US Climate Experts

Who's Who

Who's who in climate action is a database of professionals that work in climate related fields, intended as a directory for the next President of the United States. Listing in this directory does not imply affiliation with or endorsement of the Presidential Climate Action Project.






Daniel R. Abbasi
Director
MissionPoint Capital Partners



Sharon Alpert
Program Director for Environment -- Surdna Foundation



Ray Anderson
Founder and Chair; Interface Inc.



Susan Anderson
Director - Office of Sustainable Development, City of Portland



The Honorable Rocky Anderson
Former Mayor ~ Salt Lake City, Utah
High Road for Human Rights



Dr. D. James Baker
Director, Global Carbon Measurement Program
William J. Clinton Foundation
Former Administrator
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)



James P. Barrett, Ph.D.
Executive Director -- Redefining Progress



Panama Bartholomy
California Energy Commission



Kit Batten Ph.D.
Managing Director for Energy and Environmental Policy ~ Center for American Progress



S.William Becker
Executive Director
National Association of Clean Air Agencies



William Becker
Executive Director; Presidential Climate Action Project - University of Colorado Denver



Robert J. Berkebile
Principal -- BNIM Architects



Scott Bernstein
President, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Chairman, Surface Transportation Policy Partnership
Partner, Center for Transit Oriented Development



William Bertera
Executive Director; Water Environment Federation



David E. Blockstein
Director of Education & Senior Scientist -- National Council for Science and the Environment



Tom Boucher
Founder, President & CEO
NativeEnergy



Gary Braasch
Photojournalist
Author of Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World (University of California Press)
Creator of www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org



Lester Brown
Founder & President - Earth Policy Institute



Paul Brown
President, Public Services Group
Camp Dresser & McKee Inc. (CDM)



April Bucksbaum
Executive Director -- The Baum Foundation



John Bullard
President - Sea Education Association
Former Director, NOAA's Office of Sustainable Development
Former Mayor, New Bedford, MA
Current Chair of Mayor's Sustainability Task Force
Current Gore messenger - The Climate Project




George Burmeister
President; Colorado Energy Group, Inc.



Kateri Callahan
President -- Alliance to Save Energy



Brian Castelli
Executive Vice President & C.O.O -- Alliance to Save Energy



Don Chen
Executive Director; Smart Growth America



Marian Chertow
Director and Associate Professor
Industrial Environmental Management
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies



Eric Chivian
Director; Center for Health and the Global Environment - Harvard Medical School

Shared in 1985 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to:
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War



Aimee Christensen
Christensen Global Strategies, LLC



Reverend Richard Cizik
VP for Governmental Affairs -- National Association of Evangelicals
Office of Governmental Affairs



Jenny Clad
Director -- The Climate Project



Eileen Claussen
President; Pew Center on Global Climate Change



Billy Connelly
Marketing Director - NativeEnergy



Beth Conover
Former Director, Greenprint Denver
Principal, Headwaters Consulting LLC



David Cooperrider, Ph.D.
Director of University Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit
Fairmount Minerals Professor
Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University



Judy Corbett
Executive Director;Local Government Commission



Robert Costanza, Ph.D.
Gund Professor of Ecological Economics

Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics



Kevin Coyle
Vice President of Education -- National Wildlife Federation



Tabitha Crawford
Principal
Rayan Solutions



David Crockett
CitiStates Group
Founder, Chattanooga Institute for Sustainability



Judith Curry
Chair, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences - Georgia Institute of Technology



Melissa Dann
Executive Director -- Wallace Global Fund



Scott Denman
Senior Program Officer ~ Reconnecting People and Places Program
Wallace Global Fund



Reid Detchon
Executive Director, Energy Future Coalition Executive Director, Energy & Climate, United Nations Foundation



Larisa Dobriansky
Baker & Hostetler



Strachan Donnelley
President -- Center for Humans and Nature



Dr. Sylvia Earle
Former Chief Scientist/NOAA
Explorer in Residence -- National Geographic Society



Kristie L. Ebi
ESS, LLC



Dr. Jae Edmonds
Laboratory Fellow and Chief Scientist;Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryJoint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland College Park



