistic to seemingly intractable environmental, transport and energy issues.

Feller holds a Bachelors Degree, cum-laude, from Columbia University and a Masters Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, also cum-laude. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was the recipient of numerous fellowships and scholarships, both as an undergraduate and a graduate student, including: Dean's Fellow at Columbia; NY State Governor Lehman Fellow at Columbia; Ripon Society Fellowship honoring US Senator Mark Hatfield (R: Oregon); Club of Rome Fellowship; German Marshall Fund Fellowship; and Wallach Fellowship at Columbia.

Allan B. Jacobs

Allan Jacobs is University Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, He is an urban designer, trained as an architect and city planner at Miami University, at Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked in many cities, most notably Pittsburgh, Calcutta, Boston, and San Francisco, where for seven years he was Director of City Planning. He was responsible for San Francisco's now famous Urban Design Plan. Most of his present work is focused on the design of streets. Jacobs has consulted widely, and is a principal in the San Francisco urban design firm Cityworks. He works mostly in intensive urban environments, in both large and small cities.

He is concerned with the design of the public realm - streets, spaces, parks - and with achieving private development that helps to achieve community objectives, particularly as expressed in well thought out public plans. He writes on city planning and urban design, notably on streets, and the uses of observation as a design and planning tool. With the late Donald Appleyard, he authored a now seminal essay on the physical, designable characteristics of the best cities: Toward a New Urban Design Manifesto. His books include Great Streets, Looking at Cities, Making City Planning Work, and, (with Elizabeth Macdonald and Yodan Rofe) The Boulevard Book. Cityworks is a two-partner urban design and architecture firm whose principals are directly involved in all of the company's projects. Much of their most recent work has involved street design, streetscape consulting, and large public planning projects in San Francisco, Oakland, Vancouver, British Columbia and Seaside, Florida.

Elizabeth Macdonald

Elizabeth Macdonald, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley and Chair of the Program in the Design of Urban Places, an interdisciplinary program sponsored by UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design that offers a Master's of Urban Design Degree. She is a licensed architect and holds a B.A. in Architecture (1981), a M.L.A. and M.C.P. (1995), and a Ph.D. (1999) from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley.

From 1999 to 2001 she taught at the University of Toronto, where she helped start the first Master of Urban Design program in Canada, and from 2001-2002 she taught at the University of British Columbia, where she established a studio-based urban design concentration within the Master of City Planning program.
Macdonald's research and professional work focuses on the design of the public realm, including streets, promenades, small public spaces, and interfaces between buildings and the public realm. Her writings include The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards (MIT Press, 2002), The Urban Design Reader (Routledge, 2006), and numerous journal articles. A forthcoming book, Parkways and Promenades: A History of Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn Parkways, chronicles the evolution of Eastern and Ocean Parkways - complexly designed multiway boulevards built in the 1870s that escaped reconfiguration to 20th century street design norms and are now historic landscapes - from the time they were built until the present day.

Macdonald is a principal of Cityworks, a San Francisco-based urban design and architecture firm whose recent work has involved streetscape design and large public planning projects in San Francisco, Oakland, Vancouver, Seaside, Abu Dhabi, and Ahmedabad, India. In 2007, the firm's Octavia Boulevard project, which replaced a portion of San Francisco's central freeway with a pedestrian-friendly multiway boulevard, received an APA award for a hard-won victory.

Susan Shaheen

Susan Shaheen, Ph.D., holds a joint research faculty appointment at California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH), headquartered at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, and at UC Davis' Institute of Transportation Studies. In August 2003, Susan became the Policy & Behavioral Research Program Leader at California PATH. In September 2002, Susan launched and now directs the Innovative Mobility Research Group - housed at California PATH. As of April 2006, she became the co-leader of the transportation track of the Energy Efficiency Center at UC Davis. She has also served as a Special Assistant to the Director's Office of the California Department of Transportation (2001 to 2004). In November 2000, she was honored as the first Honda Distinguished Scholar in Transportation at UC Davis.

Susan's interest in environmentally- and socially-beneficial technology applications led her to focus her doctoral dissertation on "smart" carsharing, linked to transit in the mid-1990s. She designed and tested the CarLink I and II pilot programs, using advanced technologies to support a commuter carsharing service from 1997 to 2002. An internationally recognized leader in innovative mobility research, she continues to focus on carsharing, as well as several additional areas, including: smart parking management for trucks and transit, smart growth/development, fuel cell vehicles and infrastructure, and older mobility.

