TRACK II DIALOGUE ON ENERGY, CLIMATE, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ENHANCING BILATERAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN CHINA AND THE U.S.

June 12-13, 2016 Beijing, China

PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

CHINESE PARTICIPANTS

DUAN Maosheng, Professor, Institute of Low Carbon Economy, Tsinghua University

Prof. DUAN Maosheng is the director of China Carbon Market Center (CCMC), Tsinghua University. He has been working on carbon markets since 2000. He has been a member of the Chinese climate delegation since 2001, responsible for issues related to market-based mechanisms. He has been a member of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board since 2010 and served as chair of the board in 2012. Mr. Duan has been intensively involved in the design and operation of China’s domestic carbon market. His latest assignments include coordinating the design of registry of China’s national emissions trading system and the drafting of rules for China’s national emissions trading system.

GAO Shiji, Director-General and Research Fellow, Institute for Resources and Environmental Policies, Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council

Mr. Gao Shi-Ji received a BSc in Mathematics from China in 1986, a PhD in Systems Management (City University, UK) in 1992, and worked as a post- doctoral research fellow at Sussex University (UK) between 1992-1995. He joined the Institute of Economic System and Management, of China’s State Commission for Restructuring Economic Systems in 1996, and moved to DRC in December 2004. At DRC, he served first as Deputy Director-General of Development of Development Strategy and Regional Economy, and then as Director-General of DRC’s Information Center. He has been serving at his current post since April 2013. His research interests include comparative institutional analysis, institutional development for ecological civilization, environmental regulation and governance, public policies for the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, and innovation policy and national innovation system. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee for State Informatization since 2002. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Beijing Normal University.

GE Quansheng, Director, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Ge Quansheng’s research interests include global environmental change, reconstruction of past climate, mitigation and adaptation. Ge has greatly contributed to the scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the reconstructed temperature record of the past thousand years. Ge has received a number of honors and awards, including the Chinese Outstanding Young Scholars awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He was selected as the joint Secretary-General in 2004 by CNC-IGBP (Chinese National Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme) and CNC-IHDP (Chinese National Committee for the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change) and works until now. Ge is the committee member of Geographical Society of China (GSC), Chinese Meteorological Society (CMS) and Beijing Meteorological Society (BMS). Ge was also appointed as the vice director of the Professional Committee of Climate of GSC in 2012 and as the vice president of Chinese Cultural Relics Academic Society (CCRAS) in 2010. Ge has published more than 150 papers and 10 books, including Climate Change and Sustainable Development in China (2007), Integrated Assessment of Natural Disaster Risks in China (2008), and Chinese Land Use Change and Land Carbon Budget (2008).

HE Jiankun, Director, Institute of Low Carbon Economy, Tsinghua University

Mr. He is now the Director of the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University (THU), and a Professor in Management Science and Engineering. From 1994-2007, he served as the Vice President and Executive Vice President of THU. He also serves some academic societies part-time, including as the Vice Chairman of the National Experts Panel on Climate Change, the Vice Chairman of the China Society for Sustainable Development, and the Director of Beijing Experts Panel on Climate Change, Prof. He’s major research focuses on energy system engineering and strategies combating climate change. During the periods of China’s “11th FYP” (the Economic and Social Development Planning for the 11th Five-Year Period) and “12th FYP,” he has been a technical leader of the National Key Technology R&D Program on energy and climate change, and the chief scientist of science and technology special programs on climate change of National Key Basic Research Program (973). He has received more than 10 national or provincial/ministerial Scientific and Technology Progress Awards and published more than 200 academic papers.

