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Staff, associates & network |
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STAFF & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATES
Ted Trzyna, President, is a conservationist, writer, and political scientist. Before founding CIPA, he was a career U.S. Foreign Service officer in Africa and at the State Department in Washington. Trzyna chaired the Commission on Environmental Strategy and Planning of IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, from 1990-96 and is a member of the World Commission on Protected Areas. He is currently IUCN Senior Adviser – Cities and Conservation, and also leads an IUCN task force on cities and protected areas. He has been an advisor on environmental policy to international organizations as well as U.S. federal and California state agencies. He holds a Ph.D. in government from Claremont Graduate University, and is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. [FULL BIO] {Link}
John Davidson, Senior Associate (International), is based in Cheltenham, England. He chairs the UK's Development Education Association and the Global Dimension Trust. Davidson co-founded and served as Chief Executive of Groundwork, a British environmental partnership organization. He was previously head of planning for the Countryside Commission for England and Wales. In recognition of service to his country, he has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He has also been awarded two honorary doctorates, from Birmingham City and Lincoln universities. A graduate of University College London, he has participated in CIPA and related IUCN projects since the early 1990s.
Michael R. Eaton, Senior Associate, is Executive Director of the Resources Legacy Fund. Previously, Eaton was a Senior Project Director for The Nature Conservancy, an energy and environmental consultant, Deputy Secretary of the Resources Agency of California, Senior Advisor in the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, and a lobbyist for the Sierra Club. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has participated in CIPA projects since the late 1970s.
Monty Hempel, Senior Associate, is Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of Environmental Programs at the University of Redlands. He was previously on the faculty of Claremont Graduate University. Hempel works on environmental policy, particularly at the international level. His interests include applying the concept of sustainability; global climate change; air quality; linkages among energy, environment, and transportation policy; and protection of coral reef ecosystems. He has participated in CIPA projects since the late 1970s. His publications include Environmental Governance: The Global Challenge. He received a Ph.D. in government from Claremont.
Elisabeth K. Kersten, Senior Associate, is a Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California's State Capital Center in Sacramento. She was Director of the Senate Office of Research, California Legislature, from 1986-2004 and previously served in other senior positions in the legislative and executive branches of the California state government. Kersten holds a master's degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to serving as a Senior Associate, she has been a member of CIPA's Board of Trustees since 1989.
Daniel A. Mazmanian, Senior Associate, is a professor and directs the Judith and John Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California. A political scientist who specializes in environmental policy, he was formerly Dean of the the USC school, Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, and a faculty member at Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University. Mazmanian has been actively involved in CIPA projects since the early 1980s. His books include Implementation and Public Policy (with Paul Sabatier) and Beyond Superfailure: America’s Toxics Policy for the 1990s (with David Morell). He holds a doctorate from Washington University, St. Louis.
John Zierold, Senior Associate Emeritus, was the first full-time environmental lobbyist in the United States. As the Sierra Club’s chief representative in Sacramento for two decades, he had a key role in enlarging the California state park system and enacting the state’s pioneering laws in such areas as energy conservation, land use, air and water quality, coastal management, and forestry, many of which influenced legislation at the federal level and in other countries. Zierold, who has many years of experience working in Brazil, has had major responsibility for CIPA’s cooperative activities in that country. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, he has been involved in the Institute’s activities since the early 1970s.
Julie Didion, Publications and Program Coordinator, has been with CIPA since 1993. Didion has edited several CIPA publications and handles marketing and project administration. A graduate of California State University, Sacramento, she is a noted sculptor and is active in the arts community in the Sacramento region.
Rick Caughman, Art Director, is an artist and graphic designer based in a historic building he and his family restored in Ontario, California, 35 miles east of Los Angeles and five miles east of Claremont. Caughman is a graduate of Art Center College of Design. His commercial practice includes airport and public transit agencies and companies in California's food and computer industries. He is a well-recognized member of Claremont's art community. NETWORK Much of CIPA’s work is accomplished through an informal network of advisors, consultants, and cooperating organizations. Examples are given elsewhere in this Web site. Most of these individuals and groups have been involved in CIPA's activities for many years. |
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