Gerald Galloway is a Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an affiliate professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, where his focus is on water resources policy and management. He is currently serving as a consultant on flood risk management for Army Corps of Engineers, the governor of Louisiana, and The Nature Conservancy’s Yangtze River Program and the WWF’s China Flood Management Program. In April 2010, he was named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) Fellow.

Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he served as secretary of the United States Section of the International Joint Commission (IJC), Washington, DC, an independent binational organization charged with preventing and resolving transboundary air and water quality issues disputes between the US and Canada under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909. He has served as a consultant to the Executive Office of the President, and has assisted the US Water Resources Council, the World Bank, the Organization of American States, TVA, several states, and various other organizations in water resources related activities.

He has been a member of nine National Academies committees studying complex water resources and geospatial management issues. He is a member of the National Research Council’s Water Science and Technology Board and its Disaster Roundtable. He served in the US Army for 38 years retiring as a brigadier general and chief academic officer of the US Military Academy. He holds a master’s degree in engineering from Princeton; a master’s in public administration from Penn State (Capitol Campus), a master’s in military art and science from the US Army Command and General Staff College, and a Ph.D. in geography (water resources) from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Marion McFadden is HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan’s lead for Hurricane Sandy recovery.  She served as the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force’s Acting Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer until its sunset in September 2013.  She is a career attorney in HUD’s Office of General Counsel, where she serves as Senior Attorney for Disaster Recovery.  Since 2000, Ms. McFadden has advised HUD’s affordable housing and community development grant programs, including Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery assistance after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and Hurricane Sandy, the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), and Indian housing assistance.
 
McFadden graduated magna cum laude from Howard University School of Law and received a BA from Northwestern University.

Lindene Patton is chief climate product officer for Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). She is responsible for product development and risk management related to climate change.

She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Advisory Council on Measuring Sustainability. Patton serves as the vice-chair of the Climate Change and Tort Liability Sub-Committee of the Geneva Association. She is a member of the advisory council to Resources for the Future's Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth (RFF’s CMEW). Patton serves on numerous government and non-governmental advisory boards, including the executive secretariat of the U.S. National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee; and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Financial Advisory Board. She is an advisory board member for the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. She is a member of the ICLEI* for Sustainable Governments Adaptation Experts Advisory Committee. Patton servers as an advisory board member to the Bloomberg monthly publication, the Environmental Due Diligence Guide, and the US EPA Environmental Technology Verification Program.

Patton is an attorney licensed in California and the District of Columbia, and an American Board of Industrial Hygiene Certified Industrial Hygienist. She holds a bachelor of science in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis, a master of public health from the University of California, Berkeley, and a juris doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law.

*ICLEI  – International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

Mary Munson is executive director of the Coastal States Organization where she is responsible for advancing CSO's mission by advocating for shared state interests. Munson represents the interests of the governors of coastal states and territories before Congress, federal agencies, boards and commissions to support federal policy goals and objectives of CSO.

Previously, she was executive director at The Florida Conservation Alliance. She resided in Florida for 12 years where she set up the LL.M. degree program in environmental sustainability at St. Thomas University School of Law, and taught environmental law, natural resources law, and international environmental law. Prior to this, she served as the deputy general counsel at the National Parks Conservation Association. Munson served as national chair of the Everglades Coalition for three terms and as a member of government advisory bodies on fisheries, water management, climate change, and international trade.

Munson received a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds graduate degrees in law, environmental science, and planning from the University of London, College of William and Mary and University of Virginia.