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As Assistant Administrator for EPAs Office of Air and Radiation, Gina McCarthy has been a leading advocate for common-sense strategies to protect public health and the environment.

Prior to her confirmation, McCarthy served as the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. In her 25 year career, she has worked at both the state and local levels on critical environmental issues and helped coordinate policies on economic growth, energy, transportation and the environment.

McCarthy received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a joint Master of Science in Environmental Health Engineering and Planning and Policy from Tufts University.

Finding The Ways That Work: Synergies For Advancing Sustainable Freight Transport

In his 26 years at the helm, Fred Krupp has overseen the growth of EDF from a small nonprofit into a recognized worldwide leader in the environmental movement.

Krupp is widely recognized as the foremost champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends, such as the market-based acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act that The Economist hailed as the greatest green success story of the past decade. Today, this approach has become the leading model for solving the problem of global warming.

He has broken new ground with strategic corporate partnerships resulting in the elimination of millions of pounds of waste, the adoption of hybrid delivery vehicles, and an accord to reduce the environmental risks of nanotechnology. He also helped launch the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, whose Fortune 500 members have called for strict limits on global warming pollution. The New York Times says, Krupp has made a career of successfully pushing companies to make tough environmental changes. (Environmental Defense Fund accepts no payments or contributions from its partners.)

Krupp is coauthor, with Miriam Horn, of New York Times Best Seller, Earth: The Sequel The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming. Educated at Yale and the University of Michigan Law School, Krupp was among 16 people named as Americas Best Leaders by U.S. News and World Report in 2007.

David T. Matsuda was sworn as the Maritime Administrator on June 25, 2010. He has been the Acting Maritime Administrator since being appointed Deputy Maritime Administrator by President Obama on July 28, 2009.

Mr. Matsuda served as the U.S. Department of Transportations Acting Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy from March 2009 until his appointment as Deputy. Prior to that, he spent seven years on Capitol Hill. While working in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Matsuda was engaged in the formulation and debate of most major Federal transportation legislation as senior counsel and primary transportation advisor to U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey.

In 2002, Mr. Matsuda became a Georgetown University Government Affairs Institute Fellow serving on the staff of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. From 1998 to 2002, he worked as an attorney with the safety law division of the USDOTs Federal Railroad Administration.

Mr. Matsuda's hometown is Apple Valley, California. He earned his B.S. in engineering from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, and his J.D. from the University of S

The Role of the Freight Sector in the Economy

Bill Graves is President and CEO of American Trucking Associations (ATA), the national trade and safety organization of the United States trucking industry.  Through its 50 affiliated state trucking associations, conferences and other organizations, it represents motor carriers before all branches of the government.

Under his leadership, ATA is advancing several safety initiatives. ATA has proposed requiring that all new heavy trucks be equipped with speed limiters and supports a government proposal to test the use of onboard recorders.

In the public policy arena, he is leading a coalition that opposes the rush by state governments to lease public highways to investors who would operate them and levy and collect tolls.

In January 2003, Graves completed 22 years of public service in the state of Kansas highlighted by two terms as Governor of Kansas.  He was reelected to his second term with the largest percentage of votes in Kansas history.

Under his administration, Kansas taxpayers saw the largest tax cut in state history, and many state services were streamlined. In 1999 he signed an historic 10-year, $13-billion comprehensive transportation program into law, improving highways, railroad infrastructure, airports, and public transit service in Kansas.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Kansas National Guard, Gov. Graves oversaw the deployment of Kansas troops to Bosnia, Turkey, and the Persian Gulf, among other areas. Prior to his election as governor, he served two terms as Kansas Secretary of State.

Gov. Graves has been involved in the trucking industry his entire life.  For almost 70 years, members of his family have operated trucking companies offering a diversity of services.

Among the outstanding combination of attributes Bill Graves brings to his role as President and CEO of ATA are his ability to create public policy, his administrative experience and political skills, and a life-long knowledge of the motor-carrier industry.

In addition to his duties at ATA, Gov. Graves serves on the board of the International Speedway Corporation, the leading promoter of motorsport racing in America.

Gov. Graves earned a degree in Business Administration from Kansas Wesleyan University in his hometown of Salina, Kansas and attended graduate school at the University of Kansas. Gov. Graves and his wife Linda are the proud parents of their 14-year-old daughter, Katie.