DUKE - Key Persons
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Chief Sustainability Officer at Archer Daniels Midland
Alison Taylor is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Archer Daniels Midland. Previously, Taylor had been Vice President for Sustainability at Siemens, and served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works committee.
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- Executive
- Executive in Residence, James E. Rogers Energy Access Project
Alix Peterson Zwane is executive in residence with the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project at Duke University at the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability.
Prior to joining the Nicholas Institute, Alix was the first chief executive officer of the Global Innovation Fund, a hybrid investment vehicle that accelerates evidence-based innovation through early-stage debt and equity investing, as well as grantmaking. GIF is backed by leading bilateral aid agencies, corporates, and foundations and contributes to filling the pioneer gap between development assistance and development finance.
Alix has over 20 years of experience advancing the agenda of evidence-based aid and international development as an investor, a social entrepreneur, and an innovator. She was the first employee and executive director at Evidence Action, a nonprofit that develops service delivery models to scale evidence-based programs. Alix has also advocated for evidence-based philanthropy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Google.org, and served on the faculty of the department of agricultural and resource economics at University of California, Berkeley.
Alix holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She has served appointments as a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development and at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University.
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- Leader
- Board Chair, Root Capital
- Chairman of the Board of Root Capital
Ana Zacapa is a recognized leader in social impact investing, climate change and international development. Her current focus is supporting and investing in people-centric solutions at the intersection of economic opportunity, climate change and migration.
Zacapa is Chairwoman of the Board of Root Capital, the leading social investor transforming rural communities in Latin America and Africa, with $2B invested and over 10 million people supported. Root Capital is pioneering climate finance for rural communities at the forefront of climate change. She is a member of the Climate Migration Council, a group of leaders committed to putting people at the center of climate action and accelerating solutions to climate-driven migration. She is Lead Independent Advisor to IPSY, a global $1 billion beauty innovation platform, on their sustainability and social impact work. Zacapa is a member of the President's Council for Ceres, a leading nonprofit working with large companies and institutional investors to advance climate change and water policy. She previously founded Ceres' West Coast office.
Zacapa spent the first decade of her career on Wall Street in investment banking focused on Latin America, as well as in solar energy investment research. She worked at the Skoll Foundation, where she led the Innovation Investments program. She has an Economics degree from Duke University and a master's degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. She was born and grew up in Honduras and now lives with her family in Barcelona.
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- Global Co - Head of Power & Renewables at EIG Partners
- Managing Director & Global Co - Head of Power & Renewables, EIG Partners
Mr. Ellenbogen is Global Co-Head of Power & Renewables at EIG Partners, and a member of the firm's Investment and Executive Committees. Mr. Ellenbogen serves on the board of directors of several EIG portfolio companies, including GNL Quintero, Sunlight PV, Segreto Power and AME SpA. Prior to joining EIG in 2011, Mr. Ellenbogen was a Vice President in Morgan Stanley's Power and Utilities Investment Banking group. Mr. Ellenbogen began his career at GE Energy's Financial Management Program. Mr. Ellenbogen received an A.B. cum laude from Duke University and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. In addition to serving on the Board of Advisors of the Nicholas Institute, Mr. Ellenbogen served as Treasurer of DC Scholars Public Charter School and was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Ellenbogen is fluent in Spanish.
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- Director, Heat Policy Innovation Hub
Ashley's work focuses on the health impacts of climate extremes and community resilience. She directs the Heat Policy Innovation Hub at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability. In this role, Ashley brings together scientists and communities to develop and deploy innovative policy solutions that reduce the impacts of extreme heat on human health and well-being.
Ashley's career has focused on engaging communities to identify and address issues related to climate change, and helping communities develop long-term, sustainable strategies relevant to their needs.
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow ( Non - Resident )
Bob Stout is a Senior Fellow (non-resident) with the Duke Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, who resides and works in the Washington, DC area. He is also a consultant/contributor to the Institute's Energy Pathways USA program.
Bob advises public and private stakeholders on the development and implementation of policies and strategies to advance the ongoing energy transition through cleaner, secure, and affordable energy solutions. His projects and interests include U.S. and global climate and energy policy, methane emissions detection and mitigation, and ESG/sustainability stakeholder engagement. He also serves as Senior Fellow with Future 500, a non-profit consultancy focused on building relationships and trust between companies, advocates, investors, and philanthropists, and sits on the Coordinating Subcommittee for the National Petroleum Council's ongoing study of GHG emissions reduction plans and potential across the natural gas value chain.
