For media inquiries, please contact Derek Sylvan at (212) 998-6085 or derek.sylvan@nyu.edu.
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Richard L. Revesz
Richard L. Revesz, the Lawrence King Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at NYU Law School, is one of the nation’s leading voices in environmental and regulatory law and policy. At NYU, he directs the Institute for Policy Integrity, a think tank and advocacy organization focusing in these areas. Revesz received a BS summa cum laude from Princeton University, an MS in civil engineering from MIT, and a JD from Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. After judicial clerkships with Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the US Supreme Court, Revesz joined the NYU faculty in 1985 and served as Dean from 2002-13. Revesz is the director of the American Law Institute, the leading independent organization in the U.S. producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law; a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States; and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bar Admissions: State Bar of New York, District of Columbia Bar (inactive)
He can be reached at richard.revesz@nyu.edu or 212-998-6185.
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Michael A. Livermore
Michael A. Livermore was the founding executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity and now serves as a senior advisor. He is a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Law. He is the author, along with Richard L. Revesz, of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health (Oxford University Press, 2008). He is a frequent panelist at U.S. and international conferences on cost-benefit analysis and his views and commentary have appeared in BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Time. Livermore was a postdoctoral fellow at NYU’s Law Center for Environmental and Land Use Law and served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Harry T. Edwards at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Between 1995 and 2002, Livermore worked for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) where he was a leading voice of the state’s environmental community. Livermore graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was a managing editor of the NYU Law Review. He has published legal scholarship on topics including cost-benefit analysis in the global context, regulatory ossification, water pollution control, judicial decisionmaking, and international food safety standards.
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Bethany A. Davis Noll
Bethany Davis Noll is Litigation Director at Policy Integrity and an adjunct instructor at NYU. Prior to joining Policy Integrity, she worked as Assistant Solicitor General in the New York Attorney General’s Office where she filed briefs on behalf of a coalition of states in support of EPA’s Clean Power Plan and earned the Louis J. Lefkowitz Memorial Award for her work on several environmental appeals. Bethany previously worked as a litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where she led a team in a pro bono Clean Water Act enforcement suit. She was also an adjunct lecturer in law at Columbia Law School for four years, and she is a member of the Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association. She served as a clerk for the Honorable Chester J. Straub in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and for the Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin in the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Bethany received a J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Barnard College.
Bar Admissions: State Bar of New York
Follow her on Twitter at @bdavisnoll, email her at bethany.davisnoll@nyu.edu, or call her at (212) 998-6239.
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Denise Grab
Denise Grab is Western Regional Director at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law, where she also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law. She has been on the Policy Integrity team since 2012, where she has helped develop the institute’s research and advocacy efforts on climate and energy law and policy. Before joining Policy Integrity, she worked as a litigation associate at Bingham McCutchen LLP and clerked for the Hon. A. Howard Matz of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.E.M. from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and a B.S., with highest honors, in Environmental Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.
Bar Admissions: State Bar of California
Follow her on Twitter @denisegrab, or email her at denise.grab@nyu.edu.
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Jayni Foley Hein
Jayni Foley Hein is the Natural Resources Director at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law, where she serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law and teaches Natural Resources Law & Policy. She has authored numerous reports and academic articles on natural resources and climate change topics. From 2011 to 2014, she served as Executive Director of UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment. Previously, she served as an attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP in San Francisco, where her practice focused on environmental and regulatory law. She has testified before U.S. Congress on federal mineral leasing, and before the California legislature on environmental and transportation regulation. Her writing and commentary has appeared in diverse media outlets including The Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She earned her J.D., Order of the Coif, from UC Berkeley School of Law, and her B.A., with highest distinction, from the University of Virginia.
Bar Admissions: State Bar of California, District of Columbia Bar
Follow her on Twitter at @JayniHein, email her at jayni.hein@nyu.edu, or call her at (212) 992-8182.
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Peter Howard
Peter Howard is the economics director at Policy Integrity, and a former economic fellow. Much of his work focuses on the social cost of carbon and integrated assessment models. He is the lead researcher for the Cost of Carbon Pollution Project, a collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC). He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis, where his research focused on climate change, environmental policy, and agricultural policy. Howard also holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College.
He can be reached at HowardP@mercury.law.nyu.edu or (212) 998-6093.
