FREDERICK SEITZ is President Emeritus of The Rockefeller University, a leading research institution. He has been awarded 30 honorary degrees from such institutions as Princeton University, Northwestern, University of Michigan, Brown, NYU and University of Pennsylvania. He has received numerous awards for his work as a scientist and educator including the National Medal of Science, the Franklin Medal, the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award, the Nassau Distinguished Service Award and the American College of Physicians Edward R. Loveland Memorial Award.. He served two terms as president of the National Academy of Sciences and has been Chairman of the Board of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.

DANIEL I. SESSLER, M.D. is Sam and Lolita Weakley Professor of Anesthesia, Associate Dean for Research and Director of the Outcomes Research Institute and the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and Professor and Vice-Chair of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of the University of Vienna. He received his M.D. degree of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

JACOB SHAPIRO was the Director of the Radiation Protection Program at Harvard University and Senior Scientist in the Environmental Health and Safety Office until his retirement in 1997. He is currently Lecturer on Biophysics in Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and teaches a graduate course in Radiation Protection. He is also co-director of a course in occupational and environmental radiation protection for professionals offered by the Center for Continuing Professional Education. He is the author of "Radiation Protection, A Guide for Scientists, Regulators, and Physicians," a highly successful manual that has served as a major resource for students and professionals for three decades; the fourth edition was published by the Harvard University Press in June, 2002.

BARRY H. SMITH, M.D., Ph.D. is Director of The Dreyfus Health Foundation; a member of the board of directors and Senior Vice President, The Rogosin Institute at The New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Medical College (Cornell) Medical Center, New York, New York and President of the Rogosin Research Foundation. He is also Professor in the Department of Surgery, Cornell University Medical College/New York Hospital. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Neuroscience, the International Brain Research Organization, the New York Academy of Science, the American Public Health Association, the Global Health Council and the International Organization of Psychophysiology. He is Co-Editor, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Associate Editor, Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Reviewer, Journal of Critical Care Medicine. He is the author of over 100 publications in the fields of neuroscience, organ transplantation and public health. He is a medical doctor, licensed in New York, Maryland and Massachusetts, specializing in neurosurgery, and holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A. FREDERICK SPILHAUS, JR. is Executive Director of the American Geophysical Union. He is a co-founder and former chairman of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, a former director of the Association of Earth Sciences Editors, Secretary of the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, a former member of the governing board of the American Institute of Physics.

EDWARD THORNDIKE is Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester and a Visiting Fellow of the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT, A PRIMER FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS (1976) and the author or co-author of over 350 scientific articles; he was Director of the University of Rochester 130 Inch Cyclotron Laboratory and spokesman for the CLEO Collaboration/Cornell Electron Storage Ring. His primary field of research is in elementary particle physics. In 1999 he was awarded the W.H.K. Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 1960.

DIMITRIOS TRICHOPOULOS, M.D. is Chairman of the Department and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He formerly was Professor and Director of the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the University of Athens Medical School for 18 years. He is a member of 12 American, European or international scientific societies. He was chairman of the European Economic Community Health Group and the European Economic Community AIDS Group.

ARTHUR CANFIELD UPTON is Clinic Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and also Clinical Professor of Radiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1944 and his M.D. from the University of Michigan in 1946. Dr. Upton has also served as Chief of Pathology Physiology Section, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Chairman of the Department of Pathology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was also a Director of the National Cancer Institute from 1977-1979.