She has a Ph.D. in ecology, focusing on technology management and the environmental aspects of transportation, from UC Davis; an MS in public policy analysis from the University of Rochester; and a BA in political science and English (writing concentration) from Nazareth College. She also has graduate certificates from the University of Paris, Sorbonne and the University of Oxford (sponsored by an Eisenhower scholarship from the English Speaking Union). She completed her post-doctoral studies on advanced public transportation systems at UC Berkeley in 2001. She has sixteen years of professional experience in transportation and environmental policy, 28 journal articles, over 40 reports and publications, and is co-editor of one book.

While a doctoral candidate, she received a variety of awards, such as the University of California's Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year, the Dwight David Eisenhower Fellowship, and a National Science Foundation Award. In May 2007, she received the Berkeley Staff Assembly’s “Excellence in Management” award. She is the chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on New Public Transportation Systems and Technologies (2004 to Present) and was the founding chair of the Carsharing/Station Car Subcommittee of TRB from 1999 to 2004. She is a member of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) World Congress Program Committee (2002 to Present). She also served on the Governor's Environmental Action Plan Working Group in California.

Lee Schipper

Dr. Schipper earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics, but has devoted his career to earthly problems of transport, energy and environment. He came to EMBARQ, the World Resources Institute (WRI) Center for Sustainable Transport, at its founding in April, 2002, where he is Director of Research. EMBARQ's Global Strategic Partners the Shell Foundation and the Caterpillar Foundation support EMBARQ's partnerships in Mexico, Brazil, Istanbul, India and China.

Dr. Schipper came to EMBARQ from the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, where he had been visiting Scientist from 1995 to 2001. Previous to that he was Staff Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for two decades. He worked in Group Planning at Shell International Petroleum Company in the 1980s and again in 2001. He has been a guest researcher at the World Bank, VVS Tekniska Foerening (Stockholm), the OECD Development Center, and the Stockholm Environment Institute.

Dr. Schipper has authored over 100 technical papers and a number of books on energy economics and transportation around the world. He takes part in numerous prestigious international panels and studies on energy and transportation, and is on the editorial boards of five major journals in the fields.
Dr. Schipper was a member of the Swedish Board for Transportation and Communications Research for four years, and is currently a member of the US Transportation Research Board's Committee on Sustainable Transport and Committee on Developing Countries.

Dr. Schipper brings a unique twist to the transport and energy worlds, having obtained his BA in Music from Berkeley in 1968 (with course work at UCLA). He still leads a jazz quintet from time to time, and recorded “The Phunky Physicist”, with Janne Schaffer, in Sweden in 1973.

Nancy Kete

A geographer, Dr. Kete has always been attracted to large-scale problems at the energy/environment interface. Her academic and professional work aimed at finding solutions to the acid rain problem in North America and resulted in the 1990 Clear Air Act Amendments. She was the principal architect of the acid rain control provisions of that law, which represent the first large scale practical application of a tradable emissions program. She has been a senior policy advisor in the US government on matters of air pollution, global warming, and the interface of trade and environment issues.

Dr. Kete has extensive negotiating experience, having been part of numerous US delegations to international environmental negotiations and having served as the Science Advisor for Environmental Affairs for the US Mission to the OECD, where she co-chaired the Joint Experts Group on Trade and Environment. After resigning from the US government she directed the Climate, Energy and Pollution program for five years at the World Resources Institute, until she became managing director of EMBARQ, the World Resources Institute Center for Transport and the Environment.

Peter Crowley

Peter Crowley is partner and president of LandDesign, founded thirty years ago to create memorable exterior experiences through its urban design, land planning, civil engineering, landscape architecture and branding services. Peter joined the firm in 1979 and has used his masterful planning skills to craft a wide variety of compelling projects involving urban infill, brownfield development, mixed-use and new urban communities. He actively advocates aligning client needs with market conditions, bringing stakeholders together, embracing and sustaining the environment, and differentiating a place to engage the user.

Over the last five years, Peter has emphasized these approaches as he led the firm into China where it has now established an office in Beijing and completed several large-scale and influential projects, including planning the new district of Baotou, Inner Mongolia that eventually is projected to house a population of 600,000 and development of a 73-million square foot software park west of Shanghai. He also continues to focus in the United States on transit-oriented development, town center design and innovative master-planned communities.

A graduate of the University of Georgia’s School of Environmental Design, Peter is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Urban Land Institute and American Planning Association. From the Washington, DC office that he established in 1983, Peter coordinates the work of multidisciplinary teams operating in LandDesign’s six U.S. offices and the Beijing office, with the stated objective of creating a balance between market forces and design aspirations.

