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Harvey M Bernstein

Vice President, Industry Insights & Alliances, McGraw-Hill Construction

MHC’s Harvey Bernstein helps executives Get Smarter to capitalize on opportunities
As vice president of Industry Insights and Alliances, Harvey M. Bernstein leads the company’s thought leadership and green building initiatives and manages its Research and Analytics division, which is responsible for developing and maintaining the company’s construction industry statistics, building stock information, market research, and related industry forecasts. Harvey speaks globally on green building trends and innovation and has presented hundreds of speeches and written numerous papers covering innovation and technology, residential and commercial construction, energy efficiency, energy conservation, and sustainability in the built environment. He is a member of The McGraw-Hill Companies’ Sustainability Business Development Board.
Harvey was a key member of the team that launched McGraw-Hill Construction’s award-winning GreenSource: The Magazine of Sustainable Design, and he co-authored the book Solving the Innovation Puzzle: Challenges Facing the U.S. Design and Construction Industry. In addition, he created the MHC global SmartMarket Report series on key industry trends on such topics as Building Information Modeling (BIM), public private partnerships, retrofit and renovation, water efficiency, industry productivity and innovation, cities of the future, and the built environment.
Prior to joining McGraw-Hill Construction, Harvey served as president and chief executive officer of the Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF) and the International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC), where he managed offices and business development in South Africa, Europe, China, India, Philippines, and Thailand. Harvey serves as co-chair of the National Building Museum’s Industry Council for the Built Environment; is a member of the Princeton University Civil & Environmental Engineering Advisory Council; and Underwriter Laboratories Environment, Inc. Advisory Council. He is a visiting professor with the University of Reading’s School of Construction Management and Engineering in London, England, where he also serves on their Innovative Construction Research Center Advisory Board.
Harvey has an M.B.A in marketing from Loyola College; an M.S. in engineering from Princeton University; and a B.S. in civil engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

John Briscoe

Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University

John Briscoe is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environment Engineering and Environmental Health at Harvard University where he directs the Harvard Water Security Initiative and is on the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Public Health and Kennedy School of Government. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on water management and development. In 2010 he was nominated for the Joseph R. Levenson Prize for exceptional teaching of Harvard undergraduates.
His career has focused on the issues of water, other natural resources and economic development. He has worked: as an engineer in the government water agencies of South Africa and Mozambique; as an epidemiologist at the Cholera Research Center in Bangladesh; as a professor of water resources at the University of North Carolina. In his 20-year career at the World Bank he held high-level technical positions (as the Bank’s Senior Water Advisor) and managerial positions (Country Director for Brazil, the World Bank’s biggest borrower). Mr. Briscoe’s role in shaping the governance and strategy of the World Bank is the subject of a chapter in the definitive recent history of the Bank, Sebastian Mallaby’s The World’s Banker (Penguin, 2006).
He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at Harvard University in 1976 and his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1969.
In addition to his native South Africa, he has lived in the United State, Bangladesh, Mozambique, India and Brazil. He speaks English, Afrikaans, Bengali, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Briscoe was a founding member of the major global water partnerships, including the World Water Council, the Global Water Partnership, and the World Commission on Dams. He has served on the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences and the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum and currently serves as a member of the Council of Distinguished Water Professionals of the International Water Association. His recent consultancies include for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Friends of Democratic Pakistan, the US National Intelligence Council, the National Water Commission of Australia and the OECD. He has published extensively in the media and in professional economic, finance, environmental, health and engineering journals. In recent years he authored the World Bank’s Water Sector Strategy, the Brazil/World Bank Country Partnership Strategy and the Oxford University Press books India's Water Economy: Bracing for a Turbulent Future and Pakistan’s Water Economy: Running Dry.
He is the dam master of the Todd Pond Dam in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
His website is johnbriscoe.seas.harvard.edu

Manny Diaz

Senior Partner at Lydecker Diaz

A force in local, state and national politics for nearly three decades, Manny Diaz was first elected City of Miami Mayor in 2001, having never before held elective office. He was reelected to a second term in 2005, and was chosen to lead the United States Conference of Mayors as its president in 2008.
Mayor Diaz developed a vision for Miami as an international City that embodies diversity, economic opportunity, effective customer service and a highly rated quality of life. To achieve this goal, he re-engineered Miami government from top to bottom.
During his two-term tenure, Diaz was recognized for completely transforming the City of Miami, and for many nationally recognized innovative programs in the areas of urban design, sustainability and green initiatives, education, infrastructure investment, affordable housing, law enforcement, poverty and homelessness, and arts and culture.
In recognition of his efforts, Diaz has received almost 100 awards and recognitions including, America’s Best Leaders by US News and World Report and The Center for Public Leadership (Kennedy School of Government); the Urban Innovator of the Year by the Manhattan Institute; University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research-Annual Urban Leadership Award; Americans for the Arts-National Award for Local Arts Leadership; American Architectural Foundation Keystone Award; The American Institute of Architects Presidential Citation; the AIA (Miami Chapter)- Governmental Leadership Award; The Congress for the New Urbanism- Groves Award; Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce Power Leader of the Year and Green Visionary Awards; the Government Award by Hispanic Magazine; the Business Leader of the Year Award by South Florida CEO Magazine; and was named an Outstanding American by Choice by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service.
He is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council of the US Department of Homeland Security and serves as Vice-Chairman of the Alliance for Digital Equality Board of Directors. He also serves as the Chair for Fair Districts Florida and is a member of the Board of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research, the League of Conservation Voters, ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, the National Environmental Education Foundation, City Year Miami, the Florida After School Network, the advisory board for the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Civic Innovation, the advisory board for the Sustainable Cities Institute, the Florida Advisory Committee for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and the Florida Steering Committee for The Children’s Movement of Florida.
He recently served as a Resident Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and has now resumed his successful corporate and real estate law practice as a senior partner at Lydecker Diaz in Miami, Florida.

