A number of people work actively with us to help us achieve our goals.
Core Staff
Eric Williams, Co-director
Eric Williams is serving as Project Director for the Nicholas Institute
in the CCPP. He manages economic and policy research on the
project. His skills and experience include energy and environmental
economics, climate change policy design and analysis, and energy
modeling. He
has worked at the state, national and international levels. Eric
brings more than eight years of experience in "think tanks" and
government. Before launching an independent consulting career,
he was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Clean Air Policy. Before
that, he was an Economist with the US Energy Information Administration
in the International Economics & GHG Division, Office of Integrated
Analysis and Forecasting. Eric began his career at Tellus Institute
as a Research Associate in the Energy & Environment Program and
the Electricity Program. He has a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy
from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, with concentrations
in Development Economics and International Environmental Policy.
He received his BA in Economics and Political Science from the University
of Kentucky.
Jonas Monast, Co-Director
Jonas Monast is co-director of the Climate Change Policy Partnership. While overseeing all projects, Jonas is specifically involved in legal and regulatory analysis regarding CO2 pipelines, the interaction of federal and state climate change policies, and regulation and oversight of carbon markets. Jonas also facilitates communication with corporate partners, policymakers, and other stakeholders, and represents the CCPP at conferences and discussion forums. Prior to joining the CCPP, Jonas worked as an attorney in the Corporate Social Responsibility Practice at Foley Hoag LLP, where he advised clients on emerging legal and reputational risks regarding social, environmental, and ethical issues. Jonas also served as a congressional fellow for the late Senator Paul Wellstone and as legislative counsel for the Center for Responsible Lending. He earned his law degree from Georgetown University and his B.A. from Appalachian State University.
Christopher Galik, Research Coordinator
Christopher Galik joined the Partnership as a Research Analyst in 2006 after several years at the National Association of Home Builders in Washington D.C. Christopher’s prior experience in federal forest management and endangered species policy provides a strong base to his current portfolio of biological sequestration, bioenergy, and biofuels policy analysis and applied research. His current work focuses on the development of federal offsets policy, the intersection of biofuels and resource conservation policy, and the potential use of forest biomass for bioenergy. Christopher holds a Master of Environmental Management degree from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke, with a concentration in forest resource economics and policy. He received his B.A. in Biology from Vassar College.Curriculum vitae
Chi-Jen Yang, Project Analyst
Chi-Jen joined the CCPP in March 2008. He received his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. His dissertation research focused on the U.S. policies in developing nuclear power and synthetic fuels. He holds three master’s degrees, including dual master’s degrees in Civil Engineering/Technology
and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master
of science in environmental engineering from National Taiwan University.
Chi-Jen has worked at the Taiwan Environmental Protection
Administration where he was instrumental in preparing Taiwan's
greenhouse gas inventories. His research interests include energy policy, technology assessment,
technological innovation policy, and climate change policy.
Eric Douglas, Development Consultant
Eric Douglass recently joined the Climate Change Policy Partnership as a Development Consultant. During his career, Eric has worked as a fundraising and business development consultant to high profile clients in the arts, entertainment, sports and financial industries. Projects and events he has raised money for during this time include the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, US Open Tennis Championships, the Grammy Awards, numerous international art exhibitions, a global sponsorship program for UNESCO, as well as sales & marketing of a global environmental hedge fund (Eden Global Fund, managed by FIS Group). Eric attended both the University of Florida and Principia College in Illinois, where he received his degree in Business Administration and Marketing in 1982. Eric currently lives in Chapel Hill, NC with his wife and their three children.
Munish Chandel, Project Analyst
Munish Chandel joined the Climate Change Policy Partnership as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in February, 2008. Before joining the CCPP, he was a Postdoc with Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France. He worked on CO2 capture using Chemical Looping Combustion for the combustion of methane and biogas. Munish is a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He holds a Masters in Environmental Engineering from National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India and a Bachelors in Civil Engineering from National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India. His work with the CCPP will be focused on CO2 capture and storage (CCS).
Kathy Jooss, Program Coordinator
Kathy joined the Climate Change Policy Partnership in March 2007. She
works part time, providing administrative support to the growing CCPP team. Kathy
came to the CCPP out of her personal interest in finding solutions to mitigate
the effects of global warming. Previously, she worked in marketing
for Hewlett-Packard for nine years. She has a B.S. in electrical
engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Kelli Anderson, Staff Specialist
Kelli Anderson joined the Climate Change Policy Partnership in June of 2008. She works as the staff specialist for the CCPP, providing daily administrative support. She has worked at Duke for five years after receiving her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Duke in 2003.
Affiliated Staff
Brian Murray
Dr. Murray
is the Director for Economic Analysis at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental
Policy Solutions. He specializes in developing and applying economic models to
analyze environmental and natural resource policies, programs, and regulations.
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Lydia Olander
Lydia Olander
is Senior Associate Director for Ecosystem Services at the Nicholas Institute
for Environmental Policy Solutions. She is currently focused on developing
the Institute's expanding initiative on ecosystem services and working on the
burgeoning multinational effort to add avoided deforestation into future international
climate agreements.
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Faculty
Robert
Jackson
Rob Jackson
is the Faculty Director of the Center on Global Change, one of the primary participant
groups in the CCPP. He is also the Nicholas Chair of Global Environmental Change
and a professor in the Biology Department and Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. His research examines feedbacks between
people and the biosphere, including studies of the global carbon and water cycles,
biosphere/atmosphere interactions, and global change.
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Tim Profeta
Tim Profeta is the Director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental
Policy Solutions, one of the primary participant groups in the CCPP.
He is also Senior Associate Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.
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Students
Andres Potes, Master of Environmental Management, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. Andres will contribute to a project researching the life-cycle impacts of various biofuels this fall for the CCPP.
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Kevin Fritze
Naomi Schwartz
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