W. Paul Farmer

American Planning Association’s executive director comes from the world of practice. Paul Farmer spent 20 years in senior management positions as deputy planning director in Pittsburgh, director of city planning in Minneapolis, and executive director of planning and development in Eugene, Oregon. During his years of practice, he served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Tech and the University of Oregon. Farmer grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, attended Rice University in Houston (B.A. and B. Arch., 1967), and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was a Richard King Mellon Fellow and received a master’s degree in city and regional planning in 1971. In 1968, he helped to found the National Association of Student Planners.

Farmer started out in academe, as a founding faculty member of the graduate program in planning at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he taught for eight years, while also serving as president of the Wisconsin APA chapter. He chaired the chapter presidents council and served on the APA board from 1979 to 1981. He is a former head of the city planning and management division and a former member of the development plan and budget committee.

He has received professional awards from Progressive Architecture and the National Endowment for the Arts, has consulted in Asia, Europe and North America, and has written and lectured extensively.

Aaron Golub

Aaron Golub is an Assistant Professor in the School of Planning and the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, where he teaches courses on transportation planning and policy, urban planning research methods and urban policy the developing countries. Dr. Golub's interests include the social and environmental impacts of transportation systems, public transportation planning and operations and advanced bus transit systems planning and vehicle technologies. Two current projects include the development of a tool to enable community based organizations to easily analyze the accessibility impacts of regional transportation investment plans on specific neighborhoods or demographic groups, and a group of case studies looking at the social equity impacts of climate change mitigation policies in transportation.

Before moving to Arizona State, Dr. Golub was a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of California at Berkeley. He co-taught a graduate course on public transportation systems planning, and an undergraduate course on transportation policy. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked on a study of optimal Bus Rapid Transit system implementation, and the long-term travel behavior impacts of car-sharing membership. He has worked around the world as a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and other international agencies involved in transportation planning and funding. He was a consultant to the city of Bogotá, Colombia on projects concerning air quality management issues, and to Mexico City and the World Bank as part of initial planning for their now complete Metrobus BRT system. Dr. Golub received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with minors in City and Regional Planning and Statistics from UC Berkeley. His dissertation work in Brazil explored the policy approaches to regulate informal transportation operators and the welfare effects on the systems’ users. His masters and bachelor's degree were earned in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Tech, respectively.

Pravin Varaiya is Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. From 1975 to 1992 he was also Professor of Economics at Berkeley. From 1994 to 1997 he was Director of the California PATH program. His research is concerned with communication networks, transportation, and hybrid systems. Varaiya has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Miller Research Professorship. He has received two Honorary Doctorates, and the Field Medal and Bode Prize of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science. He is an editor of Transportation Research--C. He has co-authored 300 technical papers and three books, including “Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems” (with Edward Lee), published in 2003 by Addison-Wesley.

Martin Tillman

Martin Tillman is an Associate at Steer Davies Gleave, an international consultancy focusing on transport studies for the private and public sectors. Martin has worked in the transport market for over 15 years and specialises in transport master planning. He provides advice to clients on new transport techniques and movement strategies to reduce single occupancy car use and encourage more sustainable forms of transport.

His work has varied from small commercial / education / health care / residential schemes, to major new developments, and to new towns/cities and urban extensions. His work has taken him to Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Turkey, Qatar, Kazakhstan, France, Ireland, Croatia, and throughout the United Kingdom. Martin aims to challenge existing methods and to seek practical and innovative solutions for transport as part of a wider development process.

Robin Chase

Robin Chase is founder and CEO of GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. GoLoco helps people quickly arrange to share car trips of all lengths between trusted friends, neighbors, and colleagues, and handles online payments from passengers to drivers for their share of the trip costs. GoLoco's innovative combination of social networks and online payment systems recasts how we think about car travel, making it a time for socializing and with a new emphasis on trip efficiency, in order to reduce per passenger costs.

Robin is also founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world. Zipcar’s use of the Internet and wireless technology enables rental cars to emulate personal cars. Zipcar's disruptive technology gives its members on-demand access to cars by-the-hour, revolutionizing people's relationship to their cars and improving the quality of urban life for all.

Robin is frequently consulted by transportation and planning departments, city and state government agencies, and NGOs about wireless and mesh networking applications in the transportation sector, innovation and economic development. She served on the Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force, and the Governor-elect’s Transportation Transition Working Committee.

Robin lectures widely and has been frequently featured in the major media including the Today Show, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Fast Company, Wired, and Time magazines, as well as several books on entrepreneurship. She has received many awards, including the Massachusetts Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit, Start-up Woman of the Year, Fast Company's Fast 50 Champions of Innovation, technology and innovation awards from Fortune, CIO, and Info World Magazines, and numerous environmental awards from national, state, and local governments and organizations.

Robin graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, and was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and three children.