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Jack Lienke
Jack Lienke is the regulatory policy director at the Institute for Policy Integrity and an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law, where he co-teaches the Regulatory Policy Clinic. Jack is a co-author, with Richard L. Revesz, of Struggling for Air: Power Plants and the ‘War on Coal’ (Oxford University Press 2016). His writing has also appeared in a variety of news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Mother Jones, The Hill, and Grist. Before joining Policy Integrity, Jack worked as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in Manhattan and as a law clerk to the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Jack holds a J.D., cum laude, from NYU School of Law, and a B.A., with general honors, from Vassar College.
Bar Admissions: State Bar of New York
Follow him on Twitter at @jacklienke, or email him at jack.lienke@nyu.edu.
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Jason A Schwartz
Jason A. Schwartz is the legal director at Policy Integrity and has taught the Regulatory Policy Clinic and the Advanced Regulatory Policy Clinic at NYU School of Law. Schwartz’s work at Policy Integrity focuses on climate change, administrative law and the regulatory process, cost-benefit analysis, and job impact analysis. He has twice been chosen as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, preparing reports and draft recommendations for best agency practices on petitions for rulemaking and marketable permits.
Schwartz first joined Policy Integrity with the inaugural class of fellows in 2008. Previously, as an associate with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Schwartz provided strategic counsel to municipalities and foreign governments in their pursuit of appropriations, favorable international trade policies, and homeland security assistance from the federal government. Schwartz graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law where he was an articles editor for the NYU Environmental Law Journal.
Bar Admissions: State Bar of Virginia, State Bar of Colorado (pending)
He can be reached at jason.schwartz@nyu.edu.
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Derek Sylvan
Derek Sylvan is the strategy director at the Institute for Policy Integrity and an adjunct professor of Environmental Studies at NYU. He previously worked as a senior consultant with Context America, advising multinational companies on sustainability issues. He has authored reports on climate and energy issues for the Brookings Institution and the League of Conservation Voters. Additionally, Sylvan has more than eight years of experience in media and journalism. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and the Journal of Public and International Affairs. Sylvan has a master’s degree in public policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs as well as a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University.
He can be reached at derek.sylvan@nyu.edu or (212) 998-6085.
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Burcin Unel
Dr. Burcin Unel is the Energy Policy Director at the Institute for Policy Integrity.
Her current work focuses on socially efficient policy design in the areas of energy, environment, and health, building on her expertise in microeconomic theory, regulation, and industrial organization. At Policy Integrity, she has authored academic scholarship, policy briefs, public comments, testimonies, and guidance documents, with the aim of helping policymakers and utility regulators improve the quality of federal and state energy policy decisionmaking. She also leads Policy Integrity’s stakeholder involvement in New York State’s Reforming the Energy Vision initiative and related state energy policy programs.
Before joining Policy Integrity, she held faculty positions at the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the University of Florida, and the Department of Economics at Bogaziçi University in Turkey. She also taught as an adjunct faculty member at the City College of New York and NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She received a B.A. in Economics from Bogaziçi University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Florida.
She can be reached at burcin.unel@nyu.edu or (212) 992-6285.
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Justin Gundlach
Justin Gundlach joined Policy Integrity in April 2019. His work focuses on state-level energy and climate policy. He is the co-editor, along with Michael Burger, of Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and the author of numerous articles, book chapters, white papers, and amicus briefs on legal and policy issues related to the impacts of energy use on the climate and of climate change on infrastructure and public health.
Before joining Policy Integrity, Justin was a member of the Policy Development team at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), a Staff Attorney at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, a Staff Attorney and Clinical Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center’s environmental litigation clinic, and an associate at Crowell & Moring LLP. He received an L.L.M. with distinction from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. cum laude from NYU School of Law, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. magna cum laude from Wesleyan University.
Bar Admissions: State Bar of New York
Follow him on Twitter at @JMGinNYC, email him at justin.gundlach@nyu.edu, or call him at (212) 992-8167.
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Avi Zevin
Avi Zevin joined Policy Integrity in August 2017. His work focuses on clean air and climate regulation, electric market design, federal and state clean energy policy, and the regulatory process. Previously, Avi was an Associate at Van Ness Feldman LLP in Washington, D.C., where he provided strategic advice, legal advocacy, and policy development for diverse clients, including clean energy businesses and associations, NGOs, electric utilities, and Fortune 100 companies. Before law school, Avi helped develop policy, political, and communications strategy to advance climate and clean energy legislation as a Policy Advisor in the Clean Energy Program at Third Way. Avi holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law, an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A., with high honors, from the University of California at Berkeley.
