Liz’s Leadership Salon Series— Young Talent: America’s Promise
February 3, 2008
Dear Clients, Colleagues, and Friends,
This year it is my pleasure to announce Liz’s 2008 Leadership Salon Series—Young Talent: America’s Promise. This series is inspired by the many leaders I talk to who are critically worried about our economy, our financial institutions, the war, and climate change. I believe that America and our businesses have the talent to create the future we want. We just need to unleash and empower this talent. This series is designed, therefore, to showcase young talent that has the potential to change our world. These young people show the possibilities and promise of all of us. Please join me for the following salon events:
echoes of ancient times:
climate change in earth’s past and our future
Thursday, February 28, 2008, 5 pm
Robert Kopp, Princeton University
See Bob’s remarks
the headless horseman: energy governance in china today and resulting opportunities
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 5 pm
Edward Cunningham IV, MIT
the distress in our financial institutions:
implications for the economy and for your business
Date to be announced
Dan Levin, Associate, Goldman Sachs
Please join us for this inspiring series in my salon at 342 Bunker Hill St. in Boston’s Charlestown. Share drinks, wonderful company, and the promise and excitement of young talent. Space is limited; RSVP now for the February 28 program by e-mailing liz@lizlevin.com. The series is free of charge and serves as a thank you for your special support of my business.
This year’s series is in honor of my mother, Violet Raum, who is 95 years old. Widowed at 41 with three young children, she has dedicated her life as a mother and a lawyer to empowering future generations.
Warm Regards,
Liz Levin, President
Like salon discussions of bygone eras, Liz’s Leadership Salons are intimate, educational, and fun, with great people and great discussion. You’ll hear powerful stories from leaders who exemplify a variety of today’s most important leadership strengths.
Topic and Speaker Information
Echoes of Ancient Times: Climate Change in Earth’s Past and Our Future
robert kopp
Thursday, February 28, 2008
speaker statement
Over the past two centuries, humanity has grown into a geological force. Our actions are changing the planet in ways unparalleled in our species’ history; our best map to the world we are creating for ourselves is found in Earth’s ancient past. Understanding that past can better prepare you as a business person and as a citizen for your future. As a geoscientist, I am dedicating to improving that understanding.
robert kopp
Dr. Kopp is a Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. The position enables him to combine his parallel interests in understanding how the Earth behaves and shaping humanity’s position within the Earth system. His scientific research includes trying to understand how sea-level has changed over the last million years and what that implies for the future stability of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, as well as trying to understand how climate behaved on short timescales 50 million years ago, the last time carbon dioxide levels were as high as they will be at the end of the century without mitigation.
Dr. Kopp grew up in Maryland, the son of a civil servant and a politician, who instilled in him a commitment to public service. He received his B.S. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, where he worked on Martian meteorites and life on Mars, and his Ph.D. in Geobiology from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, where he researched the evolution of Earth’s atmosphere over billions of years and the use of bacterial fossils as tracers of oxygen levels in Earth’s past.
