B2 Board of Advisors

Rick F. Shangraw

Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs, Arizona State University

Rick Shangraw, Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs for Arizona State University, oversees a $225 million research portfolio for all four ASU campuses. Dr. Shangraw has overall responsibility for research administration, strategic research initiatives, research publications, research space allocations, and economic development activities Dr. Shangraw's research includes areas such as project risk and uncertainty, decision support systems, and managerial decision making. For the past two years, he has led the Decision Theater at Arizona State University, where he has combined visualization, simulation, and collaboration to address complex issues facing our communities. He holds an appointment with ASU's School of Public Affairs within the College of Public Programs. Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Shangraw was the founder and CEO of Project Performance Corporation (PPC), a research and technology consulting firm specializing in environmental, energy, and information management issues. Clients included the US Department of Energy, US Department of Defense, US Department of Homeland Security, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Interior, and Fortune 500 companies. He has a B.A., magna cum laude, in Political Science and a Certificate in Environmental Studies from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; a Master of Public Administration degree from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University; and he earned his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School with a specialization in Technology and Information Policy and Organization Design.

Peter G. Backus

President, P B Trading Company, Inc.

Edward P. Bass

Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Fine Line, Inc.

Anthony R. de Souza

Director, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, National Research Council

William E. Dietrich

Professor, Earth and Planetary Science,
UC Berkeley

Adrián Fernandez Bremauntz

President, National Institute of Ecology, Mexico

James M. Gentile

President, Research Corporation

Nick Hanauer

Second Avenue Partners

Laura F. Huenneke

Vice President for Research, Northern Arizona University

Jan Lesher

Director, Arizona Department of Commerce

Pamela A. Matson

Dean, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University

Cherry A. Murray

Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jonathan T. Overpeck

Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth,
The University of Arizona

Henry N. Pollack, Chair

Professor Emeritus, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

Peter H. Raven

Director, Missouri Botanical Garden

Joaquin Ruiz

Dean, College of Science, The University of Arizona

Eugene G. Sander

Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Arizona

José Sarukhán Kermez

Professor, Institute of Ecology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Rick F. Shangraw

Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs, Arizona State University

Stephen G. Wells

President, Desert Research Institute

C. Larrabbee Winter

Deputy Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Ex-Officio Members

Lisa J. Graumlich

Director, School of Natural Resources, The University of Arizona

Arthur L. Herbst

Joseph B. DeLee Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago

Travis E. Huxman

Director, B2 Earthscience; Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona

Pierre Meystre

Director, B2 Institute; Regents' Professor, Physics and Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona

Ramón Pacheco Aguilar

Director General, Research Center for Food and Development (CIAD), Mexico