Page 2 HUANG Ping, Director General, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); Secretary General, China-Central & Eastern Europe Countries Think Tank Network

Huang Ping, Director General of the Institute of European Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) has been the Director, Centre for World Politics Studies, CASS; President, Chinese Association of American Studies; Vice President, China National Association of International Relations; Vice President, Chinese Association of World Politics Studies; and Vice President, All China Association of Hong Kong, Macao Studies. Huang Ping studied at the LSE, London, and obtained a PhD in sociology in 1991. Huang’s research has focused on social change, labor migration, poverty and development, globalization, China-U.S. relations, and European and Chinese ways towards multiple modernities. He has been elected to a number of international academic organizations, such as the International Social Sciences Council (Vice President, 2004-2006), International Institute of Sociology (Vice President, 2002-2012), UNESCO (Vice President - Management of Social Transformation 1998-2002), and also a Review Committee Member for Major Programs, UNESCO (2003-2005) and a Board Member of the United Nations Research Institute of Social Development (since 2010). Huang was recently elected Co- Chair, International Institut Transcultura, France. He has published or edited books including most recently Community Rebuilding (2011), Face-to-Face Distance (2013), Motherland in My Dream: Social Change, Globalization, and China’s Way towards Modernity (2015), and China’s Soft Power Building among Overseas Chinese (2015). He has published papers in Chinese Social Sciences, Chinese Sociology, China Quarterly, the Sign, Shekai (The World), some have been translated into French, Japanese, Thai, etc. Huang was the editor for Dushu (Reading) from 1996-2006, editor for Journal of American Studies (2006- 2014), and is in international board for the British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Sociology of Development, Global Social Policy, etc.

HUO JIANGUO, Former President of Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC)

Dr. Huo Jianguo is a senior research fellow and Ph.D supervisor of University of International Business and Economies. He received his PhD in economics in Nan Kai University, and has served as Deputy DG of the Department of Foreign Economy and Trade at the State Economic and Trade Commission and Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce as well as President of the China Chamber of Commerce of Import and Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce & Animal By-Products. Dr. Huo has been devoted to trade administration and foreign economy and trade policy research, including working as Chief coordinator for policy-making on the Chinese enterprises` participations in APEC activities and ABAC dialogues in APEC and Chief coordinator for China’s tariff reduction on industrial goods and industrial policy adjustments. He was awarded the prize by the Ministry of Commerce for his outstanding contribution, including submitting the first proposal for achieving trade balance through voluntary import expansion by setting up a trade balance fund. Dr. Huo has been devoted to improving CAITEC research and its influence by organizing discussions on foreign economy and trade, and undertaking some important research projects, participating in the study of Prospects of U.S.-China Economic Cooperation in the Next Decade co-organized by China-United States Exchange Foundation, China Center for International Economic Exchanges and the Ministry of Commerce of China.

Page 3 TENG Fei, Associate Professor, Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University

Teng Fei received his bachelor degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 1998, and his MSc and PhD in Management Science in School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University in 2003. He finished his postdoc research in ENSIC/CNRS, Nancy in year 2004. He is now an Associate Professor in Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy in Tsinghua University. He is also a lead author of IPCC 5th assessment report in WG III. He is the lead author of Second and Third China’s National Assessment Report on Climate Change, member of drafting team for several key national documents, including National Plan on Climate Change and White Paper on Climate Change. He served as advisory experts for China’s negotiation team under UNFCCC for many years. He is also member of BASIC expert group in BASIC ministerial meeting since 2011. His research interests include climate policy, international climate regime, consumer behavior in energy consumption and energy modeling.

ZHOU Dadi, Vice Chairman of China Society of Energy, Former President of Energy Research Institute, NDRC

Zhou Dadi received his bachelor degree in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University in 1970, and his master degree in environmental engineering from Tsinghua University in 1982. He has engaged in the energy economy, energy policy and energy systems analysis research for a long time and has published many influential papers report at home and abroad. He specializes in the energy import policy, energy price reform, varieties of energy structure and energy efficiency and enjoys prestige at home and abroad in the sustainable energy development and global climate change issues. He has remarkable achievements in studies on the issue of global climate change which is closely related to the world economy and energy development. He is the third expert group leader of China's climate change working group and the major contributor to the second and the third scientific assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change.

Page 4 ZOU Ji, Deputy Director General, National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, National Development and Reform Commission

Before joining NCSC, Professor Zou served as China Country Director for a Washington based think tank, World Resources Institute (WRI), during 2009 - 2012, and also as Deputy Dean of the School of Environment and Natural Resources at Renmin University of China (RUC) during 2001-2012. He has also been nominated as an advisor for China delegation to U.N. Climate Talks during 2000-2009 and since 2012 to now, focusing on such issues as technology transfer and overall design of the 2015 Agreement. He was a lead author for the fourth Assessment Report of IPCC Working Group III and a coordinating lead author for the fifth Assessment Report of IPCC Working Group III. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Program and other international organizations in the areas of environmental quality, low carbon urban planning, and studies on medium and long-term target for climate mitigation. Zou also worked as a member of Intergovernmental Committee of Sustainable Development Financing, mandated by UN Assembly, and also has recently been engaged in the design of climate strategy of BRICS Development Bank.