CHARLES O. VELZY is a consultant in the field of waste treatment and disposal. He has over 35 years of experience as an environmental engineering consultant specializing in: the analysis of waste management problems; design of wastewater treatment and waste disposal systems; and design of new, retrofit of existing, testing, and permitting of waste combustion facilities. He has authored or coauthored over 80 publications, primarily in the field of solid waste management. He has served on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; as President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); and as Treasurer of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE). He has served on numerous committees of the ASME, the AAEE, the American National Standards Institute, and the American Society for Testing and Materials. He held increasingly responsible positions with the environmental consulting engineering firm, Charles R. Velzy Associates, Inc., becoming president in 1976. In 1987, when Velzy Associates merged with Roy F. Weston, Inc., Charles Velzy became Vice President of Weston, a position which he held until retiring in 1992. He is a registered professional engineer in New York and eleven other states. Charles Velzy received B.S. degrees in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, and an M.S. in Sanitary Engineering, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

LYNN H. VERHEY is Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Verhey has a Ph.D. in Physics, and has held academic appointments at the University of California at Los Angeles, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and UCSF. Dr. Verhey has also held clinical appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. Dr. Verhey has also been Chairman, Report Committee on Proton Therapy, International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU), a Member of the Medical Physics Advisory Committee (MEDPAC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Reviewer of Quality Management Plans for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Dr. Verhey is the author or co-author of dozens of articles in the field of radiation oncology.

JAMES R. WALLACE is a Senior Vice President and Director of Engineering and Science of Law Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc. He was professor of civil engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1966 to 1978. He holds a Doctor of Science degree in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Hydrology and other professional organizations.

JAMES D. WATSON is a Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1962) (with F.H.C. Crick and M.H.F. Wilkins), and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. Dr. Watson has also been awarded the John Collins Warren Prize of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Albert Lasker Prize of the Public Health Association, the John J. Carty Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He earned his Ph.D. in Zoology, and has been awarded numerous honorary degrees. He is director and president of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of the National Institutes of Health.

JAMES D. WILSON is Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future. He holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry. He has been a member of numerous scholarly organizations and panels, including the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Risk Characterization, the United States Environmental Protection Agency Peer Review Panel on "Carcinogen Risk Assessment Guidelines Revision," the United Nations FAO/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives. He is a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis.

RICHARD WILSON is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics at Harvard University and immediate past Director of the Regional Center for Global Environmental Change at Harvard University. He is an Affiliate of the Center for Science and International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He is a past Chairman of the Department of Physics at Harvard University, a past chairman and currently a member of the Cyclotron Operating Committee. He is a founder of the Society for Risk Analysis. He is and has been a consultant to the United States government and the governments of numerous foreign countries on matters of nuclear safety, toxicology, epidemiology, public health and safety and risk assessment. He is the author of many articles on high energy physics, environmental pollution and risk analysis.

BERTRAM WOLFE was a Vice President and General Manager of GE's Nuclear Energy Business after a career of over 35 years. Dr. Wolfe has worked in almost all technical phases of peaceful nuclear power and has had responsibility for a number of successful nuclear reactor projects. In 1987 he was appointed a Vice President of GE and Manager of its Nuclear Energy Division. He is presently an independent consultant in the fields of business, energy, and nuclear energy. Dr. Wolfe was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980. He was elected President of the American Nuclear Society in 1986-7; was the recipient of the Walter Zinn technical accomplishment award in 1990; was honored with the Henry DeWolf Smyth nuclear statesman award in 1992; and was presented with the Tommy Thompson Nuclear Safety Award in 1997. He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society. Dr. Wolfe received a B.A. in physics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Cornell University.

ROSALYN YALOW is a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Professor-at- Large at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Distinguished Professor-at-Large (emeritus) at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, and Senior Medical Investigator (emeritus) at the Bronx (New York) Veterans Administration Medical Center. She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1988.

Public Service

JAMES A. BAKER, III served as Secretary of State from 1989-1992. Prior to that, he was Secretary of the Treasury from 1985-1988 and as Undersecretary of Commerce from 1975-1976. He also served as chief of staff to President Reagan (1981-1985) and President Bush (1992-1993). He is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1991), the Woodrow Wilson Award, and many others for his distinguished public service.

GRIFFIN B. BELL was Attorney General of the United States from 1977 to 1979. He was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1961 to 1976. He was also Chairman of the Madrid Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1980).