José Luis Moscovich

José Luis Moscovich has been Executive Director of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority for over six years. He has twenty-seven years’ experience in transportation planning and engineering, including project development and oversight, environmental studies, long-range plan development, and a number of assignments in the private sector as a strategic planning consultant, and as infrastructure development advisor to Latin American cities.

As Executive Director of the Authority, he spearheaded the development of the 30-year Countywide Transportation Plan for San Francisco, adopted in 2004, as well as the effort to reauthorize the local transportation sales tax, which culminated in November 2003 with a 75% vote on a new 30-year Expenditure Plan. Under his leadership, the Authority has achieved major milestones including development of the city’s activity-based travel demand model, preparation of a 30-year Strategic Plan for transportation investment in the city, completion of the environmental studies for the replacement of Doyle Drive, completion of the multiple award-winning Octavia Boulevard project, to replace the double-decker portion of the Central Freeway, completion of two feasibility studies for implementation of a bus rapid transit network in San Francisco, development of a multimodal level of service measure, and initiation of a congestion pricing study and a parking pricing study for San Francisco.

Mr. Moscovich is the current chair of the Self-Help Counties Coalition. He is also Chair of the California Transportation Foundation Board, and he serves on the Advisory Board of the Lake Arrowhead Transportation and Land Use Program at UCLA. He holds a degree in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, and a master’s degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Transportation Research Board, and the American Planning Association.

When he’s not thinking about transportation, he’s usually conducting operas. He has two commercially released CDs including a new opera which received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2005. He is a member of the National Academy of Recording Artists.

Irving A. Miller

Irving A. Miller is group vice president of corporate communications Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. TMS is the marketing, sales, distribution and customer service arm of Toyota in America.  

Miller is responsible for all TMS public relations activities in the United States, including Toyota, Lexus and Scion product news, media relations and publications.   He also oversees TMS corporate contributions, video communications and the Toyota USA archives.

Miller began his career with Toyota in 1980 as merchandising manager in the San Francisco Region.   Since then, he has held several regional management positions, including field operations manager of the Denver Region, assistant general manager of the Cincinnati Region and general manager of the Kansas City Region.   Miller also served as market representation manager for Toyota and Lexus division, corporate manager of advertising-merchandising for the Toyota Division, vice president, field operations, Customer Services and vice president of sales for Lexus.

Most recently, Miller was vice president of the Office of the Web, a group of top marketing and technology professionals organized to unify Toyota's electronic commerce programs.   Prior to joining Toyota, Miller worked for Chrysler Corp. and American Motors Corp.

Active in community affairs, Miller is a director and president of the Los Angeles Urban League Automotive Training Center, a joint venture of Toyota and the Urban League launched in 1993.   He also serves as chairman on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles Urban League and on the Board of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Boys and Girls Club of Long Beach, Operation Hope, the Toyota Foundation, the Long Beach Symphony Association and Automotive Hall of Fame. In addition, he is a member of the A.W. Page Society, an organization of public relations professionals.

Miller attended Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., where he earned a bachelor's degree in finance, and Nova University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he earned an MBA.  

He resides in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., with his wife Karen.   They have two daughters, Heather and Alyssa.

Bill Reinert

Bill Reinert is national manager, advanced technology vehicle group for Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc.

Reinert is responsible for the long-range product planning for all alternative fuel Toyota vehicles. His responsibilities include product planning for hybrid vehicles, including the second-generation Prius, and cross car line hybrid issues; fuel cell vehicles using both direct hydrogen and fuel reformation designs; full-featured electric vehicles; city electric vehicles and sustainable transportation systems.   He is an expert in the fields of energy, future fuel supplies and their environmental and social impacts, intelligent transportation systems, and climate change.

Reinert also works with the World Wildlife Fund in the Galapagos Islands to establish a global model for cleaner energy use in developing economies.

Among other projects, Reinert and his group launched the first hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles in the US.   Part of this effort included working closely with state and local regional code officials as well as emergency response providers to develop codes, standards, and procedures for handling a new automotive propulsion system.   In addition, Reinert oversaw development of   the world's first multi-vehicle hydrogen-by-electrolysis station powered by renewable electricity.

Prior to his current role, Reinert was project director for Project Perseus, a Toyota initiative to investigate markets for distributed power devices including micro-turbines and stationary fuel cells.

Prior to joining Toyota in 1990, Reinert developed advanced neural network applications and advanced energy systems for Hewlett Packard.   In addition, he developed alternative energy solutions for Bell Labs.

Reinert has a master's degree in energy engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder and did his undergraduate work in biopsychology with the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Reinert lives in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA with his wife Pam.

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