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Yale Trade and Climate Change Workshop Participant Biographies 2017 YALE TRADE AND CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES 2017 Monica Araya (@MonicaArayaTica) founded Nivela, a thought-leadership group devoted to clean development as well as Costa Rica Limpia, an initiative to promote a fossil-fuel country. Monica is Senior Associate at E3G in London and at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She has been interviewed by many mainstream news sources including TIME magazine, Financial Times, National Geographic, Huffington Post Live, BBC Radio, BBC World Service, VICE news, ClimateWire, and The Guardian. She has also published articles in the Guardian, Climate Home, Project Syndicate, and more. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs named her “Personality of the Future” in 2014. Sue Biniaz is a former Deputy Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department, as well as the lead climate lawyer and a climate negotiator from 1989 until early 2017. She ran the legal offices handling issues related to Europe and Oceans, Environment, and Science, and, as a Deputy, supervised areas such as treaty law, the Western Hemisphere, human rights, Somali piracy, law of the sea, trade and environment, and international criminal law. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the UN Foundation, an Associated Researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, and on the adjunct faculty at Columbia and Yale Law Schools. Thomas Brewer is a Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, and a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. He was a Lead Author of the chapter on International Cooperation in the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a convener of the E15 group on Measures to Address Climate Change and the Trade System. He has developed a proposal for an Arctic Black Carbon (ABC) agreement and is co-author of a World Bank Discussion Paper, “Carbon Market Clubs and the New Paris Regime. Alex Camacho is the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a Professor and Director of the Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources at the University of California Irvine School of Law. Professor Camacho’s expertise is in environmental law, land use regulation, and government organization, with a particular focus on adaptive management, collaborative governance, and climate change. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform, a nonprofit think tank devoted to issues of environmental protection and safety. James Cameron is an executive fellow at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. He is a former Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, and he taught international economic law and environmental law at the University of London. In 2003, he founded Climate Change Capital, and he is currently chairman of the London-based Overseas Development Institute, Agrica, Green Running, and ET Index. In addition to being the current director of Ignite Solar, he served as a director of the Global Environment and Trade Study alongside Dan Esty and Steve Charnovitz from 1995-2005. He is also a London Sustainable Development Commissioner. 1 Steve Charnovitz teaches at George Washington University Law School and writes on international trade, international law, U.S. foreign relations law, and environmental sustainability. From 1991 to 1995, he was Policy Director of the Competitiveness Policy Council. He then served as managing director of the Global Environment and Trade Study from 1995 to 2005. In addition, Professor Charnovitz serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of the World Trade Review, Cosmopolis, A Review of Cosmopolitics, the Journal of Environment & Development, the American Journal of International Law, and the Journal of International Economic Law. Aaron Cosbey is a Senior Associate at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and he has consulted to a wide variety of governments and institutions, including the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Commonwealth Secretariat, Environment Canada, European University Institute, Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the World Bank. He is lead author and editor of the IISD/UNEP Trade and Green Economy Handbook, now in its third edition, and of the Sustainability Toolkit for Trade Negotiators, an on-line resource. Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University with primary appointments in the Environment and Law Schools and a secondary appointment at the School of Management. He serves as Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and on the Advisory Board of the Yale Center for Business and Environment, which he founded in 2006. He has written ten books, five of which focus on trade and environment issues. During his time at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993), he helped negotiate the Framework Convention on Climate Change. As Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (2011-2014), he oversaw the launch of the nation’s first Green Bank. Jennifer Haverkamp is an internationally recognized expert on climate change, international trade, and global environmental policy and negotiations. Currently an independent consultant, Ms. Haverkamp was previously the Obama Administration’s Special Representative for Environment and Water Resources in the U.S. Department of State. Ms. Haverkamp also previously directed Environmental Defense Fund’s International Climate Program, and she spent nearly a decade as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources in the Executive Office of the President. Edgar Hertwich is professor of Industrial Ecology at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He leads the working group on resources and climate change of the International Resource Panel. He has been well-recognized for offering a first quantification of the carbon footprints of nations and CO2 emissions embodied in international trade. His work focuses on a holistic understanding of options to mitigate carbon emissions, including through energy technology, material efficiency and the circular economy, and changes in production and consumption patterns. Kateryna Holzer is currently Visiting Scholar at the Trade and Environment Division of the WTO in Geneva, She was previously a post-doc at the World Trade Institute and later a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of European and International Economic Law of the University of Bern. She is the author of the book Carbon-related border adjustment and WTO law as well as a contributing author of the Fifth Assessment Report of Working Group III of the IPCC and the 2016 climate change report for Switzerland of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. She has advised governments and private stakeholders on trade-related aspects of environmental and energy policy, including electricity tax reform. 2 Sikina Jinnah is an Associate Professor of Politics at University of California at Santa Cruz, and a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her first book, Post-treaty Politics won the 2016 Sprout prize for best book in international environmental affairs, and she is currently working on her third book, Trading the Environment, which examines the role of preferential trade agreements in securing environmental objectives. She is an Associate Editor at the journal Environmental Politics, a Senior Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance project, and serves on the Board at the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment. Linda Krueger is Senior Policy Advisor at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), where, among other responsibilities, she serves as liaison for the U.S. Advisory Committee on Trade Policy Negotiations and the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee. She was previously Vice President at the Wildlife Conservation Society, where she directed government and multilateral agency relations through offices in New York, Washington, D.C. and Brussels. She has also served as foreign policy legislative staff in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives and as a consultant to the NATO Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division. Douglas Kysar is Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His teaching and research areas include torts, environmental law, climate change, products liability, and risk regulation. He has co-authored two leading casebooks, The Torts Process (9th ed. 2017) and Products Liability: Problems and Process (8th ed. 2016). In addition to his many articles and chapters, Professor Kysar's volume, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity (2010), seeks to reinvigorate environmental law and policy by offering novel theoretical insights on cost-benefit analysis, the precautionary principle, and sustainable development. Rafael Leal-Arcas is Professor of European and International Economic Law and a Jean Monnet Chair holder at the Centre of Commercial Law Studies of Queen Mary University of London. His publications include Research Handbook on EU Energy Law and Policy; The European Energy Union: The quest for secure, affordable and sustainable energy; Selected Legal Issues; Climate Change and International Trade; and International Trade and Investment Law: Multilateral, Regional and Bilateral Governance. From 2011 to 2013, he served as a Marie Curie COFIT Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute.
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