Experts & Staff

Officers
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
Special Assistant to CFO.

Gwendolyn Good
Receptionist/Office Assistant .

Melanie Ivy
Receptionist/Office Assistant .

Nancy Kiefer
Director of Facilities and Office Services.

Anna-Lise McManus
Director of Constituent Relationship Management.

Devan Tucker
CRM Specialist .  

Accounting
Arthur Droe
Controller.

Lucie McCarthy
Senior Accountant.

John Murray Sr
Assistant Controller.

Sheryl Newkirk
Senior Accountant.

Kristin Snyder
Budget Analyst.

Wendy Washington
Accounts Payable Manager .

Human Resources
Vivian Fong
Human Resources Director.

Tonia Garnett
Sr. HR Generalist, PHR® Executive Recruiter.

Paige Dailey
Benefits Specialist.

Library & Information Services
Julie Hussey
PT Librarian.

Mary Maguire
Library Manager. 

Communications, Marketing & External Relations
Robin Murphy
Vice President for External Relations.

Maggie Barron
Online Communications Officer.

Hyacinth Billings
Publications Director.

Christina DeConcini
Director of Legislative Affairs.

Laura Lee Dooley
Online Engagement Architect.

Kathy Doucette
Online Communications Developer.

Samah Elsayed
Research Analyst.

Jessica Forres
Media Officer.

Tim Herzog
Director of Online Communications.

Michael Oko
Director of Media Relations.

Camilo Ramirez
Communications Specialist.

Oretta Tarkhani
Director, Event & Conference Services.

Lydia Weiss
Legislative Affairs Associate.  

Development
Liz Cook
Vice President for Institutional Strategy & Development .

Rich Barnett
Director, Outreach and Special Events (Associate III).

Anne Calvert
Program Coordinator II.

Wambani Lusenaka
Donor Database Coordinator.

Jack Nelson
Program Coordinator.

Frances Nepomuceno
Program Coordinator.

Lillian Pena Torres
Manager, Development Operations (Associate III).

Chris Perceval
Director of Corporate Relations.

Randall Snodgrass
Director, U.S. Government Cooperation .

Dan Tunstall
Director, International Cooperation and Senior Fellow, People and Ecosystems Program.

Walton Upchurch
Program Coordinator II.

Elsie Velez Whited
Director of Grants Management.

Office of Science & Research
Janet Ranganathan
Vice President for Science and Research.

Polly Ghazi
Writer/Editor.

Charles Kent
Senior Fellow.

Ashleigh Rich
Program Coordinator II.

David Tomberlin
Deputy to Vice-President for Science and Research. 

Office of the Managing Director & Executive Vice President
Manish Bapna
Executive Vice President & Managing Director .

Philip Angell
Director, World Resources Report.

Polly Ghazi
Writer/Editor.

Mark Holmes
Editor in Chief, World Resources Report.

Brian Lipinski
Research Assistant/Program Coordinator.

Kerina Wang
China Liaison/Assistant to the Managing Director.

Lauren Withey
Management Associate I.  

Office of the President
Jonathan Lash
President.

Deah Owens
Special Assistant to the President.

Allison Sobel
Researcher, Office of the President and Liaison to the Board.

Climate & Energy
Jennifer Morgan
Director, Climate and Energy Program.

Francisco Almendra
Associate .

Ruth Greenspan Bell
Acting US Climate Policy Director.

Pankaj Bhatia
Director, GHG Protocol Initiative.

Nicholas Bianco
Senior Associate.

James Bradbury
Senior Associate .

Natalie Bushell
Budget Analyst/ Program Coordinator II.

Cynthia Cummis
Senior Associate .

Thomas Damassa
Associate I.

Florence Daviet
Senior Research Associate.

Aarjan Dixit
Research Analyst .

Laura Draucker
Associate.

Wee Kean Fong
Associate.

Sarah Forbes
Senior Associate.

Taryn Fransen
Senior Associate.

Greg Fuhs
Development and Operations Manager.

Raquel Gonzalez
Project Coordinator .

Jenna Goodward
Research Analyst.

Stephanie Hanson
Communications Associate .

Paul Joffe
Senior Foreign Policy Counsel.

Holly Lahd
Research Assistant.

John Larsen
Senior Associate.

Kelly Levin
Senior Associate.

Franz Litz
Senior Fellow.

Kevin Lustig
US Climate Project/Communications Coordinator.

Heather McGray
Senior Associate.

Hilary McMahon
Senior Associate.

Eliot Metzger
Associate.

Remi Moncel
Associate.

Alex Perera
Co-director, Business Engagement in Climate and Technology.

Laura Pocknell
Communications Coordinator II.

Nick Price
Research Assistant.

Samantha Putt del Pino
Co-director, Business Engagement in Climate and Technology.

David Rich
Associate I.

Kaleigh Robinson
Research Analyst.

Stephen Russell
Associate I.

Luke Schoen
Associate.

Deborah Seligsohn
Principal Advisor, China Climate and Energy Program.

Xiaoyu Shi
Program Manager.

Neelam Singh
Associate I.

Ranping Song
Associate.

Shu Yang
Research Assistant.

Mary Sotos
Research Assistant.

Margaret Spearman
Associate.

Kirsten Stasio
Research Assistant.

Xiaomei Tan
Associate.

Letha Tawney
Senior Associate .

Dennis Tirpak
Senior Fellow.

Jack Warner
Associate.

Lutz Weischer
Research Analyst.

Micah Ziegler
Research Assistant.

EMBARQ
Clayton Lane
Acting Director and Chief Operating Officer, EMBARQ.

