CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC POLICY Goldman School of Public Policy

Realizing the Vision of a High-speed Rail System in California: Connecting

People While Fostering Prosperity, Smart Growth and Sustainability A Public Policy, Transportation and Urban Planning Conference

May 2-3, 2011

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Blas Pérez Henríquez Director, Center for Environmental Public Policy Blas Pérez Henríquez is the founding director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Environmental Public Policy at the Goldman School. He is particularly interested in creating innovative and cost-effective policies to address global environmental problems such as climate change and biodiversity decline. He is focused on bringing such policies to the developing world. He participates regularly as an academic observer at the Climate Expert Group of the United Nations Climate Change Convention, a support group at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that develops policy alternatives to address global warming and at the UNFCCC conference of parties (COPs). He serves as an ex-officio member of the Goldman School advisory board. He has served as Quarterly Chair of the Commonwealth Club of California, the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. His research focuses on the intersection of policy, markets and the use of information technologies to improve policymaking. He holds a M.P.P and Ph.D. in Public Policy from UC Berkeley. He also currently serves as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate & the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and as a visiting professor at Mexico's Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE). His book, “Toward a Low Carbon Future: The Theory, Practice, and Future of Emissions Trading,” will be published by Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group in 2011. Keynote Opening Remarks: The Political Economy of HSR in the US James L. Oberstar Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Member of Congress 1975 - 2011 In the 36 years he served in Congress, Jim became the body’s leading expert on transportation policy. From 1989 through 1995, he chaired the Subcommittee on Aviation, passing important legislation that led to better maintenance and safer aircraft. Later, as the Ranking Democrat of the full Transportation Committee,

he worked in a bipartisan manner to take the Highway Trust Fund off budget to ensure that gas taxes are used to fix roads and bridges and not to make the budget deficit look smaller. In January 2007, after voters returned control of Congress to the Democratic Party, Jim was elected chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Under Jim, the Committee conducted more than 300 hearings, lasting a total of more than 1,000 hours, and interviewed more than 2,200 witnesses. Nearly 300 bills and resolutions under the Committee’s jurisdiction were passed by the full House of Representatives, and nearly 200 were approved by both the House and Senate. Those bills included a number of important pieces of legislation that had not been considered by previous Congresses, even though they enjoyed broad bipartisan support. Jim played a vital role in passing H.R. 1, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which created or sustained hundreds of thousands of jobs maintaining and improving our nation’s transportation infrastructure. Even though his time in Congress has ended, Jim is still looking to the future. He has vowed to continue his involvement in transportation, and will share his expertise with new generations as a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota. Panel 1: The Vision of HSR in California: Mobility, Sustainability and Smart Growth John Quigley, Moderator I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor, of Economics, Public Policy and Business Director of the Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy UC Berkeley John Quigley is the I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds professorial appointments in the Department of Economics, the Haas School of Business, and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He has served as Chairman of Berkeley’s Department of Economics and as Chair of Berkeley’s Academic Senate. Much of his work is on issues in public finance and taxation, and on real estate, mortgage and financial markets. He is the author or editor of sixteen books and scores of scientific and professional papers He is a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute, the Lincoln Institute, and is a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science. He edited the volume on “The Mortgage Meltdown, the Economy, and Public Policy,” published in 2009 and “Housing Market and the Economy,” published in 2010. He has received many forms of recognition for his scholarly contributions, most recently an honorary degree from the Royal Institute of Technology. Roelof Van Ark CEO California High Speed Rail Authority Roelof van Ark was named Chief Executive Officer of the California High-Speed Rail Authority by the Board of Directors, effective June 1, 2010. Mr. van Ark is a senior executive with more than 30 years experience as an engineer and manager for some of the world's leading transportation companies. He brings

tremendous expertise and leadership to implement California's 800-mile high-speed rail system. Mr. van Ark has been President at Alstom Transportation Inc. for the past five years. He previously served as President of Aviation Security for Invision Technologies Inc. Mr. van Ark spent more than 20 years as an executive, managing director, general manager, senior technical manager and senior project engineer for Siemens, the manufacturers of the popular ICE high speed trains, working in Germany, South Africa and most recently in Sacramento, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Transportation Systems from 1999 to 2002. Mr. van Ark holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Albrecht Engel Vice President for High-Speed Rail AMTRAK In September, 2010, Amtrak announced that Albrecht (Al) P. Engel, P.E. — recognized rail transportation professional and passionate high-speed rail advocate — was joining America’s Railroadsm as vice president of a new High-Speed Rail department and would lead initiatives to grow Amtrak’s role as the premier operator of high-speed passenger rail service in the U.S. Engel has more than 40 years of experience in the rail transportation business and over that time has been active in the study, advocacy and development of high-speed rail. Prior to joining AECOM in 2009, Mr. Engel worked as a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley from 2006 to 2009. From 1991 to 2006, he was president and CEO of SYSTRA Consulting, a consulting firm affiliated with Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais (SNCF), the French national railway and Paris Metro specializing in rail transportation and public transit planning and engineering, including high-speed rail projects. From 1985 to 1989, he served as president and CEO of LS Transit Systems, Inc., the company he launched which was later renamed SYSTRA Consulting. One of his several key consulting roles included the California High-Speed Rail Authority Implementation Plan. From 1989 to 1990, he served as president and COO of Atlantic Track and Turnout Company, a steel product fabricator and distributor specializing in rail and track accessories. From 1978 to 1985 he headed the infrastructure engineering unit of Gibbs & Hill, the firm which serviced the Pennsylvania Railroad and later Amtrak on its electric traction engineering needs. Mr. Engel spent the first decade of his professional life with General Electric holding various positions in the Locomotive Department including the management of the domestic electric locomotive business unit. He currently serves on the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) board of directors and has served on several working committees of APTA and other industry associations. He was chairman of the High-Speed Rail Association from 1994 to 1995 and has won numerous awards for his leadership in public transportation advocacy. Mr. Engel earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1968 and holds professional engineer licenses in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

