About the Authors

Beyond Kyoto: Advancing the International Effort Against Climate Change

Author Bios

JOSEPH ALDY

Joe Aldy is in the economics doctoral program at Harvard University.  Prior to this, Mr. Aldy served on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 1997-2000.  His CEA portfolio covered climate change policy, air quality regulations, world crude oil and refined petroleum markets, electricity restructuring, environmental issues in China, and sustainable development.  He served as the lead author for the 1998 report “The Kyoto Protocol and the President’s Policies to Address Climate Change: Administration Economic Analysis” and Chapter 7 of the 2000 Economic Report of the President: “Making Markets Work for the Environment.”  Prior to his tenure at the CEA, Mr. Aldy worked at the Natural Resources and Environment Division of the USDA Economic Research Service.  He was a Presidential Management Intern over the 1996-1998 period.  Mr. Aldy received a Master of Environmental Management degree from the Nicholas School of the Environment in 1995 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1993.

JOHN ASHTON

John Ashton is Director for Strategic Partnerships of LEAD International.  After 4 years as the UK’s most senior environmental diplomat, he recently embarked on a period outside government to explore these ideas further from the newly created position at LEAD. He joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1978.  From 1981-4, he served as Science Officer in the British Embassy in Beijing, building bridges in science and technology between Britain and China while Chinese science was recovering after the lost years of the Cultural Revolution.  From 1984-6, he was Head of the China Desk at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.  From 1986-8, he was seconded to the UK Cabinet Office.  From 1988-93, after learning Italian, he served in the British Embassy in Rome.  Mr. Ashton is a Member of the Green College Centre for Environmental Policy and Understanding and also serves on the Advisory Boards of the Climate Institute, Washington DC, and of the UK Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. 

RICHARD BARON

Richard Baron is senior policy analyst on climate change at Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in France where his work includes competitiveness issues and future commitments.  Over the last 8 years, he was principal administrator at the International Energy Agency (OECD), where he covered a range of climate-related policy issues including work on the rules governing international GHG emissions trading prior to the Kyoto negotiation, on carbon taxation, and competitiveness issues, under the aegis of the OECD/IEA Annex I Expert Group on the UNFCCC.  Mr. Baron was a reviewer for the IPPC TAR on issues related to international trading mechanisms.  Prior this work, he did research in the modelling of climate change mitigation options in France’s CNRS and for the Pacific Northwest Laboratory.  He holds degrees in business administration and economics.  He has also authored many reports and articles, including the IEA’s International emission trading: from concept to reality.

DANIEL BODANSKY
 
Daniel Bodansky holds the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia.  From 1989-2002, Professor Bodansky was a faculty member of the University of Washington School of Law.  He took a leave of absence from 1999-2001 to serve as the Department of State’s Climate Change Coordinator, where he was a senior U.S. negotiator and helped coordinate U.S. climate change policy.  He has written over 25 publications, four book reviews and numerous scholarly presentations.  The recipient of a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, and a Jean Monet Fellowship from the European University Institute in Florence, he currently serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Kluwer Law International’s book series on International Environmental Law and Policy.   He earned his J.D. from Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal, an M.Phil. in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University in 1981 and his bachelor’s magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1979.

STEVE CHARNOVITZ

Steve Charnovitz practices law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C. From 1995 to 1999, he was Director of the Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS), which he helped to establish in 1994 at Yale University.  From 1991 to 1995, he was Policy Director of the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council in Washington, D.C. where he issued reports to the U.S. Congress and President.  From 1987 to 1991, he was a Legislative Assistant to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.  Before that, he was an analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor where his projects included worker rights in U.S. trade negotiations, trade adjustment assistance, and technical cooperation with Saudi Arabia.  Mr. Charnovitz received a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from Yale University and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University.  During 2002-03, he serves as an adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School and at the Georgetown Law Center. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and New York.

