Moderator: Graham Phaup

Graham Phaup is Executive Director at the Institute for Global Ethics – a U.S.-based think-tank with offices in Washington, D.C., London, Toronto and Rockland, Maine. In that role he oversees all of the Institute’s work relating to programs—education, organizational services and public policy—and directs the funding of these activities.

Graham has spoken to a wide range of audiences in the United Kingdom, Ireland, continental Europe, and the United States. He draws on his extensive commercial experience in engineering and environmental assessment in Europe. Since moving from London in 1994, where his career was firmly based in public affairs in Westminster and Brussels, he now oversees the Institute’s operations and is director of the Project on Ethics and Philanthropy.

R. Nicholas Burns

Ambassador Nicholas Burns is currently Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Kennedy School, Harvard University. He retired from the State Department in April, 2008 after a distinguished career spanning twenty-seven years. From 2005 until his retirement Burns was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs—the third-ranking position in the State Department—where he led U.S. negotiations with such countries as Iran, India, and Kosovo and supervised U.S. diplomacy in all regions of the world. Earlier Burns was U.S. Ambassador to NATO and to Greece. He served as State Department Spokesman for two years and spent five years on the White House staff as
Special Assistant to the President with primary focus upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. Early in his career Burns was posted in Egypt and in Mauritania and served as American Consul General in Jerusalem. He is on the Boards of the Atlantic Council, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Appeal of Conscience, and a proud member of Red Sox Nation.

Eileen Claussen

The Honorable Eileen Claussen is President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Strategies for the Global Environment. She was formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environment and Scientific Affairs. Prior to joining the State Department Claussen served for three years as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council. She also served as Chairperson of the United Nations Multi-lateral Montreal Protocol Fund. Earlier Claussen was Director of Atmospheric Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where her responsibilities included activities related to the depletion of the ozone layer, Title IV of the Clean Air Act, and the EPA’s energy efficiency programs such as the Energy Star Program.

Gareth Evans

Gareth Evans is former Foreign Minister of Australia and now serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Crisis Group. The I.C.G. is a multinational, non-governmental organization headquartered in Brussels and Washington, D.C. that focuses upon crisis prevention and follow-up. Evans was a barrister and lecturer in law in the 1970’s before entering the Australian Parliament where he soon rose to leadership positions followed by Cabinet posts as Attorney General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications, and finally as Foreign Minister from 1988 to 1996. After leaving this post, Evans participated in a series of high-level United Nations and International Commissions on such issues as Intervention and State Sovereignty , Weapons of Mass Destruction, Global Public Goods, and Genocide and Mass Atrocity. He joined I.C.G. in January, 2000. Evans has written or edited eight books as well as many book chapters, journal articles, and media columns on foreign relations, politics, human rights, and legal reform.

Paula J. Dobriansky

Paula J. Dobriansky served from 2001 until early in 2009 as the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, as well as the President’s special envoy Northern Ireland, with the rank of ambassador – a post which she held from 2007 to January 2009.

In her capacity as Under Secretary, she was responsible for policy issues including democracy, human rights, environmental and scientific matters, health, trafficking in persons, international women issues among others. Dobriansky has acted as U.S. spokesperson on issues of climate change and global warming. She is also a member of the Trilateral Commission. Early in 2007 she became Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, a post previously held by Senator George Mitchell. Prior to 2001 Dobriansky held leadership positions with the Council on Foreign Relations, the Project for a New American Century, U.S. Information Agency, and the National Security Council in the White House as well as on U.S. Delegations to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the United Nations Decade for Women Conference in Kenya, and the Bali Summit on Climate Change in 2007.

Prior to her stint in government she was senior vice president to the head of the Washington office of the Council on Foreign Relations, where she was also the first George F. Kennan fellow on Russian area studies.

Dobriansky appears frequently on broadcast media and in public testimony. She serves on the boards of Freedom House, the Australian- American dialogue, the American University in Afghanistan, and Hungary’s International Center for Democratic Transitions.