U.S. PARTICIPANTS

Sam Adams, Director, U.S. Climate Initiative, World Resources Institute

Sam is the former Mayor of Portland, Oregon. As director of WRI’s U.S. Climate Initiative Adams leads WRI’s efforts to analyze and develop new policies, build political will and support coalitions that will encourage the U.S.’s transition to a strong, low-carbon economy. “Sam is a dynamic and savvy leader, who will invigorate U.S. climate activities at a critical time for the nation and planet,” said Dr. Andrew Steer, President & CEO, WRI. “As Mayor, a member of the city council, mayoral chief of staff and nonprofit leader, Sam played a central role in making Portland, Oregon one of the most livable and sustainable cities in the United States. We are excited to have his leadership to build support for national action that will address the climate challenge.” As mayor, Adams ensured that sustainability was integrated across all city- level decisions by combining the sustainability office and city planning agency. He also led a coalition of government, business and labor leaders, along with neighborhood and environmental advocates, to create Portland’s Climate Action Plan and “We Build Green Cities” job creation and economic development strategy. According to the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, the city’s emissions were cut by 11 percent between 1990 and 2013, alongside significant population and economic growth. Sam holds a BA in political science from University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.

Page 5 Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President, World Resources Institute

Manish Bapna is the executive vice president and managing director of the World Resources Institute, a global research organization that works to address six urgent sustainability challenges: food, forests, water, climate, energy and cities. Manish oversees WRI’s programs, chairs WRI’s management team and works to strengthen the impact of WRI research. He led WRI’s efforts to establish offices in China, India and Brazil and helped launch programs on cities, energy, finance and adaptation. Before joining WRI in 2007, Manish was executive director of the non-profit Bank Information Centre (BIC), whose mission is to protect rights and promote sustainability in the projects and policies of international financial institutions. Manish also served as a senior economist and task team leader at the World Bank, where he led multidisciplinary teams in designing and implementing water, watershed, and rural development projects in Asia and Latin America. Several of these projects received "excellence awards" by the Bank and were highly rated in independent evaluations. He joined the World Bank as a Young Professional. Earlier, he worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company in the financial services and technology industries. As a recognized expert on international development, Manish has been cited in front-page articles in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. His op-eds are featured in major global and national papers, and he has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress. Manish is on the board of directors of Oxfam America and is the incoming Co-Chair of the Open Government Partnership. Manish received graduate degrees in business and political and economic development from Harvard and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from MIT.

Kelly Gallagher, Prof. of Energy and Environmental Policy and Director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy, Tufts University

Kelly Sims Gallagher is Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. She directs the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher. From June 2014-September 2015, she served in the Obama Administration as a Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and as Senior China Advisor in the Special Envoy for Climate Change office at the U.S. State Department. Gallagher is a member of the board of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, where she previously directed the Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group. She is also a faculty affiliate with the Harvard University Center for Environment. Broadly, she focuses on energy and climate policy in both the United States and China. She specializes in the role of policy in spurring the development and deployment of cleaner and more efficient energy technologies, domestically and internationally. A Truman Scholar, she has a MALD and PhD in international affairs from The Fletcher School, and an AB from Occidental College. She speaks Spanish and basic Mandarin Chinese, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development (The MIT Press 2006), editor of Acting in Time on Energy Policy ( Press 2009), The Global Diffusion of Clean Energy Technologies: Lessons from China (MIT Press 2014), and numerous academic articles and policy reports.