Bar Admissions: State Bar of California, District of Columbia Bar
You can find him on Twitter at @azevin, or by email at avi.zevin@nyu.edu.
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Iliana Paul
Iliana Paul joined Policy Integrity in September 2016. She received her MPA from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in May 2016 with a specialization in International Development Policy. Before starting at Policy Integrity, Iliana was the Program Officer for the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA), interned for the United Nations World Food Programme and was a fellow at the Women’s Environment & Development Organization. She continues to assist with undergraduate and graduate courses on public policy and the environment at NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences and NYU Wagner. Iliana has her BA in International Relations and French from Mount Holyoke College and holds an International Program Certificate from Sciences Po – Paris.
She can be reached at Iliana.paul@nyu.edu.
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Christine Pries
Christine Pries, Policy Integrity’s Operations Manager, joined Policy Integrity in August 2018. Previously, she worked for Gotham Energy 360 as an Energy and Sustainability Programs Manager. Prior to that, she worked as a research assistant in geochemistry and microbiology laboratories, focusing on urban sustainability and public health. She received her B.A. in environmental science from Barnard College in 2017.
She can be reached at christine.pries@nyu.edu.
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Chris Beltrone
Chris joined Policy Integrity in September 2018. Previously, he worked in media strategy and communications, authoring content for startups, foundations, and Columbia Law School. Prior to that, he helped with local climate research in the Pacific Northwest. He received his B.A. in economics from Columbia University in 2018.
He can be reached at chris.beltrone@nyu.edu.
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Sylwia Bialek
Sylwia Bialek is an Economic Fellow at Policy Integrity. Her microeconomics research focuses on environment, natural resources, and energy markets, with particular emphasis on welfare analysis. She also studies the foreign direct investment behavior of multinational corporations. Her work includes both theoretical modelling and empirical testing. She holds a Ph.D. in economics (summa cum laude) from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. She received her MSc in International Relations and MSc in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics in Warsaw, Poland.
She can be reached at sylwia.bialek@nyu.edu.
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Madison Condon
Madison Condon is Policy Integrity’s current Legal Fellow. Prior to joining NYU, she was a fellow with the Earth Institute at Columbia University where her research focused on environmental risk and disclosure. Madison clerked for Judge Jane Kelly of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, served as a Water Security Fellow at Harvard University, and consulted the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on carbon regulation and international trade law. Madison received a JD from Harvard Law School, an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Tufts Fletcher School, and a BS in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University. She was also a Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands.
Bar Admissions: New York, Eighth Circuit, Ninth Circuit, California (inactive)
Follow her on Twitter at @madisonecondon, or email her at madison.condon@nyu.edu.
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Caroline Cecot
Caroline Cecot is an Assistant Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Her research interests include cost-benefit analysis, regulatory reform, and environmental regulation, and her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and law reviews. Previously, she was Legal Fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt Law School, and Research Associate at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center. She served as a law clerk to Judge Raymond J. Lohier, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Cecot graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with an A.B. degree in economics and from Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D. in law and economics. She also holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School, where she was the Senior Articles Editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review and Articles Editor for the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review
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Jeffrey Shrader
Jeffrey Shrader was an Economic Fellow at Policy Integrity from 2017-2018. His research focuses on econometric identification and empirical analysis of questions in environmental and labor economics including the impacts of climate change, environmental effects on worker productivity, and business responses to environmental changes. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Columbia University. In 2018, he joined the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor.
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Kevin Cromar
Kevin Cromar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Research) at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Medicine at NYU School of Medicine, is an environmental epidemiologist specializing in exposure assessment and human health impacts of air pollution. His recent research has focused on identifying sub-populations susceptible to the adverse effects of air pollution. Dr. Cromar has collaborated with Policy Integrity on a number of original research projects since 2008 including a study on the health risks of residual oil combustion that led to the passage of two new city regulations controlling residual oil use in New York City. Dr. Cromar’s experience with translational research and environmental health policy includes receiving a Clinical and Translational TL1 Fellowship, receiving a Ruth L. Kirchstein National Service Training Award, and currently serving on the NYU NIEHS community outreach and education core (COEC) internal advisory board.
