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Biography Michael Gillenwater has
spent much of his career focusing on the development of the policies and
infrastructure needed to produce highly credible environmental information
that can serve as the basis of market and other compliance mechanisms,
especially measurement and verification policies and management and reporting
systems for greenhouse gases and other ecosystem services. Michael
has worked on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change policy since 1995. He co-developed
the U.S.
Greenhouse Gas Inventory Program within the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Michael’s work at EPA concentrated
on development of a national system for producing high quality
greenhouse gas emission inventories and on designing the international
compliance process under the United National
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol. He
was lead author of the Inventory
of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks reports published from
1997 through 2003. Michael
is on the rosters of technical experts and is actively engaged in the work of
the UNFCCC and as a lead author of several Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. He developed and teaches the courses
that certify experts to serve on compliance review teams under the Kyoto
Protocol and supports both the Clean
Development Mechanism Executive Board and the Joint Implementation Steering Committee as a
methodology expert. He was also a core advisor to World Resources Institute and the World Business Council on Sustainable
Development on the revised edition of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Michael
founded the Greenhouse Gas Experts
Network and currently serves as its Executive Director. He also
co-founded the Greenhouse Gas
Management Institute, and serves as its Dean. Both organizations are non-profits
with missions focused on developing, training, and professionalizing a
community of experts on measuring, accounting, and managing greenhouse gas
emissions. The GHG Management
Institute is a founding member of the Offset Quality Initiative. Michael
is currently at Princeton University’s
Science, Technology, and
Environmental Policy Program (STEP) where he is working on a doctorate in
the Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs. His research and writing is focused renewable
and emission markets and on monitoring and verification issues with climate
change policies. Previously,
Michael was Director of the EcoRegistry® Program at Environmental Resources Trust (ERT) and now
serves as ERT’s Director of Verification Policy (a
senior advisory role). Prior to joining ERT, Michael was first with the U.S. EPA’s Office of Policy, Planning and
Evaluation and then EPA’s Clean Air Markets Division. He has also worked for Sandia National Laboratories and ICF Consulting’s Global
Environmental Issues Group. He
has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and masters degrees
in environmental engineering and “Technology
and Policy” from MIT. He also has a masters from the University
of Sussex in Evolutionary
Adaptive Systems, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Michael
is married to Bindiya Patel, who is the Operations and Special
Projects Manager at the Global
Campaign for Microbicides. They have two
daughters, Keya Patel Gillenwater and Cimeren Patel
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