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Carl Hiaasen , a graduate of the University of Florida, at age 23 he joined *The Miami Herald* as a general assignment reporter and went on to work for the paper's weekly magazine and later its prize-winning investigations team. Since 1985 Hiaasen has been writing a regular column, which at one time or another has pissed off just about everybody in South Florida, including his own bosses. He has outlasted almost all of them, and his column still appears on most Sundays in *The Herald's* opinion-and-editorial section. For his journalism and commentary, Hiaasen has received numerous state and national honors, including the Damon Runyon Award from the Denver Press Club. His work has also appeared in many well-known magazines, including *Sports Illustrated*, *Playboy*, *Time*, *Life*, *Esquire* and, *Gourmet*.

Since 1991, Carl Honore has written journalism from all over Europe and South America, spending three years as a correspondent in Buenos Aires. His articles have appeared in The Economist, Observer, National Post, Houston Chronicle and Miami Herald. His first book, In Praise of Slow: How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed, examines the modern compulsion to hurry and chronicles a global trend toward putting on the brakes. It has been translated into 30 languages and landed on bestseller lists in many countries.

Kasell has been with NPR since the station first hit the airwaves in 1977, working first on *All Things Considered* before assuming the role of newscaster on *Morning Edition*. Kasell is a 1956 graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Carl Kaysen's scholarly work has ranged widely in the areas where economics, sociology, politics and law overlap. His current research centers on arms control and international politics. He co-chairs the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Study Committee on International Security Studies. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 1976, he was on the faculty of the economics department at Harvard University. He served as deputy special assistant for national security affairs to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963 and was the director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1966 to 1976. He has been a junior fellow at Harvard University and a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was vice chairman and director of research for the Sloan Commission on Higher Education from 1978 to 1980.

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Carl Safina has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won the Lannan Literary Award and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University. Carl is the inaugural endowed professor for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, where he co-chairs the steering committee of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina. His writing appears in The New York Times, National Geographic, Audubon, and other periodicals, and on the Web at National Geographic News Watch, Huffington Post, and CNN.com. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel is Carl’s seventh book.

Carl Spector oversees programs related to climate change, environmental protec-on, historic preserva-on, and other aspects of sustainability. Before joining Boston City Hall in 2005, Mr. Spector worked on a wide variety of environmental and energy issues for the federal government and in private industry. He holds degrees in physics from Princeton University and environmental science from the University of Massachuse;s, Boston. Photo Credit: New England Aquarium

Carla A. Hills is chairman and CEO of Hills & Company, International Consultants, which advises companies on global trade and investment issues, particularly in the emerging markets. Ambassador Hills served as US Trade Representative (1989-93), in which capacity she was President Bush's principal advisor on international trade policy. She served as secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Ford Administration. From 1974-75, she was Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, US Department of Justice. Ambassador Hills serves on a number of corporate boards. She is vice chair of the National Committee on US-China Relations, the US-China Business Council, and the Inter-American Dialogue; trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute of International Economics; member of the Board of the Asia Society; and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

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An architect and engineer by training, **Carlo Ratti** practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. Ratti graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has co-authored over 200 publications and holds several patents. His work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, GAFTA in San Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ratti's Digital Water Pavilion at the 2008 World Expo was hailed by \_Time\_ as one of the Best Inventions of the Year. He has been included in \_Esquire's\_ Best and Brightest list, in \_Blueprint's\_ 25 People who will Change the World of Design and in \_Forbes'\_ People you need to know in 2011. Ratti was a presenter at TED 2011 and is serving as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Urban Management.

Dr. Carlo Rotella is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Boson College. He has also taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Lafayette College, and Wesleyan University. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Yale University. He has published three books: *Cut Time: An Education at the Fights*, which won a PEN New England Award and was a finalist for the *LA Times* Book Prize; *Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt*; and *October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature*. He has also published chapters in other books and numerous essays and articles in journals and magazines. He has appeared on the NPR shows *Fresh Air* and *Only a Game*.