 

Fabrice Morel Director Railteam BV – The Netherlands Fabrice Morel, aged 43, has been one of the three Directors of the Amsterdam-based Railteam alliance of seven European high-speed rail operators since 2008. Prior to that, he held several executive management positions within the international distribution arm of SNCF’s passenger division; he was in particular Chief Executive Officer of Rail Europe Group in New York (from 2003 to 2007), and Managing Director of RE4A (from 2001 to 2003), where he developed sales of European rail travel in emerging non-European markets. Fabrice also led several large-scale distribution projects at SNCF in Paris, in relation with the voyages-sncf.com website (2000), and with the Railteam broker distribution platform (2007-2008). Fabrice holds degrees from the Sciences-Po political science and HEC business school. Betty Deakin Professor of City and Regional Planning and Urban Design College of Environmental Design UC Berkeley Elizabeth Deakin is Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, where she also is an affiliated faculty member of the Energy and Resources Group and the Master of Urban Design group. From 1999-2009 she was Director of the UC Transportation Center, which she helped to found in 1989. In addition, from 2004-2008, she served as co-director of UC Berkeley’s Global Metropolitan Studies Initiative. Deakin’s research focuses on transportation and land use policy, the environmental impacts of transportation, and equity in transportation. She has published over 200 articles, book chapters, and research reports on topics ranging from air quality planning to transportation pricing to development exactions and impact fees. Deakin has been appointed to a number of government posts including city and county commissions and state advisory boards. She has testified before Congress regarding every transportation bill since ISTEA in 1991, most recently appearing before the House Technology and Infrastructure Committee. She has taught courses at universities in Australia, Germany, Sweden, France, and China and has served as an adviser to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Council of Ministers of Transport, and MISTRA (the Swedish sustainable development foundation. She has conducted research projects in China, the EU, and Latin America as well as in the US. Deakin holds degrees in political science and transportation systems analysis from MIT and a law degree from Boston College. In fall 2010 she was honored with an honorary PhD from the Royal Institute of Stockholm for her contributions to the fields of transportation, the environment, and the institutional factors that shape policy responses to these concerns.

 

Panel 2: HSR and New Urbanism Robert Cervero, Moderator Professor of City & Regional Planning; Director, University of California Transportation Center; Director, Institute of Urban & Regional Development (IURD) UC Berkeley Robert Cervero is Professor of City and Regional Planning, Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD), and Director of the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) at UC Berkeley. He works in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning, focusing on the nexus between urban transportation and land-use systems. He is a frequent advisor and consultant on transport projects, both in the U.S. and abroad. In 2004, Professor Cervero was the first-ever recipient of the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning Research and is a two-time recipient of the Articel of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association. Presently, he is Chairman of the International Association of Urban Environments and the National Advisory Board of the Active Living Research Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He was recently appointed to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), responsible for the chapter on human settlementsfor the 5th IPCC assessment. He is also co-author of the forthcoming 2013 World Report on Sustainable Transportation for the UN-Habitat. Professor Cervero currently serves on the editorial boards of 8 journals. Stuart Cohen Co-founder and Executive Director TransForm Stuart Cohen is co-founder and Executive Director of TransForm. By combining high-quality policy analysis with coalition building and strategic media efforts, TransForm has become a powerful and effective voice for world class transit and walkable communities in the Bay Area and beyond. TransForm's campaigns on transportation sales taxes and other funding measures have brought together diverse coalitions and helped raise over $6 billion for sustainable and socially-just transportation. Stuart has spearheaded a number of these efforts, as well as the successful effort to initiate the Bay Area's Regional Smart Growth Strategy. Stuart has been the primary author of eight TransForm reports, including the 120-page World Class Transit for the Bay Area. In 2005 Stuart helped conceive and launch the Great Communities Collaborative. This partnership of five non-profits, three community foundations, and 24 community partners is engaging communities around the Bay Area in planning for sustainable, equitable development near transit. He is also the co-founder and chair of ClimatePlan, a statewide network that is promoting smart land use and transportation as critical components of California's climate strategy. Stuart was recently awarded an Ashoka Fellowship for his leadership in developing innovative programs such as GreenTRIP, TransForm's new program to certify and support low-traffic developments. Founded in 1997, TransForm now has 30 staff based in Oakland and a regional coalition comprised of over 100 organizations. TransForm just opened a Sacramento office to focus on state transportation policy reform. Previously, Stuart worked with ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability as a researcher on the climate impacts of alternative transportation policies and fuels, and at NYPIRG (New York Public Interest Research Group) as a toxics campaign coordinator and Statewide Canvass Director. Stuart received a Master's Degree in Public Policy (MPP) from the Goldman School of Public Policy at U.C.

