| | | | | |  | | Cass R. Sunstein is an expert on behavioral economics and its implications for business and public policy. He is the author of many books in this area, including Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, due out this spring. Nudge urges that we design policies, in both the public and private sectors, that make people better off (as judged by themselves) not with coercion but with nudges?well?chosen default rules and other incentives that help us act in our own best interest. In Nudge, Cass Sunstein shows businesses and policy makers how to use the way we really think to improve our decisions about health, wealth and happiness. Nudge shows us how to design environments??choice architectures??that make it more likely that we will act in our own interest, that nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting the choices available to us. He is also the author of Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge. Infotopia explores the various methods for collaborating, aggregating information and collectively making decisions that are becoming increasingly popular in business and society. Cass Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science, University of Chicago. He is a contributing editor to The New Republic and is a frequent witness before congressional committees. He worked in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department as an Attorney? Advisor. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute.
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Matt Chwierut is the Research Editor of IFTF's Ten-Year Forecast program, a research program that provides an outlook on broad trends in the global business environment - social, technological, economic, environmental, and political. He was educated at Stanford University, where he studied philosophy, literary criticism, and social enterprise. At IFTF, he has worked on projects exploring the future forces affecting public education, sustainability strategies, and youth leadership, among others. His research experience spans ethnographic field work, executive strategy workshops, and high-level synthesis of expert input.
At the conference, Matt will present an overview of foresight and forecasting?why to think about the future and how to do it constructively. His presentation, and the conference breakout and closing sessions, will focus on the four drivers of change? what they are, how we recognize them, what we can do about them, and what they mean for thinking strategically in central Ohio. | | | | | | |
Douglas F. Kridler
President & CEO
The Columbus Foundation
Douglas F. Kridler is the fifth president of The Columbus Foundation, a community foundation serving the central Ohio region since 1943. During 2006, the Foundation awarded $72.4 million in grants to 1,640 charitable organizations in such fields as education, health, social services, community development, urban affairs, and the arts. As of 12/31/06, the Foundation?s assets totaled $978 million and are held in 1,579 funds and 28 supporting/affiliated foundations. Kridler is also an Independent Director of Gartmore Mutual Funds, an international asset management firm based in Philadelphia with over $25 billion in assets under management in an array of over 70 U.S. mutual funds. He serves as chair of that board?s Valuation and Operations Committee. Prior to joining The Columbus Foundation as President & CEO in February 2002, Kridler served for eighteen years as the President of CAPA, during which time he oversaw the expansion of CAPA from one theater in Columbus to owning/operating six theaters in Columbus, the Chicago Theatre in downtown Chicago, and the legendary Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Susan D. Rector
Partner
Schottenstein, Zox and Dunn
Susan D. Rector is a partner at Schottenstein, Zox and Dunn and chairs the firm?s Intellectual Property Practice Group. She advises smart, creative people in all aspects of intellectual property ownership and protection. She assists start-up and established businesses to conduct business online and to commercialize technology. Susan has extensive experience with software acquisition and licensing and technology-based companies. She is a member of the International Trademark Association and serves on its Internet Committee, specifically working with the members of a subset of the Online Use Subcommittee looking into the legal issues associated with doing business in Second Life and other virtual realities. Complementing her practice, Susan serves as the firm?s partner in charge of marketing and business development.
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Chester R. Jourdan, Jr.
Executive Director
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC)
Whether it?s been transportation planning, improving the environment, or hurricane recovery and rebuilding, there?s no shortage of strategic, regional efforts that Chester R. Jourdan, Jr. has led during his professional career. Chester brought his successful leadership skills, diverse experience and passion for regionalism to central Ohio in December 2006 when he was appointed as executive director of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC). Promoting collaboration and cooperation is at the core of Chester?s passion for regions and local governments. By bringing people together he and MORPC are able to move forward initiatives that enhance the quality of life for every central Ohio resident. Chester has successfully built new strategic partnerships among the public and private sector, non-profit organizations, and members of the state and federal legislature that ensure the strength and vibrancy of central Ohio?s future. Prior to joining MORPC Chester served as executive director of the South East Texas Regional Planning Commission. He also served with the United States Department of Transportation in many different capacities in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Worth, Texas.
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Dr. Mysheika LeMaile-Williams
Medical Director and Assistant Health Commissioner
Columbus Public Health
Dr. Mysheika LeMaile-Williams joined Columbus Public Health as Medical Director and Assistant Health Commissioner in July 2006. In this capacity, she serves as the chief medical officer responsible for medical supervision and policy for all clinical programs, including the immunization and STD clinics; she also oversees the Office of Emergency Preparedness, Assessment and Surveillance as well as the City of Columbus? Employee Assistance program. Dr. LeMaile-Williams regularly serves as the department?s spokesperson on important health issues to residents and visitors to the city of Columbus. Dr. LeMaile-Williams came to Columbus in 2004 to serve as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detailed to Ohio Department of Health where she investigated outbreaks in Ohio and conducted epidemiologic investigations. Prior to that Dr. LeMaile-Williams was the medical director for Baltimore City Health Department?s STD clinic and served as clinical instructor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has dedicated her career to public health with a special interest in HIV/AIDS and the health of the adolescent population.
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