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Jennifer Andrews, Campus Program Manager Jenn advises stakeholders at colleges, universities and private K-12 schools across the US on how to measure and manage their greenhouse gas emissions, using CA-CP's Campus Carbon Calculator and other institutional tools. Before coming to CA-CP as an intern in 2001, she did work in public radio, as an historic and environmental educator for children, and as a group leader for growth-oriented intergenerational writing workshops. Jenn studied English as an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire and mental health counseling as a graduate student there. Recently, she helped co-found a Young Professionals Association in her community, which seeks to provide resources for professional development and nurture civic leadership in up-and-coming young (21-40) leaders; she serves as chair of that organization's Education Committee.
Michal Benedykcinski graduated from Yale University with distinction in History and International Studies. At Yale, Michal spent his time promoting international awareness on the Yale campus as Chair of the Speakers Committee and Vice-President of the Yale International Relations Association. During his summers in college, Michal has developed a genuine interest in energy security, environmental markets and climate change mitigation strategies. As a student he held internships at an innovative alternative energy start-up in Houston, global law firm doing gas & oil litigation in Central Asia and at the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. Next year, Michal will be representing Yale University as the Fox International Fellow at the Free University Berlin and Moscow State University studying European energy security. In his free time, Michal can be found cooking his favorite European specialties or trying to keep up with his book purchases. As an avid traveler he is always on the look-out for new adventures.
Christina joins the CA-CP climate fellow program after her first year in the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise dual MBA/MS program at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources and Environment. There she is studying corporate environmental strategy, with an emphasis on water and carbon management. Prior to attending the University of Michigan, Christina advised Federal agencies for three years as a consultant at Industrial Economics Inc. in Cambridge, MA where she developed economic analyses of Endangered Species Act proposed rulemakings, and contributed to the EPA's Climate Change Science Program report on potential ecological impacts of sea-level rise on mid-Atlantic coastlines. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in environmental studies from Oberlin College, and is an aspiring vegetable gardener, potter, and bike commuter.
A first-year graduate student pursuing an MS in Historic Preservation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ginny Brown is looking forward to defying expectations and changing the status quo. During her undergraduate and graduate studies, her continued focus has been on the potential to create more sustainable communities through preservation and adaptive re-use. Ginny has two rescued hound dogs, an artist husband, and a serious yoga habit.
Jason K. Burnett is a senior fellow with the Climate Policy Center of Clean Air-Cool Planet where he leads the effort to understand and address the inevitable regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Jason has testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and has been quoted in major media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Times, AP, ABC, CNN, C-SPAN, and NPR on climate change policy and science. Most recently Jason was the Associate Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where he coordinated energy and climate change policy across the EPA and lead the development of greenhouse gas regulations. Previously Jason worked for a brokerage and consulting firm Evolution Markets where he assisted companies and governments with the carbon market. Jason is a trustee of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and has a Master of Arts in Earth Systems and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics both from Stanford University.
Bill Burtis came to CA-CP in December, 2002 from the NH Governor’s office of Energy and Community Services, where he was the Communications Coordinator. Along with policy expertise, he brings an extensive background in environmental communications and journalism—working previously as a writer and producer for the Environmental Hazards Institute, as senior staff in the communications office at the University of New Hampshire, as a freelance science and environment writer, and a journalist with the Newhouse and Gannett newspapers. Bill holds an MFA from the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa, and a B.A. in English. He is a father of three who heats with wood and cooks with gas in his Lee, New Hampshire home.
Annie provides strategic development services to CACP, bringing over 25 years of experience in nonprofit development and management. After serving as VP, Development for California Pacific Medical Center Foundation for ten years, Anne returned to New England in 2000 and joined Phillips Exeter Academy as part of the Major Gift team to launch the largest campaign in the history of secondary education. Following her work at Phillips Exeter, Anne led the major gift program at Dartmouth College in support of the campaign for the Medical School and Medical Center. She has worked with numerous community-based organizations in conservation and human services, and has extensive experience working with constituencies involved in fundraising, from campaign volunteers and nonprofit boards and leadership to administrative staffs. Anne has lead numerous organizations through strategic planning, focusing on best practices in fundraising, board/committee development, and governance, and brought clarity, innovation and progressive thinking in her capacity as consultant, senior staff member and member of nonprofit Boards.
