Mr. Morgan is a trained urban and regional planner. Prior to founding Global Heritage Fund (GHF) in 2002, he worked as an international sales and marketing executive in software and network computing. In the position of Executive Director at GHF, he is responsible for global conservation excellence, building a leading international conservancy and improving the lives in communities where GHF sites are located. Jeff leads GHF’s mission to build a global movement to save endangered heritage sites in developing countries, and is a co-author of Cracking the Japanese Market: Keys to Success in the New Global Economy (Free Press, 1991) and Saving Our Global Heritage (GHF Press, 2004). Mr. Morgan received an M.S. in Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a B.S. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and GHF’s Board of Trustees and Senior Advisory Board. He is married with three children.

Donovan Rypkema is president of Heritage Strategies International, established in 2004 as a companion firm to PlaceEconomics, the consulting firm of which Rypkema is the principal. Both provide catalytic information to public and NGO clients at the nexus of heritage conservation and economics. Rypkema has worked with communities in 49 U.S. States and more than 35 countries. International clients include the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Council of Europe, UNDP, Europa Nostra, the European Heads of Heritage Forum and others. Rypkema was the lead witness at a European Parliament hearing regarding heritage conservation and the economic crisis. He is the author of numerous articles and publications as well as a book, The Economics of Historic Preservation: A Community Leader’s Guide that has been translated into Russian and Korean. Rypkema holds a Masters degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. He is a member of the Team of Specialists in Public Private Partnerships for the UN Economic Commission for Europe, on the Board of Directors of Global Urban Development, and teaches a graduate course on the economics of historic preservation at the University of Pennsylvania where he received the 2008 G. Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Claire Williams Díaz leads social innovation and philanthropy at Twitter. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanford and Oxford Universities and was a Skoll Foundation Scholar. She co-founded Hope Runs, a non-profit organization in Kenya. She is a published author and writes on such diverse topics as social media strategy, saving money, and generation Y. Her first book, The Choice Effect, appeared in 2010. Find her at http://www.claire.us.com or via @clairew on Twitter.

Tom Kiernan joined NPCA as president in January 1998 to guide NPCA as the leading voice of the American public in protecting and enhancing America’s national parks.

Previously, Tom served as president of the Audubon Society of New Hampshire, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air at EPA (where he won the Gold Medal for his role in achieving consensus on a $450-million pollutioncontrol project at Grand Canyon National Park), positions with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and with Arthur Andersen & Company.

Under his leadership, NPCA has launched several programs targeted to making specific, lasting improvements in the National Park System. These include NPCA’s Center for Park Management, which provides parks with the tools needed to make efficient and effective business decisions, and the Center for State of the Parks, which has developed and applied a scientific methodology to the assessment of the health of the natural and cultural resources within the national parks.

Tom grew up in Virginia, kayaking in Mather Gorge, which is part of the C&O Canal National Historical Park. He was co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Outdoor Center in Colorado, and has tested the white waters throughout the United States and Africa, achieving top-ten status in the U.S. in slalom kayaking. Tom holds an M.B.A. from Stanford and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Robert Perkowitz is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, writer, investor and distance cyclist. Over the past 25 years Bob has been President of direct marketing and manufacturing organizations with revenues ranging to $600 million, including Cornerstone Brands, Smith+Noble and Joanna Western Mills. He currently is Managing Partner of VivaTerra LLC, Chairman of Potenco, Inc., President of Paradigm Management, Inc., a Director of SRAM, Inc., and a partner in Firebrand Partners, LLC and Arqua Equity Partners, LLC. In the non-profit sector, in addition to his work with ecoAmerica, Bob is also on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Defense Fund of North Carolina and the Queens University Learning Society. He also serves on the Sierra Club’s National Advisory Council and served a Trustee of the Sierra Club Foundation from 2001-2007. Bob received a B.S. in Social Thought from Lake Forest College and an M.B.A. from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. He resides in San Francisco and Charlotte, NC with his wife Lisa Renstrom. Bob has ridden his bike across North and South America, Australia and Europe and is currently trying to figure out how to ride across Africa and Asia.

Greg Moore has served as the Executive Director of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy since 1985. The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy is the nonprofit organization that works in partnership with the National Park Service and Presidio Trust to preserve and enhance the Golden Gate National Parks. Under Moore’s leadership, the Parks Conservancy has become one of the most successful nonprofit organizations supporting any area of the national park system, providing more than $165 million in support to park projects and programs since the Conservancy’s establishment. During his tenure, the Conservancy has received various national awards for excellence in interpretation, conservation, and park improvement efforts.

Moore’s early career involved various positions with the National Park Service and other public agencies focusing on conservation, protected areas, and parks – and involving planning, management, and interpretation. His work has often focused on partnership development among the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.

Moore holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation of Natural Resources from U.C. Berkeley and completed a Mid-career Fellowship in Environmental Planning at the University of Washington. He currently serves on the Board of the Association of Partners for Public Lands and is a past Board President. He also serves on the Boards of the National Conservation Lands Foundation and the National Parks Friends’ Alliance.

Jim Sano is the President of Geographic Expeditions, a San Francisco based company that offers experiential travel, location management, and sustainable development consulting services to individual travelers, affinity organizations, and governments. Before joining GeoEx in 1988, Sano, who began his National Park Service career as a ranger naturalist, was Special Assistant to the Superintendent of Yosemite National Park, overseeing the park’s naturalist/interpretive programs; coordinating several key elements of Yosemite’s General Management Plan; and serving as a member of its search and rescue team.

Sano has served for twenty years on then Executive Committee of The Trust for Public Land and was the founding president of the Mono Lake Foundation. He was also on the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund and was a founding director of the Natural Step and the Yosemite Restoration Trust.

Leader of numerous climbing expeditions around the world, including the American Men’s and Women’s Mount Everest Expedition in 1983, Sano was co-leader of the first guided ski-mountaineering trip to retrace Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary traverse of South Georgia Island in the Sub-Antarctic and the first expedition to reach the remote Gangkhar Puensuum in Bhutan.

Ian Hodder came to Stanford in 1999. He is the Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and since 2006 he has been Director of the Stanford Archaeology Center. Since 1993 he has been excavating at the 9,000 year-old Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk in central Turkey. The 25-year project has three aims - to place the art from the site in its full environmental, economic and social context, to conserve the paintings, plasters and mud walls, and to present the site to the public. The project is also associated with attempts to develop reflexive methods in archaeology. Ian Hodder teaches and writes about archaeological method and theory. Among his publications are: Symbols in Action (Cambridge 1982), Reading the Past (Cambridge 1986), The Domestication of Europe (Oxford 1990), The Archaeological Process (Oxford 1999), Catalhoyuk: The Leopard’s Tale (Thames and Hudson 2006).