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Daniel C. Esty
Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and
Policy at Yale University. He holds faculty appointments
in both Yale's Environment and Law Schools. He is the Director
of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy as well
as the Yale World Fellows Program. Dan is the author or
editor of eight books and numerous articles on environmental
policy issues and the relationships between the environment
and trade, globalization, security, competitiveness, international
institutions, and development. His current research agenda
includes projects on environmental protection in the Information
Age, corporate environmental strategy, global environmental
governance, and "next generation" approaches to pollution
control and natural resource management.
Prior to taking up his current position at Yale, Dan was a Senior Fellow at the
Institute for International Economics, a Washington DC think tank. From 1989-93,
he served in a variety of positions on the US Environmental Protection Agency
including Special Assistant to EPA Administrator William Reilly, Deputy Chief of
Staff of the Agency, and Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy. During his
tenure at the EPA, Dan managed the EPA's regulatory review process, coordinated
inter-agency relations, and contributed to a number of policy initiatives including
the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. He also negotiated several international
agreements on behalf of the EPA including the 1992 Climate Change Convention, the
environmental provisions of NAFTA, and various elements of the agreements concluded
at the Rio Earth Summit.
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Maria Ivanova
Maria Ivanova is the Director of the Global Environmental
Governance Project at the Yale Center for Environmental
Law and Policy. Her work focuses on international institutions
and organizations, environmental policy at the national
and global levels, and global governance. She is the co-editor
of "Global Environmental Governance: Options &
Opportunities" (with Daniel Esty) and author and co-author
of articles and chapters on governance, globalization, and
the environment. She has delivered talks at many international
conferences and lectured at universities.
A Bulgarian national, Maria received a Bachelor's degree
in European policy from Mount Holyoke College (summa cum
laude) and Master's degrees in environmental management
and international relations from Yale University, and
is finishing her doctoral degree at the Yale School of
Forestry & Environmental Studies. She is currently
Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at
the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Her research analyzes the development of the international
environmental regime with a focus on the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) and performance assessments
of international organizations. Maria has worked at the
Environment Directorate of the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris on environmental
regulatory reform in the New Independent States of the
Former Soviet Union. She was also a project manager at
the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency in Stockholm,
where she developed policies for water quality standard-setting
in the Russian Federation.
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Christine Kim
Christine Kim is the Associate Director for the Global
Environmental Governance Project and a Research Associate
at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy.
Her research that focuses on issues of equity, leadership,
and political will in international environmental governance
and United Nations reform. Christine has previously worked
for the Korea Environment Institute (KEI), the Ministry
of Environment of South Korea, and the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) – Regional Office of
Asia and the Pacific (ROAP). She also served as the program
director for the Air Pollution in the Megacities of Asia
Project, a collaborative initiative between KEI, the Stockholm
Environment Institute, UNEP, and the World Health Organization
(WHO). Christine also worked as a policy consultant for
the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank's Clean
Air Initiative for Asian Cities and organized their Better
Air Quality in Asia conferences. She is the co-author
of Benchmarking Urban Air Quality Management in the Megacities
of Asia and the Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index.
Christine attended Yale University where she studied international
relations and ethnicity, race & migration.
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