 Susan Hockfield
Susan Hockfield has served as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since December 2004. A strong advocate of the vital role that science, technology, and the research university play in the world, she believes that MIT can best advance its historic mission of teaching, research, and service by providing robust and sustained support for the ideas and energies of its faculty and students.
A noted neuroscientist whose research has focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience in the Institute's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Dr. Hockfield encourages collaborative work among MIT's schools, departments, and interdisciplinary laboratories and centers to keep the Institute at the forefront of innovation. She believes that MIT's strengths in engineering and science uniquely position the Institute to pioneer newly evolving, interdisciplinary areas and to translate them into practice. Together with MIT's traditions of excellence in architecture and planning, management, and the humanities, arts and social sciences, these strengths will allow the Institute to continue to develop powerful solutions to our era's greatest challenges.
Under her leadership, MIT has launched a major Institute-wide initiative in energy research.
Lars Josefsson
Lars G. Josefsson became President and CEO of Vattenfall in August 2000. Since his appointment, Vattenfall has established itself as a dynamic northern European energy group, with a strong presence in Germany and Poland as well as in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Before joining Vattenfall, Josefsson worked for Ericsson in a number of executive capacities, including a four-year period in charge of operations in Austria. From 1997 he was President and CEO of Celsius, which he led until 2000 when Celsius became part of the Saab Group. Josefsson was born on 29 October, 1950 in Ulricehamn, Sweden. He graduated in 1973 with a degree in technical physics from Chalmers Institute of Technology. After his National Service in the Signal Corps, he began a professional career in 1974 as a systems engineer at the Defence Electronics Division of what was then LM Ericsson. Here, after a number of executive posts, he was appointed President of Chemtronics in 1984. At Ericsson Radio Systems, he became head of the Radar Section in 1985. In 1987 he took over as Vice President and head of the Surface Sensor Division. He attended several courses at the Ericsson Management Institute, and his executive training also includes a Program for Executive Development at IMD (International Institute for Management Development) in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1986. His background, combined with his excellent knowledge of German, facilitated his appointment as President of Schrack Telecom AG in Vienna, Austria. The company was later renamed Ericsson Schrack AG (in 1994) and Ericsson Austria (in 1996). In 1997, Josefsson was recruited as President of Celsius AB, in which the Swedish State then held a 25 per cent stake. With the defence market shrinking, a certain amount of restructuring took place, including the merger of the submarine and surface ship operations with the German HDW, the merger of Bofors artillery operations with American United Defence, and the formation of a Nordic ammunition and explosives unit. Finally, the Celsius Group was acquired by the Saab Group, after which Josefsson became President of Vattenfall AB. In addition to his duties as CEO of Vattenfall, he is a member of the supervisory board of Eskom Holdings Ltd of Johannesburg, South Africa, and of the World Childhood Foundation. As of April 2004, Josefsson is elected President of the German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce. As of June 2008, he is elected President of Eurelectric. In December 2006, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel named him as one of her government advisors on international climate protection issues during the German EU presidency. As of April 2007, Josefsson is a member of the commission for sustainable development in the Swedish government. He is the holder of several patents in the field of radar technology, and has been a member of the Royal Swedish Military Academy since 1988 and the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences since 1998. Lars G Josefsson is married and has four children. His leisure interests are tennis, skiing and hunting.
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Jay Inslee
Raised on the shores of Puget Sound, Jay Inslee comes from a long line of Washingtonians and wants to protect the state’s natural beauty for his three sons and generations to come.
He’s worked at the federal level – as representative for the 4th Congressional District from 1992-1994 and the 1st Congressional District since 1999 – to protect the environment of Washington state and address the problem of global warming.
He fought to restore protections for roadless areas in national forests and led a successful campaign in the House to keep limits on oil-tanker traffic in Puget Sound. Since 2005, Jay has used his seat on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee to promote his vision for a clean energy future, the New Apollo Energy Act, and to advance other legislation that would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. In March 2007, he was appointed to the 15-member Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Beyond advocating sound environmental policies, Jay has used a common-sense approach in Congress to help expand the region’s high-tech economy, promote privacy protections for American consumers and strengthen programs for seniors like Social Security and Medicare.
Jay also has supported increased spending for port security and veterans’ services. He backed the war in Afghanistan to root out terrorists; but he voted against the war in Iraq and has been an outspoken critic of administration policies there.
Even before his election to the U.S. Congress, Jay was a public servant. He was a state legislator and prosecutor in Selah, Wash.
Jay holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Washington and earned his law degree from Willamette University. He’s been married to his high-school sweetheart, Trudi, since 1972. The couple has three grown children – Jack, Connor and Joe – who all live in Washington state.
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