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The Sixth Session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP-6) The Hague, Netherlands, November 13-24, 2000

U.S. Delegation Biographies
|| Frank E. Loy | Mark G. Hambley | David B. Sandalow |
David Gardiner | Roger S. Ballentine ||

Frank E. Loy
Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

Frank E. Loy was sworn in as Under Secretary for Global Affairs on November 2, 1998, replacing Timothy E. Wirth. He was confirmed by the Senate on October 21, 1998.

Mr. Loy has had multiple careers: He has served the federal government three times, twice in the U.S. Department of State; has served as a senior business executive; has led an American foundation; practiced law in Los Angeles; and been active in numerous not-for-profit organizations.

From 1980 to 1981 he served as the Director of the State Department's Bureau of Refugee Programs, with the personal rank of Ambassador. From 1965-1970 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. In that role he negotiated numerous international bilateral air trans-port agreements, represented the U. S. at meetings of international organizations such as ICAO and IMCO, and was vice-chair of the U. S. delegation to the multinational negotiations that successfully created the present structure of INTELSAT, the organization that operates the space segments of the international communications network. Earlier he had served as Special Assistant to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency and as Director of that agency's Office of Policy Development.

He previously served as co-chair -- with Robert Shapiro, CEO of Monsanto Corporation -- of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee to the U.S. Special Trade Representative, Ambassador Charlene Barshevsky. In the fall of 1996, Mr. Loy was Visiting Lecturer at the Yale Law School, teaching a course in international environmental law and policy. He served in 1994 as Chair of the Conference of Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITIES), in which over 1,000 delegates from more than 120 countries and over 500 observers participated.

From 1981 to 1995 Mr. Loy was president of the German Marshall fund of the United States, an independent American grant-making institution with an annual budget of more than $10 million and a capital fund of about $200 million. It is the only American foundation concentrating exclusively on issues affecting both Europe and the United States, particularly in the fields of economics, politics, and the environment. The Fund is also the managing partner of a consortium of American, European, and Japanese foun-dations engaged in environmental grant making in Central Europe.

Mr. Loy served as Senior Vice President for International and Regulatory Affairs of Pan American World Airways during the period 1970-1973.

He spent the years 1974 to 1979 in the successful effort to bring the Penn Central Transportation Company out of bankruptcy. He served under contract, as president of the subsidiary that operated all the non-railroad businesses of the bankrupt company, includ-ing, among others, an oil pipeline; oil refinery; the operator of the Six Flags theme parks, Arvida, the Florida land development company and hotel operator; and the Roosevelt, Biltmore, and Barclay (now Intercontinental) hotels in New York City. When the bankruptcy terminated, he became the President of the successor company, the Penn Central Corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Since the last period of government service in 1981, Mr. Loy has served or chaired numerous board of directors of non-profit organizations, particularly in environment and fostering democracy in Eastern and Central Europe. These include: the Environmental Defense Fund, on whose board he has served since 1981 -- he was chair from 1983-1990; the Budapest-based Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, where he served from the time of his appointment in 1990 by the Bush administration until 1997; the League of Conservation Voters, the bipartisan political arm of the environmental community; the Institute for International Economics, which he helped found in 1981; and the Foundation for a Civil Society -- where he currently serves as chair, which for the past seven years has conducted programs promoting democratic institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech and Slovak republics. Educated in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland in his early years, Mr. Loy went to public schools in Los Angeles from the age of 10. He earned a B. A. degree at the University of California at Los Angeles and an LL. B. at Harvard Law School. He lives in Washington with his wife, Dale Haven Loy, a painter, and is the father of two children, Lisel and Eric.

Mark G. Hambley
U. S. Special Negotiator on Climate Change

Mark G. Hambley has headed the U. S. negotiating team at the numerous climate change conferences that have been held since the start of the Berlin Mandate talks in August1995 under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

This process culminated with the Kyoto Protocol, which was concluded at the Third Conference of the Parties in December 1997, where Ambassador Hambley served as Alternate Head of Delegation under Under Secretary of State Stuart Eizenstat, a position he also encumbered at the Fourth Conference at Buenos Aires in November 1998 and the Fifth Conference in Bonn in October 1999 and one that he will hold during the High Level Segment of the Sixth Conference in November 2000, where the U.S. Delegation will be led by Under Secretary of State Frank Loy.