Julia Betjemann Dundorf joined CA-CP in May of 2008, following a temporary position as Local Energy Committee Field Organizer. As Manager of Community Relations Julia continues to develop trainings and resources for local energy committees and community, as well as to co-direct the Residential Carbon Challenge, now a joint initiative with the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Julia co-founded the NH Carbon Challenge in 2006 as a UNH initiative committed to helping NH households reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. She is a founding and Steering Committee Member of Barrington Energy Task Force, and co-founder of the Rockingham/Strafford Energy Committee Alliance, a grassroots convening of local energy committees in the NH Seacoast area. Julia is also a member of the Carbon Coalition Local Energy Committee Working Group. Julia has a background in small business and non-profit development and directing, including Yankee Barnraising, a nonprofit dedicated to helping low-income and disabled individuals in need of home repairs or alterations. The mother of three children, she is an avid woodworker and outdoors enthusiast. Julia has a B.A. in German and International Relations with concentration in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. Barbara Elkus, Climate Policy Center Consultant Barbara Elkus provides scientific and policy support in CA-CP's Climate Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Barbara has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at San Diego. In 25 years at EPA, Barbara worked primarily in the water and waste offices. She also worked for four years at the League of Conservation Voters. Jessamine Fitzpatrick, Climate Fellow, Science Center, New Canaan, CT Jessamine Fitzpatrick is a joint Masters of Business Administration/Masters of Environmental Management student at Yale University’s School of Management and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Prior to coming to Yale, she spent four years working on public policy issues for The Nature Conservancy in California. Jessamine’s work with The Nature Conservancy focused on increasing state and local public funding sources for conservation projects in northern and central California. In 2006 she simultaneously managed ballot measure campaigns to create a new conservation agency in Napa County and renew a $360 million conservation funding source in Sonoma County. Jessamine was also an integral member of the conservation program team that protected more than 50,000 acres of forests and rangeland in northern and central California. Jessamine graduated from Georgetown University in 2002 with a degree in biology and a concentration in ecology, evolution and animal behavior.
Meg Giuliano is a Masters of Environmental Management student at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. She completed her BA in Biology at Williams College in 2005, and has since worked as a bench scientist and environmental educator. Meg is interested in global climate change and energy policy, and hopes to work in the sustainability management field in the future. In her spare time, Meg enjoys reading, singing, playing guitar, and cooking, and she also likes to be outside as much as possible (preferably in a coastal environment).
Before joining CA-CP in January 2008, Kay was Website Editor for the Tree Care Industry Association, a nonprofit trade association for tree care companies, where she managed a complete site redesign and established a new website offering tree care information for consumers. Previously, she served as the communications associate and webmaster for an emerging technology company developing air pollution controls. Along with website development experience, Kay brings writing and editing skills and a background in corporate communications and journalism. She holds a B.A. degree in American Studies from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. Kay is active in the New Hampshire Writers’ Project and serves on the board of directors for the New Hampshire Ski Club.
For ten years, Caroline was the Washington Consultant for Legislative and Executive Policy Affairs for the Garden Club of America, which she helped to become a significant factor in environmental issues on Capitol Hill. She began her work on climate change as Legislative and Public Affairs Director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In addition, she worked in the Secretary's Office at Health and Human Services on coordinating environmental and health affairs. Caroline's career includes positions in the Office of Global Climate Change at NOAA, and in the Environmental Protection Agency. She also served as the Issues Director for the U.S. Senate Inter-Parliamentary Conference on the Global Environment. She received her B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College.