Bob spent nearly three decades as a lawyer and executive with bp, most recently as the VP and Head of US policy and regulatory affairs in bp's Washington office from 2013-20. Before that, he served as bp's global Associate General Counsel for environmental, health, and safety and led bp's environmental legal response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Bob began his career as an associate and equity partner in the litigation department of Latham & Watkins, after serving as a law clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. He received his A.B. summa cum laude from Ohio University and his J.D. Order of the Coif, from Northwestern Law School.
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- Director of Communications
- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
Prior to joining Duke in September 2016, Braden focused on K-12 education policy as a communicator for the Center for Teaching Quality, a national organization committed to advancing the teaching profession. She has also worked for City Academy, A+ Education Partnership, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, in addition to teaching undergraduate literature and creative writing courses. Braden holds an M.A. in English and American literature from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Olin Fellow and American Culture Studies Fellow. She also earned a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alabama and a B.A. in English from Birmingham-Southern College.
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- Assistant Director for Student Experience
Bryan Koen's work supports the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability's educational programming, events, and communications.
His varied background includes experience in student and faculty support at the University of North Carolina, arts administration at the Library of Congress, and editing for multimedia publications. He holds a B.A. in English and an M.F.A. in creative writing from George Mason University, where he also served as an instructor.
Carl Thompson joined Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability as a Senior Career Specialist in April of 2023. He works jointly under the Duke University Career Center to assist undergraduate/graduate students with career counseling while illuminating interdisciplinary educational and industry opportunities available within the fields of energy, environment, and sustainability.
Before coming to the Nicholas Institute, Carl had more than 7 years of experience working in higher education as a career counselor and a student services coordinator for Rockingham Community College, Forsyth Tech, and Alamance Community College. Carl earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a master's degree in business administration from Argosy University.
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- Senior Program Coordinator
Caroline provides administrative support to the director of the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability. Prior to joining the Energy Initiative in summer 2017, she worked for Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, where she provided support with administrative and financial functions. Caroline has also worked as a sustainability coordinator for a large food service company, as a member services/training manager at a start-up in the legal industry, and as an administrative assistant in local government. She is a graduate of the University of Florida, where she completed a bachelor's degree in business administration with a focus in international studies and a minor in Spanish.
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- President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund - United States
Carter Roberts is president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund-United States (WWF-US). WWF's mission is to advance solutions that conserve the diversity of life on Earth while meeting the needs of people. WWF, the world's largest network of international conservation organizations, works across 100 countries and enjoys the support of 5 million members worldwide, 1.2 million of which are in the United States.
Since joining WWF-US in 2004, Roberts has built a new strategy for the organization, driving global teams that integrate policy, markets, and field conservation initiatives to deliver conservation at scale in the 20 most important ecosystems around the world. He has also pioneered global partnerships with companies like The Coca-Cola Company (bringing water efficiency efforts to their supply chain and 1,000 bottling plants worldwide); Wal-Mart (providing information to consumers on the environmental impacts and sustainability of the products they sell); and Mars (moving commodity production to already degraded land). Prior to joining WWF, Roberts worked for 15 years at The Nature Conservancy, first running their Massachusetts chapter and then opening their programs in Central America.
Roberts also serves on the boards of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, a collaboration between Imperial College and the London School of Economics, and InterAction, a consortium of development and environmental NGOs seeking a holistic approach to foreign assistance. He holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Princeton University.
Christina Dowding Nicholas has a passion for new ideas and startups, which has led her to work in fields ranging from alternative energy to kids' learning toys. She seeks out opportunities where bold, joyful action solves tricky old problems. Her other passions include skiing, hiking, seabobbing, and cycling with her husband, Pete, and their two daughters. She studied at Dartmouth, MIT, and Harvard, and she has an extensive track record of professional and volunteer engagement in higher education.
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- Senior Program Coordinator ( Research )
Colette Watt rejoined Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability in December 2019, after a four-year hiatus with Duke's Office of Global Affairs. As a senior program coordinator, Colette manages several research initiatives for the Institute, including the Energy Transitions Commission USA and the Southeast Energy and Environment Leadership Forum.
