1 **BIOGRAPHIES OF PANELISTS**

**Michelle DePass** was confirmed by the Senate as the Assistant Administrator, Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA), on April 28, 2009. DePass comes to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after serving as an Environment and Community Development Program Officer at the Ford Foundation. As Program Officer, she was responsible for supporting the development of sound environmental policies and practices in the local, national and international a renas. As Assistant Administrator, she leads EPA's international program and is responsible for the full range of EPA's international environmental policy development and program implementation. In this capacity, DePass represents the EPA within the United States government and before foreign governments and international organizations on matters relating to environmental foreign affairs. DePass is a lawyer, public administrator and policy analyst who has worked with environmental and human and civil rights organizations, academic institutions, and labor. She has also worked in all levels of government, including city, state, and federal. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University, her law degree from Fordham University School of Law, and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Baruch College School of Public Affairs.

**Enrique Escorza**  is the head of the Political and Border Affairs Section of the Embassy of Mexico in Washington D.C. He has held various posts in the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations and previously served as the Director for Foreign Affairs and Coordinator of the Mexico

- United States Intersecretarial Group of Bridges and International Crossings, within the General Directorate for North America. He was formerly a researcher at the CIDE’s Institute of United States Studies, and also served as Professor of Mexican Foreign Policy and Diplomatic Practice at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Mr. Escorza holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Profesional es Acatlán and also studied foreign policy and the U

. S

. political system at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE).

**Russell Frisbie**  is the newly appointed liaison for the U.S. section of the IBWC in Washington, D.C., responsible for representing the Commission’s affairs with the Department of State and other components of the U.S. Government, including the U.S. Congress, and with private entities that have an interest in the Commission’s work. Prev iously Mr. Frisbie was an officer of the Department of State’s Senior Foreign Service and served in a number of economic policy positions before retiring as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in San José, Costa Rica in 2007. His career includ ed two assignments to Mexico and a secondment to the Office of the United States Trade Representative during the year of the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He holds a ma ster’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a bachelor’s from Middlebury College.2

**Paul Ganster**  has served as the chair of the Good Neighbor Board since he joined in 2004. He is currently the Director of Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias and the Associate Direc tor of the Office of International Programs at San Diego State University. He is author of more than fifty articles, book chapters, and edited works on policy questions of the U.S.

- Mexican border region, the Baja California peninsula, border environmental issues, Latin American social history, a nd comparative border studies. D r. Ganster chairs the Management Committee of the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research
, and Policy and the Committee on Bi

- National Regional Opportunities of the San Diego Association of Governments. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of California Los Angeles.

**Steve Niemeyer**  has in

- depth knowledge of the environment along the Texas

- Mexico border. He is the Border Affairs Ma nager and Colonias Coordinator for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. He is currently the U.S. co

- chair of the Enforcement Task Force, Texas

Coahuila

- Nuevo León

- Tamaulipas Regional Work Group, under the Border 2012 program. His areas of expert ise include water debt and colonias. He has served on the Good Neighbor Board since 2005. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas, holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry from the University of Texas San Antonio, and a Master’s in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Aff airs at the University of Texas Austin.
**Allyson Siwik**  currently manages a non

- profit coalition that works on regional water management issues. She also serves as Co

- Chair of the Border 2012 Rural Task Force, and facilitates strategic planning between border communities in southwestern New Mexico and northwestern Chihuahua. Her former positions include Border Outreach Coordinator for EPA’s El Paso Border Office. She has served on the Good Neighbor Board since 2008. Ms. Siwik holds a Master’s of Environmental Management in Resource Economics and Policy from Duke University, and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Biology from Colby College.
**Nancy Sutley** is the Chair of the White House Council on Environm ental Quality (CEQ). In her role as Chair, she serves as the principal environmental policy adviser to the President. Prior to her appointment, Sutley was the Deputy Mayor for Energy and Environment for the city of Los Angeles, California. She represented Los Angeles on the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and served on the California State Water Resources Control Board from 2003

- 2005. Sutley also worked for California Governor Gray Davis as Energy Advisor, mana ging state and federal regulations, legislative affairs, finances and press relations. She served as Deputy Secretary for policy and intergovernmental relations in the California EPA from 1999

- 2003. She advised on water and air pollution policy, and establ ished budget and legislative priorities. During the administration of President William J. Clinton, Sutley worked for the EPA as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Regional Administrator in San Francisco and special assistant to the Administrator in Washington, D.C. Sutley received her Bachelors degree from Cornell University and her Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.

**Dolores Wesson**  joined EPA as the Designated Federal Officer for the Good Neighbor Environmental Board in September 2009. Most re cently, she was the Director of Environment, Conservation, and Sustainable Communities at the International Community Foundation. Prior to that
, she was Principal Investigator and Manager of the Southern California Coastal Storms3

Program at Scripps Institu tion of Oceanography, and Senior Analyst for Science and Policy at the NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Other positions she has held include: Deputy Director at the University of California's Sea Grant Program, Executive Director of the Californ ia Regional Marine Research Program, Acting Associate Director of the Council of Ocean Law, Professional Staff Member of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow, and Research Fellow at the UN International Maritime Organization. She has served on several advisory committees, and nonprofit boards, including: the National Advisory Committee to the U.S. Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (which she chaired fr om 2005 to 2009), the Pacific Rivers Council and the Committee on the Bight of the Californias.

**Anne Marie A. Wolf**  is the President of the Sonora Environmental Research Institute. Her experience with hazardous waste management, wastewater and environme ntal regulation at the federal, state and local level have significantly contributed to the Board. She previously served as the Deputy Director of the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality. She has served on the Good Neighbor Board since 2004. Ms. Wolf holds a Bachelor’s of Chemistry and a Bachelor’s of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota

- Minneapolis, along with a Master’s of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of California

Davis.

**John Wood**  serves as Camer on County, Texas Precinct 2 Commissioner. He has been involved in planning between Brownsville and its neighboring Mexican city of Matamoros. One of his areas of expertise is water, including the provision of water and wastewater services to unincorporat ed communities called colonias. He also has experience developing regional water plans, safety issues related to railroads, and has worked with state and federal agencies in both the U.S. and Mexico. He has served on the Good Neighbor Board since 2007. Mr . Wood holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration in Marketing from the University of Texas

- Brownsville.

**Duncan Wood**  is Full Professor, Director of the Program in International Relations and also Director of the Canadian Studies Program at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City. He is also a researcher in the Centro de Derecho Economico Internacional (CDEI) at ITAM. He studied in the UK and Canada, receiving his PhD in Political Studies from Queen’s University, Canada in 1996 . He is a member of the Mexican National Research System (level 2), a member of the editorial board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica and has been an editorial advisor to Reforma newspaper. In 2007 he was a non

- resident Fulbright Fellow. Between 2007 and 20 09 he was technical secretary of the Red Mexicana de Energia , a group of experts in the area of energy policy in Mexico. He is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC, and Senior Advisor for the Rene wable Energy Initiative with the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His research focuses on the reform of the Mexican energy sector, Latin American energy policy, migration and remittances, the political economy of international finance, Canadian and Mexican foreign policy, and Canada

- Mexico relations. He has published on Mexican energy, renewable energy, banking supervision, North American relations, Latin American oil policy and remittances.