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Jonathan Lash
President
Manish Bapna
Executive Vice President & Managing Director
Steve Barker
CFO, VP Finance & Administration
Liz Cook
Vice President for Institutional Strategy & Development
Robin Murphy
Vice President for External Relations
Janet Ranganathan
Vice President for Science and Research
Administration
Steve Barker
CFO, VP Finance & Administration
Cathy Donn
Executive Asst. to CFO/VP/Admin & Accounting Specialist
Nancy Kiefer
Director of Facilities and Office Services
Elise King
Receptionist
Anna-Lise McManus
CRM Manager
Accounting
Arthur Droe
Controller
Leslie Kruse
Senior Accountant
John Murray Sr
Assistant Controller
Sheryl Newkirk
Senior Accountant
Kristin Snyder
Budget Analyst
Wendy Washington
Staff Accountant
Human Resources
Vivian Fong
Human Resources Director
Rashawn Stepp
HR Associate/Generalist
Library and Information Services
Julie Hussey
PT Librarian
Mary Maguire
Library Manager
Communications, Marketing and External Relations
Robin Murphy
Vice President for External Relations
Phil Angell
Editor-in-Chief, World Resources Report
Hyacinth Billings
Publications Director
Amy Cassara
Associate II
Christina DeConcini
Director of Legislative Affairs
Laura Lee Dooley
Online Engagement Strategist
Kathy Doucette
Online Communications Developer
Polly Ghazi
Writer/Editor
Tim Herzog
Director of Online Communications
Nate Kommers
Media Officer
Paul Mackie
Director of Media Relations
Payson Schwin
Online Communications Officer
Oretta Tarkhani
Director, Event & Conference Services
Lydia Weiss
Legislative Affairs Associate
Lauren Withey
Research Assistant, World Resources Report
Development
Liz Cook
Vice President for Institutional Strategy & Development
Beth Bahs-Ahern
Director, Foundation Relations
Rich Barnett
Director, Outreach and Special Events (Associate III)
Anne Calvert
Program Coordinator
Heidi Manger Donovan
Manager of Annual Giving
Frances Nepomuceno
Program Coordinator
Lillian Pena Torres
Manager, Development Operations (Associate II)
Chris Perceval
Corporate Relations Manager
Rina Rodriguez
Associate I
Devan Tucker
Grants/Fundraising Database Coordinator
Dan Tunstall
Director, International Cooperation and Senior Fellow, People and Ecosystems Program
Walton Upchurch
Program Coordinator
Elsie Velez Whited
Director of Grants Management
Office of the Managing Director and Executive Vice President
Manish Bapna
Executive Vice President & Managing Director
Gayle Coolidge
Special Assistant
Office of the President
Jonathan Lash
President
Georgia Moyka
Special Assistant to the President
Allison Sobel
Researcher, Office of the President and Liaison to the Board
Programs and Special Fellows
Jennie Hommel
Special Assistant to the Vice President for Science and Research
Janet Ranganathan
Vice President for Science and Research
Climate and Energy
Jonathan Pershing
Director, Climate, Energy and Pollution Program
Pankaj Bhatia
Business/Climate Change Associate III
Nicholas Bianco
Associate
Debbie Boger
Director of U.S. Climate Policy
Rob Bradley
Director of International Climate Policy
Natalie Bushell
Program Coordinator
Britt Childs Staley
Research Analyst
Thomas Damassa
Research Analyst
Florence Daviet
Associate
Sarah Forbes
Senior Associate
Taryn Fransen
Senior Associate
Greg Fuhs
Management Associate
Jenna Goodward
Research Analyst
Stephanie Hanson
Communications Associate
Robert Heilmayr
Research Assistant
Angel Hsu
Research Analyst
