Yoram Cohen
Director, Water Technology Research Center
Professor, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Dr. Yoram Cohen received his B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., in 1975 and 1977, respectively, both in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1981. He has been on the Faculty of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) since 1981. He is the founder and Director of the Water Technology Research Center and the Center for Environmental Risk Reduction and a founding member of the UCLA/NSF Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN). Dr. Cohen is an Adjunct Professor at Ben-Gurion University and a member of the International Advisory Committee to the Stephen and Nancy Grand Water Research Institute at the Technion. He was a Visiting Professor at the Technion (1987-1988), at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (1944) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Victoria University (2006). Dr. Cohen is a UCLA Luskin Scholar and a recipient of the 2008 Ann C. Rosenfield Community Partnership Prize in recognition of his environmental research. He received the 2003 Lawrence K. Cecil award in Environmental Chemical Engineering from the AIChE, as well as the AIChE Separations Division Outstanding Paper Award (1997). Dr. Cohen has published over one hundred fifty research papers and book chapters in water technology, separations processes, transport phenomena, polymer science, and environmental engineering, in addition to three environmental volumes.

Magali Delmas
Associate Professor of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management/Institute of the Environment

Magali Delmas is an Associate Professor of management at the University of California Los Angeles. Standing at the crossroads of policy and management, Magali Delmas' research focuses on the various interactions between environmental policy and business strategy at the national and international level. She seeks to understand how environmental policies influences firms' strategies and performance and in turn how firms help shape environmental policy. Magali Delmas' current work includes the analysis of the effectiveness of firms' voluntary actions to mitigate climate change. She is involved in several projects related to firms' voluntary strategies to reduce greenhouse gases in the electric utility sector. She is also engaged in refining current methodologies to measure and communicate firm's and products' environmental performance. Previous to embarking on an academic career she worked at the European Commission as the economic advisor of the Director for Industry.  She is also Director of the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance.  She is an affiliated professor of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara and she is also the co-advisor at the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship on Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA. She is currently part of a research project that seeks to better understand the motivations and barriers for pursuing sustainable practices and certifications in the California wine industry.

 
J. R. DeShazo
Director of the Luskin Center for Innovation
Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Associate Professor of Public Policy
UCLA School of Public Affairs

J.R. DeShazo is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Social Research at the University of California at Los Angeles. (B.A., College of William and Mary, M.Sc., Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar; Ph.D., Harvard University) He was a faculty associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (1997-2000) and is currently Director of the Luskin Center for Innovation and the Lewis Center for Regional Studies at UCLA.  He is on the editorial council for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
He was awarded the Professor of the Year, Masters Program in Public Policy, UCLA in 2001, 2005, and 2007. He received the Center for American Politics and Public Policy Fellowship at UCLA in 1999. He was the Commencement Marshal at Harvard University in 1997, received the Harvard University Fellowship in 1992-1995, was a Rhodes Scholar, and was a Marshall Scholar Nominee in 1989.
His research expertise includes environmental economics and policy; local public finance, with applications to urban infrastructure and protected areas; political economy; financial management of public services.

Hilary Godwin
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
UCLA School of Public Health

Professor Godwin joined the UCLA faculty in 2006 and is currently a Professor in the Environmental Health Sciences Department and Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the School of Public Health. Prior joining the faculty at UCLA, Dr. Godwin was on the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. Dr. Godwin has received several awards, including a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Toxicology New Investigator Award, and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Dr. Godwin's research focuses on elucidating the molecular toxicology of lead. She also works actively with community groups to prepare for and diminish the impact of climate change on public health.

Professor Godwin studies why heavy metals (such as lead) are poisonous. She is actively engaged in a number of community outreach projects, including programs to communicate science to nonscientists. She is currently developing a volunteer program, the goal of which is to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in elementary schools in Los Angeles. In addition, she is working with local and national organizations to assess the impacts of climate change on public health and how to decrease human suffering resulting from climate change.

Matt Kahn
Professor of Economics
UCLA School of Public Policy/Institute of the Environment

Matthew E. Kahn is a Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, and the Department of Public Policy. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and he has served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Stanford. Before joining the UCLA faculty in 2007, he taught at Columbia and the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He holds a Ph. D in Economics from the University of Chicago. Matthew Kahn is also a 2009-2010 Ziman Center Faculty Research Fellow. He is the author of Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment and the co-author of Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War. He is currently working on a research paper called the Greenness of China: Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development.  His research interests include environmental, urban, real estate and energy economics.  Professor Kahn's is currently researching how environmental quality is affected by economic growth and is conducting more research on the broad issue of climate change mitigation. A second general area of research focuses on measuring household demand for environmental quality and as a Ziman Fellow he researches topics related to real estate finance and economics, urban and regional economics, urban public policy, and property law and theory.

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