List of expert staff

  • Kurniawan, Dennis
    Fisheries Specialist

    Areas of expertise: Marine conservation, marine surveillance, community engagement, capacity building, fishery improvement

  • Kuzdas, Christopher
    Senior Manager, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water management and governance; public policy; decision support; social-ecological systems; risk management; rural development and planning

  • Labruto, Leslie
    Managing Director, Sustainable Finance

    Areas of expertise: Sustainable finance, investment strategy, international development, decarbonization, clean energy

  • Lackner, Maureen
    Senior Manager, Economics & Policy Analysis

    Areas of expertise: Climate and energy policy, environmental policy instruments, Methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, data analysis

  • LaMair, Edwin
    Attorney, U.S. Legal & Regulatory

    Areas of expertise: Oil & gas regulations, U.S. climate policy, and the Clean Air Act

  • Langh, Judit
    Senior Communications Director, People & Nature

    Areas of expertise: Strategic communications, media strategies, media and stakeholder relations, thought leadership programs, issues advocacy

  • Lavallee, Jocelyn
    Agricultural Soil Carbon Scientist

    Areas of expertise: soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, carbon sequestration, natural climate solutions

  • Leland, Amanda
    Executive Director

    Areas of expertise:

  • Lentz, Andrew
    Director of Federal Affairs, Agriculture Policy

    Areas of expertise: Agriculture and food policy, climate-smart agriculture, diversity, equity and inclusion, government relations, political strategy, international diplomacy, coalition building

  • Leonard, Erin
    Project Manager, Climate Smart Agriculture Finance and Markets

    Areas of expertise: agriculture finance, agriculture markets, climate smart agriculture

  • Leyden, Colin
    State Director, Texas

    Areas of expertise: Oil and gas, energy policy, ground-level ozone and air quality

  • Li, Hugh
    Canadian Methane Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Climate and energy

  • Lieberknecht, Elizabeth
    Manager, Regulatory and Legislative, Midcontinent

    Areas of expertise: State and federal oil and gas policy, environmental policy and enforcement

  • Liskow, Samantha
    Lead Counsel, Health

    Areas of expertise:

  • Liu, Hongming
    Director, Carbon Market

    Areas of expertise: Carbon pricing (both compliance and voluntary carbon market, especially Chinese carbon markets and offsetting program), industry decarbonization (including international aviation and shipping green development) and international climate policy

  • Lloyd, Ian
    Director, Power Sector Policy & Strategy, U.S. Region

    Areas of expertise: U.S. Power Sector Policy and Analysis

  • Lo, Fiona
    Climate Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Climate change, pollen, machine learning, atmospheric dynamics, climate modeling and hydrology

  • Lóránt, Anna
    Senior Policy Manager, EU

    Areas of expertise: EU agricultural policy, EU climate policy, climate smart agriculture, hydrogen

  • Lorente, Alba
    Methane Monitoring Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Satellite remote sensing of methane and air pollutants, methane emissions measurements, reporting and verification

  • Lovejoy, Michelle
    Senior Manager, Climate Resilient Coasts & Watersheds North Carolina

    Areas of expertise: nonprofit management, landscape-scale conservation initiatives, innovative ecosystem services financing, collaborative partnership management, conservation leadership, local community engagement