SMART 2009 Conference Participants 
Thomas Gladwin
Co-Director, SMART
University of Michigan
Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
Thomas N. Gladwin is the Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Associate Director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, jointly in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources and Environment at The University of Michigan. He co-directs the University’s “Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research and Transformation” [SMART] project and teaches courses on systems thinking and global change. His current research focuses on the interaction of “global megaforces” shaping an extraordinarily complex, nonlinear and uncertain future requiring a massive increase in adaptive capacities. Tom has received three dozen research and teaching awards in relation to sustainable business and serves on a variety of corporate sustainability councils and boards of directors. He serves as a Core Faculty Member in the HRH The Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Programme. Tom received the “Faculty Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement” from the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute in 2003.