The Group has convened a series of meetings both in the US and Europe over many years. Listed below are a few of our more recent meetings, as well as some of our featured speakers and their professional capacity at the time. We plan to add a few clips of keynote addresses and major presentations from these meetings here soon.
Symposia, Seminars, Meetings
- November 15. 2023, The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC: Natural Resources Symposium Redux: Influences, Perspectives, Needs One Year Later
- September 15-16, 2022, The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC: Natural Resources at a Crossroads: How Recent Events Has Affected Natural Resource Law and Policy and Highlighted the Importance of Private/Public Collaborations to Advance Shared Objectives
- November 19, 2020, 8th Environmental Liability Directive Best Practices Seminar: Part 2 - Review of Specific
Cases and Lessons Learned
- November 17, 2020, “th Environmental Liability Directive Best Practices Seminar: Part 1 - Review of Guiding
Principles and Needs
- September 17, 2020 Virtual: Natural Resources at a Crossroads: How 2020 Has Affected Natural Resource Law and Policy and Highlighted the Importance of Private/Public Collaborations to Advance Shared Objectives
- Continuing Legal Education Seminar with the DC Bar and Federal Bar: Use of Third Party Neutral Approaches in the Context of Natural Resource Damage Assessment under US Laws and Related Cases and Other Environmental Law Contexts (2019)
- US State of the Practice Meeting Concerning Natural Resource Damage Assessment, Restoration and Related Issues (2019)
Featured Speakers
- Thad Allen, Distinguished Professor of Practice, The George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration; and Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Tommy Beaudreau, Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Alex Beehler, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, US Department of Defense
- Lucas Bergkamp, Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth
- Allyson Anderson Book, Executive Director, American Geosciences Institute; Former Associate Director of Strategic Engagement of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), US Department of the Interior; Former Senior Professional Staff Member, US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
- Dayna Bowen Matthew, J.D., Ph.D., Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
- Edward Brans, Counsel, Pels Rijcken
- Scott Cameron, Acting Assistant Secretary, Policy, Management and Budget; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy, Management and Budget; Member, Regulatory Reform Task Force, US Department of the Interior
- Keith Cole, Vice President, Government Relations and Environment, Health, and Safety, W.R. Grace & Co.
- Steven Cook, Deputy Assistant Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency; Chair, Superfund Task Force
- John Cruden, Principal, Beveridge & Diamond; Former Assistant Attorney General, Environment & Natural Resources Division, US Department of Justice
- Richard DeSanti,Chief Environmental & Safety Counsel, Environmental & Safety Law Group, Chevron Corporation
- Juliet Eilperin, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Book Author, Deputy Climate and Environment Editor, The Washington Post
- Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
- Jose Luis Heras Herráiz, Managing Director, Pool Espanol de Riesgos Medioambientale
- Emily Joseph, Director, Office of Restoration and Damage Assessment, US Department of the Interior
- Phillip Levin, Ph.D., Director, National Nature Assessment, US Global Change Research Program, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Professor of Practice, University of Washington
- Edward Lockhart-Mummery, Economist-Regulatory Reform and Environmental Liability, Department of Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra), London
- Hans Lopatta, European Commission, DG Environment
- Scott Lundgren, Director, Office of Response and Restoration, US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on behalf of Richard W. Spinrad, Ph.D., Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & NOAA Administrator, US Department of Commerce
- Jane Luxton, Member, Clark Hill; Former General Counsel, US Department of Commerce/National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Andrew Mangan, Executive Director, US Business Council for Sustainable Development
- Roger Martella, Group Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, GE and GE Vernova, Global Head of Engagement, Government Affairs, and Policy, GE Vernova
- Daniel McFadden, Ph.D., E. Morris Cox Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of California at Berkeley;
Presidential Professor of Health Economics, University of Southern California; Nobel Laureate in Economics (2000)
- Marcia McNutt, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine; President, National Academy of Sciences (nominated);
Former Director, United States Geological Survey
- Tony Penn, Chief, Assessment and Restoration Division, US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Andrew Revkin, Strategic Advisor for Science and Environmental Journalism, National Geographic Society; Former Staff Reporter, The New York Times
- Lynn Scarlett, Managing Director, Public Policy, The Nature Conservancy
- Andrew Steer, President and CEO, World Resources Institute
- Elinor Slotte, Senior Inspector, Unit for Environmental Protection, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and The Environment in Southwest Finland
- Anne Thompson, Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
- Robert Twilley, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board & Interim CSS Executive Director, Professor, LSU College of the Coast & Environment
- And many man others...
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