Tomme Young Email & Phone Number

Atascadero, California

Legal, editorial, advisory and other professional services relating to sustainable operations and non-profit organizations, particularly in the areas of agriculture, genetic resources, climate sustainability, environmental regulatory issues and other matters. Special expertise and experience in relation to the wine industry and agriculture (commercial and.

Formal consulting work for UN bodies and programs and a range of other non-governmental and intergovernmental institutions. Work covers national and international environmental ("green" and "brown") law development and analysis, as well as Evaluation of institutions, projects, programs and strategies.

Edit a prestigeous journal for international policy-makers, currently read by key environmental ministers, delegates and officials from nearly all countries in Europe and Africa and a large number of other countries. Coordinating and collaborating with the journal's founder (still our "Editor in Chief"), Dr. Wolfgang Burhenne, called by some the "Father of.

Co-author of the treatise Machlin & Young, Managing Environmental Risk in Real Estate and Business Transactions (1988), annually updated.

Leader of external evaluation team, evaluating FAO's performance in the adoption, implementation and operation of international instruments (conventions, treaties, "soft-law") -- specifically examining how well FAO is using these tools to achieve its global mandate

Primary substantive legal officer of an international NGO – a union of governments and non-government organizations dedicated to responsible conservation and promotion of sustainable relationships between the users of resources and the long-term health of the ‘green web’ of life on earth. Provides legal services and technical advice to governments.

External consultant, member of a 7person international expert team evaluating the UNEP GEF 143-country programme for the national implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Served as legal and policy expert on that team

Founded and administered a business which provided professional services and technical advice on, inter alia, legislative/policy development and implementation in developing countries and countries in transition, as well as for international negotiations and organisations. Developed commercial and institutional mechanisms to address national financial.

Legal advice and commercial, litigation and legislative representation of government, private, grass-roots, mutual benefit and non-profit organizations on environmental/natural resources, development, energy and finance law.- Negotiated environmental/commercial aspects of transactions, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and financing - Advocated on.

Commercial transactions, administrative legal processes, legislative proposals, environmental litigation, and intensive research and concept development in emerging fields of development law, energy law, institutions and finance. Focus on environmental, commercial, investment, natural resources, land use, with emphasis on nationally mandated cleanup and.

Land, land-use planning, coastal management, water rights, agriculture, business, finance, capital development, transactions and taxation. Special emphasis in formation, start-up financing and ongoing operation of complex business entities (joint ventures, trusts, corporate entities, NGOs, etc.) and special-purpose ventures.- Commercial and real estate.

Establishment and management of a federally mandated health care program for disadvantaged children.

J.D, Law

Activities and Societies: Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, Environmental Law Society

Ba, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Volunteer, John Tracy Clinic for Deaf Children; Sports broadcaster Radio KSCR; occassional contributions Daily.