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Laurie Johnson
Laurie Johnson joined Policy Integrity as an Affiliated Scholar in March 2014, where she continues her work on the Cost of Carbon Pollution project. Johnson initiated the project jointly with Policy Integrity and the Environmental Defense Fund in 2012, while serving as Chief Economist for the Climate and Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Prior to Policy Integrity, Laurie spent seven years at NRDC, where she concentrated on modeling the costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions; impacts of environmental regulation on employment; industry analyses of the economic impacts of regulation; and macroeconomic modeling of climate change legislation and its distributional impacts. Johnson was a professor of economics at the University of Denver for eight years, and she has published in peer reviewed journals including Ecological Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and the Journal of Economic Education. Johnson received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington, Seattle and her B.A. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Johnson is also a Senior Economic Advisor at Ethics & Environment, a Washington D.C. based consultancy in climate change policy, economics, and advocacy, and Director of the Citizen Climate Cost Project (CCCP). The CCCP is a unique collaboration between high school students, academics, citizens and civil society institutions estimating local economic costs of climate change in American communities.
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Gonzalo Moyano
Gonzalo Moyano joined Policy Integrity in August 2009 and is currently an adjunct fellow in Santiago, Chile. He is recent graduate of NYU Law’s Master of Laws (LLM) program and also holds a LLB from the University of Chile School of Law, where he is a faculty member. He is the author of several articles regarding zoning, environmental assessment, transport infrastructure, and conservation of natural resources.
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Boris Bershteyn
Boris Bershteyn is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP. He served as acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in 2012 and 2013, and as General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) starting 2011. In 2010 and 2011, Bershteyn served as Special Assistant to the President and Associate White House Counsel, focusing on legal issues in regulatory, economic, health, and environmental policy. In 2009 and 2010, he served as the Deputy General Counsel of OMB. He also served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
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Marcia Bystryn
Marcia Bystryn served as the president of the New York League of Conservation Voters for nearly 20 years. Previously, she was 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.
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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.
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Inimai M. Chettiar
Inimai Chettiar is the director of the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Prior to joining the Brennan Center in 2012, Ms. Chettiar worked as a legal fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law, where she led legal and policy initiatives using economic analysis to reform federal criminal justice and public health laws. Ms. Chettiar has published extensively on economic and fiscal policy as well as criminal law reform, and is listed in the national directory as a Top Wonk in criminal justice, economic policy, and race and economics. She holds a B.A. cum laude in political science and psychology from Georgetown University and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Chicago School of Law, where she served as Comment Editor of The Law Review. She is a member of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis and American Correctional Association, and sits on the U.S. Department of Justice Pretrial Justice Task Force and the American Law Institute Model Penal Code Committee.
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Gail Conenello
Gail Conenello is a partner at K&L Gates. Her environmental practice is focused in the areas of CERCLA and Spill Act remediations and liability actions, private cost recovery actions, environmental justice actions, RCRA, environmental insurance coverage actions, due diligence for corporate and real estate transactions, and various environmental remediation, permitting, compliance, regulatory and enforcement matters. Ms. Conenello has spoken before various trade associations on topics including environmental equity regulations and industry best practices on issues of social responsibility and community involvement. She holds a B.A. with honors from Rutgers University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
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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 Adjunct Professor of Law, Yale Law School and Georgetown University Law Center, where 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 70 articles. He is also senior of counsel in the Washington D.C. office of Covington & Burling LLP, practicing in the firm’s Environmental Practice Group. Prior to joining Covington in 2013, he was a partner in Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, chairing the firm’s worldwide Environment, Health and Safety Department. Formerly Elliott was Assistant Administrator and General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989-91, 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.
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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.
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Adam Finkel
Adam Finkel is one of the nation’s leading experts in the evolving field of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. He has 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 is currently a Senior Fellow at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, and Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. From 2008 to 2017, he was Executive Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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Arvin Ganesan
Arvin Ganesan works on public policy at Apple, specifically focused on environmental and energy issues. Prior to joining Apple, Arvin was the Vice President for Federal Policy at Advanced Energy Economy, a trade association focused on making the electricity system more clean, secure and affordable. Arvin spent a decade in government, serving at the Environmental Protection Agency in several posts, including Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, and Associate Administrator for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Before these appointments, Arvin served as the senior policy adviser on energy and environmental issues to the late Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey. Arvin did his undergraduate work in Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and obtained his Master of Public Administration degree from George Washington University.
