Award Winning Author - Thomas Friedman - To Keynote

Thomas Friedman- Keynote Speaker at NCSE's National Conference

Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer prize winning author, will provide the keynote address on December 9th at NCSE's national conference Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World . Following his #1 best seller, The World is Flat, Friedman's new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded, brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change, rising competition for energy, and its impact on biodiversity and humanity. The conference will be held December 8-10, 2008 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.

Please join us to hear Tom Friedman at at 9am on Tuesday, December 9th. He will be signing copies of his new book following his presentation. After the keynote address, you have the opportunity to attend one of 12 concurrent symposia exploring critical topics as ocean biodiversity and human dominated landscapes. In the afternoon plenary, panels of leading policymakers, scientists and conservationists will discuss the new agenda for biodiversity science and conservation developed the previous afternoon and consider opportunities in the Obama administration and new Congress for advancing this agenda. Friedman joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. Friedman has reported on the Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. Friedman currently writes a syndicated column for the New York Times on related issues. Friedman has written several books including From Beirut to Jerusalem (FSG, 1989), The Lexus and the Olive Tree (FSG, 1999), The World Is Flat (FSG, 2005), and Hot, Flat, and Crowded (FSG, 2008).

You will also have the opportunity at the conference to listen to leading scientists including:Cristian Samper, Director, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Eric Chivian, Director, Center for Health and the Global EnvironmentEdward O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University Peter Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden George Rabb, President Emeritus, Chicago Zoological SocietyHarold Mooney, Stanford University William Sutherland,, University of CambridgeRita Colwell, former Director of the National Science FoundationSir Peter Crane, Professor, University of ChicagoThomas Lovejoy, President, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment

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