NICHOLAS F. BRADY served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1988 to 1993. He was also United States Senator from New Jersey.

WILLIAM E. BROCK was Secretary of Labor from 1985 to 1987 and U.S. Trade representative from 1981 to 1985. He served as United States Senator from Tennessee (1971-1977) and a Member of the House of Representatives (1963-1970).

ZBIGNIEW BRZENINSKI was National Security Advisor to the President from 1977-1981. He was also a member of the policy planning council of the Department of State (1966-1968) and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1987-1991). He has been a professor of government, specializing in international relations, since 1956 at Harvard University, Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many books on international relations. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.

WILLIAM J. CALISE, JR. is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Rockwell Automation, Inc.

FRANK C. CARLUCCI served as Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989. He also served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1981-1982), Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1978-1981), Ambassador to Portugal (1975-1978), Undersecretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1972-1974), Deputy Director and Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1971-1972), counselor for political affairs of the department of State, stationed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1965-1969), and various other diplomatic and staff positions in the Department of State (1957-1965). He is the recipient of numerous awards for distinguished service in the defense and intelligence services of the United States.

RICHARD B. CHENEY is Vice President of the United States. He was Secretary of Defense from 1989 to 1993. Prior to that, he served six terms as a member of the House of Representatives from Colorado.

PAUL COVERDELL (deceased) was United States Senator from the State of Georgia.

JOSEPH CRACIUN is Corporate Counsel, Money Mailer, LLC

FREDERICK R. DENT served as Secretary of Commerce from 1973 to 1975. He was Ambassador and Special Representative for Trade Negotiations from 1975 to 1977.

MICHAEL G. DWYER is President of the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America (ACCA-SoCal) and Senior Attorney at NMB (USA) Inc.

LAWRENCE S. EAGLEBURGER was Secretary of State from 1992 to 1993. He served as Deputy Secretary of State from 1989 to 1992, and as Under Secretary of State from 1982 to 1984. From 1973 to 1975 he was Deputy National Security Advisor. He also served in numerous diplomatic posts, including Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1977 to 1981.

WILLIAM D. EBERLE was United States Trade Representative from 1971 to 1975. He was a member of the President's Economic Policy Board and Executive Director of the Cabinet Council on International Economic Policy from 1974 to 1975.

HAYWARD D. FISK is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Computer Sciences Corporation and a past President of the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America

GERALD R. FORD was 38th President of the United States. He also served as Vice President of the United States. He was a Member of Congress for 26 years (1949-1974), and was Minority Leader of the House of Representatives for 10 years (1965-1974)

BARBARA HACKMAN FRANKLIN served as Secretary of Commerce from 1992 to 1993. She also served as Vice Chair of the Consumer Products Safety Commission from 1973 to 1979.

GEORGE S. FRAZZA is of Counsel, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP and General Counsel (Ret.), Johnson & Johnson

SAM M. GIBBONS served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida for 34 years, from 1962 to 1996. He was Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and its Subcommittee on Trade. He was also U.S. Advisor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization. Congressman Gibbons was a primary advocate and sponsor of every major international trade law enacted during his tenure in Congress. He led numerous interparliamentary delegations throughout Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia on issues of trade and economics.

SLADE GORTON was United States Senator from the State of Washington.

WILLIAM H. GRAHAM is former Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Bethlehem Steel Corporation

ALEXANDER M. HAIG, JR. served as Secretary of State from 1981 to 1982. He was Chief of Staff in the White House from 1973 to 1974. His distinguished military career included service as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1974-1979) and vice chief of staff of the United States Army (1973). He is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations for his service in and out of uniform.

LEE H. HAMILTON was a Member of the House of Representatives from 1965 to 1999. He served as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the House Intelligence Committee, a member of the Joint Economics Committee, and ranking minority member of the House Committee on International Relations. He is director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.