Berkeley. Egon Terplan Regional Planning Director San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association – SPUR Egon Terplan is a regional planner and economic development specialist with over 14 years of experience working domestically and internationally. Currently, he works as the Regional Planning Director for SPUR, a nonprofit civic organization and think tank focused on good planning and good government. Since 2006, he has authored or co-authored numerous reports and policy studies related to regional planning, economic development, transportation and government reform, including co-authoring the first-ever report on the Northern California megaregion and a 2011 report on land use planning and high-speed rail in California. Prior to joining SPUR, Egon spent over five years with ICF International advising cities and regions throughout the world on economic development and competitiveness. His work included managing and writing collaborative regional strategies throughout California and in Alberta, British Columbia, Connecticut, Louisiana, Ohio, Ontario and South Carolina. His international work included designing, and implementing competitiveness programs in Argentina, Bosnia & Herzegovina, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Nigeria. Prior to ICF, Egon worked with several labor unions, including SEIU and UNITE. He was also a New York City Urban Fellow working on economic development for Mayor Giuliani in New York City and a public school teacher on Rikers Island, Queens. Egon earned a Master’s degree in city and regional planning from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. He received a Bachelor’s degree, Phi Beta Kappa, from Swarthmore College, where he wrote a thesis comparing street vendor political organizing in Bogotá, Colombia and New York City. Karen Chapple Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning; Faculty Director, Center for Community Innovation; Acting Director, Institute for Research on Labor & Employment; Associate Director, Institute for Urban and Regional Development UC Berkeley  Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Chapple specializes in community and economic development, metropolitan planning, and poverty, and has published research on spatial mismatch, workforce development in information technology, regional workforce development collaboratives, the relationship between job growth and housing price appreciation, and regional fair share housing programs. In her capacity as faculty director of the UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation, she has led research on retail revitalization, stable mixed-income neighborhoods, the arts and neighborhood change, affordable housing and transit-oriented development, industrial land supply, and the green economy.

Her latest articles appear in the Journal of the American Planning Association (on spatial mismatch), and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (on the network society). Until this year, she served as co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research; she is on the board of Economic Development Quarterly. Chapple's current book project is on metropolitan poverty policy, and she is also researching a book about community innovation, or how nonprofit organizations embedded in the

 

regional economy are able to organize and innovate solutions to poverty.

Chapple holds a B.A. in Urban Studies from Columbia University, an M.S.C.R.P from the Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. She has served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota and the University of Pennsylvania, in addition to UC Berkeley. She is a founding member of the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Building Resilient Regions. Prior to academia, Chapple spent ten years as a practicing planner in economic development, land use, and transportation in New York and San Francisco.

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Professor of Urban Planning Associate Dean of the School of Public Affairs Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs UCLA Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Associate Dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs and Professor at the UCLA Department of Urban Planning. Her research focuses on the public environment of the city, its physical representation, aesthetics, meaning and impact on residents. She has served as a consultant to the Transportation Research Board, Federal Highway Administration, Southern California Association of Governments, South Bay Cities Council of Government, Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, Mineta Transportation Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Greek government, and many municipal governments on issues of urban design, open space development, land use and transportation. Her research has been supported by the U.S. and California Departments of Transportation, the Haynes Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mineta Transportation Institute, the California Policy Research Seminar, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, the UCLA International Institute, and the UCLA Institute of American Cultures. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Planning Association, and author of over 75 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. Her books include Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form, Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities, Sidewalks: Conflicts and Negotiation over Public Space, and Companion to Urban Design. Panel 3: Transportation Policy and Implementation Challenges to HSR Development Samer Madanat, Moderator Xenel Professor of Engineering Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies UC Berkeley Samer Madanat is the Xenel Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and the Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Jordan in 1986, and a M.S and Ph.D. in Transportation Systems from MIT in 1988 and 1991 respectively.

His research and teaching interests are in the area of Transportation Infrastructure Management, with an emphasis on modeling facility performance and the development of optimal management policies under uncertainty. He has published extensively in refereed archival journals and conference proceedings. In 2000, he received the Science and Technology grant from the University of California Office of the President, an award given annually to one faculty member in the UC system. Since 2001, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. Several of his former students are faculty members at universities in the US and abroad. In 2010, he co-authored a technical review of the California High Speed Rail Ridership Forecasting Model System, at the request of the California Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing. The full report is available at the website of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley Mark Hansen Professor Group Leader, Transportation Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering UC Berkeley Mark Hansen received the Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Philosophy at Yale University in 1980, and Masters in City Planning at UC Berkeley in 1984. He received his Ph. D. in Transportation Engineering at UC Berkeley in 1988. He is the co-director of National Center for Excellence in Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR). His research interests include transportation economics, policy and planning, air transportation and public transportation. Sebastien Blandin Civil and Environmental Engineering UC Berkeley Sebastien Blandin is a third year PhD candidate with Professor Alex Bayen at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie in the design and implementation of algorithms for modeling, estimation and control of large scale transportation networks. Sebastien was involved in the Mobile Century experiment (2008) and the Mobile Millennium project, which pioneered the use of crowd sourced data for real-time traffic estimation. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Sebastien received an Engineering Degree in Applied Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique in 2006, a Master in Transportation from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in 2007, and a Master in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis from Universite Paris VI in 2008. Sebastien’s awards include the 2010 CDC Best Student Paper Award Finalist, and the Dwight David Eisenhower Fellowship (2010). Michel Leboeuf Director of Major Projects and Prospective Analysis French National Railways Corporation (SNCF) Voyages – France Michel LEBOEUF is the head of Long Distance Passengers Major Projects Department at SNCF, the French national train operating company, owned by the State. He has been at SNCF since 1972. He is the Chairman of the High Speed  

