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Steve Caldeira is President & CEO of the Household & Commercial Products Association whose members generate $180 billion in annual economic output and are responsible for 200,000 direct jobs. HCPA members manufacture, formulate, distribute and sell familiar and trusted household and commercial products that help consumers and workers to create cleaner, healthier and more sustainable environments. As President & CEO, Steve works closely with the HCPA Board of Directors to set and execute the strategic priorities of the association. Steve has more than three decades of legislative, regulatory, political, media relations, public affairs, fundraising, corporate and not-for-profit trade association experience.

Prior to joining HCPA, Steve was President & CEO of the International Franchise Association, where he was credited with growing revenue by over 70 percent, doubling funding for its political action committee to nearly $1.3 million, increasing the organization鈥檚 media profile, and vastly expanding its advocacy footprint at all levels of government.

Steve previously served as Executive Vice President of Global Communications & Chief Public Affairs Officer for Dunkin鈥� Brands, Inc., the parent company of Dunkin鈥� Donuts and Baskin-Robbins. Steve has also held various executive positions including

Vice President of Industry Relations for PepsiCo, Inc., Managing Director in the U.S. Public Affairs Practice at Burson-Marsteller, Senior Vice President of Communications and Marketing at the National Restaurant Association, Senior Manager of Political Affairs (Northeast Division) for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Political Director to former U.S. Senator Alfonse D鈥橝mato (R-NY).

Steve also serves on numerous not-for-profit boards and councils including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce 鈥淭rade Association Committee of 100鈥�, the U.S. Chamber鈥檚 Public Affairs Committee and is also on the Advisory Board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Steve is also a member of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Council of Manufacturing Associations (CMA) Advisory Board, Board of Directors for the Canadian Consumer Specialty Products Association (CCSPA), The Bryce Harlow Foundation Board of Governors, Corporate Advisory Board of So Others Might Eat (SOME), Board of Directors of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) where he is currently Chair-elect, and Chair, of the ASAE Research Foundation, Board of Directors of the Boy Scouts of America Capital Area Council, National Board of Advisors for the Panetta Institute for Public Policy at California State University-Monterey Bay, and Board of Directors for the Alzheimer鈥檚 Association National Capital Area Chapter where he currently serves as the Immediate Past Chair. From 2003-2017, he served as Chair of The Emeril Lagasse Golf Classic to benefit the celebrity chef鈥檚 endowed scholarship fund at Johnson & Wales University which raised $7.1 million for culinary, hotel and hospitality-related scholarships. Steve is also a member of The Economic Club of Washington, DC.

Steve has been named a 鈥淭op Lobbyist鈥� by The Hill multiple times, including 2019, in addition to being named a 鈥淭op Power & Influence Trade Association CEO鈥� by CEO Update.

Steve graduated from Providence College in Providence, RI with a B.A. in Political Science and where he currently serves as a member of the National Board of Overseers (NBO). Steve was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration and Foodservice Management by Johnson & Wales University in 2007.

Dr. Rivera joined Buffalo State's Department of Political Science and Public Administration in the Spring 2016.  He is a Founder's Fellow of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and a Minority Fellow of the American Political Science Association (APSA).  Currently, he serves as a member of the executive board for ASPA's Section on Emergency and Crisis Management (SECM).

Dean Jonathan Koppell鈥檚 research and writing broadly examine the design and administration of complex organizations in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. 

Koppell is dean of the Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions and is the Lattie and Elva Coor Presidential Chair in the School of Public Affairs. He's recognized as a leading authority on public-private hybrid organizations, accountability in governance and international rule making and regulation. He is the author of two books: 鈥淲orld Rule: Accountability, Legitimacy and the Design of Global Governance鈥� and 鈥淭he Politics of Quasi-Government.鈥�

He joined ASU in 2010 as Director of the School of Public Affairs from the Yale School of Management at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, Koppell was a Markle Fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, writing on technology and public policy. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, the field鈥檚 highest honor.

Derek Slagle is the director of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He formerly served as the director of the Survey Research Center.
Concomitantly, he served as a state lead for Occupational Licensing Policy Learning Consortium, a three-year project supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor and managed jointly by the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, and the National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices. Dr. Slagle has worked on over 2.5 million dollars of funded research – included grants from the CDC, Robert Wood Johnson and contracts with various state agencies, nonprofits, and for-profit companies.
As faculty in the Master of Public Administration program, he focuses on training the next generation of Arkansas leaders while emphasizing service and connecting theory to praxis. His research in Public Affairs Education, Higher Education, Community Development, & State Government have been published in a variety of academic journals.

I am a public affairs expert with a focus on advocating for sound science policy that supports
scientists and a thriving research community. I work closely with scientists to advocate
effectively and focus on engaging all stakeholders within the scientific community. I have
experience with public/private partnerships, regulatory policy, and global health policy. I earned
my Master's degree in biomedical science policy and a Bachelor's in international relations.

John Murphy studies the history of American public address and political rhetoric. He is the author of John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion, a critique of President Kennedy's greatest speeches and the liberal tradition. He studies the evolution of political languages. He's written on John and Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King. Jr., George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. His scholarly work has appeared in journals such as Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and American Literary History. His commentary on the presidency and presidential rhetoric regularly appears  in popular media outlets such as The Conversation USA, Washington Post, New York Times, and USA Today. He is currently working on a book project concerning the Civil Rights rhetoric of James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Martin Luther King, Jr.