Hewlett Packard
· Provided strategic guidance on climate issue, including stakeholder
engagement at Governor Schwarzenegger's 2009 global climate summit and COP-15.
White House Council on Environmental
Quality
· Developed President Clinton's twenty-fifth anniversary report to Congress on environmental
trends.
Clinton Foundation/Clinton Global Initiave
· Served
on climate and energy team at the 2005, 2006 and 2007 annual conferences; moderated roundtable discussions among leading
climate scientists, policymakers and industry leaders.
The Elders/Christensen Global
Strategies, LLC
· Co-authored recommendations on how The Elders can help accelerate climate change
mitigation; prevent violence related to natural resources conflicts; restore environmental services; and reduce
poverty. The Elders (www.theelders.org) are world statespeople, including Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and Aung San Suu Kyi, working to
solve some of the world's most pressing problems.
The World Economic Forum/Booz Allen &
Hamilton
· Developed climate change initiatives for the automobile industry.
The
Climate Action Reserve/Climate Registry
· Provided strategic guidance for engagement in COP-15.
United Nations World Environment Day/Mitsubishi Corporation
· Developed, organized
and hosted leadership symposium on energy conservation, renewable energy, and climate change.
The
Energy Foundation
· Conducted extensive California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB-32) stakeholder scoping
effort (legislature, adminstration, environmental groups, environmental justice advocates, & business); determined
each group's educational needs in order to craft optimal implementation policies.
The California
Wind Energy Association (CalWEA)
· Advised CalWEA on rationale and strategy for its involvement in developing
California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB-32) implemention policies. Built relationships with stakeholders to
advance policy goals. Achieved primary policy goal (33% Renewable Portfolio Standard in State's implementation plan).
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
-Developed briefing for Senate Environment & Public Works Committee on the American economic recovery and
revitalization potential of clean technologies and green business.
The Cleantech Group LLC & Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
-Co-researched
and co-authored "Cleantech 2009: The Emergence of a Low Carbon Economy."
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
· Developed strategic outreach plan and mobilized legislative
and business support for the renewable energy, energy efficiency, pollution prevention, habitat protection and water
conservation provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill.
Natural Resources Defense Council
· Developed strategic outreach plans for two NRDC-led coalitions' successful effort to gain public
and business-sector support for marine protected areas.
Procter & Gamble
·
Identified global partners for corporate sustainable development business model and new products.
Conoco, Inc.
· Identified profitable sustainable development projects.
Brown University/National Science Foundation
· Engaged over 35 countries in creating
a functional international ecological research network to share data and identify global trends.
Developed budget, infrastructure and communications channels. Led participatory process to produce strategic,
operational and funding plans. Comparable to launching a start-up; managed entire initiative.
Embassy
of Ecuador
· Served as interim Executive Director and helped found the Galapagos Conservancy Foundation.
National Academy of Public Administration
· Evaluated
federal environmental reinvention initiatives; co-authored report to Congress on the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
Oxfam America/David Gardiner
& Associates
· Identified the issues critical to assessing the economic and social impacts of fair
trade and environmental certification programs on coffee workers in Central America.
UNICEF
·
Researched sustainable agriculture and forestry in Asia, Africa, Latin America.
Chinese Academy of Sciences
·
Researched sustainable agriculture and energy; published article on biogas energy generation.
Sample Development Projects
· Developed ecotourism program, China;
led community development project, Kenya; helped Mexican communities increase income
from environmental micro-enterprise projects.
