Cecilia dalupan
M. Cecilia G. Dalupan is a dual-licensed attorney (Colorado-Philippines) with extensive legal and project management experience in international energy and natural resources law, climate change, sustainable development, and U.S. immigration law. She was most recently a senior executive with the WeGen Group of Companies focusing on renewable energy and sustainable forestry in Southeast Asia. She has also had governing roles at international development organizations and government institutions. A multi-awarded writer, and editor, she has served as consultant with USAID in the Philippines and Mongolia, UNDP, UNEP, the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and others. She has also served as Senior Energy Policy Expert and Development Assistance Specialist at USAID/Manila, Associate Director at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation in Colorado, and Assistant Secretary at the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources. A former adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law on Sustainable Development and Natural Resources, she currently serves on the Boards and Advisory Committees of several multinational companies and international non-profit organizations.
Chet Tchozewski
Chet Tchozewski is the founder and President Emeritus of the Global Greengrants Fund — an international environmental foundation that makes small grants to grassroots environmental groups in 128 developing nations around the globe. Since 1993 Greengrants has made nearly 8000 grants totaling nearly $50M to community groups around the world. He co-founded Grantmakers without Borders (now EDGE Funders) in 2000 and that same year was on the initiating committee of the Global Philanthropy Forum. He also serves on the Board of Director of the Council on Foundations, the Environmental Grantmakers Association, and CDR Associates. Chet is active with more than a dozen activist, donor and scholarly groups and he has served as a cross-sector bridge by participating in global events as diverse as the World Social Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the World Economic Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Prior to founding the Global Greengrants Fund in 1993, Chet served as the Executive Director of Greenpeace – Pacific Southwest regional office in San Francisco from 1989 to 1993. He served on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee – Rocky Flats Project from 1979 to 1983 and co-founded the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center in 1984. Chet is featured in American Environmental Leaders: from Colonial Times to the Present, and a collection of his papers is in the Western History Archives – Collection on the Atomic West – at Norlin Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He serves on the editorial board of Alliance Magazine and has been a frequent contributor to this London-based journal of global philanthropy and social investment. Chet received the Council on Foundation prestigious Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Philanthropy – an award that honors grantmakers who “possess a combination of vision, principle and personal commitment to making a difference in a creative way through grantmaking.”