Colette earned her master's degree in international studies from North Carolina State University and her bachelor's degree in Peace, War and Defense from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- Nicholas Institute 's Senior Education Program Coordinator
- Senior Education Program Coordinator
Colleen Nieto is Nicholas Institute's Senior Education Program Coordinator. She works on student experience program administration, curriculum development, co-curricular planning, assessment, and more.
Prior to joining the Nicholas Institute, Colleen worked for Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, where she taught high school English and Art History before becoming the Director of Training & Academic Integration for their Corporate Work Study Program. She also spent a year as a volunteer teacher at the Working Boys' Center in Quito, Ecuador.
Colleen received her master's degree in Curriculum & Instruction from Loyola University Chicago and her bachelor's degrees in English and Secondary Education from Providence College. Her master's research focused on the relationship between experiential learning and student engagement.
Cornelia Quennet-Thielen is Former Secretary State at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, responsible for more than 1,000 members of staff and an annual budget exceeding 10 billion. Before becoming State Secretary, she served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the Office of the Federal President of Germany (2004-2008). During this period, Quennet-Thielen acted as the president's senior advisor on domestic policy as well as on constitutional law and mercy petitions.
Prior to joining the president's staff, Quennet-Thielen was deeply invested in environmental and sustainability policy at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety. From 1999 to 2004, she served as Deputy Director-General, with primary responsibility for strategic planning for environmental legislation and research, which encompassed the development of a national strategy for sustainable development. In her capacity as head of the German negotiating team for climate change from 1990 to 1999, she helped shape the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. She was also the responsible German negotiator at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and helped oversee its follow-up.
Quennet-Thielen entered public administration as personal assistant to State and then Federal Environment Minister Klaus Toepfer from 1985 to 1990. She has a strong background in law, having received her final degree in 1984 and started her professional career as a judge. She became a World Fellow of Yale University in 2003.
Quennet-Thielen serves on the boards of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German-Polish Research Foundation, the German Historical Museum, and the Roland Berger Foundation. She is also a member of the steering committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association) and the German Council of Science and Humanities.
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Project Coordinator, Water Policy Program
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
Debra Allen joined the Nicholas Institute in January 2024. Allen has been a Duke employee since 2007 as an administrative assistant working in the Duke Anesthesiology's Community Division, as well as in human resources at Duke Regional Hospital.
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- Managing Director, Cranemere
Diana Propper de Callejon is a Managing Director at Cranemere, a holding company that acquires privately held, middle-market companies in the United States and Europe. Prior to joining Cranemere, she was a Partner at Expansion Capital Partners, a growth stage venture fund where she invested in green building and energy efficiency, taking companies public and executing successful trade sales. Callejon is a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council where she chairs the investment committee that oversees NRDC's endowment and is on the Advisory Board of Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. She is a visiting professor in the Economic Department at Duke, where she teaches the undergraduate seminar, Financing Climate Solutions in Private Markets.
Callejon was an executive producer of Nathan Havey's award winning documentary, Beyond Zero, which tells the inspiring story of Interface CEO Ray Anderson and his team's journey to become the first zero climate emissions carpet company in the US. She has an MBA from Harvard and a B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Duke University.
Diane Johnson is originally from Columbus, Ohio, and has lived in North Carolina for 16 years. She has many years of experience working as an administrative assistant in academia at North Carolina Central University and Duke, and thoroughly loves it.
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- Chief Investment Officer and Co Portfolio Manager, Water Asset Management LLC
Deane has spent more than 20 years in the water industry focused on water resources, infrastructure development and general water investing. Prior to co-founding Water Asset Management, he founded and held senior management positions as President of Layne Water Development and Storage and as Senior Vice President of Vidler Water Company. Deane began his professional career with Lazard in Paris and London.
He graduated from Duke University in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in political science and economics. Subsequently he received an MBA in finance and marketing from INSEAD.
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- Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law UCLA School of Law and Bren School of the Environment at UC - Santa Barbara
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- Financial Project Planner
Donna Brown joined the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability in May 2018. As Financial Project Planner, she provides financial, human resources, and payroll support for the Nicholas Institute.