In between these conferences, Ambassador Hambley heads the interagency working group on climate change and leads the U.S. delegations to the annual meetings of the subsidiary bodies of the climate change convention. His duties have entailed extensive travel throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America where he has engaged governments and local business and environmental leaders on aspects of U.S. climate change policy. He has also been a frequent participant at numerous international and domestic workshops and panels on this topic.

Since joining the U. S. Department of State in 1971, Ambassador Hambley has had 15 postings in 11 countries, including appointments as U.S. Consul General in Alexandria, Egypt, and at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He served as the U.S. Ambassador in Qatar during the Gulf War and later as Ambassador to Lebanon. Since February 1995, he has been the U.S. Special Representative to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Ambassador Hambley has been a member of the Senior Foreign Service since 1989 and has received several governmental and civic awards, including the Director General's Reporting Award, Departmental superior and meritorious honor awards, and the U.S. Navy's Superior Public Service Medal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a life-time member of the National Geographic Society.

A native of the State of Idaho, Ambassador Hambley was educated in Ontario and Illinois and at American University, the American University of Beirut, UCLA, and at Columbia. His languages are French and Arabic. He is very happily married and maintains residences in California and Massachusetts.

David B. Sandalow
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment, and Science (OES)

David B. Sandalow serves as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment and Science (OES). In his capacity as Assistant Secretary, Mr. Sandalow helps manage U.S. diplomacy on a broad range of environment, science, and technology issues, including climate change, ozone depletion, biodiversity, oceans, forests, chemicals, cooperation in outer space, finance and environment, and regional environment issues.

Previously, Mr. Sandalow was Associate Director for the Global Environment, White House Council on Environmental Quality, and Senior Director for Environmental Affairs, National Security Council. In these positions, he helped advise the President and the Vice President on global environment issues. Prior to his work at the White House, Mr. Sandalow was with the Office of the General Counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency and in the private practice of law. He also served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Michigan Department of Commerce.

Mr. Sandalow has served as a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Environmental Law, co-chair of the American Bar Association's Annual Conference on Environmental law and member of the Steering Committee of the District of Columbia Bar's Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources Law. He has been a volunteer election observer in the Philippines and instructor on election observing in Nepal.

A Michigan native, Mr. Sandalow received his B. A. in Philosophy from Yale College in 1978 and his J. D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1982.

David Gardiner
Executive Director of the White House Climate Change Task Force

David Gardiner is currently Executive Director of the White House Climate Change Task Force, where he directs the Administration's communications and policy development on global warming. Prior to becoming Executive Director, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Task Force and provided the Task Force with strategic and policy advice on domestic and international climate change issues. He oversaw the development of the Administration's FY2001 climate change budget and tax proposals and is actively engaged in shaping policy for the international climate negotiations.

In June 1993, President Clinton appointed Mr. Gardiner as Assistant Administrator for Policy at the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and he served in that position until July 1999. As Assistant Administrator, he led EPA's climate change efforts, as well as programs to reinvent EPA's approaches to key sectors, such as transportation, agriculture, metal finishing, and real estate development. He directed EPA's environmental economics and information policy efforts. Prior to join-ing EPA, he was the Sierra Club's Legislative Director in Washington, DC, overseeing their efforts on clean air, climate change, land protection, and international issues.

Mr. Gardiner has a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Harvard College. He lives in Arlington, VA, with his wife, Betsy, and their three daughters.

Roger S. Ballentine
Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives

On June 7, 1999, President Clinton named Roger Ballentine as Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. In that capacity, he directs the Administration's efforts on climate change and, working closely with Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality George Frampton, helps direct the President's Lands Legacy Initiative.

Mr. Ballentine was previously Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, where he focused on energy and environment issues. Prior to coming to the White House, he was a partner at the Washington law firm of Patton, Boggs L. L. P., and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He has also served as Special Counsel to the Minority in the House of Representatives for the handling of election challenges.

Mr. Ballentine is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and Harvard Law School. He and his wife, journalist Jennifer Loven, live in Washington, D. C.

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