Ritter, Wirth at CSU International Colloquium Sept. 6-7

FORT COLLINS — Colorado State University will host the
“International Colloquium: Managing Global Conflict Ten Years After 9/11” on
Sept. 6-7 with former Gov. Bill Ritter and former U.S. senator Timothy E.
Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, among the featured
panelists.

Two former U.S. Ambassadors, Christopher Hill and J.D.
Bindenagel, will join experts from the public and private sectors and CSU faculty
at the event in an exchange of ideas on energy, water, U.S. foreign policy,
food safety, environmental conflict and cooperation, food security and the
Middle East.

The international colloquium will be held in the Lory
Student Center on the main campus in Fort Collins.

Ritter, now director of the Center for the New Energy
Economy at CSU, will lead the panel on “America and the Clean Energy Agenda” at
1:30 p.m. Sept. 7 with retired Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, president of the
American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE); Dan Arvizu, director of the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory; and Bryan Willson, director of CSU’s
Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory.

At 3:30 p.m. Sept. 6, Wirth will moderate a panel on
environmental policy organized by Diana Wall, founding director of CSU’s School
of Global Environmental Sustainability, which will feature Juliet Eilperin of
The Washington Post, and CSU professors Michele Betsill, Barry Noon and Bill
Timpson.

 A full schedule of events is available at http://wsprod.colostate.edu/cwis30/2007/main/forms/conflict_coll/Schedule.pdf.

The International Colloquium is organized by the Office of
International Programs at CSU with support from the Office of the President and
the Office of the Vice President for Research.