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Terry Cooke founded the China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia in 2011 as a 501c3 public-private platform to accelerate commercial and research collaboration between the Greater Philadelphia region and China in clean energy and energy-efficient buildings. One of only 36 competitively-selected current EcoPartnerships under the U.S.-China Ten Year Framework, CPGP’s PHL-TEDA EcoPartnership is now focusing on “energy-efficient, smart and healthy industrial park built environments” and a Sino-U.S. Eco Park showcase. Terry is currently teaching a course in the University of Pennsylvania’s international Masters of Public Administration degree-program under Fox Leadership International and the School of Arts & Sciences.  CPGP serves as the principal case-study for the course “China and the U.S. in the 21st Century: Sub-National Sino-American Relations.” Terry was a 2010 Public Policy Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. His book Sustaining U.S.-China Cooperation in Clean Energy was published by the Wilson’s Center’s Kissinger Institute in September 2012. Previously from 2006-8, Terry served as Director for Asian Corporate Partnership at the World Economic Forum, the host of the Davos Annual Meeting and the ‘Summer Davos’ in China.  In 2003, Terry retired with the rank of Counselor as a career-member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Commercial Service following tours in Taipei, Berlin, Tokyo & Shanghai. Terry received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985, his MA from UCB in 1981 and his BA from Princeton University in 1976. 

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Dr. Azzeddine Oudjehane has over 25 years of experience leading multi-disciplinary projects in R&D, business innovation and market development working with various stakeholders from Academia, Government and Industry. Azzeddine holds graduate degrees in both Applied Science and Business Administration. In 2012, he joined the first undergraduate BSc in Construction Project Management in Canada.  Azzeddine strives through teaching excellence to train the next generation of construction project managers in Alberta and Canada, while developing scholarly applied research that meets the needs of the Alberta industries. Alongside his academic position Azzeddine currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Chapter Leadership Board of Directors of the Alberta Chapter of the Canada Green Building Council CaGBC. Azzeddine is also the Treasure and Secretary for the Board of Directors for Value Analysis Canada. With over 100 publications and presentations at international conferences, Dr. Oudjehane serves in various journal review committees and has chaired sessions at conferences. In the past year, he has given  several presentations and keynotes on the role of innovation for sustainable construction practices. His most recent applied research work include: Integration of AI and Unmanned Systems in Construction management;  Sustainable mass timber design and construction with a zero carbon framework.

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Deborah has been involved with public policy around the Greater Houston region and the State of Texas for over 35 years, currently serving as President & CEO of Houston Wilderness (www.houstonwilderness.org). She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985 and her J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center. She most recently helped create and now implement the 8-county Gulf-Houston Regional Conservation Plan (www.gulfhoustonrcp.org). She is lead author on Houston Wilderness’ Ecosystem Services Primer, 2nd Edition and speaks regularly at environmental conferences on Greater Houston’s ecological assets and regional ecosystem services case studies.

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Dr. Virendra Kumar Goswami, Ph. D. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, MS from the University of Wisconsin, USA. Post Doctorate Fellow (PDF) at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. ‘Visiting Scientist’ to United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ICTP, Italy. Expert Panelist International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Canada, and the United Nations. Founder President ’Environment & Peace Foundation (EPF) & Wing Commander (Retd.)with more than 500 hours of flying as a supernumerary Aircrew. Dr. Virendra   Goswami worked at Space Science Engineering Centre, NASA NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) at University of Wisconsin, USA. Former Vice Chancellor: Sangam & Sunrise Universities. Had been, Director General of Management Institutes & Director of Engineering Institutes as well as Vice-President Havells India Ltd. Special Invitee by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) of the United Nations, Geneva in 2001. Expert Panelist of Association of Indian Universities (AIU) & Ph. D & M. Tech Examiner at Centre of Energy Studies at IIT Delhi. More than 44 years of teaching, research and administrative experience at Home and Abroad. Associated with SAARC Disaster Management C enter (SDMC). Also, Prof. Emeritus& got awarded for Human Value Education by Governor, Uttar Pradesh on 05 Jun’17. Member: AGU (American Geophysical Union), Society for Conservation Biology (SCB), AMS &IMS (American& Indian Meteorological Societies), Editor in Chief: Journal Alternative Energy, Environment and Ecology, Reviewer: US-J. of Shipping and Ocean Engg. & Int. Natl. Journal of Climate Change: Impact & Responses. Member Editor: J. Mechanical Engineering Automation (JMEA), JASO, JACCT, JGRE. Hon. Director: ICEMI & Advocate: Supreme Court of India.    