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Michael Gergen
Michael Gergen is a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., where he is a member of the Energy Regulatory and Markets and Project Finance Practices. He has extensive experience developing practical applications of economics, finance and regulatory law to assist clients involved in the electric, natural gas and other network industries. Mr. Gergen has assisted clients on a wide range of transactional, controversy, policy and legislative matters and has represented clients both in commercial negotiations and before various federal and state regulatory agencies, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and various state public utility commissions, and numerous federal and state courts and arbitral bodies. He also has served as an economist for an investor-owned public utility, as well as an economic consultant for a state energy commission. Mr. Gergen is listed as a leading energy attorney in Chambers USA, has given a variety of speeches on energy regulatory and policy matters, and was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 as a recommended attorney in Energy Law.
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Richard Horsch
Richard Horsch is a partner at White & Case LLP in New York City. He represents clients in environmental and toxic tort litigation and advises on all aspects of environmental law and Climate Change matters in the U.S. and internationally. Horsch also counsels clients on compliance with key environmental regulations including the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act. He has written and lectured frequently on environmental issues, and is currently serving as an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Law at Seton Hall University School of Law and as an Adjunct for Columbia University’s Master of Science Program on Sustainability Management. Prior to joining White & Case, from 1980-1981, Horsch clerked for the Hon. Frederick B. Lacey, U.S. District Judge, District of New Jersey, Judge, Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals.
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Paul L. Joskow
Paul L. Joskow is a professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously served as President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 2008 to 2017, where he deepened the Foundation’s investment in science and economics research. He served as Head of the MIT Department of Economics from 1994 to 1998, and was director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research from 1999 through 2007. His research areas include industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, competition policy, and government regulation of industry. Professor Joskow has published six books and about 150 articles and papers in these areas. He is currently a director of Exelon Corporation and previously served as a director of the New England Electric System, National Grid plc, and TransCanada Corporation. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1972.
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Sally Katzen
Sally Katzen is a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law. 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. She also served on the Obama-Biden transition team, as part of the Agency Review Working Group.
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Nathaniel Keohane
Nathaniel Keohane is Senior Vice President at the Environmental Defense Fund, where he leads the climate program and helps to shape the organization’s advocacy for environmentally effective and economically sound climate policy. An economist with expertise in energy and environmental policy, Dr. Keohane also holds a position as Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University, where he teaches a seminar on climate change policy. Previously, Nat served in the Obama Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Environment in the National Economic Council and Domestic Policy Council, where he helped to develop and coordinate administration policy on a wide range of energy and environmental issues. Before joining the Administration, he directed economic policy and analysis at EDF, playing a lead role in the efforts to enact comprehensive cap-and-trade legislation in Congress. Prior to EDF, Dr. Keohane was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management. His research in environmental economics has appeared in prominent academic journals, and he is the co-author of Markets and the Environment (Island Press, 2007), and co-editor of Economics of Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2009). He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2001, and his B.A. from Yale College in 1993.
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Charles D. Klein
Charles D. Klein co-founded and served as Managing Director of American Securities LP, a private asset management company. Mr. Klein previously worked as an analyst for Bear Stearns from 1971 to 1974 and for Lehman Brothers from 1974 to 1978. He served as a senior financial advisor to the William Rosenwald Family from 1978 to 2002, and continued as a Managing Director of American Securities LP, and of its merchant banking arm, American Securities Capital Partners, LLC. Mr. Klein is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, and serves on the boards of Sterling American Property, Ametek Inc., the Petrie Foundation, and the Population Council, a non-profit organization. He also serves on the board of trustees at both New York University and New York University School of Law. Mr. Klein received a B.A. from Bard in 1960 and an LL.B. from NYU in 1963.