James L. Elder
Director - The Campaign for Environmental Literacy



Jane Elder
Environmental Communications Specialist -- Jane Elder Strategies



Paul Epstein M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director; Center for Health and the Global Environment - Harvard Medical School, Landmark Center



Christine Ervin
Former President U.S. Green Building Council
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy



Daniel Esty
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy - Yale Law School



Richard Fedrizzi
President, CEO & Founding Chairman -- U.S. Green Building Council



Ira Feldman
President and Senior Counsel -- Greentrack Strategies



Emily Figdor
Federal Global Warming Program Director
Environment America



Garrett Fitzgerald
Director of Programs
ICLEI -- Local Governments for Sustainability



Rebecca Flora
Executive Director -- Green Building Alliance



John Fogarty, MD, MPH
Physicians for Social Responsibility



Peter Fox-Penner
The Brattle Group



Dr. William R. Fraser
President and Lead Investigator - Polar Oceans Research Group



Bryan Garcia
Program Director -- Center for Business and the Environment, Yale University



Michel Gelobter
President; Redefining Progress



Dr. Barry D. Gold
Marine Conservation Initiative Lead -- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation



K.C. Golden
Policy Director - Climate Solutions



K.C. Golden
Policy Director - Climate Solutions



Peter Goldmark
Director;Climate & Air Program - Environmental Defense



Dr. Eban Goodstein
Director -- Focus the Nation

Lewis & Clark College -- Department of Economics



Honorable Al Gore



Elisabeth Graffy
Coordinator; Natural Resource and Environmental Indicators - Office of Policy Analysis, U.S. Department of the Interior



Charles G. Groat
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy
Jackson School of Geosciences -- The University of Texas at Austin



Arnulf Grubler
Professor in the Field of Energy and Technology -- Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) -- Laxenburg, Austria



Hank Habicht
Vice Chair; National Commission on Energy Policy

Also a Managing Partner at SAIL Venture Partners, LLC
600 Anton Boulevard, Suite 1750
Costa Mesa, California 92626
Ph: (714) 241-7500
Em: hhabicht@sailvc.com



Kathleen Hadley
Executive Director -- National Center for Appropriate Technology



Dave Hamilton
Director; Global Warming and Energy Programs - Sierra Club



J. Drake Hamilton
Science Policy Director - Fresh Energy



James Hanken
Alexander Agassiz Professor of ZoologyCurator in Herpetology & Director/Museum;Harvard UniversityMuseum of Comparative Zoology



Maureen Hart
Executive Director; Sustainable Measures



Gary W. Hart, U.S. Senator (Ret.)
The Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy
School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver



Hal Harvey
Program Director, Environment; The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation



Susan Joy Hassol
Director - Climate Communication



Karl Hausker Ph.D.
Vice President, ICF International



Denis Hayes
President & CEO; Bullitt Foundation



Marshall Herskovitz
Producer/Director



J. Andrew Hoerner
Director -- Sustainable Economics Program

Redefining Progress



John P. Holdren, Ph.D.
Director - The Woods Hole Research Center
Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard University



Stewart J. Hudson
President - Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation



Jonathan Isham
Luce Professor of International Environmental Economics
Middlebury College



Nancy Jackson
Executive Director - Climate & Energy Project (CEP) - The Land Institute



Dr. Anthony Janetos
Director -- Joint Global Change Research Institute; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/University of Maryland



Rhea Jezer, Ph.D
Senior Lecturer
Environmental Policy
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Cazenovia College



Sadhu Johnston
Commissioner;Department of the Environment,City of Chicago



Van Jones
President - Green For All



Daniel M. Kammen
Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy

Energy and Resources Group
Goldman School of Public Policy
Department of Nuclear Engineering

Co-Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment

Founding Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory



Elizabeth Kolbert
Staff Writer -- The New Yorker



Doug Koplow
Earth Track, Inc.



Kalee D. Kreider
Communications Director -- Office of the Hon. Al Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore



Fred Krupp
President -- Environmental Defense



Charles Kutscher, Ph.D.
Center for Buildings and Thermal Systems - National Renewable Energy Laboratory



Jonathan Lash
President; World Resources Institute