Perry L. McCarty is the Silas H. Palmer Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Stanford University. He is a pioneer in the development and understanding of biological and chemical processes for the safe supply and treatment of water and was the recipient of the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize.

Amy Myers Jaffe is the Wallace Wilson Fellow; Associate Director, Rice Energy Program, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Her research focuses on oil geopolitics, strategic energy policy including energy science policy, and energy economics. Jaffe served as a member of the reconstruction and economy working group of the Baker/Hamilton Iraq Study Group, as project director for the Baker Institute/Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Strategic Energy Policy, and as a principal advisor to USAID’s project on Options for Developing a Long Term Sustainable Iraqi Oil Industry.