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[Note: The California Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA) became InterEnvironment Institute in February 2010. CIPA continues as a program of InterEnvironment Institute. See the home page for details.]
STAFF & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATES
Ted Trzyna, President and Senior Fellow, is a conservationist, writer, and political scientist. Before founding what has become InterEnvironment Institute, 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. Currently, he is a member of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas and chairs its Urban Specialist Group. He also leads an effort to encourage IUCN to become more involved in the connections between nature, urban people, and urban places. Trzyna 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. He is a Senior Research Fellow in CGU's School of Politics and Economics, and a Fellow and former board member of the World Academy of Art and Science. [BIO]
John Davidson, Senior Fellow, is based in Cheltenham and London, England. He founded and chairs InterClimate Network, www.InterClimate.org, an international organization that "promotes innovative projects that inspire practical action on climate change." InterClimate is working initially in India, Kenya, and the United Kingdom. Previously, Davidson chaired 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 was 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 InterEnvironment Institute and related IUCN projects since the early 1990s.
Michael R. Eaton, Senior Fellow, describes himself as "a career conservationist with a passion for better understanding the dynamics of soil, plants, and society." Currently, he devotes much of his time to managing Kingbird Farms, www.kingbirdfarms.com, which he owns with his wife Charity Kenyon. Previously, Eaton was Executive Director of the Resources Legacy Fund, 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 California 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 Institute projects since the late 1970s.
Joseph T. Edmiston, Senior Fellow, has been Executive Director of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, a unit of the California Natural Resources Agency, since it was established in 1980. Working with many governmental and non-governmental partners, the Conservancy, based in Malibu, California, has helped to preserve over 60,000 acres (24,000 ha) in both wilderness and urban settings in the Los Angeles area, where land often has very high market value. The Conservancy is also actively engaged in education and interpretation. Edmiston is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, an Honorary Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. A graduate of the University of Southern California, he has been involved in Institute projects since the mid-1970s.
Monty Hempel, Senior Fellow, 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. His publications include Environmental Governance: The Global Challenge. Long active in promoting cooperation across interdisciplinary boundaries, he was a founder of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, www.aess.info. Hempel received a Ph.D. in government from Claremont. He has participated in Institute projects since the late 1970s.
Elisabeth K. Kersten, Senior Fellow, is a Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California's State Capital Center in Sacramento, www.usc.edu/about/visit/capital. 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 the Institute's Board of Trustees since 1989.
Jeffrey A. McNeely, Senior Fellow, is Senior Science Advisor to IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, www.iucn.org, based in Gland, Switzerland. Until mid-2009, he was Chief Scientist at IUCN, where he worked since 1980. McNeely has written or edited over 40 books and 500 popular and technical articles on a wide range of environmental topics, and serves on the editorial boards of 14 journals. He is currently working to link biodiversity to sustainable agriculture, human health, biotechnology, climate change, and energy, as well as on more traditional fields of IUCN interest such as protected areas and threatened species. McNeely serves on the boards or advisory committees of a number of scientific and conservation organizations, and is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and an Adjunct Professor at Peking University. Before joining IUCN, he spent 12 years in Thailand, Indonesia, and Nepal conducting research on natural resource management. McNeely holds a master's degree in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has advised and contributed to the Institute's IUCN-related activities since the 1980s.
Daniel A. Mazmanian, Senior Fellow, 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. 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. Mazmanian has been actively involved in the Institute's projects since the early 1980s.
Paul Steinberg, Senior Fellow, is Associate Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy at Harvey Mudd College, a member of The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California. His research focuses on global environmental politics, with an emphasis on biodiversity conservation and on developing countries. Steinberg holds a doctorate from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among other things, he has been a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia and a staff member or consultant to several Washington, D.C.-based organizations concerned with environmental protection. InterEnvironment Institute's connection with Steinberg started in the late 1990s in facilitating research in Latin America that led to his first book, Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries, which, in his words "analyzes why things sometimes go right in tropical conservation."
John Zierold, Senior Fellow 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 had many years of experience working in Brazil, had major responsibility for the Institute's cooperative activities in that country in the 1990s. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, he was involved in the Institute’s activities from the early 1970s through the late 1990s.
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, Art at 5th Alley, www.5thAlley.com, includes airport and public transit agencies and companies in California's food and computer industries. He is an active and well-recognized member of the art community that surrounds the university town of Claremont. NETWORK Much of InterEnvironment Institute's work is accomplished through an informal network of friends, advisors, consultants, and cooperating organizations. Examples are given elsewhere in this Web site. Many of these individuals and groups have been involved in our activities for many years. 11/2011 |
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