Join the Maryland-Asia Environmental Partnership at our inaugural MD-AEP Environmental Leadership Series Banquet on Thursday December 3 from 6-9p.m. at the Miller Senate Office Building in Annapolis.  This evening gala will recap the highlights from our 2009 MD-AEP Environmental Leadership Series forums and recognize our Series hosts including: Battelle, Coca-Cola Enterprises, I.M. Systems Group, Spiralcat of Maryland, UMD's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, UMD Center for Environmental Science, UMD's ESSIC Climate Change Center, and Zephyr Environmental Corporation.

Program

6 p.m.  Reception Begins

7:00 p.m. Program Introduction: Peter Gourlay, President, MD-AEP

7:05 p.m. Welcome to Annapolis: Bob Agee, City Administrator
 
7:15 p.m. Ms. Zhao Junjie, First Secretary, Science and Technology, Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China

7:25 p.m. Presentation on MD-AEP’s Environmental Leadership Series:
Peter Gourlay and Dr. Robert Summers, Deputy Secretary, Maryland Department of Environment

7:50 p.m. Presentation of MD-AEP’s Green Manufacturing Leadership Award to Dr. Michael Galiazzo, Executive Director of the Regional Manufacturing Institute from Aris Melissaratos, Chief of Enterprise Development, Johns Hopkins University

9p.m. Reception Ends

About MD-AEP’s Green Manufacturing Leadership Award Recipient: For over 20 years Dr. Michael Galiazzo has provided inspirational leadership for Maryland manufacturing.  During the past few years, Dr. Galiazzo has not only inspired the manufacturing industry, but he has single-handedly coalesced the government, research and business resources to put Maryland on track to becoming a green manufacturing model for the United States.