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Ben Cashore, Ph.D.
Fred Gale, Ph.D.
Errol Meidinger, Ph.D.
Deanna Newsom
Elizabeth Gordon
Michael Conroy, Ph.D. Dr. Michael E. Conroy is a member of the faculty of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. An economist, he taught for nearly 25 years at the University of Texas at Austin. His current research focuses on the impact of globalization on poverty worldwide. In particular, he works on the alleviation of poverty through the creation and management of voluntary, stakeholder-based, and advocacy-led certification programs for social and environmental responsibility by corporations and producers of goods and services at every level of production. Prior to joining Yale University, Dr. Conroy was a Senior Program Officer for nine years at the Ford Foundation. He worked in the environment and development field, and his work included a focus on strengthening the ability of local communities to understand, influence, and take advantage of global processes, and to receive compensation for negative consequences that may occur.
Barbara Bamberger
Cristina Balboa
Laura Bozzi
Monika Kumar
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Dr.
Ben Cashore is Assistant Professor of Sustainable Forest Policy, and
Chair, Program on Forest Certification, Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT. His research interests include
globalization and the privatization of environmental governance (forest
certification/eco-labeling), forest resource policies of Canada, the
United States and globally, the political economy of US/Canada forest
products trade, and forest industry environmental/sustainability initiatives.
He earned BA and MA degrees in political science from Carleton University,
a Certificate from Université d'Aix-Marseille III in French Studies,
and a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. He was
a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University during 1996-7. Dr. Cashore
is author of several articles and books on forest policy, including
Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of
Non-state Authority (with Graeme Auld, and Deanna Newsom), and In Search
of Sustainability: The Politics of Forest Policy in British Columbia
in the 1990s (with George Hoberg, Michael Howlett, Jeremy Raynor and
Jeremy Wilson).
Dr.
Fred Gale lectures in public policy, political economy and Third World
development at the School of Government, University of Tasmania, Australia.
He researches global forest governance, product certification and the
political economy of trade and the environment. His publications include
The Tropical Timber Trade Regime (Macmillan/Palgrave, 1998); Nature,
Production, Power: Towards an Ecological Political Economy (Edward Elgar,
2000, co-edited with Michael M’Gonigle); and Setting the Standard:
Lessons for BC and Beyond (forthcoming, with Chris Tollefson and David
Haley). With funding from the Australian Research Council, he is undertaking
comparative research with Marcus Haward on state responses to forestry
and fisheries certification in Canada, Australia and United Kingdom.
Dr.
Errol Meidinger is Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Sociology
at the State University of New York in Buffalo, where he also serves
as Vice Dean of Law for Research and Interdisciplinary Initiatives.
He is also Honorary Professor of Forestry and Environmental Science
at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he regularly offers short
courses and directs PhD students. Most of his research focuses on innovative
institutional arrangements for promoting environmental conservation
and social justice. These include non-governmental regulatory structures
such as forest certification and fair labor standards programs, mechanisms
for promoting ecosystem management, citizen suits for enforcing environmental
laws, new ways of ascertaining and recognizing indigenous resource rights,
and expanded engagement by scientists in policy making. He earned his
J.D. in Law and Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University.
Deanna
Newsom has been Program Associate at the Rainforest Alliance since 2001,
where she works in the TREES Program, a sister to the FSC-accredited
SmartWood certification program. At TREES she conducts research to better
understand the effects of certification and to improve certification
systems. She is author (with Ben Cashore and Graeme Auld) of the forthcoming
book Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence
of Non-state Authority, published by Yale University Press. Her Master’s
thesis examined how regional characteristics of Germany, British Columbia,
and the US South influenced the ability of competing forest certification
programs to gain support from forest companies and landowners. Ms. Newsom
has been a SmartWood assessment team member, and conducted ecological
research in the coastal temperate rainforests of British Columbia, Canada,
from 1995-1999. She holds a M.S. in Forestry (2001) from Auburn University
and a B.S. in Biology (1995) from the University of Victoria.