Scott Kirkpatrick

President of Coast Builders Coalition

Scott Kirkpatrick is an attorney with a focus on government relations. He serves as the President of the Coast Builders Coalition. This non-profit industry association is committed to designing and constructing a sustainable coast for the state of Louisiana. The Coast Builders Coalition is active in promoting innovative restoration and protection solutions, improving collaboration between the public and private sector and championing the need to restore and protect millions of acres of vulnerable wetlands along the coast of Louisiana.
Previously, Mr. Kirkpatrick spent nearly five years working with the Washington, D.C. based consulting firm, the Cypress Group. In addition to his government relations work with the firm, he was part of a team that procured and executed on a $78 million federal housing contract through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the State of Louisiana.
Prior experience includes working in Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco’s office as a policy advisor for natural resources, environment and transportation; serving in the special projects office of former U.S. Senator John Breaux and as a legislative assistant for former U.S. Congressman Richard Baker in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Kirkpatrick received his BA in Government and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia and his JD from Louisiana State University. He and his wife Heather have two daughters, Laura Jane and Virginia.

Paula Loomis

USACE Sustainability Program Manager

Paula J. Loomis, FAIA, LEED BD&C, PMP, is the Sustainability Program Manager for the United States Army Corps of Engineers providing sustainability policy, technical assistance and training to USACE engineering and construction worldwide. She has 32 years in federal service with the Air Force, Army, Navy and General Services Administration. She served as the Command Architect for Air Combat Command and Deputy in the Air Force’s BRAC 2005 Base Transition Office. In the private sector, she started the EDAW Virginia Beach office, taught architecture at Hampton University and served as a Site Engineer for McCarthy Brothers Construction. In 2007 she was elevated as a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows and elected to serve on the college’s selection committee from 2008-2011. She holds a Bachelor in Environmental Design, Master of Architecture, Master of Construction Management, Master of Business Administration and is a PhD (ABD) in Urban Studies. In the U.S. Air Force Reserves, Colonel Loomis is the Senior Reservist at the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment in San Antonio, Texas. She graduated from the Air War College, Armed Forces Staff College, Air Command and Staff College, AF Squadron Officer School and the Advanced Course at the Joint Forces Staff College. In addition to AIA, she is a member of the American Planning Association, US Green Building Council and a Life Member of the Society of American Military Engineers.

Brooke Weizmann

Director of Sustainability/Responsible Care at the American Chemistry Council

As Director of Sustainability for the American Chemistry Council and a Director in the ACC’s Responsible Care division, Brooke Weizmann works closely with the chemicals manufacturing industry to enhance sector-wide sustainable performance, promote innovation, and improve employee safety and the health of the communities in which we operate. Focused on improving collaboration to enhance the environmental and social impacts of global supply chains, she manages ACC’s partnerships with downstream customers and marketplace stakeholders to promote sustainable processes and innovation throughout the supply chain. In addition, Brooke is a frequent speaker and sustainability advocate, participating in sustainability events around the globe and representing the chemicals industry to The Sustainability Consortium. Prior to joining ACC, Brooke managed sustainability initiatives for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), where she managed national campaigns to enhance recycling and recovery, promote sustainable product innovation and sustainable packaging, reduce food waste and increase food donations for Feeding America. Brooke has also worked for Goldman Sachs & Company and the for the Governor’s office of the State of Florida and holds a BA from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

Tom Couling

Corporate Manager, Environment, at Zachry Construction Corporation

Mr. Couling manages all aspects of environmental compliance for the Zachry Construction Corporation. He specializes in environmental compliance for large infrastructure projects ranging in construction cost from $800 million to $5.3 billion. With more than 20 years of experience, he has successfully managed compliance on some of the largest and most controversial projects in the U.S. He is experienced in traditional as well as design/build and design/build/operate project delivery methods. He has led the environmental in all phases of infrastructure development from feasibility study/NEPA through construction and has worked for regulatory agencies, consulting engineers, owners and construction companies. He holds a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Minnesota and pursued graduate studies in Environmental Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Marie Martinko

Director, Industry Affairs - Environment & Health at SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association

Marie Martinko leads the development and implementation of environmental, product regulatory, and occupational safety regulatory and technical programs on behalf of member companies in SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association. SPI represents the third largest manufacturing industry in the United States, and its member companies represent the entire plastics industry supply chain, including processors, machinery and equipment manufacturers and raw materials suppliers. As Director, Industry Affairs - Environment & Health, she analyzes and evaluates existing and proposed regulations and policy developments; meets with government agency representatives to promote sound regulations and provide education on SPI member positions and the plastics industry; supports member participation in the regulatory process; collaborates with related industry trade groups and coalitions; manages chemical testing programs and the development of industry resources; and provides representation and advocacy before government agencies on environmental, product regulatory and occupational safety priorities. She holds an MS in Environmental Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and a BS in Chemistry from Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey).

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