A Duke employee since 2007, Donna previously worked at the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Office of Finance and Administration at the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.
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- Chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission
Previously, he was vice president of Strategic Initiatives at the Great Plains Institute (GPI), where he focused on GPI projects in which he participated as a state official, including the Midwestern Power Sector Collaborative and the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative, as well as on utility regulatory reform and other areas. During Scott's previous term as ICC Chair, he served as a member of the Energy, Resources and Environment Committee for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and of the Task Force on Environmental Regulation. During his tenure as director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency from 2005 to 2011, he chaired the Illinois Governor's Climate Change Advisory Committee and represented Illinois in the development of the Midwestern Governors' Association's energy and climate accords. He was a member of the Air Committee for the Environmental Council of States and the U.S. EPA Environmental Financial Advisory Board. He was also elected and served as mayor of Rockford, Illinois,from 2001 to 2005, after serving as a state representative in the Illinois General Assembly between 1995 and 2001. He received his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Tulsa in 1982 and a juris doctorate with honors from Marquette University in 1985.
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- Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP
Doug Wheeler's environmental practice focuses on federal regulatory issues, with an emphasis on matters pertaining to land use and growth management; endangered species habitat, wetlands, and watershed management; water supply and distribution, including infrastructure development; management of agricultural and timberland resources; and historic preservation.
Wheeler has helped to shape many of the laws and programs that now constitute national environmental policy, including habitat conservation planning pursuant to the Endangered Species Act, conservation and mitigation banking, and transferable development rights.
From 1991-1999, Wheeler served as California's Secretary for Resources. As a member of the Governor's cabinet, he was responsible for all of the state's natural and cultural resource programs administered through 18 departments, conservancies, boards, and commissions with combined budgets of nearly $2 billion and a total staff of 13,000. During his tenure, Wheeler developed nationally recognized strategies to integrate economic and environmental goals and to effectively manage the state's natural resources in the face of rapid growth and development.
Wheeler has worked exclusively with natural resource and environmental issues since joining the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1969, where he served for seven years as Assistant Legislative Counsel and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks. He also served as a senior executive of nonprofit environmental and conservation organizations, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation (Executive Director, 1977-80); the American Farmland Trust (President, 1980-85); the Sierra Club (Executive Director, 1985-87); and the World Wildlife Fund (Vice President, 1987-91).
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
- Interim Director
- Interim Director of the Nicholas Institute for Energy
- Interim Director, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
- Research Professor at the Nicholas School
Dr. Brian Murray is the interim director of the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability at Duke University, an organization created by the merger of the Duke University Energy Initiative and Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Before the merger, Murray directed the Energy Initiative and previously served for eleven years as director of the environmental economics program at the Nicholas Institute.
Murray is widely recognized for his work on the economics of energy policy, particularly as it relates to efforts to mitigate climate change risk. This includes the design and assessment of market-based instruments such as carbon tax, cap-and-trade, and tradable performance standards, as well as policies affecting the markets for bioenergy and other renewables. Murray is among the original designers of the allowance price reserve approach for containing prices in carbon markets that was adopted by California and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap-and-trade programs and served on a National Academy of Science panel to examine the effects of the U.S. federal tax code on energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. He was a convening lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report on greenhouse gas mitigation from land use change. Throughout his more than 30-year research career, Murray has produced many peer-reviewed publications on topics ranging from the design of market-based environmental policies and the effectiveness of renewable energy subsidies to the evaluation of programs to protect natural habitats such as forests, coastal and marine ecosystems.
Murray is a research professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Sanford School of Public Policy. In 2015, Murray was a Fulbright Scholar in Environment and Economy at Canada's University of Ottawa.
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
- Executive in Residence
Dr. Eric Rohlfing advises efforts by university leadership and faculty to 1) develop and execute a strategy for advancing energy science and technology and 2) cultivate technological innovation and entrepreneurship. He also mentors energy students.
He joined Duke after a distinguished career at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), where he most recently served as senior technical advisor for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment. During his tenure at DOE, Eric also served as acting director for ARPA-E, its deputy director for technology, and the director of the chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences division of DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Prior to joining DOE in Washington, Eric was a principal member of the technical staff at its Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. He has a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Virginia (‘77) and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Princeton University (‘82).