 

Committee at UIC (International Union of Railways) and was the Chairman of the Scientific Committee for the World High Speed Congress in Amsterdam (March 2008) and in Beijing (2010). Responsible for the long term strategy of the train operating company in relationship with new infrastructure projects, he currently deals with traffic forecasts, business cases and funding plans for all the new high speed lines under construction or design in France. He is also meant to propose new infrastructure projects, which would fulfil the needs of the French and international markets. He is also in charge of the research program for high speed trains.

Involved during ten years in design studies on behalf of SYSTRA a consulting company and one of the engineering arms of SNCF, Michel LEBOEUF has got a worldwide experience in implementing high speed rail systems. He has been, in particular, a former chairman of the RLE (Engineering company working as General Manager for design and construction) Board for the CTRL project. He is still an adviser of SYSTRA and is involved in several projects having to do with high speed rail. Michel Leboeuf is a civil engineeer (1971) also graduated in economics (1971). Prior to his SNCF career his has worked for the CEA (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique). The Case of HSR Mikhail Chester Postdoctoral Researcher Civil and Environmental Engineering UC Berkeley Dr. Chester is currently a post-doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in August 2008. Dr. Chester began his academic career at Carnegie Mellon University where he completed a B.S. in Civil Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy (May 2002), followed by a M.S. in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s Civil Infrastructure Systems program (May 2003). His recent research has focused on expanding the energy and environmental assessment boundaries for transportation systems. Chester has performed life cycle assessments for automobiles, buses, trains, planes, and California High-Speed Rail that evaluate beyond the “tailpipe” to vehicle (e.g., manufacturing, maintenance), infrastructure (e.g., construction, operation), and fuel (e.g., petroleum refining, electricity generation) components that are often not considered. The impacts of the life cycle approach were evaluated by Dr. Chester in the National Academies /Hidden Costs of Energy/ study as well as a human health and environmental externality valuation of several major US cities. He is currently applying his transportation assessment for the California Energy Commission in their Senate Bill 375 sustainable communities initiative. Keynote Lecture: A Futures Vision of HSR and Smart Growth Peter Calthorpe Calthorpe Associates Principal Peter Calthorpe has been named one of 25 “innovators on the cutting edge” by Newsweek Magazine for his work redefining the models of urban and suburban growth in America. Throughout his long and

 

honored career in urban design, planning, and architecture, he has been a pioneer of innovative approaches to urban revitalization, suburban growth, and regional planning. In the 1986 he, along with Sim Van der Ryn, published Sustainable Communities, a book that inspired several generations of new thinking in environmental design and helped launch ‘sustainability’ as a defining goal of many ecological efforts. In the early 90’s he developed the concept of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) highlighted in The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream, an idea that is now the foundation of many national policies and best planning practices. Around the same time he became a founder of the Congress for New Urbanism and was its first board president, helping launch a movement that has helped to transform planning and development in the USA. In 2001 he published The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl with Bill Fulton, explaining how regional-scale planning and design can integrate urban revitalization and suburban renewal into a coherent vision of metropolitan growth. His seminal regional plans for Portland, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and post-hurricane Southern Louisiana created a more interactive approach to environmental design at the Metropolitan scale. His upcoming book Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change documents new work and analysis relating patterns of development to energy and carbon consumption, along with other environmental, social and economic impacts. Recently he led a groundbreaking state-wide urban design effort, Vision California, to inform the implementation of the state’s Climate Change legislation. Mr. Calthorpe has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. He has taught at U.C. Berkeley, the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and the University of North Carolina. Over the years he has received numerous honors and awards, including appointment to the President’s Council for Sustainable Development. During the Clinton presidency, Mr. Calthorpe provided direction for HUD’s Empowerment Zone and Consolidated Planning Programs as well as the Hope VI program to rebuild some of the country’s worst public housing projects. After studying at Yale’s Graduate School of Architecture, he joined the Farrallones Institute as Director of Design. Beginning private practice in 1978, with the firm of Van der Ryn, Calthorpe and Partners, his work ranged from large community plans to energy efficient residential and commercial buildings. His architecture, planning, and research from this period established his leadership in passive solar design, producing three National HUD awards. Since forming Calthorpe Associates in 1983, his work expanded to include major projects in urban, new town, and suburban settings within the United States and abroad. Internationally his work in Europe, Asia and the Middle East has demonstrated that community design with a focus on environmental sustainability and human scale can be adapted throughout the globe. Through design, innovation, publications, and realized projects, Peter Calthorpe’s 30 year practice has helped solidify a national trend towards the key principles of New Urbanism: that successful places – whether neighborhoods, villages, or urban centers – must be diverse in use and user, human scaled, and environmentally sustainable. In recognition of this broad body of work, he was awarded ULI’s prestigious “J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development” in 2006. Panel 4: Economic Impacts of HSR: Lessons for California Schera Zekri-Chevallet Moderator Director Business Development – Non European Markets SNCF - France Scheherazade Zekri-Chevallet graduated from Baruch College, City University of New York with an MBA in Marketing Management in 1996. Earlier in Paris, France, she had obtained the equivalent of a Master’s Degree in Industrial Economics and a Post Graduate Degree in Industrial Organization and Marketing Strategy.