Claudia Adriazola
Public Health & Transport Affairs Manager.

Ethan Arpi
Strategic Communications & Marketing Manager.

Allison Bishins
Project Manager, U.S. Transport and Climate.

Sibel Bulay
Istanbul Project Director.

Aileen Carrigan
Transport and Urban Planning Associate.

Karen Clarke-Fuhs
Executive Assistant.

Dave Cooper
Video Production and Design Manager.

Larissa Da Silva
Latin America Associate.

Nicolae Duduta
Transportation Research Analyst.

Luis Gutierrez
Latin America Strategic Director.

Miriam Heller
Visiting Senior Fellow.

Dario Hidalgo
Senior Transport Engineer.

Marisa Jaffe
Development Director, EMBARQ.

Adriana Lobo
Director CTS-Mexico.

Aaron Minnick
Program Coordinator.

Soniann Oliver
Program Coordinator.

Madhav Pai
CST-India Director .

Nathan Sandwick
Research Analyst, U.S. Transport and Climate.

Lee Schipper
EMBARQ Fellow Emeritus.

Erica Schlaikjer
Media Relations and Online Engagement Coordinator.

Rhys Thom
Information and Innovation Director, EMBARQ.

Toni Lindau
Director of CTS-Brasil.

Ben Welle
Assistant Project Manager, Health and Road Safety.

Governance & Access
Jacob Werksman
Program Director, Institutions and Governance Program.

Lesly Baesens
Project Coordinator.

Athena Ballesteros
Senior Associate.

Emily Chessin
Project Coordinator.

Crystal Davis
Associate.

Lalanath de Silva
Director, The Access Initiative.

Carole Excell
Senior Associate.

Joseph Foti
Associate.

Lauren Goers
Research Analyst.

Kirk Herbertson
Associate .

Bharath Jairaj
Senior Associate .

Anne-Gaelle Javelle
Associate.

Monika Kerdeman
Communications and Finance Coordinator.

Sarah Lupberger
Project Coordinator.

Smita Nakhooda
Fellow.

Emily Norford
Project Coordinator.

Clifford Polycarp
Senior Associate.

Candy Schibli
Media Designer.

Peter Veit
Senior Associate.

Davida Wood
Senior Associate.

Alisa Zomer
Program Coordinator .

Markets & Enterprise
Kirsty Jenkinson
Director, Markets & Enterprise Program.

Elaine Aglipay Delio
Global Director, New Ventures.

Charles Iceland
Associate.

Aram Kang
Global Network Officer, New Ventures.

Charles Kent
Senior Fellow.

Robert Kimball
Program Coordinator.

Piet Klop
Senior Fellow.

Dana Krechowicz
Associate.

Saurabh Lall
Research Officer, New Ventures.

Kelly McCarthy
Impact Officer, New Ventures.

Jeff Rodgers
Associate.

Amanda Sauer
Senior Associate.

Shally Venugopal
Associate.  

People & Ecosystems
Craig Hanson
Director.

Kemen Austin
Research Assistant.

Beth Bahs-Ahern
Development and Operations Manager.

Evan Branosky
Research Analyst.

Lauretta Burke
Senior Associate III.

Davis Cherry
Project Coordinator.

Caitlin Clarke
Research Assistant.

Paul Doko
Principal Advisor, Central African Republic .

Sophia Elmore
Project Coordinator.

John Finisdore
Associate.

Beth Gingold
Research Analyst .

Adam Grant
Senior Associate .

Peter Hazlewood
Director, Ecosystems and Development.

Norbert Henninger
Senior Associate.

Cy Jones
Senior Associate.

Lars Laestadius
Senior Associate III.

Florence Landsberg
GIS Associate.

Christian Layke
Associate II.

Andrew Leach
Research Assistant.

Liz Marshall
Economist/Associate II.

Peter Mbile
Project Manager, Congo Basin Forests & Climate.

Moray McLeish
Manager, Project POTICO .

Pierre Methot
Senior Fellow - Central Africa Director - Forest Information and Governance.

Susan Minnemeyer
Associate II/GIS Manager.

Ruth Nogueron
Associate I.

Suzanne Ozment
Research Analyst.

Michelle Perez
Senior Associate .

Rauf Prasodjo
Research Assistant.

Katie Reytar
Research Associate.

Mindy Selman
Senior Associate.

Matthew Steil
Associate.

Fred Stolle
Senior Associate III.

John Talberth
Senior Economist .

Scott Thompson
Project and Communications Coordinator - Central Africa.

Dan Tunstall
Director, International Cooperation and Senior Fellow, People and Ecosystems Program.

Richard Waite
Research Analyst.

Sara Walker
Research Analyst.

Jeffrey Wielgus
Natural Resource Economist.

Logan Yonavjak
Research Analyst.

Lyna Bélanger
Central Africa Regional Advisor and Coordinator .

Jean-Francois Fischer
Principal Advisor, Forest Transparency Initiative, Central Africa.

Marcel Ibara
Principal Advisor, Republic of Congo.

Jean Sylvestre Makak
Principal Advisor, Gabon .

Roger Mambeta
Principal Advisor, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Hugues Bounguendzy Mouidy
Assistant Principal Advisor, Gabon.

Gideon Neba Shu
Principal Advisor, Cameroon.  

Beijing, China Office
Zou Ji
China Country Director.

Wee Kean Fong
Associate.

Lu Sha
Office Assistant.

Xiaoyu Shi
Program Manager.

Ranping Song
Associate.

Shu Yang
Research Assistant.

Xiaohua Sun
Communications Officer.

Qinghong Wang
Manager of China Office.

Hua Wen
Research Analyst