TRANSPARENCY | BIOGRAPHIES

Barbara A. Campagna, FAIA, LEED AP Graham Gund Architect of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has dedicated her career to the field of historic preservation. She just completed her term as the President of the Association for Preservation Technology International (APT), where she led the efforts of the organization’s Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation and created the Technical Committee on Modern Heritage.

She is one of the leaders of the National Trust’s Sustainability Program and the co-founder of the national coalition on sustainable preservation formed between the Trust, APT, AIA and the National Park Service. Campagna was elevated to Fellowship in the AIA this year as “the leading national architect and policymaker for the integration of preservation values into green building practices, demonstrating that artistic, scientific and cultural aspects of preserving historic buildings are crucial to a sustainable future.”

Barbara has an architecture degree from SUNY Buffalo and a Master’s in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. She has been the Executive Director of a landmarks organization in Buffalo, ran her own architecture firm for many years in NYC, served as the Regional Historic Preservation Officer for the Northwest Region of GSA and currently is the Chief Architect for the 29 historic sites operated by the National Trust where she oversees such iconic landmark sites as Philip Johnson’s Glass House, Drayton Hall in Charleston, and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House.

Bonnie R. Cohen serves on the Board of Cohen & Steers Mutual Funds, a $25 billion dollar family of mutual funds, and is a Director at REIS, a public company that provides data on the real estate industry. Cohen is Vice President of the District of Columbia Library Board of Trustees and is Chair of the Board of the Global Heritage Fund. Ms. Cohen is also on the Board of Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, the Washington Film Festival, and the Washington National Opera and Chair of the Camerata at the WNO. She serves on the Advisory Committees of both the Posse Foundation DC and the Moriah Fund.

From 1996-2000 Cohen was Undersecretary of State for Management, under Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. From 1992-1996 Ms. Cohen was Assistant Secretary of the Interior under Secretary Babbitt. Prior to her government service, Ms. Cohen was Senior Vice President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Treasurer of the United Mine Workers Association of America pension funds.

Dorothy Dunn is Director of Visitor Experience at the Philip Johnson Glass House. She designed the public tour experience as well as programs, strategic partnerships and products to position the Glass House as a catalyst for inspiration and innovation. She is project director and producer for Glass House Conversations and the Glass House Oral History Project.

Dunn was the recipient of the inaugural Smithsonian Education Achievement Award in 2004 in recognition of her leadership as Education Director for Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. While at the Smithsonian, from 1989 through 2004, she envisioned and directed the signature programs A City of Neighborhoods: Bridging School and Community, Summer Design Institute, and Design Directions. She produced numerous international conferences and tours, including Icons of Modernism: LA and Palm Springs (1999), The Architecture of Landscape and Light (2003), Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan (2004 and 2005) and Craft and Design: Hand, Mind and the Creative Process (2004). As the former Program Director for AIGA, the professional association for design, she produced national conferences on design and business and envisioned and repositioned the International Design Conference at Aspen to the change and advocacy-focused Aspen Design Summit and Aspen Design Challenge.

Edwin B. (Ted) Hathaway is Chief Executive of Oldcastle Glass®, the market-leading supplier of Building Envelope Solutions for commercial, institutional and multi-story residential construction, including custom-engineered curtain wall, custom-fabricated architectural glass, high-performance windows, architectural skylights, storefronts and doors. Oldcastle Glass® is a subsidiary of CRH plc, a global leader in building products manufacturing and distribution with €20.8 billion in sales and €1.8 billion in operating profit.

Hathaway, who holds an MBA with honors from Columbia University Business School and a BA in economics from Connecticut College, started his career in New York with Bankers Trust and later worked for a leveraged-buyout firm. In 1987, he relocated to Los Angeles and joined Oldcastle, Inc. as Vice President of Development. Within three years, he identified the need for and championed the formation of Oldcastle Glass® with the $100 million acquisition of HGP Industries, an architectural glass fabricator with $80M in sales and 11 operating locations.

Over the next two decades, 30 bolt-on acquisitions advanced the business to North American leadership with sales in excess of $1.3 billion. Oldcastle Glass® currently has 68 locations in 26 states and four Canadian provinces, and employs more than 5,000 people. Ted was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 1998 and to CEO in 2000. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York-based Museum of Arts and Design.