Her key skills lie in the fields of sales development and marketing, distribution and promotion, market benchmarking, revenue optimization, project management and international strategy. Since end of 2008, Scheherazade has been Director Business Development Non-European Markets, Long Distance Passenger Services at SNCF Voyages (French Railroads). From 2002 to 2008, she was Managing Director of Rail Europe Continentale, an SNCF Voyages subsidiary handling the marketing and distribution of SNCF products in Continental Europe (all markets excluding France & UK), and based in Brussels (Belgium). In 2003-2004, she also served as the Managing Director of Rail Europe UK. From 1999 to 2002, Scheherazade was Director of Distribution and International Sales for the Eurostar Group in London, UK. From 1996 to 1999, Schererazade was Marketing & Distribution Manager for the Rail Europe Group, Inc. in White Plains, New York. Yves Crozet, Professor Institute of Transport Economics (LET) University of Lyon – France Member of the Institute of Transport Economics (LET-CNRS), Head of this Institute from 1997 to 2007. Member of the Administrative Council of RFF (Reseau ferre de France, French Rail infrastructure manager). Secretary General of the World Conference on Transportation Research Society Chairman of the French Observatory for Energy, Environment and Transport. Eda Beyazit School of Geography and the Environment Oxford University - United Kingdom Eda is a DPhil (PhD) student at the Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. In her PhD thesis, she is investigating the distributional effects of transport infrastructure investments, particularly the case of Istanbul Metro, under the supervision of Prof. David Banister and Dr. Moshe Givoni. Her research interests include transport geographies, transport policy, social justice and participatory urban planning policies. She has recently published a paper on social justice in transport research and the ways to use capability approach in this area. Eda holds a BSc in City and Regional Planning from Istanbul Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and an MSc in Urban Planning from Istanbul Technical University where she has also worked as a research/teaching assistant prior to her PhD course. She was rewarded with a full-time abroad PhD scholarship by Turkish Higher Education Institute in 2008. She is willing to continue her career in academia.

Gabriel Ahlfeldt Lecturer in Urban Economics and Land Development Department of Geography and Environment London School of Economics and Political Science - United Kingdom Dr. Gabriel Ahlfeldt joined the Department of Geography and Environment at London School of Economics in October 2009 as a Lecturer in Urban

 

Economics and Land Development and is heavily involved in the teaching of the core courses of the MSc REEF Programme. He is also involved in the teaching of the MSc RUPS. Prior to joining the Department, he earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Hamburg and worked as a research assistant for the Free University of Berlin. Dr. Ahlfeldt is an Affiliate of the Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC) and an associate of the Centre for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin. His research concentrates on the effect of large transport projects and architectural developments on local house prices, local political preferences and urban structure. He is also interested in how various agglomeration forces shape the spatial concentration of economic activity.

His work has been published in leading field journals (e.g. Regional Science and Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Regional Studies, Urban Studies, the Annals of Regional Science, the Journal of Regional Science, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research) as well as general interest economics journals (e.g. Economics Letters, Journal of Economics and Statistics, German Economic Review). His results have also been disseminated to a wider public audience via television, radio and webTV (RBB, UBrainTV) as well as various print media (e.g. BZ, Der Tagesspiegel, BZ, Handelsblatt, Rail Technology Magazin). His current research on the sustainability of the spatial structure in pre-WWII Berlin is supported by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation and the German Science Foundation (DFG). Jin Murikami Postdoctoral Researcher/Project Manager Institute of Urban & Regional Development UC Berkeley Dr. Jin Murakami is a postdoctoral researcher in the University of California Transportation Center/Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in transportation investment and spatial planning, infrastructure finance, economic development and urban economics. In particular, he focuses on the dynamic interrelationships between rail transit investments, transit-oriented developments, and urban regeneration phenomena in the context of global capitalism and local entrepreneurism. Dr. Murakami has advanced research experience with the application of spatial econometrics/geographic information systems (GIS) for transportation and economic development policies. He received a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from U.C. Berkeley, an M.S. in transportation engineering from the University of Tokyo, and a B.S. in transportation engineering from the Tokyo University of Science. In addition, Dr. Murakami has extensive experience as a transportation practitioner working on mega-infrastructure management, economic and environmental impact assessments, and public relations in the public sector. Panel 5: Community Aspects of Developing a HSR System in California Gabriel Metcalf, Moderator Executive Director San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association - SPUR Gabriel Metcalf is the executive director of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), a nonprofit membership organization that promotes good planning and good government through research, education and advocacy. Under Gabriel's leadership, SPUR has grown dramatically in influence and membership.