Page 6 Kate Gordon, Vice Chair of Climate and Sustainable Urbanization, Paulson Institute

Kate Gordon is Vice Chair of Climate and Sustainable Urbanization at the Paulson Institute, where she provides overall strategy and coordination for the Institute’s climate change, air quality, and sustainable urbanization programs both in the U.S. and China. She is also a nonresident Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal as one of the paper’s “Energy Experts.” Gordon is a nationally recognized expert on the intersection of clean energy and economic development. Before joining the Paulson Institute, she was Senior Vice President for Climate and Energy at Next Generation, a non- partisan think tank based in San Francisco, where she worked on California policy development as well as large-scale national communications and research projects. While at Next Generation, she helped launch and lead the “Risky Business Project,” co-chaired by Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Tom Steyer, and focused on the economic risks the U.S. faces from unmitigated climate change. Earlier in her career Gordon served as Vice President of Energy and Environment at the Washington D.C.-based Center for American Progress, where helped develop and author policy recommendations related to the Congressional cap-and-trade negotiations, Gulf oil spill, and American Reinvestment and Recovery Act implementation. Prior to CAP, Gordon was the Co-Director of the national Apollo Alliance (now part of the Blue Green Alliance). She still serves on the Apollo Alliance board, as well as on the board of Vote Solar. Gordon earned a law degree and a master’s degree in city planning from the University of California- Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University.

Catherine Chen Jing, Director of Market Development, Jupiter Oxygen

Catherine Chen Jing is Jupiter Oxygen’s Director of Market Development of China. Her focus is representing Jupiter Oxygen in China and developing the Chinese market for high flame temperature oxy-combustion, carbon capture and energy saving. Ms. Chen also assists the General Counsel in negotiating contracts. She participated in the July 2011 International CCS Conference jointly organized by Asian Development Bank and NDRC in Beijing, and was a co-presenter at the September 2011 Clean Coal China Conference. Before she joined Jupiter Oxygen in 2010, Ms. Chen had thirteen years of experience in market analysis and industry analysis at multi-national companies and financial institutions as a marketing director and senior manager. She holds a master degree of finance from Beijing University, and a bachelor degree of Art from Xin Jiang University.

Page 7 Paul Joffe, Senior Foreign Policy Counsel, Global Climate Program, World Resources Institute

Paul Joffe is Senior Foreign Policy Counsel at WRI, where he works to help inform policy makers and stakeholders on international climate and energy law and policy issues. Examples include providing strategic advice and analysis for WRI’s China climate and energy information project (ChinaFAQs ) and analysis on future options for bilateral and multilateral cooperation to achieve progress in addressing climate change. Previously, Mr. Joffe served as Senior Director, International Affairs at the National Wildlife Federation where over a nine year period he led advocacy and public outreach on issues ranging from international trade to climate change and NWF’s participation in the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and other international conferences. He also served on the board of directors of Ceres, the corporate social responsibility coalition. Earlier, Mr. Joffe was Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting General Counsel at the Commerce Department during the Clinton Administration and worked on Capitol Hill for twelve years in both the House and Senate on issues ranging from energy and the environment to tax policy, health care, antitrust and business regulation. He also practiced law, handling antitrust, international trade, and other issues and was involved in pro bono civil rights litigation. Mr. Joffe holds a JD from Yale Law School and an AB in Government from Harvard College. He also served in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, United States Navy.

Kenneth Lieberthal, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution

Kenneth Lieberthal is Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution. He served as Director of Brookings’ China Center for 2009-2012. Dr. Lieberthal was Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia on the National Security Council for 1998 - 2000. Lieberthal is Professor Emeritus at the , where until 2009 he was Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science and William Davidson Professor of Business Administration. Lieberthal has authored, coauthored, or edited twenty-four books and monographs and authored about seventy-five articles and chapters in books. His books and monographs (all of the following have also been published in Chinese) include: Co-editor, China’s Political Development: Chinese and American Perspectives (2014); Co-author, Bending History: Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy 2012); Addressing US-China Strategic Distrust, with Wang Jisi (2012); Coauthor, Cybersecurity and U.S.-China Relations (2012); Author, Managing the China Challenge (2011); Co-author, Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change (2009); and Author, Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform (2004). Dr. Lieberthal has consulted widely on Chinese and Asian affairs. He has a BA form and an MA and PhD in political science from Columbia University.