Karin is the manager of the Northeast Science Center Collaborative. She has a Bachelor's in Animal Science, a Master's in Environmental Conservation Studies/Marine Policy and a Certificate in Conservation Biology. She is currently an environmental studies doctoral candidate and a Donnella Meadows Fellow. She held Adjunct Professorship teaching appointments at Gateway Community College and Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, as well as at Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport. Prior to these appointments, Karin had more than eight years experience working in museums and science centers including the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Aquarium, the Newark Museum and the Staten Island Zoo. She has been a naturalist/guide in both New York's Central Park, Cape Cod, and in Alaska. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two dogs. Sara Kaufman, Intern Sara Kaufman is taking time from her studies at Wellesley College, where she is majoring in Studio Art and Neuroscience, to intern for Clean Air-Cool Planet. A New Hampshire native, she will be working on the Local Energy Committee initiative and contribute to Part 2 of the NH Citizens Handbook for Energy Efficiency. She is honored and eager to participate in CA-CP’s fight to eradicate global warming and to learn reproducible organizing skills for her future as an active participant in civil society.
Jen is a senior Public Policy major and Environmental Studies minor at Hamilton College who will be graduating in May. She has led Hamilton's Recycling Task Force since 2006, and continually pushed to improve recycling and institute composting on campus. As a member of the Sustainability Committee, Jen has helped to educate the campus about environmental problems and solutions. In her free time, Jen loves going for walks and playing board games. Christa Koehler, Manager, State and Local Government Program Christa Koehler was a City Planner for Keene, New Hampshire, where she performed a broad array of planning and development tasks including the development of comprehensive plans and review of development proposals. One of Christa’s primary duties was to coordinate and run the Cities for Climate Protection program in Keene where she worked on implementing a Local Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Christa earned her B.A. in Political Science at Pace University and her M.S. in Resource Management and Administration at Antioch New England Graduate School. Her research has centered on how comprehensive planning can curtail the advent of climate change in the northeast. Christa is an adjunct professor at Antioch New England Graduate School and is the Vice President of the New Hampshire Planners Association.
Maria Leonardi is a 2009 graduate of Hamilton College, with a major in Economics and a minor in Government. She is a resident of Long Lake, N.Y., located in the heart of the Adirondack Park. Maria worked as an intern in the corporate anti-trust area at Simpson, Thacher, and Bartlett, LLP in the summer and fall of 2007. She was selected as a Clarence Petty Intern for the Adirondack Council and served as the assistant to the Executive Director in the summer of 2008. Maria participated in both the National and Regional Climate Change conferences hosted by The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, N.Y. She is an ongoing volunteer for the Common Ground Alliance, a forum for private-public collaboration to promote a successful future for the human and natural communities within the Park.
As an elected Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Andy Maguire took leadership roles on energy, environment, health, and foreign policy legislation. Since leaving Congress he has worked on sustainable development, environment, and energy transition agendas, including testifying at the first U.S. Senate hearings on global warming when he was Vice President of the World Resources Institute. At the State Department he served as Advisor on Political and Security Affairs with the U.S. Mission to the UN. As President/CEO of EnterpriseWorks Worldwide he expanded its anti-poverty programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by assisting farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs to create environmentally sustainable business enterprises. He earned a Ph.D from Harvard University and has served as a board member, consultant, and advisor to foundations, corporations, NGOs, and public agencies.
Before being appointed as CA-CP’s founding Executive Director in February, 2000, Adam directed the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) international climate campaign, based in Washington DC. He spent 12 years with WWF, based in Switzerland and then the US, and in addition to his climate work helped design and manage campaigns on tropical forests and on toxic chemicals. Mr. Markham received his B.Sc. (hons.) from the University of Wales at Swansea, in the UK, where he studied zoology. He worked as a journalist and then on acid rain and ozone layer campaigns for Friends of the Earth in London. He has written and edited several books including A Brief History of Pollution (St. Martins) and Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems (Kluwer). He was a contributing author to the forest impacts chapter of the 1995 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, contributed material on biodiversity impacts of climate change to the US National Assessment and has published on climate change and biodiversity in journals including Bioscience, Climate Research, Climatic Change and Parks.
