Advisory Board

  • Marcia Bystryn

    Marcia Bystryn joins the advisory board as president of the League of Conservative Voters. Previously, she served as the Senior Business Manager for Economic Development and Senior Corporate Policy Manager for the Environment at The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where she focused on the revitalization of the port and the many interwoven environmental issues. She also served as Assistant Commissioner for Recycling at New York City’s Department of Sanitation, where she integrated a comprehensive recycling program as part of the City’s solid waste management policy.

  • Jonathan Z. Cannon

    Jonathan Z. Cannon is the Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and director of the University of Virginia Law School’s Environmental and Land Use Law Program. Before arriving at the University of Virginia, he held several positions at the Environmental Protection Agency during the Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations, including general counsel (1995-98). He also served on President Obama’s EPA transition team. He has written numerous articles on environmental law and policy, including several on relationships among the EPA and the White House, Congress and the courts.

  • Daniel Cole

    Daniel Cole is a professor of law at Indiana University and a writer in the areas of Property, Natural Resources Law, Environmental Protection, and Law & Economics. Professor Cole has received numerous teaching awards, and he has published six books and more than thirty law review articles and essays. One of his books — Instituting Environmental Protection: From Red to Green in Poland (Macmillan and St. Martin’s, 1998) — received the prestigious AAASS/Orbis Polish Book Prize in 1999. Among his recent books are Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Principles of Law and Economics (Prentice-Hall 2005) (with Peter Z. Grossman).

  • E. Donald Elliott

    E. Donald Elliott is a leading academic expert on improving the relationship between law and science, specializing in environmental law and chemical regulation. He is currently Professor (Adjunct) of Law, Yale Law School and Georgetown University Law Center, when he teaches a course comparing chemical regulation in the U.S. and E.U. He has been on the Yale Law School faculty since 1981, and is the author of over 60 articles. Elliott also practices law and heads the Environment, Health, and Safety department of the international law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, and is a partner in its DC office. Formerly Elliott was Assistant Administrator and General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989-1991, where he was EPA’s primary liaison to OIRA. He is the author of TQM-ing OMB: Or What Is Wrong With Executive Order 12291 and What President Clinton Should Do About It in Law and Contemporary Problems (1994), which was one of the first academic articles suggesting reforms of the OIRA process.

  • Matthew Feldman

    Matthew A. Feldman is a partner and Co-Chair of the Business Reorganization and Restructuring Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee. In 2009, Mr. Feldman was recruited to serve as Chief Legal Advisor to the Obama administration’s Task Force on the Auto Industry, helping to develop the overall strategy to restructure and recapitalize General Motors Corporation and Chrysler LLC. Mr. Feldman has been significantly involved in numerous complex chapter 11 cases and non-judicial restructurings, both U.S. and cross-border matters.

  • Dr. Adam Finkel

    Dr. Adam Finkel is one of the nation’s leading experts in the evolving field of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. With 25 years of experience in improving methods of analysis and making risk-based decisions to protect workers and the general public from environmental hazards, including five years of service as Director of Health Standards Programs at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Dr. Finkel currently serves as Executive Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) School of Public Health.

  • Sally Katzen

    Sally Katzen joins the Policy Integrity Advisory Board as a visiting professor and lecturer at institutions such as George Washington Law School, Michigan Law School, and George Mason Law School, as well as at Smith College, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Michigan in Washington Program. Most recently, she served on the Obama-Biden transition team, as part of the Agency Review Working Group. During the Clinton Administration, Katzen was the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, and Deputy Director for Management at OMB.

  • Maria Damon

    Maria is assistant professor of public policy and environmental studies at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. Her research focuses on environmental policy design, and how understanding decision-making processes can lead to more effective policies. She also studies the relationships between health and natural resource management in developing countries, and ways in which resources can be better managed in the face of disease epidemics. Prior to this, she served a one-year appointment as the staff economist for environmental policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and also worked as a research analyst at the World Bank.

  • John David Podesta

    John Podesta joins the Policy Integrity Advisory Board as Founder and President of the Center for American Progress. Podesta began serving in the Clinton Administration as both an Assistant to the President and as Deputy Chief of Staff. For the period of 1993 until 1995, Podesta served as Assistant to the President, Staff Secretary and Senior Policy Adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security and regulatory policy. In 1998 he served as Chief of Staff in the second Clinton Administration, a post he executed until the end of the Clinton Presidency in January 2001. In 2008, Podesta authored The Power of Progress: How America’s Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country. Recently, Podesta served as co-chair of President Obama’s transition, where he coordinated the priorities of the incoming administration’s agenda, oversaw the development of its policies, and spearheaded its appointments of major cabinet secretaries and political appointees.

  • Samuel J. Rascoff

    Samuel Rascoff is an Assistant Professor of Law and a Faculty Co-Director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law, where his research focuses on counter-terrorism and regulatory law and policy. He previously served as Director of Intelligence Analysis in the New York City Police Department. After graduating from Yale Law School, Rascoff was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, a special assistant with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

  • Dr. Kathleen Rest

    Dr. Kathleen Rest is the Executive Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science-based non-profit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. Prior to that, Dr. Rest spent five years with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She also served as the Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH). She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on occupational and environmental health issues.

  • Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr.

    Frederick A. O. (“Fritz”) Schwarz, Jr. joins the IPI advisory board as a distinguished lawyer whose career spans four decades. He currently serves as a Senior Counsel at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP; Chief Counsel at New York University Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice; Chair of the Board of Atlantic Philanthropies; and a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Vera Institute of Justice, both of whose Boards he chaired for almost 20 years. Schwarz has balanced his private practice with a series of critically important public service assignments, such as serving as Chief Counsel to the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activity (1975-1976), an inquiry that uncovered decades of abuse by the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies; Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (1982-1986); and Chair of the New York City Campaign Finance Board (2003-2008).

  • Richard Stewart

    Recognized as one of the world’s leading scholars in environmental and administrative law, Richard Stewart is University Professor and John Edward Sexton Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Prior to that, Stewart had served as a Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at Harvard Law School and a member of the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Environment and Natural Resource Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund. A prolific author, Stewart has published ten books and more than 80 articles on environmental and administrative law.

  • Thomas Melone

    Thomas Melone is a founder of Allco Renewable Energy where he has been involved in a range of cutting edge renewable energy development projects; he has also served as a tax partner at the law firm of Hunton & Williams. In 1995, Mr. Melone led Allco Finance Corporation to a pre-eminent position in the large asset finance market. Prior to joining Hunton & Williams in 1991, Mr. Melone was Director, European Leasing for Chase Investment Bank in London, practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and served as a Revenue Agent with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

  • Jonathan B. Wiener

    Jonathan B. Wiener is Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, and Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy at Duke University. In 2008, Jonathan Wiener served as President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). Since 2002 he has been a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF). Before coming to Duke in 1994, Professor Wiener served at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Americorps National Service program, in both the first Bush and Clinton administrations. He attended the Rio Earth Summit and helped draft Executive Order 12866. In 1987-89, he clerked for Judges Stephen G. Breyer and Jack B. Weinstein. He has published extensively on issues of risk regulation, economic incentive instruments, and climate change policy.

  • Katrina Wyman

    Katrina Wyman joins the Policy Integrity Advisory Board as a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Her primary research areas are comparative environmental regulation, implications of governance structures for environmental regulation and property and market mechanisms for regulating natural resources and pollution. She is leader of the Breaking the Logjam project, along with NYU Law Professor Richard Stewart and New York Law School Professor David Schoenbrod, an extensive effort to examine how the major federal environmental statutes should be reformed.

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