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Dr. Matthew Kiernan

Dr. Matthew Kiernan

Dr. Matthew Kiernan is Chief Executive of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors and author of the recently released, Investing in a Sustainable World. Prior to founding Innovest, Dr. Kiernan served as Director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva. The Group served as Principal Business and Industry Advisor to the Secretary General of the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Dr. Kiernan’s first book, The 11 Commandments of 21st Century Management, published by Prentice Hall, has been translated into eight languages. In 2007, Dr. Kiernan received a special executive award from the UN Environment Program’s Finance Initiative for innovation and leadership in the emerging field of carbon finance. Dr. Kiernan is a frequent speaker at international investment conferences, and he will be a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 28th, 2009.

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Food riots. Worldwide rice shortages. Soaring commodity prices. Putting food on the table is becoming a global problem. Sustainable agriculture may have solutions for some of our most pressing and immediate needs.

Dr. Thomas Tomich is the Director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute, and Professor of Community Development, Environmental Science, and Policy, at the University of California, Davis.

In our 5-24-07 SCIENCE AND SOCIETY interview, Dr. Tomich discusses
  • Is our food system sustainable?
  • The biggest issues in the field of sustainability right now
  • How science is developing capacity to identify emerging threats to sustainability
  • Linking community needs with science, industry, and public policy

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