Brenda maintains the financial records for Clean Air-Cool Planet. Brenda has been a CPA since 1988 and has previously worked with non-profit organizations as an auditor with Howe, Riley and Howe in Manchester, NH. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from New Hampshire College. In her spare time, Brenda serves on the Epping Municipal Budget Committee and her neighborhood homeowners' association, and spends time with her husband and two daughters.
Julia Meisel, Climate Fellow, The Foodprint Project, Yale Office of Sustainability, New Haven, CT Julia Meisel is an Environmental Studies major at Yale University, where she served as chair of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, Yale’s undergraduate environmental advocacy group. She has also interned at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and contributed to a report on the status of the UN Global Compact’s Caring for Climate platform as a research assistant at the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale. Julia will be writing her senior thesis on the role of food systems in institutional sustainability. She enjoys hiking, especially in Acadia National Park, and afternoons reading on the dock.
Katie is a museum studies graduate student at George Washington University in Washington, DC. She is originally from Hudson, New Hampshire and went to college in Pennsylvania, majoring in history while working/playing outdoors with the environmental club. She enjoys traveling, particularly in the Mediterranean.
Helen Mou is an environmental studies and economics concentrator at Brown University, where she became interested in sustainability and social entrepreneurship. After graduation, she hopes to start a sustainability consulting business that will advance the environmental, social, and economic performance of businesses and organizations in the greater Boston area, where she grew up. She is also involved at Brown as a teaching assistant for an international environmental politics course and as the editor of Watershed, Brown & RISD’s journal of environment and culture.
Amanda works with the Executive Director to raise funds for Clean Air - Cool Planet. Prior to joining CA-CP in February 2007, Amanda worked as a museum educator at an historic house in New York State and as the development coordinator at CancerCare of Connecticut, where she planned and executed a variety of fundraisers and worked on foundation proposals, media relations and donor cultivation. Amanda holds a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. An avid reader with a lifelong interest in writing, she currently resides in Norwalk, CT.
William B. Newman Jr. works on business and Congressional outreach. He is the former Vice President and Washington Counsel for Consolidated Rail Corporation, and former Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Kevin J. Parker works on development and fundraising issues. He most recently served is the director of foundation relations at the Worldwatch Institute, and over the past 20 years has worked in fundraising for organizations including Environmental Defense, the World Resources Institute, and Conservation International.
Pam Pearson, the Director of CA-CP’s European Office in southern Sweden, is a former U.S. diplomat with 20 years’ experience working on global issues, including climate change and various initiatives on the environmental and social policies of the multilateral development banks. Following the initial break-up of the former Soviet Union, she helped design some of the earliest environment and health programs in the Newly Independent States, in particular focused on the Aral Sea and Chernobyl clean-up, while on detail with U.S.AID. She has been stationed in Stockholm, Latvia and Ecuador; and most recently in Oslo as Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission. She earned her BA cum laude in Biology and Political Science from Rice University, and an MS in International Environmental Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She speaks Swedish, Russian and Spanish.
Carrie Petrik is currently a second Bachelors degree student in the Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with plans to enter a graduate program in paleoclimatology and biogeochemistry in the fall of 2009. Prior to returning to school, she spent eight years in organic agriculture with a focus on community education and sustainable practices. She has a passion for climate change science and policy and is extremely excited to work with Clean Air-Cool Planet and Sustainable Nantucket.