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Dr. Sol studied Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, where he defended his dissertation on personnel economics under the supervision of Prof. Dur in 2011. He joined the University of Amsterdam in 2010, where he worked with Prof. van Praag on topics in entrepreneurship. After obtaining a tenured position in 2015, he developed a course on environmental economics, coordinates a minor program sustainability and economics, published on biodiversity loss, and founded facebook.com/theArk2.0/.

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AGUNG IMAM ZULHATTA, S.IP, M.Han (cand) - Indonesia Defense University EDUCATION •    Undergraduate Program of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Andalas University (UNAND)  (2014-2018) •    Master Program of Maritime Security, Faculty of National Security, Indonesia Defense Univeristy  RESEARCH TEAM •    Raymundus Putra Situmorang, S.Si, M.Han (cand) Maritime Security Department, Faculty of National Security, Indonesia Defense Univeristy •    Admiral (ret) Prof. Dr. Marsetio, S.IP, M.M Maritime Security Department, Faculty of National Security, Indonesia Defense Univeristy

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Dr. Asadu Christian is an environmental engineer and a seasoned researcher with department of Chemical Engineering Gregory University Uturu Nigeria. Former lecturer with Institute of management and Technology Enugu Nigeria. A member of green energy research team of Gregory University Nigeria. A reviewer with many journals including Journal of Air and Waste management Association. Author of many scientific articles published in reputable journals. 

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Master in ecology, has experience in species distribution models and studies of ecological niche and habitat adaptation. A member of the antozoan research group in Brazil, he is currently working with the use of artificial neural networks in the identification of deep reefs refuges.

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Dr. Surajit Chattopadhyay, an Associate Professor and Head, Dept of Mathematics, Amity University, Kolkata, India, started his academic career as a Senior Research Fellow of the Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. The research interest of Dr. Chattopadhyay  encompasses Theoretical Climatology and Cosmology. Dr. Chattopadhyay is a  Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society, London and Member, IOP, London. At present Dr. Chattopadhyay has 131 publications in SCIE indexed journals including Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Natural Hazards, Meteorological Applications and International Journal of Climatology .

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Professor Aaron Yair studied geography at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, and graduated as Master in 1955. He then moved to Israel, where he received his PhD degree in 1967 (Suma com Laude). He was then nominated as lecturer, and later, as full professor.   Chairman of the Department of Geography and of the Institute of Earth Sciences of the Hebrew University. Head of the Watershed Ecology Unit, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Founder and Director of the Arid Ecosystems Research Centre of the Hebrew University. President of the Association of Israeli Geographers. Visiting scientist at the following universities: Ottawa; Toronto; Leuven; Amsterdam; Paris (Sorbonne); London (UCL and King’s college); Dijon (CNRS- Bigeosciences). New Mexico and Nevada (Institute for Desert Research); Cambridge (UK), Belfast University.  Awards: Ben Gurion award for research in desert hydrology (Blaustein Institute for Desert Research) Nominated Honorary Member of the Association of French Geographers (2002) Farouk El-Baz award for desert research (Geological Society of America, Quaternary and Geomorphology Division, 2003) Catena: Certificate of excellence in reviewing (2012).  

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Emanuele Calabrò is Full Professor of Physics at the Technological Technical Institute of Messina (Italy). He received the National Qualifications as University Professor in Applied Physics and in Experimental Physics of Matter. He received the International Prize for Excellence in Research by the Academic Brand Awards-2018. He has published more than 100 refereed papers in ISI journals, monographs and book chapters.

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Dr. Enoch Bessah studied BSc. Agricultural Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana and graduated in 2011. He then joined the department of the university as a Teaching and Research Assistant for one year and studied MTech in Climate Change and Adapted Land Use at the Federal University of Technology, Minna in Nigeria and graduated in 2014. Enoch received PhD in Environmental Management from Pan African University and University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2019. He is currently lecturing at KNUST. Enoch has about 10 peer-reviewed publications.