Page 8 Andrew Light, Distinguished Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute; University Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University

Andrew Light, PhD, is Distinguished Senior Fellow in the Climate Change Program at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., and University Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. From 2013-2016 he served as Senior Adviser and India Counselor to the Special Envoy on Climate Change and Staff Climate Adviser in the Secretary of State's Office of Policy Planning, in the U.S. Department of State. In this capacity he served on the senior strategy team for the UN climate negotiations, Director of the U.S.- India Joint Working Group for Combating Climate Change, and Chair of the Interagency Climate Working Group for the Sustainable Development Goals, among other duties. From 2008 to 2013, he was Senior Fellow and Director of International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress (CAP). At CAP, Light was principal adviser on international environmental issues to CAP's founder and chairman of the board, John Podesta, and lead a team working primarily on international climate finance, mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants, and land use change. In his academic career Light is an internationally recognized expert on the normative dimensions of climate change, terrestrial restoration ecology, and urban sustainability. On these topics and others he has authored, co-authored, and edited 19 books and over 100 scholarly articles. His books include Environmental Values (Routledge, 2008), Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (MIT, 2003), Technology and the Good Life (University of Chicago, 200), Environmental Pragmatism (Routledge, 1996), and the forthcoming Ethics in the Anthropocene (MIT). Light completed his doctoral work at the University of California at Riverside and UCLA, and held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Environmental Risk Assessment at the University of Alberta.

David Monsma, Executive Director, Energy and Environment Program

David Monsma is Executive Director of the Aspen Institute's Energy and Environment Program. The Institute's Energy and Environment Program work includes three annual energy policy forums: The Aspen Institute Energy Policy Forum, the Global Forum on Energy, Economy and Security, and the Clean Energy Forum. The program also convenes, and David moderates, policy- testing dialogues including the India-U.S. Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change; the Texas Natural Gas Regulatory Modernization Dialogue, and Aspen’s former Food Security Strategy Group and Ocean Community Dialogue, as well as various other dialogues, seminars and the Catto Fellowship. An attorney by training, David has over 20 years of experience in environmental law and policy. He taught law and ethics at Loyola University in Maryland and served as director of business and environment at Business for Social Responsibility in San Francisco where he led BSR’s Clean Cargo initiative and the Green Power Market Development Group with WRI. During the Clinton Administration, David was the environmental management task force coordinator for the President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) and, prior to this, led a toxics use reduction and citizen’s suit enforcement campaign in Maryland for the Environmental Action Foundation. David began his legal career as a program attorney in the Office of Toxics Substances at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC.

Page 9 Billy Pizer, Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy and Faculty Fellow, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University

Billy Pizer joined the faculty of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in the fall of 2011. He also was appointed a faculty fellow in the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, a nonpartisan institute at Duke that focuses on finding solutions to some of the nation's most pressing environmental challenges. His current research examines how public policies to promote clean energy can effectively leverage private sector investments, how environmental regulation and climate policy can affect production costs and competitiveness, and how the design of market-based environmental policies can address the needs of different stakeholders. From 2008 to 2011, Pizer was deputy assistant secretary for environment and energy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he created and led a new office responsible for the department’s role in the domestic and international environment and energy agenda of the United States. Prior to that, Pizer was a researcher at Resources for the Future (RFF), a nonpartisan think tank, for more than a decade. He served as senior economist for the environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2002. Pizer's academic experience includes visiting professorships at The Johns Hopkins University (1997-1999) and Stanford University (2000-2001). He has published more than thirty peer-reviewed articles and books and holds a PhD and MA in economics from Harvard University and BS in physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (On leave, spring 2016).