Rafe Pomerance is a founder of the Climate Policy Center and President of CA-CP. From 1993-1999, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Development. Prior to joining the State Department, he spent eight years as a Senior Associate at the World Resources Institute. From 1975 to 1984, Mr. Pomerance was on the staff of Friends of the Earth, including four years as President. He began his work on climate change in 1978 while at Friends of the Earth. From 1973-1977, Mr. Pomerance was the coordinator of the National Clean Air Coalition. He was a founder and Chairman of the Board of American Rivers, and has also served as Chairman of the Board of the League of Conservation Voters. Mr. Pomerance earned a BA in History from Cornell University. Nigel Purvis, Climate Policy Center Senior Fellow Nigel Purvis is a Senior Fellow at the Climate Policy Center and at the United Nations Foundation. From 2005-2007, Mr. Purvis served as Vice President for Policy and External Affairs at The Nature Conservancy, a leading global conservation organization. From 2002-2005, he was a senior scholar in the foreign policy program of The Brookings Institution, where he directed the Environment and Development Project. During this period, Mr. Purvis also was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Purvis directed U.S. environmental diplomacy, including most recently as acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment and Science. He was a senior U.S. negotiator on climate change from 1998 to 2001. Early in his career, Mr. Purvis worked as an international lawyer at the U.S. State Department, as a securities attorney at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell and as a lecturer at Georgetown University. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Robert Repetto, M.Sc, Ph.D., Senior Fellow Dr. Repetto's area of expertise is environmental and resource economics. From 1998 to 2000, he held a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Until 1998 he was vice president and senior economist at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC, where he authored numerous books and monographs on environmental policy. He has served on EPA's Science Advisory Board and National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology, on the National Research Council's Board on Sustainable Development and on many NRC committees. Dr. Repetto has been a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, a World Bank official working in Indonesia, an economic advisor in Bangladesh, a Ford Foundation staff economist in India, and an economic analyst in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His work has been honored by the Society for Conservation Biology and the British Medical Association. His recent work on environment and finance was awarded the Moskowitz Prize for 2000.
Dan received his master's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and his bachelor's degree from Colby College. He studied in England, Brazil and Chile, and has completed internships on sustainable tourism in South Africa and technology transfer in India. He previously worked as an independent consultant for an international development consulting firm.
Claire graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in environmental studies. In her first year at American University, she rejuvenated the student group Eco-Sense, and led the group in successful campaigns for a clean energy referendum and a green transportation policy. She became the Student Government's first Director of Environmental Policy, and persuaded the university president to sign the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. She also worked on AU's preliminary greenhouse gas inventory. Her efforts were recognized by her designation as a 2007 Udall Scholar and 2008 recipient of AU's award for Outstanding Service to the University Community.
Bob Sheppard, COO & Director of the Business Program Since joining CA-CP in January 2001, Bob has been responsible for developing and implementing the business sector program. He currently manages carbon management and reduction relationships with more than three dozen corporations from Maine to Pennsylvania, providing advice on emission inventories, energy audits, environmentally preferable purchasing, evaluation of on-site and renewable energy opportunities, alternative fuels/vehicles, stakeholder messaging, supply chain management, offsets and disclosure. Prior to joining CA-CP, Bob spent three years as Senior Social Research Analyst at Citizens Funds, where he was involved in several shareholder resolutions filed by the socially responsible mutual fund. Bob’s background includes a decade in the field of broadcast journalism with radio stations across New England, where he focused on waterfront development, municipal planning and the environment before embarking on a career in sales and marketing. A father of two college students and charter member of the Portsmouth Men’s Chorus, Bob is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine with a BS in Business Administration.
Anne Stephenson was trained as an architectural historian and worked as a green building consultant before joining Clean Air-Cool Planet. As CA-CP’s Campus Outreach Coordinator, Anne works with colleges and universities to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. She also works to support the use of on-site reduction measures and clean energy installations as research and learning opportunities for students and faculty. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and is a LEED AP, HERS Energy Rater, and BPI Building Analyst. She is the co-facilitator of the South Berwick (Maine) Sustainability Committee and the Vice-Chair of the South Berwick Democratic Committee. In her spare time she enjoys knitting and surfing.