Jeanne Gang, FAIA, LEED AP, is principal and founder of Studio Gang Architects, a 36-person architecture firm in Chicago, USA that has been recognized for its innovation and leadership in design. Gang’s work represents a diverse range of building typologies, from large-scale undertakings such as the 82-story Aqua Tower in downtown Chicago, which reconsiders the tall building as a site-specific structure, to the SOS Community Center on Chicago’s South Side, which visibly engages with the distinct material properties of concrete. In all of her projects, Gang explores new creative territory in materials, technology, and sustainability, and her work with Studio Gang has received national and international awards and recognition.

Gang’s design in the field of architecture is supported through a mode of working that combines practice, teaching and research. In addition to serving as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology since 1998, she was a visiting professor at the Harvard Design School in 2004, held the Louis I. Kahn visiting professor chair at the Yale College of Architecture in 2005, and was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University’s School of Architecture in 2007. Gang was also chosen to lecture as one of the Architecture League of New York’s Emerging Voices in the spring of 2006, and she received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in the same year.

As the chief executive officer of Mozilla, John Lilly is responsible for guiding the product and organizational development efforts for Mozilla Corporation. Before becoming CEO, Lilly was Mozilla’s COO and focused primarily on day-to-day and international operations of Mozilla. Prior to his career at Mozilla, he was the founder, CTO and VP products of Reactivity, an XML Security company. He served as a senior scientist at Apple Computer Research Labs, and has held positions at Trilogy Software, Sun Microsystems and HP, among other companies. John is a regular speaker at industry events and serves on the board of directors of the Open Source Application Foundation and Participatory Culture Foundation. He is also a member of the board of library trustees for the City of Sunnyvale.

Leonard Lopate is host of the Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast weekdays on both WNYC AM and FM. This March 5th, Lopate celebrated twenty-four years at the station. Over that time he’s talked with a wide range of guests -- politicians, scientists, poets, painters, novelists, filmmakers, actors, dancers and anyone else capable of stimulating conversation, including Nobel, Pulitzer and National Book Award winners. Lopate received two Associated Press awards for best interview (with Jimmy Carter and Tony Bennett) and two consecutive James Beard Awards for best radio show on food.

Lopate came to radio relatively late in life. For many years he aspired to be a painter, studying in London and in New York with Ad Reinhardt at Brooklyn College and Mark Rothko at Hunter Graduate School. To support his art habit, he worked in advertising for fifteen years. When he was given the opportunity to host his first talk show in 1977, he was hooked.

Qingyun Ma is dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture and holder of USC’s Della and Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair in Architecture. Born in Xi'an, China, Ma received a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in Architecture from Tsinghua University. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. In New York, he worked several years at the firm Kohn Pederson Fox. Ma became close to Rem Koolhaas on the first Harvard Project on the City, which he organized resulting in the book The Great Leap Forward.

In 1996, Ma founded MADA s.p.a.m. To date, the firm has built over 1,204,000 square meters. In 2000, MADA s.p.a.m. formally established itself in Beijing, moving to Shanghai the following year. Some of the firm’s projects include Qingpu Community Island in Shanghai, the Centennial TV and Radio Center in Xi'an, and Tianyi City Plaza in Ningbo.

Ma taught architecture in China at the University of Shenzhen, Tongji University, Shanghai, and Nanjing University; in Europe at the Berlage, the ETH, in Paris and in Germany; and in the United States at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. His honors include a Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record, Phaidon’s Emerging Design Talents designation and a New Trends of Architecture designation by the Euro-Asia Foundation.

Colleen Macklin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Design and Technology at Parsons the New School for Design. She is also Director of PETLab (Prototyping Evaluation, Teaching and Learning lab), a joint project of Games for Change and Parsons, supported by funding from the MacArthur Foundation, focused on developing new games, simulations, and play experiences which encourage experimental learning and investigation into social and global issues. Projects range from a curriculum in game design for the Boys and Girls Club to big games such as Re:Activism and the sport Budgetball.

In addition to work in social games and interactive media, Macklin’s research focuses on the social aspects of design and prototyping process. In this vein, she is working with the Social Science Research Council on a prototyping approach to creating innovative learning spaces with youth, public schools and cultural institutions, with funding through the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative. She is a University Forum member and a Nokia and India China Institute Fellow (2006-2007). Her interactive work has been featured at Come Out and Play, SoundLab, The Whitney Museum for American Art and Creative Time.

