NACW 2021 Speakers
If you would like to suggest a speaker for NACW 2021, please email Jennifer Weiss at [email protected].
Matt Baker
Deputy Secretary for Energy, California Natural Resources Agency
Mandela Barnes
Lieutenant Governor, State of Wisconsin
Michael Berends
Managing Director of Origination, ClearBlue Markets
Tauni Berger
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Xpansiv market CBL
Analisa Bevan
Assistant Division Chief of the Sustainable Transportation and Communities Division, California Air Resources Board
Josh Bledsoe
Counsel, Latham & Watkins
Jean-Philippe Brisson
Partner, Latham & Watkins
Chelsea Bryant
Managing Director, Global Markets & Strategy, Radicle
Kim Carnahan
Director of Disruption Technologies, ENGIE Impact
Sean Carney
President, Finite Carbon
Adam Chambers
Leader - Environmental Markets, USDA-NRCS
Benoit Charette
Minister of the Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change, Québec
Jim Clark
President, North Coast Resource Management
Michael Colvin
Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, California Energy Program, Environmental Defense Fund
Lauren Cooper
Program Director, Forest Carbon & Climate Program, Department of Forestry, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Michigan State University
Jon Costantino
Founder and Principal, Tradesman Advisors Inc.
Dorn Cox
Project Lead, OpenTEAM
Wade Crowfoot
Secretary, California Natural Resources Agency
Lisa DeMarco
Senior Partner and CEO, Resilient LLP
Brian de Place
Director of System Planning, Sound Transit
Craig Ebert
President, Climate Action Reserve
Carol Ekarius
Executive Director, Coalition for the Upper South Platte
Mireille Emire Meneses Campos
Consultant, South Pole
Stuart Evans
Senior Engagement Manager, Vivid Economics
Julio Friedmann
Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Global Clean Energy Policy, Columbia University
Dirk Forrister
President and CEO, International Emissions Trading Association
Erick Giles
Attorney, Tribal Nations practice group, Drummond Woodsum
James Grabert
Director, Mitigation Division; Acting Director, Communication and Engagement Division, United Nations Climate Change Secretariat
Karen Haugen-Kozyra
President, Viresco Solutions
Matthew Hurteau
Associate Professor of Quantitative Ecology in the Department of Biology, University of New Mexico
Stacy Kauk
Director - Sustainability Fund, Shopify
Nat Keohane
Senior Vice President for Climate, Environmental Defense Fund
Alexa Kleysteuber
Independent Consultant, Environmental Defense Fund
Kelley Kizzier
Vice President for Global Climate, EDF
Ugbaad Kosar
Deputy Director of Policy, Carbon180
Randy Lack
Founder & Co-President, Element Markets
Cheryl Laskowski
Chief, Transportation Fuels Branch, California Air Resources Board
Rob Lee
Program Director, Climate Action Reserve
Chris Leeds
Executive Director, Commodity Origination, Standard Chartered
Jean Lemire
Envoy for Climate Change, Northern and Arctic Affairs, Government of Québec
Joel Levin
Executive Director, Plug In America
Stella Li
Senior Vice President of BYD Company Limited & President of BYD Motors LLC
Shelby Livingston
Manager of the Cap-and-Trade Offset Program, California Air Resources Board
Scobie Mackay
Managing Director, Macquarie
PJ Marshall
Founder and Executive Director, Restore the Earth Foundation, Inc.
Jan Mazurek, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Carbon Dioxide Removal, ClimateWorks
John McDougal
Vice President of Environmental Products, Element Markets
Lauren Mechak
Director of Program Development, ClimeCo
Paola Mellow
Executive Director of the Clean Fuels Standards team, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Judy Meltzer
Director General, Carbon Pricing Bureau, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Alden Meyer
Senior Associate, E3G
Peter Miller
Director, Western Region, Climate & Clean Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Diane Moss
Founder and Director, Renewables 100 Policy Institute
Brad Neff
Director, Biofuels Business Development and Strategy, Radicle
John Nickerson
Owner, Dogwood Springs Forestry
Malcolm North
Research Forest Ecologist, U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station
Sami Osman
Policy Director, Climate Action Reserve
Robert Parkhurst
Founder, Sierra View Solutions
Juan Pedro Searle
Head of Climate Change, Ministry of the Energy, Chile
Jonathan Peress
Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs, SoCalGas
Eduardo Piquero
CEO, MÉXICO2
Steven Polzin
Senior Consultant and former Senior Advisor for Research and Technology, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, USDOT
Tim Profeta
Director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Kristin Qui
Climate Diplomacy Advisor - SIDS Support, Climate Analytics
Liane Randolph
Chair, California Air Resources Board
Catherine Reheis-Boyd
President and CEO, Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA)
Jon Remucal
Senior Manager, Climate Action Reserve
Heather Repenning
Executive Officer, Sustainability Policy, Los Angeles Metro
Kate Robinson
Head of Energy and Environment, British Embassy in Washington DC
Katelyn Roedner Sutter
Manager, U.S. Climate, EDF
Daniel Sanchez
Assistant Specialist, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley
Lambert Schneider
Research Coordinator for International Climate Policy, Öko-Institut
Eric Seilo
Senior Manager of Strategy & Program Development, eMobility, Southern California Edison
Zaib Shaikh
Consul General of Canada in Los Angeles, Canadian Consulate in Los Angeles
Joseph Shapiro
Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in Agricultural & Resource Economics and the Department of Economics
Derek Six
Chief Business Officer, Board Member, ClimeCo
Ed Smith
VP, Indigo Carbon
Mike Smith
Managing Partner, RenewWest
Eric Sprague
Vice President of Forest Restoration, American Forests
Katie Sullivan
Managing Director, IETA
Nancy Sutley
Chief Sustainability Officer, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power
Naomi Swickard
Chief Program Officer, Verra
Kaarsten Turner
Vice President, Conservation & Stewardship, Pacific Forest Trust
Beth Valiaho
Vice-President, Strategy & Stakeholder Relations, International CCS Knowledge Centre