 

Gabriel has authored or co-authored such notable articles as "The Northern California Megaregion" (2007), "Civic Planning in America" (2007), "Regional Planning without Regional Government" (2004), "Democracy and Planning" (2003), Vision of A Place: A Guide to the San Francisco General Plan (2002) and "City of Safety" (2001). Before becoming executive director in 2005, Metcalf headed up SPUR's policy and advocacy work for five years. Prior to working at SPUR, he worked for The Bay Institute, an environmental organization focused on California water policy. He was also a co-founder and, for many years, Board Chairman of City CarShare. A frequent writer and speaker on planning and policy topics, Gabriel earned a Master's degree in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design. Michael O’Hare Professor of Public Policy UC Berkeley Trained at Harvard as an architect and engineer, Michael O’Hare came to Berkeley after teaching positions at MIT and Harvard’s Kennedy School and “real-world” employment at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. His research history has included periods of attention to biofuels and global warming policy (his main focus at present, at GSPP and at the Energy and Resources Group where he is a Faculty Affiliate), environmental policy generally, arts and cultural policy, public management, and higher education pedagogy. In the last mode, he has been editor of the Curriculum and Case Notes section of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Public Affairs Education, and has published frequently on quality assurance and best practices in professional teaching. Since coming to Cal he has done applied research for state and nonprofit clients on diverse topics including funding of the state Fish and Game Department, surface mining reclamation, and revitalizing county fairs. He is a regular faculty member of the school’s executive programs for mid-career training, and has had visiting positions at Università Bocconi, the National University of Singapore, and Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille). He is the GSPP chair of the school’s undergraduate minor and usually teaches one of the two semester offerings of the undergraduate introduction to policy analysis. His other courses recently cycle among arts and cultural policy, a program and policy design studio, a second-year elective for masters students at GSPP and ERG on optimization and risk models, and an APA section. Lisa Schweitzer Associate Professor School of Policy, Planning, and Development University of Southern California Lisa Schweitzer is Associate Professor at the School of Policy, Planning and Development. She specializes in urban studies, and, in particular, analyses of social justice, environment and transport. Her work has appeared in multiple popular and scholarly outlets, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. She maintains a blog about sustainable urbanism at www.lisaschweitzer.com.

 

Julien Dehornoy Vice President SNCF America Inc. Julien Dehornoy, 30, graduated from Ecole polytechnique and Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées (France) and holds master degrees in transportation engineering and public administration. He worked on short-term positions at the World Bank (USA) and at BVG, the Berlin (Germany) public transport operator. He became rail sector analyst at the Ministry of Finance (France), in charge of the financial and economic appraisal of infrastructure projects. As such, he designed the current rail infrastructure charging system. He then joined the Ministry of Transport, in charge of the supervision of operation and maintenance of the rail network and of the overall strategy of the rail policy. He recently moved to SNCF, acting as Vice President of SNCF America, in charge of economic studies and business development.   Michael Bernick Counsel, HNTB Corporation Former Director, California Employment Development Department Michael Bernick served as the Director of California’s labor department, the Employment Development Department, from 1999-2004. He also served for 8 years on the Board of Directors of the BART system. He is the author of three books on job training and employment, and co-author with Professor Robert Cervero of Transit Villages in the 21st Century. He currently is counsel with the Sedgwick firm in San Francisco, and a transit-land use consultant with the HNTB Corporation.” Panel 6: HSR Connecting Global Cities: Enhancing California’s International Competitiveness Sean Randolph, Moderator President Economic Institute Bay Area Council Sean Randolph is President & CEO of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership of business, labor, government and higher education that works to foster a competitive economy in California and the Bay Area, including San Francisco, Oakland and the Silicon Valley. The Economic Institute produces authoritative analyses on major economic policy issues, including infrastructure, globalization, energy, science & technology, and governance, and mobilizes California and Bay Area leaders around targeted policy initiatives.

Dr. Randolph previously served as President & CEO of the Bay Area Economic Forum, which merged with the Bay Area Council in January 2008, and as director of international trade for the State of California, where he developed trade strategy and directed international business programs to stimulate exports and introduce California companies to overseas markets. Before service with the state, he was

 

Managing Director of the RSR Pacific Group, an international business consulting firm specializing in Asia and Latin America, and prior to that served as International Director General of the Pacific Basin Economic Council, a 15-nation international organization of leading U.S., Asian and Latin American corporations.

His professional career includes extensive experience in the U.S. Government, including U.S. Congress staff, and the White House staff. From 1981-85 he served in the U.S. State Department on the Policy Planning Staff, as Special Adviser for Policy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and as Deputy/Ambassador-at Large for Pacific Basin affairs. From 1985–88 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs, where he managed nuclear non-proliferation, energy research, and global oil and gas issues.

Dr. Randolph holds a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center, a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts and Harvard Universities), a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, and studied at the London School of Economics.

