Consulting to corporations and NGOs on energy, climate change, sustainability and risk management includingConsultant to Louis Berger and the Meridian Institute to launch a multi-stakeholder project to assess NYC tri-state regional resilience options, including strategies for private investment and insurance.Work with the International Biochar Initiative and NGOs to scale up use of biochar and agroforestry in Africa Helped organize and co-wrote report for the Urban Land Institute’s Risk and Resilience in Coastal Regions Forum. Wrote reports for MunichRe on the outlook for US renewable energy investments and for Lloyd's on natural catastrophe risk management. Served on the advisory board to an environmental credit brokerage, finance and carbon advisory firm. Prepared feasibility study on avoided deforestation projects in Indonesia for a major oil company. Served as an insurance expert for a 13-person advisory panel for NYC’s Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.

Designed, launched, implemented and communicated AIG’s global environmental and climate change strategy, working internally with executives and employees and externally with customers, shareholders, the insurance industry and NGOs. Environmental Risk Management and Program Development• Designed AIG’s corporate program on environment and climate change and gained approval of the CEO and the Board. Hired and managed professional staff and consultants.• Collaborated with Product Development, Global Marine and Energy, Risk Finance and the Global Investment Group on products to help customers reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.• Vetted and selected GHG emissions-reducing forestry and agricultural projects internationally. Obtained CEO approval to contribute $8 million of corporate philanthropy to projects to offset AIG’s GHG emissions.• Conceived of and coordinated collaborative insurance industry workshops on climate risk, underwriting and catastrophe models, including participation of internationally recognized climate scientists.Communications and Public Affairs• Organized and presented at conferences on climate change for major clients in the U.K. and China and internal events for senior and mid-level management in the U.S. and abroad.• Represented AIG and/or coordinated company participation in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the World Economic Forum, the UNEP Finance Initiative, ClimateWise/University of Cambridge, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development et al.• Presented AIG’s position on environment and climate change to regulators, the AIG Board, and the public and at conferences in the U.S. and abroad• Responsible for the content of the environment section of the Corporate Social Responsibility website.

Played key role in building CCX, a voluntary GHG emissions trading program and exchange, and its products and services. Worked with emitting companies including electric utilities, forest product and oil and gas companies. Developed monitoring procedures and exchange rules.• Advised the Central American Development Bank, the Canadian government and the Governor of a Brazilian province on emerging environmental issues and climate change.• Built CCX’s capacity to serve clients through product development.• Served as liaison and lobbyist with Congressional staff. • Authored numerous papers and spoke at public conferences worldwide, including the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings and side events.

Provided consulting services on climate change, creation and marketing of forestry and other carbon offsets and design of GHG emissions trading schemes. Clients included Suncor Energy, TransAlta Utilities, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the World Bank, the Center for Clean Air Policy, The Australian Greenhouse Challenge Office and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (NAFTA).

Responsible for research, advocacy, public policy formulation and communications to create economic mechanisms for environmental protection. • Research and advocacy on emissions trading to limit SO2 and GHG emissions.• Coordinated a team of Russian economists and ecologists conducting research on legal, institutional and economic issues related to carbon sequestration from Russian forestry projects.• Gave numerous speeches at public conferences and to utility regulators, NGOs and industry groups to explain and advocate for SO2 and GHG emissions trading.• Gave testimony before Congress regarding (1) the Clinton administration’s plan to reduce GHGs and (2) emissions trading versus taxes as environmental policy.• Served on the USEPA Acid Rain Advisory Committee on the regulations for the Acid Rain SO2 emissions trading program

• Texas Commerce Bank, International Economist: Analyzed economic and political risk in more than 25 countries. Prepared currency exchange rate forecasts. • United Gas Pipeline, Senior Analyst: Worked with senior management on Strategic Development Plan. Prepared reports or forecasts for fuel oil prices, rig count and natural gas decontrol. • Cooper Industries, Developed and used PC-based models to forecast sales volumes.• Created guidelines for expatriate compensation for Organization Resources Counselors.