Chef Nils Norén is the Vice President of Culinary Arts of The French Culinary Institute and The Italian Culinary Academy, both of which reside in New York City’s International Culinary Center. Chef Nils is the embodiment of the new international chef: disciplined in the classic sensibilities and driven by immense creativity.

Previously he served as Executive Chef for Aquavit. During his tenure there, Chef Nils helped to demonstrate to the world the fine tastes and techniques of Swedish cooking. Prior to joining Aquavit, Chef Nils worked in Stockholm as Executive Chef at Restaurant Riche, which features a fine dining room, tapas bar and bistro; and as Chef de Cuisine at Restaurant KB, one of the country’s classic Swedish restaurants in the center of town. a graduate of Culinary School in Gävle, Sweden, Chef Nils also coordinated cooking classes for Restaurant Akademin.

Clifford Pearson is a deputy editor of Architectural Record. Since joining the magazine in 1989, he has written on a broad range of topics—from individual projects such as the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany, by Zaha Hadid and the Hong Kong International Airport by Foster & Partners to essays on school design and housing. From 1993 to 1997, he edited Record's annual section on architecture in the Pacific Rim and today he is in charge of the magazine’s Chinese edition and its annual Design Vanguard issue. He is the author of Indonesia: Design and Culture, published by the Monacelli Press in 1998, and the editor of Modern American Houses, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in 1996 and reissued in 2005. In 2003, he received a Media Fellowship from the U.S.-Japan Foundation and spent two months in Japan examining “Technology and Tradition in Contemporary Japanese Architecture.”

Frank M. Turner is Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University where he has taught since l970. Between l988 and l992 he served as University Provost. His major area of research is modern European intellectual history with specialization in the intellectual and religious life and culture of Victorian Britain.

Turner has received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the College of William and Mary, Quinnipiac University, and Wilmington College. His scholarly research has received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has been a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D. C. In 2008 he published with Yale Press a major new edition of John Henry Cardinal Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons. Other publications include an edition of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, published by Yale University Press as part of its Rethinking the Western Tradition Series, and John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion; Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (l974) and The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain (l981), all published by Yale University Press, and Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life (l993; paperback 2008) published by Cambridge University Press. He edited for Yale University Press The Idea of a University (l996) by John Henry Cardinal Newman and co-authored two widely used textbooks, The Western Heritage and The Heritage of World Civilizations. Turner has contributed numerous articles to journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern History, Isis, and Victorian Studies. Between 2004 and 2008 he served on the Connecticut Humanities Council.

Alan M. Webber is an award-winning, nationally-recognized editor, author, and columnist. His new book, Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Yourself and described as a global guide to thriving (not just surviving) in turbulent times, will be released in April, 2009.

In 1995, Webber launched Fast Company magazine, a fresh, dynamic entry in the business magazine category. Headquartered in Boston, the magazine became the fastest growing, most successful business magazine in history. Fast Company won 2 national magazine awards—one for general excellence, one for design—and Webber was named Adweek’s Editor of the Year in 1999, along with co-founding editor William Taylor.
In 2000, Fast Company magazine was sold to Gruner + Jahr for the second largest amount of any magazine in U.S. history. Last year Webber stepped down from his full-time editorial responsibilities, but has retained his title and contributing role as founding editor.

Prior to founding Fast Company, Webber was for 5 years the managing editor and editorial director of the Harvard Business Review. During his tenure, HBR was twice a finalist for National Magazine awards; he oversaw the journal’s visual redesign and created the architecture for the journal’s editorial performance that continues to this day. Webber was also active in the world of alternative newspapers: He worked as an editor at Willamette Week newspaper in Portland, Oregon and helped to found The Oregon Times, a political paper headed by a protégé of I.F. Stone. Webber is the co-author of two business-related books, Changing Alliances, a Harvard Business School study of the competitiveness of the U.S. auto industry, and Going Global, a look at the techniques and tactics needed to succeed in the global economy. His articles and columns have appeared in The New York Times Sunday magazine, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Tiimes, among other publications.

Webber has also been active at local, state, and national political levels, serving as policy advisor for the mayor of Portland, Oregon, writing speeches for several governors, and working as special assistant to the United States Secretary of Transportation.

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