He serves as chairman of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), a California state commission that regulates development on San Francisco Bay, with the goal of ensuring its environmental integrity and public access, and represents BCDC on the Joint Policy Committee of regional regulatory agencies and on the Regional Airport Planning Committee. He also serves on the State of California’s Public Infrastructure Advisory Commission (PIAC), and on the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program advisory board. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Pacific Council on International Policy, and serves on the Advisory Board of the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, the President’s Advisory Council of Excelsior College (New York) and the External Research Advisory Board of the University of California at Davis. He speaks frequently before business, government and university audiences, and writes for U.S. and international media on global, national, state and regional economic and policy issues.

Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan Executive Director Transbay Joint Powers Authority Ms. Ayerdi-Kaplan leads and manages the $4.2 billion Transbay Transit Center Project— “the Grand Central Station” of the West. The Transbay Project consists of a new multi-modal Transit Center on the site of the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco, the extension of rail service from 4th and King Streets to the new Terminal, and a redevelopment area surrounding the new Transit Center. Featuring intercity, regional, and local buses along with commuter and future High-Speed Rail, the Project will ultimately connect 11 different public transit systems. The Project will also create a 40-acre pedestrian friendly community of 2,600 new housing units, one-third of which will be affordable. By providing the public with safe, convenient, and inexpensive public transit options, and by creating a livable community near transit, employment, shopping, and other urban amenities, the Transbay Project is a national model for the integration of land use and transportation planning. The Project is more than a vision; it is the first High-Speed Rail project to break ground in the United States. Ms. Ayerdi-Kaplan is responsible for every aspect of the design, funding, and construction of the Transbay Project. She is responsible for bringing the project from the theoretical and conceptual stage through design, public review and funding through the start of project construction. Ms. Ayerdi Kaplan, a member of the State Bar of California, has served as the Mayor of San Francisco’s

Transportation Policy Advisor and Project Director, the Vice-Chair of the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (Caltrain), Deputy Director on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board, member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Bay Area Governments, and on the Transbay Joint Powers Authority Board. Ms. Ayerdi-Kaplan is a member of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and the Conference for Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO). She is a Marshall Memorial Fellowship recipient and in 2002 was named San Francisco Tomorrow’s Unsung Hero for her work in transportation. Ms. Ayerdi-Kaplan was named one of the Most Influential Women in the Public Sector by the San Francisco Business Times, in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was named the 2007 Employee of the Year by the Northern California Chapter of the Conference of Minority Officials. She has also been honored as Woman of the Year by the San Francisco Chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar and named one of the Most Influential Latinos in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for her work on the Transbay Transit Center project. Don Sepulveda Executive Officer – Regional Rail Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Don Sepulveda is the Executive Officer - Regional Rail for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Where he leads the team responsible for high speed rail in Los Angeles County, management of the Metro owned commuter rail right-of-way, Metro’s involvement with Metrolink, and goods movement. Prior to joining Metro, Don has worked in the private sector as a project manager for railroad infrastructure projects throughout Southern California and other parts of the United States. Throughout his career he has been involved in commuter rail design and studies, positive train control, and heavy freight rail design. Don has been working on the high speed train system in California, in one capacity or another, since 1995. In addition to his work in railroad infrastructure, Don has led numerous railroad safety projects including co-chairing the Metrolink Safety Peer Review Panel formed after the Chatsworth accident. Mr. Sepulveda received his B.S. in engineering from California State University, Northridge.

Don is a Fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and has been active in this organization at the local and national level. In addition to his ASCE work, Don is a Fellow in the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering and a member of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association where he serves on the high speed rail and commuter and intercity rail technical committees. He has had papers published for both WTS and the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association. Don is married and has five daughters. Jim Lazarus Senior Vice President San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Jim Lazarus joined the Chamber in January 2006 as senior vice president/Public Policy, where he brings a wealth of experience in the public policy arena and a thorough understanding of the city. Previously, Lazarus served as executive director of the SF Museum & Historical Society, for two

 

years as state director of Senator Feinstein's offices, as CEO of the SF Zoological Society and held senior positions with Mayor Feinstein and Mayor Jordan, including deputy mayor and chief of staff. Lazarus, a fourth generation San Franciscan, is an attorney and is active in numerous civic and governmental organizations, including City’s Recreation and Park Commission.