CARLA A. HILLS served as United States Trade Representative from 1989 to 1993. She served as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1975 to 1977, and as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division, United States Department of Justice from 1974 to 1975. She is the co-author of treatises on federal civil practice and antitrust law.

QUENTIN J. KENNEDY was Executive Vice President of Federal Paper Board Co. Inc.

JUANITA M. KREPS was Secretary of Commerce from 1977 to 1979. She is James Duke Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, and the author of a treatise on economics and author, coauthor or editor of numerous monographs on various aspects of economics.

MELVIN R. LAIRD was Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973. He was also senior counselor for national and international affairs to the President from 1973 to 1974. He was a member of the House of Representatives from Wisconsin for 16 years, and a member of the Wisconsin State Senate for six years. He is the author of a treatise on American strategic policy. He is recipient of numerous awards, including the French Legion of Honor and the Albert Lasker medical award. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1974.

EDWIN L. LEWIS is Vice President and General Counsel, Photronics, Inc.

ROBERT A. LONERGAN is Vice President and General Counsel, Rohm and Haas Company

ROBERT S. McNAMARA was Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, and President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. Prior to entering public service, he was president of Ford Motor Company. He is the author of a book on international security issues and another on international economic development.

EDWIN MEESE, III served as Attorney General of the United States from 1985 to 1988. He was counselor to the President from 1981 to 1985. From 1969 to 1975, he was chief of staff for the Governor of California.

FRANK H. MENAKER is Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Lockheed Martin Corporation

G. WILLIAM MILLER served as Secretary of Treasury from 1979 to 1981. He was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1978 to 1979.

LEON E. PANETTA served as White House chief of staff from 1994 to 1997, and as director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1994. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993, serving as Chairman of the House Budget Committee.

WILLIAM J. PERRY was Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1997, Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1993 to 1994, Under Secretary of Defense for research and Engineering from 1977 to 1981. He is a professor of engineering, economic systems and operations research at Stanford University, and was the co-director of the Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control from 1989 to 1993. He is the recipient of numerous awards for public service, including, in 1997, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

PETER G. PETERSON served as Secretary of Commerce from 1972 to 1973, and is Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has been the CEO of a major industrial company and a major investment bank. He is the author of several works on economics and public policy.

DONALD H. RUMSFELD is Secretary of Defense. He also served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977, as White House Chief of Staff from 1974-1975, as U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1973 to 1974, as counselor to the President and director of the economic stabilization program from 1971 to 1972 and as Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity from 1969 to 1970. Her served as the President's Special Envoy to the Middle East from 1983 to 1984. He was a member of the House of Representatives from Illinois for eight years. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and has also been awarded numerous other honors for his public service in the fields of defense and foreign policy.

BRENT SCOWCROFT was National Security Advisor to the President from 1975 to 1977 and from 1989 to 1993, and served in numerous field and senior staff positions in the United States Department of Defense. He has also served as a military attaché and has taught, and chaired the department of, political science at the Air Force Academy and has taught at the National War College. He retired as a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. He has received numerous military honors, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.

GEORGE P. SHULTZ was Secretary of State form 1982 to 1989. From 1969 to 1970, he served as Secretary of Labor; from 1979 to 1972 he was Director of the Office of Management and Budget and from 1972 to 1974 he was Secretary of the Treasury. He has also served as Chairman of the President's Council on Economic Policy, negotiated a series of trade protocols with the former Soviet Union, and was the chief U.S. representative at the Tokyo Round of negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. He is currently Professor of International Economics at Stanford University. He is the author of several books on diplomacy, economic policy, labor policy, labor markets and labor economics, and business management. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989.

