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In 2003, Kathleen A. McGinty became the first woman to head the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Previously, she chaired the White House Council on Environmental Quality and was a deputy assistant to President Bill Clinton. She also created and headed the first-ever White House Office on Environmental Policy. In 1999, McGinty completed a year-long stay in India as a senior visiting fellow with the Tata Energy Research Institute, where she forged new business ventures between U.S. and Indian advanced-energy technology companies and helped to craft a historic environmental cooperation compact between the United States and India.

In 1996, she was designated a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. She has served as a senior policy advisor to the Democratic National Committee, as vice president for asset management at Natsource, LLC, and as a director of Proton Energy Systems Inc. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph's University. She earned a chemistry degree from St. Joseph's University and a law degree from Columbia University.

The Hans Landsberg Memorial Lecture honors the memory of Landsberg, a pioneer in energy and mineral economics who was a devoted member of the RFF staff for nearly 40 years. Hans was a friend and mentor to many individuals, motivating them to pursue careers as diverse as his many interests. His contributions include a lead-authorship of Resources in America's Future, a 1963 landmark volume examining the multiplicity of natural resource requirements to sustain the nation's economic growth, and Energy: The Next Twenty Years (1979), a major research effort he directed to probe the nation's energy dilemmas in the wake of emerging environmental concerns.

Hans was one of RFF's founding fathers. His friends, family, and colleagues established the Hans Landsberg Memorial Fund, proceeds from which underwrite the annual Lecture, to ensure that his legacy of scholarship--rooted in solid knowledge and analysis, yet widely accessible and policy relevant--lives on. Additional contributions are welcomed. For more information on the Lecture or on how to contribute to the Fund, please contact Barbara Bush, Director of Major Gifts, at 202-328-5030 or bush@rff.org.

Introduction: Phil Sharp, President, Resources for the Future
Kathleen A. McGinty, Secretary, Department of Environmental Protection
Question and Answer Session
Closing Remarks
http://www.rff.org/rff/Events/Landsberg-McGinty.cfm