David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

Mr. Sandalow has served in senior positions at the U.S. Department of Energy, including Under Secretary of Energy (acting) and Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs. As Under Secretary (acting), Mr. Sandalow helped oversee DOE’s renewable energy, energy efficiency, fossil energy, nuclear energy and electricity delivery programs, with a budget of more than $3.5 billion per year. As Assistant Secretary, he helped coordinate policy development and international activities at the Department. Mr. Sandalow was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, as well as Energy & Climate Change Working Group Chair at the Clinton Global Initiative. He has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment & Science and a Senior Director on the National Security Council staff. Mr. Sandalow’s most recent work includes Solar Together: A Proposal (Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, April 2016) (co-author), ICEF Solar and Storage Roadmap (December 2015) (project chair), and Meeting China’s Shale Gas Goals (Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, September 2014) (lead author). Mr. Sandalow has appeared on CNN, NPR, NBC, BBC, CCTV and many other broadcast outlets and served as a moderator at many conferences including the World Future Energy Summit, ARPA-E Summit and Clean Energy Ministerial. He served as Honorary Chair of the Energy Storage Association’s 2015 Annual Conference. Mr. Sandalow holds an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Strategy & Policy at Tsinghua University. He serves on the Board of Directors of ReNew Power, India’s leading renewable energy developer, and as a Senior Advisor to Tsing Capital, Highview Power Storage and Fermata. Mr. Sandalow is a member of the Steering Committee of the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum and chairs the ICEF Innovation Roadmap Project. He is a member of the Selection Committee of the Zayed Future Energy Prize, University of Michigan Energy Institute’s Advisory Board, the Electric Drive Transport Association’s “Hall of Fame” and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and Yale College.

Page 10 Jake Schmidt, Director, International Program, NRDC

Jake Schmidt, Director, International Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), has fifteen years of experience in international climate policy. Jake directs NRDC’s International Program with a team of experts and partners working on climate change, clean energy, biogems, and sustainable development in India, Latin America, Canada, and at the international level. He works closely with NRDC’s China team, as well as helps coordinate NRDC’s international efforts to tackle the challenges of health, oceans, and wildlife. He leads NRDC's policy development and advocacy on international climate change, including through the climate negotiations and direct work with key countries around the world. He led a dialogue of senior climate change negotiators from more than 30 developed and developing countries to discuss options for the future international climate change regime while at the Center for Clean Air Policy. Jake has also worked on the Europe’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, European air quality policy, U.S. federal climate change policy, state climate change policy, aviation emissions, and carbon sequestration. Jake holds a BA in economics from Muhlenberg College and an MPP in environmental policy, with a certificate in ecological economics from the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.

Taiya Smith, Founder, The Green Trust; Managing Partner, Garnet Strategies

As a Managing Partner at Garnet Strategies, LLC, an international strategic advisory firm with a focus on China, Smith advises clean energy technology companies and nonprofit institutions on leveraging the markets in China and utilizing the U.S.-China relationship to drive change in the clean energy, climate change and conservation markets. Smith has also advised nonprofit and governmental clients such as the U.S. State Department (Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern), the Paulson Institute, the Clean Air Task Force, and the World Wildlife Fund. In 2016, she launched The Green Trust, which operates a technology platform designed to break down the barriers inhibiting the deployment of environmental and clean technologies in China and increase the efficiency by which international technology companies reach the Chinese market. Previously, Smith served as a member of Secretary Hank Paulson’s senior management team as the Deputy Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Working with her team at Treasury, she also established the U.S.–China Ten Year Framework on Energy and the Environment and the EcoPartnership program, both of which served as the platform for U.S.- China cooperation on climate change and supported the agreement reached in Paris. Following her government service, Smith was a Senior Associate for the China and Climate Change programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation leading its work on climate finance. Smith served as special assistant to Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick 2005 through mid-2006 and was Zoellick’s policy adviser for Africa, Europe, and political/military affairs, including U.S.-EU relations, energy security, and U.S.-Sudan policy. Prior to that, Smith was the State Department’s point person on the Darfur situation. She previously served as a member of the facilitation team for the Burundi Peace Negotiations led by Nelson Mandela, based in Tanzania and Burundi. Smith holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government.

Page 11 Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Robert N. Stavins* is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, Director of Graduate Studies for the Doctoral Program in Public Policy and the Doctoral Program in Political Economy and Government, Co-Chair of the Harvard Business School-Kennedy School Joint Degree Programs, and Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. He is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Editor of the Journal of Wine Economics, an elected Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, and a member of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future, as well as various editorial boards. He was formerly Chairman, Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board. He was a Lead Author of the Second and Third Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Coordinating Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report. Professor Stavins’ research has examined diverse areas of environmental economics and policy, and his work has appeared in a hundred articles in academic journals and popular periodicals, and several books. He holds a BA in philosophy from Northwestern University, an MS in agricultural economics from Cornell, and a PhD in economics from Harvard.

*Not in attendance

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