John Larsen
Associate
Chris Lau
Research Analyst
Jennifer Layke
Deputy Director
Franz Litz
Senior Fellow
Heather McGray
Senior Associate
Hilary McMahon
Senior Associate
Eliot Metzger
Research Analyst
Seth Ort
Program Coordinator
Alex Perera
Senior Associate
Laura Pocknell
Communications Coordinator
Samantha Putt del Pino
Project Manager (Senior Associate II)
David Rich
Research Analyst
Stephen Russell
Research Analyst
Deborah Seligsohn
Director, China Program
Neelam Singh
Associate I
Xiaomei Tan
Associate
Preeti Verma
Research Assistant
Jack Warner
Research Analyst
Kathryn Zyla
Senior Associate
EMBARQ
Nancy Kete
Program Director
Claudia Adriazola
Latin American Associate
Ethan Arpi
Program Coordinator
Maria Cordeiro
Environmental Projects Manager
Zeren Erik
Turkey Associate
Luis Gutierrez
Senior Associate III
Dario Hidalgo
New Business Development Director/Senior Transport Engineer
Sibel Bulay Koyluoglu
Istanbul Project Director
Madhav Pai
Transport Planner
Seema Parakh
India Project Manager
Laura Root
Program Coordinator II
Lee Schipper
EMBARQ Fellow Emeritus
Rhys Thom
Communications Director, EMBARQ
Alper Unal
Senior Research Scientist
Chris Ward
Communications Coordinator
Governance and Access
Jake Werksman
Program Director, Institutions and Governance Program
Arisha Ashraf
EPE Project Coordinator
Maria Athena Ballesteros
Senior Associate
Emily Chessin
Program Coordinator
Crystal Davis
Research Analyst
Lalanath de Silva
Director, The Access Initiative
Joseph Foti
Associate I
Kirk Herbertson
Research Analyst
Josh Kellermann
Legal Fellow
Monika Kerdeman
Program Coordinator II, TAI
Remi Moncel
Program Coordinator
Isabel Munilla
Associate
Smita Nakhooda
Associate I
Linda Shaffer
Management Associate II
Peter Veit
Senior Associate III
Davida Wood
Senior Associate, Electricity Governance Initiative
Markets and Enterprise
Andrew Aulisi
Director. Markets & Enterprise Program
Virginia Barreiro
New Ventures Global Director
Ray Cheung
Senior Associate II
Elaine Aglipay Delio
Senior Associate II
Hiranya Fernando
Senior Associate II
Aram Kang
Research Analyst
Piet Klop
Senior Fellow
Dana Krechowicz
Associate
Adriana Lacerda
Operations Manager
Saurabh Lall
PC1/Research Assistant
Kelly McCarthy
Research Analyst
Francisco Noguera
Research Analyst
Clay Rigdon
Research Analyst
Amanda Sauer
Senior Associate
Shally Venugopal
Research Analyst
People and Ecosystems
Craig Hanson
Acting Director
Karen Bennett
Research Program Coordinator
Lauriane Boisrobert
GIS Research Analyst, Global Forest Watch
Evan Branosky
Research Analyst
Lauretta Burke
Senior Associate III
Emily Cooper
Research Associate
John Finisdore
Business & Ecosystems Researcher
Peter Hazlewood
Director, Ecosystems and Development
Norbert Henninger
Senior Associate
Charles Iceland
Associate
Cy Jones
Senior Associate
Lars Laestadius
Senior Associate III
Florence Landsberg
GIS Associate
Christian Layke
Associate II
Liz Marshall
Economist/Associate II
Pierre Methot
Project Manager DRC/RC
Susan Minnemeyer
Associate II/GIS Manager
Ruth Nogueron
Associate I
Suzanne Ozment
Program Coordinator
Katie Reytar
Research Associate
Mindy Selman
Senior Associate
Lucas Shindeldecker
Research Analyst
Matthew Steil
Research Associate
Fred Stolle
Senior Associate III
Scott Thompson
Project and Communications Coordinator - Central Africa
Dan Tunstall
Director, International Cooperation and Senior Fellow, People and Ecosystems Program
Richard Waite
Program Coordinator