Rod Diridon, Sr. Executive Director Mineta Transportation Institute Since 1995, Rod Diridon, Sr., has been executive director of the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI), a transportation policy research center created in 1991 by Congress. He is known as the “father” of modern transit service in Silicon Valley and has chaired more than 100 international, national, state and local programs, most related to transit and the environment. He frequently provides legislative testimony on sustainable transportation issues. Mr. Diridon was appointed in 2001 and 2006 by Governors Davis and Schwarzenegger, respectively, to the California High Speed Rail Authority Board of which he is chair emeritus. He helped found and is chair emeritus of the American Public Transportation Association’s ( APTA) High Speed and Intercity Rail Committee and National High Speed Rail Corridors´ Coalition. He served as president of the national Council of University Transportation Centers. In 1992, he served as the chair of APTA in Washington DC and for a decade as North American vice chair of the International Transit Association (UITP) in Brussels. In 1976, he chaired the state’s first successful local half-cent sales tax for transit and subsequently chaired a state-wide and five successful regional transportation financing and bond elections. In 1996 he founded and chaired the Transportation Research Board´s study panel, “Combating Global Warming through Sustainable Transportation Policy.” He advised the Federal Transit Administration and in 1995 chaired the National Research Council´s Transportation Research Board´s Transit Oversight and Project Selection Committee. He has provided keynotes, especially for high speed rail and sustainability, in more than 50 US cities and for a dozen international conferences, and he has published numerous related articles. He has driven electric cars since 1996 and his home’s photovoltaic array is a net contributor to the grid. Since 1995 he’s chaired the region’s League of Conservation Voters Board and is a Life Member of the Sierra Club. His political career began in 1971 as the youngest person ever elected to the Saratoga City Council. He retired in 1995 because of term limits after completing six terms as chair of both the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the Transit Board. He is the only person to have chaired the San Francisco Bay Area´s (119 cities, 27 transit agencies, and 9 counties) three regional governments: the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and the Association of Bay Area Governments. He chaired nine successful rail system development project boards. The region’s main train station was renamed the “San Jose Diridon Station” upon his retirement from public office. After receiving a BS in accounting and MSBA in statistics in 1963 from San Jose State University, he served two combat tours as a naval officer in Vietnam. In 1968 he founded the Decision Research Institute, which was sold in 1977 after his election.

Mr. Diridon has two successful children, Rod Jr. and Mary Margaret, and two grandchildren. He is married to Dr. Gloria Duffy, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and now president and CEO of the Commonwealth Club of California. Denis Doute CEO SNCF America Inc. Denis Douté is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique (1976), France's leading general engineering school. He has worked for SNCF, the French National Railroad for over 30 years, including a four year assignment in rail engineering in the US, with SYSTRA Consulting (formerly Rail Transportation Systems, in Atlanta GA). His experience includes a wide range of operational and general management positions in charge of as many as over 10,000 employees in all parts of France, in both the freight and passenger sectors. The highlight of his activities in the US was his involvement in the Texas HSR project, where he was in charge of all the technical aspects, including safety and environment, in the successful bid for the franchise in 1991. He was pre-selected by Amtrak to be North East Corridor HSR Project Manager in March 1996, but remained at SNCF to take up a major promotion. In 1998, he was selected by the FOX consortium in Florida for the future post of CEO of the HSR Operating Company just before the project was brought to an abrupt halt by the withdrawal of public funds. His key skills lie in operations management, project management, business development, especially in an international environment, general management of large size rail organizations. In the specific field of HSR, he has gained extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in all aspects of its development and operation, and is highly familiar with the different US projects. His experience with the implementation of Eurostar and the Channel Tunnel operation has provided him with valuable insight into the potential pitfalls of major turnkey projects. Since June 1st 2010, Denis has been appointed as CEO of SNCF America, Inc., based in Palo Alto, California, in order to promote the involvement of SNCF in the American High Speed Rail projects. Donna Andrews President and CEO Lee Andrews Group, Inc. Donna Andrews is the President of the Lee Andrews Group, Inc. (LA Group), a Los Angeles-based firm which provides technology, environmental and public affairs consulting services to large scale public-private partnership projects. This diverse and dynamic 25-person team is knowledgeable of environmental rules and regulations, from the city, state to federal level. The LA Group team’s expertise is used to assist with environmental mitigation measures, to guide land use and development projects through the approval process and educate, unify and inform communities on environmental issues. Ms. Andrews has over twenty years of experience developing and managing public-private partnership programs involving compliance with federal, state and local legislation, including CEQA, NEPA, Coastal

 

Act, Clean Air Act, energy and water regulations. Ms. Andrews has extensive experience in project management, strategic planning, land-use entitlement, public involvement, legislative and environmental affairs. With a Bachelor’s degree in psychology/philosophy from Scripps College and a master’s degree in public policy and politics from Claremont Graduate School, Andrews was originally on a fast track to becoming City manager. She spent a number of years in various posts in local government including the International City Management Association (ICMA) and the cities of Claremont, Pomona and Monterey Park, which led to involvement in campaign management in various local, state and federal campaigns, including US Senator Barbara Boxer first campaign manager Ms Andrews returned to school at the University of Southern California Law School receiving her Juris Doctorate with an emphasis on environmental law. Donna Andrews has received numerous awards and is recognized as one of LA’s most dynamic business leaders. The Lee Andrews Group, Inc. (LA Group) is a Los Angeles based minority/women owned Public Affairs, Technology and Environmental professional consulting firm of 25 employees with demonstrated experience in providing government/community relations, project management support and managing environmental projects in compliance with the requirements of CEQA, NEPA, MMRP, Cal-OSHA, AQMD, RWQCB, CARB and the California Coastal Commission. Our multi-cultural staff has been providing community/business outreach, public safety outreach, environmental compliance, project controls, technology and project administration services to large scale public-private partnership projects, throughout Southern California for the past 17 years. The LA Group takes great pride in our involvement in some of the most important infrastructure projects in California, serving clients which include the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Alameda Corridor East-Construction Authority, Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Harbor Department Environmental Division, Los Angeles World Airports, Caltrans, the Southern California Air Quality Management District and the Los Angeles Unified School District. We are committed to dedicating project staff with proven ability to manage projects. LA Groups formula for success is quality assurance, strong public policy emphasis and active involvement with business, community, civic leaders and organizations