Elizabeth
Gordon serves as YPFC’s Program Associate, where she oversees
both the day-to-day and long-term aspects of the program, such as managing
program staff and projects, coordinating main events, and serving as
a liaison to the Yale and outside community. In May 2003, Liz completed
her Master’s of Environmental Management at Yale’s School
of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she concentrated her efforts
on an interdisciplinary approach to wildlife conservation and advocacy.
Prior to her graduate work, she pursued a range of environmental efforts,
from grassroots organizing and local wildlife rehabilitation to research
and outreach with national non-profits such as the Environmental Law
Institute and Environmental Defense. In graduate school, Liz focused
on the immediate threat posed by commercial bushmeat hunting to the
African great apes -- chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. She combined
her academic work with a project at the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force,
where she helped create and pilot-test an outreach campaign devoted
to the bushmeat crisis. Liz has been recognized both as a Doris Duke
Conservation Fellow and a Teresa Heinz Scholar for Environmental Research
for her graduate work. Her conservation work is grounded by a degree
from Stanford University in Human Biology (BA 1998).
Barbara
Bamberger is an Applied Social Scientist with EDAW, an international
environmental research firm working with subsistence communities on
sustainable resource management issues Ms Bamberger is currently studying
the social effects of oil and gas development on Native Alaskan communities
in the Arctic. Ms. Bamberger is also a staff member of the Yale Program
on Forest Certification. She advises on symposium matters and has developed
partnerships on behalf of the symposium and YPFC. She is an auditor
for SmartWood and former Program Associate for the Yale Program on Forest
Certification. Ms. Bamberger is a former Switzer Foundation Environment
Fellow and she completed a graduate fellowship at the Woods Hole Research
Center, her research centered on the effectiveness of parks and indigenous
reserves in the Brazilian Amazon. She was a delegate in the United Nations
International Leadership Academy, a program on peace and conflict negotiations
based in Amman, Jordan. Ms. Bamberger has advanced degrees from the
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University and
in Sustainable International Development at Brandeis University's Heller
School for Social Policy. Ms. Bamberger She holds a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Ms.
Bamberger spent ten years in California, developing environmental policies
for local government (City of Chula Vista) and working with the Sierra
Club, an NGO.
Cristina
Balboa is a Ph.D. Student in Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies and an advisor to YPFC’s Symposium on Forest Certification
in Developing and Transitioning Societies. Prior to Yale, Ms. Balboa
worked at the World Resources Institute, where she researched coastal
and marine issues in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific, specifically,
the ornamental fish trade and its efforts towards sustainability. She
received a BA from the University of Michigan Residential College and
an MS from Johns Hopkins University. Her diverse experience in conservation
has led her to field work throughout Latin America, Southeast Asia and
the Western Pacific and has focused on equity issues from gender and
development, to the United States' imports of live reef fish for the
ornamental fish trade, to international environmental agreements and
the participation of local communities in policymaking. Her dissertation
research focuses on the role of international conservation NGOs as policymakers
in developing countries.
Laura
Bozzi is a second year Master of Environmental Management student at
the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her primary interests
in natural resource policy lie in the potential success of non-timber
forest product (NTFP) certification, particularly in Brazil, and in
marine and fisheries policy, notably in New England (USA). She recently
interned at the Tellus Institute and authored a chapter on NTFPs for
a USAID sponsored handbook on small-scale development activities in
Africa. She graduated cum laude from Yale University in 2003 with a
B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Her international experience
includes studying protected areas in Costa Rica and living, each for
two years, in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Basel, Switzerland.
Monika
Kumar is a first-year graduate student pursuing a Master’s in
Environmental Management at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies. In her studies, Monika is focusing on discovering techniques
for bridging government policies and business strategies to ensure water
security for the Indian population. After attaining her B.A. from Queens
College, CUNY, Monika worked with numerous non-profits in organizing
including the New York Public Interest Research Group and the Gaia Institute.
She has also worked in several departments of the United Nations Development
Programme.