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ABOUT CPC | BOARD OF DIRECTORS | LIST OF ADVISORS | STAFF & CONSULTANTS
Board of Directors
Scott Barrett is a Professor of Environmental Economics and International Political Economy, and Director of the Energy, Environment, Science, and Technology Program at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Formerly on the faculty of the University of London, Dr. Barrett has advised the European Commission, Global Environmental Facility, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations, and the World Bank. He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
Rafe Pomerance, Chairman
Rafe Pomerance is a founder and Chairman of Americans for Equitable Climate Solutions. 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.
Marianne Ginsburg
Marianne Ginsburg left the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in December 2003 as director of the Environment Program. During her 31 years with GMF she worked on a range of U.S.-European policy issues and leadership exchanges of importance to transatlantic relations. GMFs mandate is not only to learn from the policy experience and practices of others but to address transatlantic differences and tensions and seek ways to better cooperation. Her focus was on urban, environmental and energy problem areas. Prior to joining GMF, she worked as translator and legal secretary in Washington, D.C. and as administrative assistant at the Ford Foundation in New York (l969-l972). She holds a degree in modern languages from the University of Mainz, Germany
Roger Dower, Secretary & Treasurer
Roger Dower is the President of the Forest Stewardship Council. He had previously served as President of eNERGYSolve, and a Vice President of ONSITE SYCOM Energy Corporation overseeing trade association marketing relationships and project development activities in the Mid-Atlantic states. Prior to that, Mr. Dower was a Director of the World Resources Institute, and head of the Energy and Environment Unit at the Congressional Budget Office. He also served as a consultant to the Executive Office of the President of the United States from 1979 to 1980.
Charles O. Moore
Charles O. Moore is currently the Legislative Director for Oxfam America. He was previously the Executive Director of Environmental Media Services and the Associate Director of the W. Alton Jones Foundations Sustainable World Program. Mr. Moore also served as a Counsel to the House of Representatives Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. He was on the U.S. delegation at numerous negotiating sessions of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee leading up to the signing of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. Mr. Moore received a B.S. in 1980 and a J.D. in 1984 from the University of South Dakota, and a Master of Science Degree in Economics in 1986 from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Claudia Schechter, Vice Chairperson
Claudia Schechter retired in August of 2001 after four years as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Operations of the National Park Foundation. Prior to her leadership at the Foundation, she served with Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt for five years as Director of Operations for the Department. Ms. Schechter oversaw both the financial and the development and membership growth of the League of Conservation Voters and the Womens Legal Defense Fund (now the National Partnership for Women and Families). She earned her MBA from the University of Maryland and her BA in International Relations from Brown University.
Susan F. Tierney
Susan F. Tierney is Managing Principal of the Analysis Group. Senior Vice President of Lexecon Inc. She is Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Energy Foundation; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Energy Innovations Institute; and a Director of the Electric Power Research Institute, Clean Air-Cool Planet, and the Northeast States Clean Air Foundation. She was previously Senior Vice President of Lexecon Inc, and served as Assistant Secretary for Policy in the U.S. Department of Energy, Secretary of Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council. Previously, she was an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine.
Jonathan B. Wiener
Jonathan B. Wiener is Professor of Law, Environmental Policy, and Public Policy Studies at Duke University, and the Faculty Director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions. He was elected to the governing Council of the Society for Risk Analysis in 2001, and was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. He is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future. He served in both the first Bush and Clinton administrations as senior staff economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisors, as policy counsel at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, and as special assistant to the head of the Justice Department's Environment Division.