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Rubén Kraiem
Rubén Kraiem, a partner at Covington & Burling LLP, leads the firm’s Latin American practice, and was a co-founder of its Clean Energy and Climate Industry Group. He has been an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School (2006-2009), where he co-taught a course on Climate Change Law & Policy, and serves as an advisor to the Coalition for Rainforest Nations in the UNFCCC negotiations. He is an honorary trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council (having actively served on the Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2009) and a member of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future, where he is the Chair of the Board’s Audit & Compliance Committee. Mr. Kraiem serves also on the Board of Directors of Blacksmith Institute / Pure Earth, and is a member of the governing committee of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice (at the NYC Bar Association), the advisory board of the Theodore C. Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice (at the CUNY Law School) and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was awarded his B.A. degree in 1978, summa cum laude, and of Harvard Law School, where he received his J.D. degree in 1981, cum laude and was an Articles Editor for The Harvard International Law Journal. Before joining Covington in 2004, Mr. Kraiem was a partner at the Paul Weiss law firm in New York. In 2002-2003, he was a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the New York University Law School.
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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.
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Nik Mittal
Nik Mittal is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business and an inactive partner at JANA Partners LLC, an investment firm with a focus on shareholder activism where he spent 12 years, becoming a partner in 2012. Mittal’s passion is the fight against climate change and efforts to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation. He completed a Certification in Sustainable Finance at Columbia University and is currently pursuing solar project development in New York State. He received his J.D./M.B.A. in 1998 from NYU School of Law and NYU Stern School of Business, where he was a Stern Scholar, and his B.A. in economics, with honors and distinction, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993. Mittal is a member of the NYU School of Law Board of Trustees, the Carolina Angel Network, the Advisory Committee for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association, and the Asia Society’s Asia21 network. He is a founding board member of Success Academy Harlem 5 charter school and a published contributor to the New York Times.
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Ignacia S. Moreno
Ignacia S. Moreno has practiced environmental and natural resources law for 27 years. She is currently Chief Executive Officer and a founding Principal of The iMoreno Group, PLC, where she provides legal services and strategic counseling on environmental and natural resources matters. In 2019, she was elected to serve as Chair of Virginia’s State Air Pollution Control Board. Previously, Moreno was a Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (2009 to 2013) and was recognized for her outstanding service, including her leadership of the Division’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. She was Counsel for the Northeast/Midwest Regions and International at the General Electric Company, and practiced at two prominent Washington, D.C. law firms, including as a partner. She served at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Environment and Natural Resources Division for seven years during the Clinton Administration.
Moreno was elected in 2016 as a Fellow of the America Bar Foundation. She serves on the National Board of Directors of the Trust for Public Land and for Green 2.0, and on the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Council. She’s served pro bono as General Counsel to the Hispanic National Bar Association and on the boards of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and the Center for International Environmental Law. Moreno was formerly the President of the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia and has been named one of the Top 100 Green Leaders in the United States by PODER Hispanic Magazine and one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business Magazine. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University in 1986, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1990.
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Richard Morgenstern
Richard Morgenstern is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future. His research focuses on the economic analysis of environmental issues with an emphasis on the costs, benefits, evaluation, and design of environmental policies, especially economic incentive measures. His analysis also focuses on climate change, including the design of cost-effective policies to reduce emissions in the United States and abroad. Immediately prior to joining RFF, Morgenstern was senior economic counselor to the undersecretary for global affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where he participated in negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol. Previously he served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he acted as deputy administrator (1993); assistant administrator for policy, planning, and evaluation (1991-93); and director of the Office of Policy Analysis (1983-95). Formerly a tenured professor at the City University of New York, Morgenstern has taught recently at Oberlin College, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Yeshiva University, and American University. Dr. Morgenstern received his A.B. from Oberlin College, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
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Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. Oppenheimer joined the Princeton faculty after more than two decades with The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where he served as chief scientist and manager of the Climate and Air Program. He continues to serve as a science advisor to EDF. Oppenheimer is a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Oppenheimer has been a member of several panels of the National Academy of Sciences and is now a member of the National Academies’ Board on Energy and Environmental Studies. He is also a winner of the 2010 Heinz Award and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Oppenheimer is the author of over 120 articles published in professional journals and is co-author (with Robert H. Boyle) of a 1990 book, Dead Heat: The Race Against The Greenhouse Effect.
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Kathleen Rest
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 in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She also served as the Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on occupational and environmental health issues.
