Board of Advisors
Don Bain
Don is a professional engineer and recognized expert in sea level rise, CO2 and carbon accounting, supply chain planning and optimization, business process performance improvement, project management and IT best practices. He is author of Sea Level Rise Planning: Technical Principles & Practice and Fundamentals of Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) GHG Accounting and Reporting; and co-inventor on multiple patent applications.
Jason Box, Ph.D.
Jason is a Glaciologist, and has been Professor in Glaciology at The Geologic Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) with over 70 journal articles at GEUS since 2013. Jason has been on 30 Greenland expeditions, spent over a year camping on the ice and has installed and maintained a network of more than 20 automatic weather stations on Greenland’s inland ice.
John Coleman
John is CEO of the Bay Planning Coalition (BPC), a non-profit, business association advocating for the balanced use of San Francisco Bay-Delta resources. The Coalition includes ports, maritime industries, labor unions, and local government, as well as builders, engineers, planners, and legal professionals. Under John's leadership BPC has greatly expanded education and advocacy locally and nationally.
Erin Cummings
As policy and management consultant at EAC Consultants, Erin provides program development and management for the Colorado Compact of Communities to help Colorado's elected officials address the effects of climate change. Erin also oversaw the contract to meet deliverables established by the Department of Homeland Security's Infrastructure Protection Office for Climate Resilience Training.
Glenn Frommer
Glenn is an expert advisor in environmental, social and corporate governance. He is the Managing Partner at ESG Matters IVS in Copenhagen Denmark, and has more than 25 years of senior management experience with the planning, construction and operation of public transport infrastructure in the Far East.
Gary B. Griggs, Ph.D.
Gary is a distinguished professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz, where he is also the Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences. His research has focused on the coast of California and ranges from coastal landforms and shoreline processes, to coastal hazards and engineering, and more recently to sea-level rise impacts and adaptation. He has served on the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (NAS-NRC) Committee on Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon and Washington as well as for the Ocean Protection Council’s Science Advisory Team. Gary has published over 170 articles in scientific journals and eight books.
Peter Illig, J.D.
Peter is an engaging strategic thinker and problem solver with extensive experience leading transformation and growth in mission-driven organizations specializing in law, governance, strategy, organizational change and executive team leadership. Peter brings a unique mix of business, legal and external relations expertise from vast multi-cultural settings.
Sir David King
Sir David King was the UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change from September 2013 until March 2017. Previously he was the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor from 2000 to 2007, during which time he raised awareness of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the Energy Technologies Institute. He also served as the Founding Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford. He has published over 500 papers on surface science and heterogeneous catalysis, and on science and policy, for which he has received many awards and medals. He has received 23 honorary degrees from universities around the world. Sir David was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991, and Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, was knighted in 2003, and was made “Officier dans l’ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur” in 2009.
Daniel Kreeger
Daniel is co-founder and executive director of the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO). He has vast experience establishing partnerships and collaborating with federal agencies, environmental non-profits, academic institutions and multinational corporations. Since 2008, Dan has led the development of ACCO, including producing industry leading conferences such as the GreenGov Symposium (in partnership with the White House Council on Environmental Quality) and the Climate Leadership Conference and Awards (in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Climate Registry and Center for Climate and Energy Solutions).
Michael Mackay
Michael is an expert in the area of creative problem solving and technical team management. Michael’s ability to structure and implement large-scale creative and technical solutions involving cross-disciplinary approaches has been repeatedly demonstrated. He was trained as a scientist and has recently been active in designing next generation chemical and bio electronic systems. For the past thirty years, MacKay has been actively involved in the digital media convergence; and has made significant advances in the area of Digital Broadcast, Intelligent Studios for Digital Media Creation, Digital Cinema and more.
Scott Nadler
Scott is Founding Principal at Nadler Strategies LLC, providing strategic advice to investors, entrepreneurs and executives. Focus areas include support for private equity, business-to-business professional services, impact investment and sustainability. Scott is also Program Director with the US Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD), an action-oriented business association using collaborative projects, platforms and partnerships to develop and implement solutions to sustainability challenges in the US. Current programs address ecosystems, energy, materials and water challenges. He speaks and writes on environment, sustainability and strategy topics. He also served on the Executive Committee of the US Business Council for Sustainable Development before joining the staff there.
James Neumann
James is principal at Industrial Economics, Incorporated (IEc), specializes in climate change impact and adaptation analysis, applied environmental economics, and policy analysis. James is a recognized expert on the economics of climate change adaptation and the impacts of sea-level rise and storm risks associated with climate change. He is a lead author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Working Group II team, and a lead author for the US National Climate Assessment coastal effects chapter.
William Nitze
William is currently chairman of the Oceana Energy Company. Previously, he served as Assistant Administrator for International Activities at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1994 to 2001, where he made environmental security a focus of the agency’s international work by establishing a formal working relationship among the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and EPA on environmental security issues. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment from 1987 to 1990, Nitze was the principal working level negotiator on multilateral environmental issues ranging from trade in endangered species to climate change. In 1988, Mr. Nitze played a key role in creating and organizing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Adam Seigel
Adam is an entrepreneur operating at the intersection of energy, climate, international security, and business issues. He is a business-case analyst for clean-energy start-ups and major defense firms; and is experienced across business, academic, government, and military environments.
Will Travis
Will is a consultant, author, teacher and speaker on climate change, and particularly sea level rise adaptation. He has over 40 years of experience in California coastal management, including 17 years as the executive director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), the state agency that regulates development in the Bay and along its shoreline. In 2011 he built a coalition of business, environmental, and local government support that lead to BCDC’s unanimous adoption of the nation’s first state coastal management agency development regulations for addressing sea level rise.
Harold Wanless, Ph.D.
Harold is professor and chair at the University of Miami in the department of Geological Sciences. Since joining the University of Miami, he and his students have been studying the dynamics and evolution of tropical shallow marine and coastal environments of south Florida and the Bahamas. Especially important to this research has been documenting the influence of changing sea level and catastrophic events, such as hurricanes. They are now using this understanding to better predict the future of coastal environments in the face of global warming and project future rates of sea level rise. In 2016, Dr. Wanless, together with Mayor Phil Stoddard, was named one of Politico’s 50 plus ‘thinkers, doers and visionaries who are transforming American Politics in 2016.’