Eric lives in Durham with his wife (and Duke alumna) Dr. Celeste Rohlfing (T'79), the former chief operating officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Eric and Celeste are the parents of two Duke alumnae: Meg (T'09) and Anne (T'12, M'16).
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- Member of the Student Advisory Committee
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- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor, TPG Capital
Edward M. Norton serves as a senior advisor on environment to TPG Capital, L.P. In that role, he works with TPG portfolio companies to develop strategies for reducing costs, environmental impact, and associated risks through energy efficiency and waste reduction, and to seize competitive advantage, increase revenue, and enhance value through environmental innovation. Norton also participates in TPG's investment review process for new investments and works with the TPG's growth fund to identify investments in renewable energy and clean technology companies. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in european history from Washington & Lee University, attended Columbia University's Russian Institute as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar, and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
After practicing law in Baltimore, Maryland, Norton served as an assistant attorney general of Maryland, an assistant United States attorney, and special counsel to The Wilderness Society. He is the founding president of the Grand Canyon Trust, and founding chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy and the Vietnam Veterans Reconciliation Project, and Vice President for Law and Public Policy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
From 1998-2004, he lived and worked in northwest Yunnan Province, China, as senior advisor to The Nature Conservancy's China Program. He also served as The Nature Conservancy's deputy director for the Asia-Pacific Region, based in Bali, Indonesia, and as a senior advisor to the USAID Orangutan Conservation Services Project in Indonesia.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Grand Canyon Trust and The Wyss Foundation. He is the Founding Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Landscape Conservation System Foundation.
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- Senior Research Associate
- Senior Research Associate, Just Environments
Elizabeth Christenson-Diver is a Senior Research Associate in the Just Environments program, a partnership between the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. She brings expertise linking research and policy, ensuring that our work is grounded in rigorous research and is making a real-world impact. Christenson-Diver informs the development of our projects and helps shape our overall research agenda.
Prior to coming to Duke, Christenson-Diver worked at the U.S. Department of State in the Office of Canadian Affairs as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow developing recommended strategy for stakeholder, Tribal, and international government engagement regarding water and other environmental issues. As Policy Advisor for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, she supervised the Department's Environmental Justice Program and led the development (ongoing) of the North Carolina Flood Resiliency Blueprint engaging experts across the state. She holds a Ph.D. and master's degree in Environmental Sciences & Engineering from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where she documented water quality impacts from industrial hog operations in North Carolina. Her prior research spans interdisciplinary topics including climate hazards, disparate access to water and sanitation infrastructure, disinfection in healthcare facilities, microbial water quality, and modeling sources of pollution.
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- Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group
Elizabeth L. Littlefield is the former President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the US Government's Development Finance Institution, appointed by President Obama in 2009. OPIC manages a $24 billion portfolio of financing for private investment in developing nations. Under her leadership, OPIC's commitments to renewable resources investments witnessed a ten-fold increase, African investments, a five-fold increase and she undertook far reaching institutional strengthening.
Currently, Littlefield is a Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, where she draws on decades of experience in private sector investment in developing markets to help ASG clients navigate the global marketplace. She also serves on a number of boards, including the World Wildlife Fund and M-Kopa.
From 2000 until 2010, Littlefield was CEO of Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, a World Bank consortium dedicated to advancing access to financial services. Prior to joining CGAP in 1999, Littlefield was JP Morgan's Managing Director in charge of capital markets and financing in emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa, among other positions such as head of developing country debt trading. During 1989-1990, she lived and worked in West and Central Africa setting up microfinance institutions.
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- Executive
- Executive in Residence
Elizabeth Losos is an executive in residence at the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability and adjunct professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment. Her work focuses on how to promote sustainable and resilient infrastructure through policy research on infrastructure standards, environmental and social impacts, and enabling conditions. Dr. Losos also heads the ISLE Initiative, a global network of learning hubs to build sustainable infrastructure capacity through case-based peer learning. She is co-convener of the Resilience Roadmap Project, an initiative to support US federal agencies and their partners in building equitable climate resilience. She also is the Duke lead for Infrastructure for Good, a research initiative of Economist Impact in partnership with Deloitte and the Nicholas Institute; the centerpiece of the program is a barometer that compares infrastructure ecosystems in countries around the world.