Currently, she is senior international affairs and trade advisor at the law firm of Baker Hostetler. Starting next month, she will be teaching a global issues seminar series at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. She received both her masters and Ph.D from Harvard.

Denis Lamb

Denis Lamb is a retired Ambassador and member of the Senior Foreign Service. He entered the Foreign Service in 1964 with an early posting to Martinique followed by a series of positions
working with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe. He undertook
further study to gain skills in systems analysis and computer applications. In the late 1970’s he was Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State, then Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. mission to the European Union in Belgium. After serving in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the
State Department, Mr. Lamb was U.S. Representative to the OECD in Paris with rank of Ambassador. After retirement from the Foreign Service, he finished his career as Director of Public Affairs for the OECD in Paris for ten years.

John Deutch

John Deutch is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a faculty member there since 1970 and has served as Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Dean of Science, and Provost. Deutch is widely published not only in physical chemistry but also on technology, energy, international security, and public policy issues.

From mid-1995 through 1996 Deutch was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and head of the overall U.S. Intelligence Community. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under-Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions and Technology. Earlier Deutch was in the U.S. Department of Energy as Undersecretary and as Director of Energy Research. He has been a member of numerous high-level boards such as the White House Science Council and the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board as well as Presidential Commissions on Nuclear Safety, Strategic Forces, Government Secrecy, and Weapons of Mass Destruction. He is presently on the Board of Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Deutch has received countless awards, fellowships, and honorary degrees in the course of his distinguished academic and public service.

Nayan Chanda

Nayan Chanda is Director of Publications and Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. For some thirty years Chanda had been editor, editor-at-large, and correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review based in Hong Kong. He also served as year as Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, D.C. For two years he edited the
Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly. He is author of Brother Enemy: The War After the War and co-author of a dozen books on Asian politics, security, and foreign policy including The Political Economy Of Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia and (co-edited with Strobe Talbot) The Age of Terror: America and the World After 9/11. His most recent book is Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization.

Chanda was presented the Shorenstein Award in 2005 for his distinguished work as a journalist who has helped American audiences to understand the complexities of Asia.

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Tamara Cofman Wittes is a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She is author of Freedom’s Unsteady March: America’s Role in Building Arab Democracy (Brookings, 2008) Wittes previously served as a Middle East Specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace and as Director of Programs at the Middle East Institute. She has been an Adjunct Professor of National Security Studies at Georgetown University and
earlier a Research Assistant at the Henry L. Stimson Center. Wittes is widely published on Arab politics and political reform, Israeli-Arab relations, culture and conflict resolution, and U.S. Middle East policy.
Tamara Wittes will come to the Camden Conference fresh from attending the U.S.-Islamic World Forum
sponsored by Brookings in Doha, Qatar where she will have encountered a wide array of Islamic and Arab leaders.

Timothy Juliani

Timothy Juliani is a Senior Fellow and Manager of BELC Relations at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. He manages the Center’s Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), the largest US-based association of companies devoted to climate-related policy and corporate strategies, comprising 44 major corporations with combined revenue of $2 trillion and over 4 million employees. He also participates in the Pew Center’s analytic work on climate-related markets and investment issues, coordinates the organization’s work in the Offsets Quality Initiative, and is a staff representative for the Center’s involvement in the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP). Mr. Juliani first came to the Pew Center in May 2005. He has also worked at the U.S. EPA to develop a voluntary corporate partnership program to reduce high global warming potential gases.

Mr. Juliani earned his M.A. in International Economics, Energy and Environment at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. During that time, he also worked as an independent consultant, writing an analysis of energy cooperation within ASEAN for USAID and the SARI-Energy program.

Before his graduate work at SAIS, Mr. Juliani worked for several years in the non-profit community in Seattle. In addition to his M.A. from Johns Hopkins, he completed a post-baccalaureate program at the University of Washington, and graduated with a B.A. in Religion, /magna cum laude/ with Highest Honors, and a minor in Medieval History from Middlebury College in Vermont.