Stated Meeting, New York City
Monday, December 3, 2007

Greetings:		Leslie Berlowitz (6 min.) is Chief Executive Officer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Speakers:		Joel E. Cohen (audio unavailable) is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at Rockefeller University and Professor of Populations at Columbia University. He heads the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities. His research deals mainly with the demography, ecology, population genetics, epidemiology, and social organization of human and nonhuman populations, and with mathematical concepts useful in these fields. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including How Many People Can the Earth Support? He was co-director of the Academy’s project on Universal Basic and Secondary Education and co-editor of the Academy volume Educating All Children: A Global Agenda and a second forthcoming volume on the goals of education. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
		Daniel L. Doctoroff (10 min.) is the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding for the City of New York. Prior to his appointment, he was the managing partner of Oak Hill Capital Management and the founder and president of NYC2012, the not-for-profit corporation created to bring the Olympics to New York City in 2012. Early in his career, he was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and a pollster. Doctoroff is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Chicago Law School. He is a member of several not-for-profit boards, including NYC and Company, the New York City Partnership, and the YMCA of Greater New York.
		Martin Filler (11 min.) is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and former architecture critic of House & Garden. His writings have been published in more than thirty journals, magazines, and newspapers in the United States, Europe, and Japan. He and his wife, the architectural historian Rosemarie Haag Bletter, were guest curators for the Whitney Museum exhibition “High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design” (1985), and wrote the documentary film Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture (1983). A collection of his essays, Makers of Modern Architecture: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry, was published in 2007. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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