Roger W. Stephenson, Executive Vice President for Programs Roger has over 20 years of experience providing public relations expertise and counsel to corporate management, government agencies and non-profit executives regarding internal communications, stakeholder relations, coalition building, strategic public campaigns, grassroots organizing, branding and fundraising strategies. Roger is an accredited member (APR) of the Public Relations Society of America. Roger joined CA-CP in 2006 to prepare a global warming education campaign in New Hampshire ahead of the 2008 presidential primary. Prior to a successful 5-year stint as an independent public relations practitioner, Roger was a public relations counselor in the public relations and management consulting firm Jackson, Jackson and Wagner. From 1995 through 1999 he served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior and served in the White House Council on Environmental Quality to help manage overall program and policy development for President Clinton’s American Heritage River Initiative. Before serving in the Clinton administrations Roger was National Field Director for the League of Conservation Voters and later executive director of the LCV Education Fund.
Lynn came to Clean Air-Cool Planet in August 2007 with more than 10 years experience in a range of administrative roles and two years in Information Technology as a Desktop Support Analyst. She is accomplished in all Microsoft Office applications. As the Administrative Assistant, Lynn assists in multiple projects and supports the office in many functions. She graduated in 1993 from The Katherine Gibbs School in Boston with a specialty in the Secretarial Arts, and in 2003 graduated from Hesser College with her A.S. degrees in both Business Administration and Micro-Computer Support. In her free time, she likes to travel, read, hike, shop, and bother her cats, Chewey and Chowdah.
Teal Tigner, Corporate Program Consultant
Teal is currently pursuing her MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business. At Clean Air – Cool Planet she will be focusing on policy research and business outreach, researching and drafting best-practices case scenarios, and helping to plan educational workshops for leading businesses. After three years in the hedge fund industry, Teal has firsthand experience with energy markets, consumer demand, and the need for better alternative energy and climate change programs. Having received her B.A. (cum laude) in political science from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT, she is also familiar with the inner workings of policy development as well as with the educational efforts of climate change initiatives. Cameron researches global climate and environmental change. He reconstructs climate change in the past through the collection and analysis of ice cores from around the world. Over the past 20 years he has been involved in research expeditions to Nepal, China, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, and Antarctica. Currently he is leading research programs to develop ice core records from glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau and in the Canadian Arctic, and is also involved in the NOAA-funded AIRMAP (Atmospheric Investigation, Regional Modeling, Analysis and Prediction) project, which seeks to improve understanding of New England's changing climate and air quality. In addition, he leads a team that is investigating the links between air quality and human health in New England. He received a B.Sc. in Geology (1984) from the University of Ottawa, an M.A. in Geography (1987) from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a Ph.D. in Geochemical Systems (1993) from the University of New Hampshire. In addition to climate research at UNH, Cameron serves on the board of the Kittery Land Trust and Seacoast Area Bicycle Routes, is an avid photographer, and spends his weekends living off the grid in a yurt in the White Mountains.
Ben Wessel is a 20-year-old sophomore at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT. Growing up in Washington, DC he has always been fascinated by politics, and feels that strong legislation and real advocacy efforts from the grassroots, particularly young people, will be a main factor in solving the climate crisis. His passion for activism, policy, and adventure has taken him from a WWF-sponsored "Voyage for the Future" in the Norwegian arctic to the UN Climate Change Negotiations in Poznan, Poland to the halls of Congress and Capitol Hill during both PowerShift 2007 and 2009. He is excited to spend the next nine months of his life taking time off from college to help ensure strong domestic climate policy and a fair, binding international climate treaty.
Brooks Yeager is the Executive Vice President of the Climate Policy Center. He held a number of senior environmental policy positions in the Clinton Administration, including leading global negotiations as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Development at the State Department from 1999 – 2000, and coordinating natural resource policy as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs under Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. From 2001 until 2005, Mr. Yeager was the Vice President of the Global Threats Program at World Wildlife Fund-U.S. Prior to his government service, he directed the Washington D.C. Office of the Audubon Society, led energy and wilderness conservation campaigns for the Sierra Club, and worked on the legislative staff of Rep. Jim Weaver (D-Oregon), specializing in environmental issues. As Principal of Birdwell Strategies and Senior Vice President of David Gardiner Associates, Mr. Yeager has also consulted widely with environmental and public interest organizations and foundations. Mr. Yeager received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University.
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