WILLIAM E. SIMON (deceased) served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1974 to 1977, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and simultaneously as Director of the Federal Energy Office (predecessor of the Department of Energy) from 1973 to 1974. He has also served as Chairman of the President's Economic Policy Board, and Chairman of the U.S.-Saudi and U.S.-Israel Commissions on Economic Development. He also served as the U.S. governor of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

CLIFFORD B. STORMS was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of CPC Corporation

ROBERT S. STRAUSS served as United States Trade Representative from 1977 to 1979, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Russia from 1991 to 1993, and Special U.S. Envoy to the Middle East in 1979.

RICHARD THORNBURGH was Attorney General of the United States from 1988 to 1991. He has also served as Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Administration from 1992 to 1993 and was a two-term Governor of Pennsylvania, from 1979 to 1987.

JAMES I. WYER was Vice President and General Counsel of American Cyanamid Company

CLAYTON YEUTTER served as United States Trade Representative from 1985 to 1988, Secretary of Agriculture from 1989 to 1991 and Counselor to the President in 1992. He also served as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, and as Deputy Special Trade Representative in the 1970s.

Associations

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SMALL PROPERTY OWNERS (AASPO) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation. Since 1993, AASPO has been working for the right of small property owners to prosper freely and fairly -- to make possible the American dream of building wealth through real estate. Based in Washington, DC, AASPO is the only national organization for small landlords, property owners and real estate investors to share information and strategies on important issues of the day. AASPO has chapters in more than 25 states.

COMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, INC. (CHIP), established in 1966, is a trade association representing approximately 2,500 owners of apartment buildings in New York City. CHIP lobbies on housing related legislation in New York City, New York State, and Washington, D.C. CHIP provides its members with information on compliance with local, state and federal laws, provides a forum for discussion of building management issues, and has often initiated litigation on behalf of the real estate industry.

CORPORATE LAW DEPARTMENTS SECTION OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION, which serves more than 600 corporate lawyers in Southern California

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS (NACDL) is the preeminent bar organization advancing the mission of the nation’s criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime. Founded in 1958, NACDL has more than 10,000 lawyer members and 80 state and local affiliate organizations with 28,000 lawyer members committed to preserving the Bill of Rights. NACDL promotes study and research in the field of criminal law. NACDL has a keen interest in ensuring that legal proceedings are handled in a proper and fair manner. Among NACDL’s objectives are to promote the proper administration of justice. In furtherance of its objectives over the past decade, NACDL annually files approximately ten amicus briefs with this Court on various criminal justice issues. The American Bar Association recognizes NACDL as an affiliate organization on its House of Delegates.

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS (NFIB) is the nation's oldest and largest organization representing the interests of small business owners throughout all 50 states. The approximately 600,000 members of NFIB own a wide variety of America's independent businesses, from mom-and-pop grocery stores to construction firms to florists. It is a not-for-profit corporation organized under the laws of the State of California. NFIB has offices in all 50 states and in Washington, DC.

THE RENT STABILIZATION ASSOCIATION OF N.Y.C., INC. (RSA) is the largest real estate industry trade association in New York, representing 25,000 property owners and managing agents responsible for approximately 1,000,000 units of housing. RSA’s members range from owners of one small building to owners of large multi-family rental complexes, cooperatives and condominiums. RSA lobbies for the real estate industry and provides a wide variety of educational programs and services to its members. RSA’s goal is to revive free enterprise in New York City’s housing market and to maintain its economic viability.

SMALL PROPERTY OWNERS OF NEW YORK, INC., (SPONY) is a non-profit membership organization comprised of people who own and operate the affordable private-sector housing in New York. It is a volunteer organization, dedicated to the goal of returning rationality and fairness to the relationship between owners and tenants in New York. SPONY represents the interests of small owners (nearly 22,000 strong) most of whom own fewer than 20 units. Its members, many of whom are minorities, are generally residents of the communities in which they own their buildings, and are often owner occupants. Many work at full time jobs, frequently using their salaries to subsidize tenants whose rentals are protected by law. SPONY believes government must embrace policies which will result in small and medium sized property owners being able to maintain their buildings, and to remain in New York.


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