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Climate Leader in Residence
- Managing Director for Climate at Marsh McLennan
Francis Bouchard is an accomplished global public affairs professional who has served as an advisor, catalyst, and contributor to a series of climate resilience and insurance initiatives. He is the inaugural resident in Duke University's Climate Leaders in Residence program, which brings top thought leaders to campus to share insights and expertise that will spark discussion and action to advance climate solutions.
Bouchard is currently the managing director for climate at Marsh McLennan, where he works across the firm's four businesses to drive climate-focused commercial, social and impact initiatives. He earlier served in a number of externally facing roles for Zurich Insurance Group, including most recently as Group Head of Public Affairs and Sustainability. He originally joined the insurance sector in 1989 and has since held a series of industry-focused communications, sales, citizenship, and public affairs roles, both in the United States and in Switzerland.
Bouchard also chairs the board of directors of SBP, a national nonprofit focused on disaster resilience and recovery, and serves on the boards of the climate-focused insurtech incubator InnSure and the gender-focused extreme heat resilience initiative Climate Resilience for All. In addition, he; is a member of the advisory council of Syracuse University's Dynamic Sustainability Lab and Colorado State University's Project IN-CORE.
Bouchard attended Syracuse University for undergraduate, earning a B.A in History from the Maxwell School and B.S.in Magazine Journalism from the Newhouse School. He also earned his law degree from the George Mason University School of Law.
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Director of Energy and Climate Policy
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- Event Services Coordinator
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- Senior Public Relations Specialist
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- Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law UCLA School of Law and Bren School of the Environment at UC - Santa Barbara
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
- Director, Ocean Policy Program
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- Director, James E. Rogers Energy Access Project
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Departmental Web Administrator
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Senior Program Coordinator, Corporate and Foundation Relations
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- Director, Initiative for Sustainable Investment, Duke Kunshan University Professor, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
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- Senior Policy Associate, Ecosystem Services Program
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- Director, Just Environments
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- Financial Management Analyst
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- Director, Energy Data Analytics Lab
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- Policy Associate, Water Policy Program
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- Senior Fellow, Ocean and Coastal Policy Program
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Ex Officio
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
- Director for Educational Programs
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Advisor, Author, and Speaker Former President and CEO, the Nature Conservancy
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- Director, Water Policy Program
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- Senior Research Economist
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- Women 's Earth Alliance Co - Founder & Co - Executive Director
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- Communications Specialist
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- Research Analyst, Energy and Climate Policy
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- Postdoctoral Associate, Ecosystem Services Program
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Senior Program Coordinator
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- Research Scientist, James E. Rogers Energy Access Project
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
- Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Senior Policy Associate, Ecosystem Services Program
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- Director of Operations
- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Senior Policy Associate, Ocean and Coastal Policy Program
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- Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee
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- Administrative Manager / Assistant Director for Research Development
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- Research Lead, Energy Data Analytics Lab
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- Co - Founder and Director, Sall Family Foundation
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- Chairman Emeritus of the Board
- Chairman of the Board of Advisors
William K. Reilly is the former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993). He was the Founding Partner of Aqua International Partners (1998-2010) a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies in the water sector. Reilly served as the first Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1993-1994), president of World Wildlife Fund (1985-1989), president of The Conservation Foundation (1973-1989), director of the Rockefeller Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth (1972-1973), and a senior staff member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality (1970-1972). He headed the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, and served as one of the seven original Trustees appointed by President Clinton to manage the Presidio National Park in San Francisco. In May 2010, he was appointed by President Obama to co-chair the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling and in late 2012 to the President's Global Development Council.
Reilly is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of World Wildlife Fund, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the ClimateWorks Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, Co-Chairman of the Bipartisan Policy Center Energy Project, Co-Chairman of the Board of the Global Water Challenge, and a Director of the Packard Foundation. He recently rotated off the boards of directors of ConocoPhillips, DuPont, and the National Geographic Society, and he currently serves on the boards of Royal Caribbean International and Energy Future Holdings, for which he serves as Chairman of the Sustainable Energy Advisory Board. In 2007 Reilly was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served in the U.S. Army to the rank of Captain, and holds a B.A. degree from Yale, J.D. from Harvard, and M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University.
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- President, E3 Gasification LLC