Ken Deffeyes

Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

Ken Deffeyes is an author, geologist and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He worked at Shell Research Lab and was a colleague of M. King Hubbert.

After leaving Shell, he became a Professor of Geology at Princeton University, from where he retired in 1998. Deffeyes published two books on the subject of peak oil: Hubbert’s Peak: The impending World Oil Shortage and Beyond Oil: The View From Hubbert’s Peak. Deffeyes received his Ph.D from Princeton University.

Michael Klare

Professor

Michael T. Klare is the defense correspondent of The Nation. He is also a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College.

Klare serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association, and the advisory board of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch; he is also a member of the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a prolific author, including most recently, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependence on Imported Petroleum (2004).

Klare received his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University in 1963 and 1968, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute in 1976.

William Rees

Professor, Author

William Rees is a professor at the University of British Columbia and a founding member of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics. Much of Rees’ work is in the realm of ecological economics and human ecology and he is best known for his invention of the “ecological footprint analysis.”

His book, Our Ecological Footprint, has been printed in English, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian and Spanish. Rees was awarded the Senior Killam Research Prize in acknowledgment of his research achievements. He received his Ph.D in Population Ecology from the University of Toronto.