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Julissa Reynoso
Julissa Reynoso is a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP, and was previously a partner at Chadbourne & Parke LLP. Ms. Reynoso served as United States Ambassador to Uruguay between 2012 and 2014. Prior to becoming Ambassador, Ms. Reynoso worked under former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central America and the Caribbean in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the Department of State. During her tenure, Reynoso was charged with developing and implementing a comprehensive Security and Rule of Law Strategy for Central America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Ms. Reynoso was an attorney in private practice at the international law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York, where she specialized in antitrust law, international commercial arbitration and international investment arbitration. In addition, Ms. Reynoso previously served as Deputy Director of the Office of Accountability at the New York City Department of Education.
She has published widely in both Spanish and English on a range of issues including regulatory reform, community organizing, housing reform, immigration policy and Latin American politics for both popular press and academic journals. She also served as a legal fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law and at Columbia Law School. Ms. Reynoso holds a B.A. in Government from Harvard University, a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in the U.K., and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. Ms. Reynoso is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
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Amelia Salzman
Amelia Salzman is an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law and principal at Lazer’s Bight, LLC. Prior, she was Associate Director for Policy Outreach at the Council on Environmental Quality for President Obama. She has also served as Senior Program Officer in charge of biodiversity, climate change, and energy at the Wallace Global Fund, and as a Senior Program Officer in the International Policy Program and World Wildlife Fund US. Ms. Salzman was a trial attorney in the Policy, Legislation and Special Litigation Section of the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
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Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr.
Frederick A. O. (“Fritz”) Schwarz, Jr. is 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).
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Paul Segal
Paul Segal is Chief Executive Officer of LS Power Group. Mr. Segal joined LS Power in 1998 and has undertaken a range of roles spanning the negotiation of power purchase agreements, arranging project debt and equity investments, and selling LS Power’s gas fired generation fleet in 2001. In 2002, Mr. Segal founded Luminus Management, a hedge fund which invests across the capital structure of publicly-traded power, energy, utility and related companies. Under his leadership, Luminus grew from $50 million to over $1 billion in assets under management. Upon returning to LS Power, Mr. Segal oversaw Asset Management and Renewables. In 2011, Mr. Segal was named LS Power’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Segal is also a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. Mr. Segal began his career at Smith Barney as a generalist in the Mergers and Acquisitions Investment Banking group. Mr. Segal graduated with highest honors from the Rutgers College of Engineering with a B.S. in Bio-Chemical Engineering.
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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. He directs the Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law. Stewart has also 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.
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Susan Tierney
Susan Tierney is an expert on energy policy and economics, specializing in the electric and gas industries. As a Senior Advisor at the Analysis Group, she has consulted to companies, governments, nonprofits, and other organizations on energy markets, as well as economic and environmental regulation and strategy. Dr. Tierney is a former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy, state cabinet officer for environmental affairs, and state public utility commissioner. She chairs the Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee as well as the External Advisory Board of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. She is also a director of the World Resources Institute and Resources for the Future, and serves on other boards. She has published widely, frequently speaks at industry conferences, and has lectured at many leading universities. Dr. Tierney received her Ph.D. and M.A. in regional planning and public policy from Cornell University and her B.A. from Scripps College.
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Charles T. Wehland
Charles T. Wehland is a partner at Jones Day’s Chicago office. He focuses his practice on environmental law and climate change, helping clients develop environmental management systems and achieve effective resolutions of enforcement and cleanup issues. He works on matters involving greenhouse gas emission from electric power plants, Clean Air Act permits, and the cleanup of contaminated drinking water wells and river sediments. He has defended clients against government enforcement initiatives directed at electric utilities, petroleum refineries, and sulfuric acid plants. Chuck regularly writes and lectures on environmental subjects. He is active in several bar associations, including the Environmental Law Institute and the Environment, Energy and Resources Section of the ABA.
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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. He is the co-director of the Rethinking Regulation program within the Kenan Institute for Ethics. In 2008, he served as President of the Society for Risk Analysis. Since 2002, he has been a University Fellow of Resources for the Future. Before coming to Duke in 1994, 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.
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Katrina Wyman
Katrina Wyman is Sarah Herring Sorin Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. She serves as director of the Environmental and Energy Law L.L.M. program. Wyman’s research interests relate primarily to property and natural resources law and policy. She has undertaken case studies of the evolution of emissions trading, and property rights in fisheries, and taxi licenses. She also has worked on the Endangered Species Act and the policy and legal responses to the possibility that climate change might prompt large-scale human migration.