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S. JACOB SCHERR is a senior attorney and director of NRDC's international program. Since joining NRDC in 1976, Jacob has worked on the full range of global environmental and nuclear issues. Since the 1992 Earth Summit he has focused on developing innovative mechanisms to address the "implementation gap" -- the lack of governmental action to fulfill international commitments.
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MONTY SCHMITT is a scientist with NRDC's western water project and specializes in restoration of riverine ecosystems. He is the technical manager for the San Joaquin River restoration project. Prior to NRDC, Monty was the assistant director of the Ventana Wilderness Society in Big Sur, California. He received his bachelor's degree in biology and environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master's degree in watershed management from Humboldt State University.
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RICHARD SCHRADER is NRDC's New York legislative director, working to defend critical ecological and recreational landscapes throughout the state, such as the Catskills and Adirondacks. Schrader works on many other New York legislative and policy campaigns, including the development of alternative energy resources to strengthen energy security and the protection of endangered ocean resources both regionally and internationally. Before joining NRDC, Richard served as director for the New York State Trial Lawyers association, where he helped pass legislation to hold polluters more accountable to citizen suits. Under his tenure as deputy commissioner and commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs he took the lead in passing one of the nation's first laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors. He graduated from Fordham University and received a master's degree in journalism from Boston University.
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BRAD SEWELL is a senior attorney with NRDC's ceans program and director of the NRDC NY/NJ Harbor Bight project. His work focuses on NY/NJ marine environmental issues, including marine water quality and fisheries. He also works on south Florida environmental issues, including the Everglades. Brad has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, a law degree from Columbia University and a master's in public health from the division of environmental sciences at Columbia's School of Public Health.
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THOMAS SINGER is a senior policy analyst responsible for NRDC's clean energy program in New Mexico. He is based in Santa Fe. Prior to joining NRDC, Tom was a policy advisor to state governors, a researcher and a university professor. He holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, a master's from Stanford University and a doctorate in international business and finance from George Washington University.
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BRIAN SIU is an energy policy analyst with NRDC's air and energy program. His work focuses on clean fuels and climate policy. Prior to joining NRDC in 2007, he was a senior policy analyst at the Apollo Alliance, which promotes clean energy and energy efficiency as drivers of economic development. Brian received his JD from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
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MATT SKOGLUND is a wildlife advocate in Montana. He coordinates NRDC's bison campaign and also works to protect wolves and grizzly bears. Prior to joining NRDC, Matt served as a law clerk for the Honorable Morton Denlow in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and worked as an associate in the litigation group of Sonnenschein Nath amd Rosenthal LLP in Chicago. Matt obtained his B.A. from Middlebury College in 2001 and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law in 2005.
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GINA SOLOMON is a senior scientist at NRDC and an associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco where she is also the director of the occupational and environmental medicine residency program and the associate director of the UCSF pediatric environmental health specialty unit. Her work has included over 40 scientific papers, book chapters and reports on air pollution, pesticides and other environmental and occupational threats to reproductive health and child development. Gina serves on the EPA science advisory board drinking water committee, as well as on the California scientific guidance panel for biomonitoring. She has previously served on a committee of the National Academy of Sciences on toxicity testing, an EPA scientific committee on endocrine disrupting chemicals and on the California expert working group on environmental health tracking. Gina is co-author of the award-winning book, Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment. She received her medical degree from Yale University and did her postgraduate training in internal medicine, public health and occupational and environmental medicine at Harvard.
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LISA SPEER is the director of NRDC's international oceans program. She specializes in conservation and management of ocean ecosystems in international waters beyond the jurisdiction of individual nations, an area that comprises roughly two-thirds of the world's oceans. She has been with NRDC since 1983. She holds a master's degree from Yale University and a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College.
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CAI STEGER is corporate projects manager at NRDC's Center for Market Innovation, focusing on corporate engagement to drive energy efficiency and clean energy innovation. Cai's works with leading firms to encourage low-carbon sourcing and operations, and pursues research on federal innovation support for clean technologies. He has an MBA from Columbia Business School and eight years of strategy, research and marketing experience in a variety of industries.
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ANDY STEVENSON joined NRDC's Center for Market Innovation as an efficiency finance specialist after 18 years in the financial industry working for investment banks, including Merrill Lynch and Nomura Securities, as well as serving as a portfolio manager at two macro hedge funds. Andy worked in Tokyo for eight years and London for six years trading the Japanese bond markets. Andy's work includes exploring financial innovations to help scale energy efficiency and ensuring that proposed cap and trade legislation will maximize investments in clean energy.
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NANCY STONER co-directs NRDC's water program. Before joining NRDC Nancy was director of planning and policy analysis in the EPA's Office of Enforcement. Prior to that she worked for nine years at the Justice Department. Nancy is a graduate of the University of Virginia and earned her law degree at Yale Law School.
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LISA SUATONI is a senior scientist in the oceans program. She works on a variety of topics including fisheries, marine-ecosystem based management, climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and ocean acidification. Lisa has master's degree in environment studies from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Yale University. Her scientific research focused on speciation and the evolution of reproductive isolation.
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SAMIR SUCCAR is a staff scientist with NRDC's Center for Market Innovation. Prior to joining NRDC, Samir was a member of the research staff of the Energy Systems Analysis group at the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) of Princeton University. His work there focused on integration issues associated with utility scale renewable energy and on enabling technologies for intermittent generation. Recent studies focused on the implementation of energy storage as a strategy for enhancing transmission infrastructure utilization and mitigating the intermittency of renewable energy. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is of particular interest in this regard due to its potential for low cost and widespread availability. Other research activities include optimization of wind turbine rating for wind/storage systems and analysis of the competition of utility-scale wind/storage plants with other low- carbon technologies such as coal IGCC with CCS. In 2008 Samir earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University under the guidance of Bob Williams at PEI.
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PATRICIA F. SULLIVAN, deputy executive director, joined NRDC in 1973 after working in the International Division of the Morgan Guaranty Trust. Her previous environmental experience includes co-producing "The Empty Nest," a film about the impact of pesticides on the osprey. Pattie oversees NRDC's institutional development and special projects. She also serves on the boards of the Open Space Institute and the Ploughshares Fund.
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