THOMAS HELLER

Tom Heller is the Lewis Talbot & Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1978.  He is also Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for International Studies, where he served as Deputy Director from 1989-1992.  He has held professorships at the European University Institute in Florence and at the University of Wisconsin.  He was a Visiting Researcher in Santiago at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Miami’s Center for Law and Economics, and a Fellow in Law and Development at Yale Law School.  He has served as Attorney-Advisor to the governments of Chile and Colombia and has practiced law with the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Brussels.  Mr. Heller has also written extensively on climate change.

JONATHAN PERSHING

Jonathan Pershing is currently the Director of the Climate, Energy and Pollution Program at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., having joined the Institute at the beginning of September 2003.  Prior to that, he was Head of the Energy and Environment Division at the
International Energy Agency in Paris.  His responsibilities there included the co-ordination of all Agency work on all energy-related environment issues.  In this capacity, he served as the IEA
representative to the ongoing negotiations at the UN Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN Sustainable Development sessions, and undertook extensive analysis in these key areas of energy policy.  Prior to his IEA tenure, Dr Pershing
served in the US Department of State, where he was both Deputy Director and Science Advisor for the Office of Global Change.  He was one of the US negotiators for the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its 1997 Kyoto Protocol.  He was actively involved in
domestic policy, responsible for developing the initial US program on joint implementation, and the US Report on Climate Change Policies submitted to the United Nations Convention. He also worked on the UN Conference on Environment and Development.  From 1981-1985, he worked in Alaska for ARCO Exploration Company as an oil geologist, and for a small mining company exploring for gold, silver, platinum and base metals. He received his PhD in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Minnesota, and undergraduate training at the City University of New York and the University of London.  He has written and lectured extensively on issues related to climate change, international negotiations and environmental policy and has served as a Review Editor for the IPCC TAR.

P.R. SHUKLA

P.R. Shukla is a Professor and Chairman of the Public Systems Group at the Indian Institute of Management in India. He has been a lead author of several IPCC reports including the Report on Technology Transfer, Special Report on Emissions Scenarios and the Third Assessment Report  (Working Group III). He is a consultant and advisor to Government of India and numerous international organizations. He has co-authored nine books and numerous publications in international journals in the areas of energy and environment term modeling and policy analysis.  Professor Shukla holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

LAURENCE TUBIANA

Laurence Tubiana is the head of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in France.   Prior to launching IDDRI, she served as scientific advisor and member of the French Council of Economic Analysis.  She was also head of the Prime Ministers cabinet for international environmental negotiations.  Ms. Tubiana was associate professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier and Inspector-General for Agriculture. 

FERNANDO TUDELA

Fernando Tudela is Under Secretary for Planning and Environmental Policy with the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico.  Until recently, he was a researcher and Coordinator of the Water, Environment and Society Program at “El Colegio de Mexico.”  He served as Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Climate Change in Mexico from 1997-2000 and as a Mexican negotiator to the UNFCCC. He has also served as Chief of Staff at the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources of the Mexican Federal Government. Mr. Tudela also worked as professor at variuos academic institutions including  Metropolitan Autonomous University and the Iberoamerican University both in Mexico City as well as United Nations Officer on Human Settlements, and as a consultant to various UN organizations.   Mr. Tudela has also served as Honorary Research Fellow at the Portsmouth Polytechnic, University College of London, School of Environmental Studies.  He holds a Ph.D from the University of Seville, Spain and degree in architecture from the Universities of Madrid and Seville.  Mr. Tudela has authored numerous articles and books on environment, appropriate technologies, human settlements, and climate change.

XUEMAN WANG

Xueman Wang has worked with the Climate Change Secretariat from 1997-2001 where she was responsible for issues relating to preparation for the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.  She is deeply involved in developing the compliance mechanisms for the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol.  From 1991 to 1997, she worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, where, as a member of the Chinese delegation, she participated in the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol.  She holds bachelor and master degree of law from Wu Han University, China and a M.A. in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, the United States.  She is the lead council on climate change for the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.