About the Authors

International Climate Efforts Beyond 2012: A Survey of Approaches

Author Bios

Daniel Bodansky, University of Georgia School of Law

Daniel Bodansky holds the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia.  From 1989-2002, Professor Bodansky was a faculty member of the University of Washington School of Law.  He took a leave of absence from 1999-2001 to serve as the Department of State’s Climate Change Coordinator, where he was a senior U.S. negotiator and helped coordinate U.S. climate change policy.  He has written over 25 publications, four book reviews and numerous scholarly presentations.  The recipient of a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, and a Jean Monet Fellowship from the European University Institute in Florence, he currently serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Kluwer Law International’s book series on International Environmental Law and Policy.   He earned his J.D. from Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal, an M.Phil. in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University and his bachelor’s magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1979.

CONTRIBUTORS

Sophie Chou, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Sophie Chou is a Senior International Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. As a core member of the Center’s international team, she coordinates off-line dialogues with senior government, industry, and NGO representatives, contributes to research and analysis for the dialogues, conducts outreach with governments and stakeholders, and tracks climate change action abroad.  Ms. Chou came to the Pew Center from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of International Activities where she worked on environmental security and bilateral and regional cooperation on water resources management and other issues in the Baltic Sea and Middle East regions. She holds a Masters of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, specializing in international development. Her undergraduate degree is from Indiana University where she studied Environmental Studies and French.

Christie Jorge-Tresolini, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Christie Jorge-Tresolini is a Senior International Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.  As a core member of the Center’s international team, she tracks climate policy abroad, contributes to research and analysis, facilitates dialogues with senior government, industry, and NGO representatives, conducts outreach with governments and stakeholders, and contributes to overall project management.  Prior to joining Pew, Ms. Jorge-Tresolini spent three years as a legal advisor to the Organization of American States working on a hemisphere-wide strategy to promote civil society participation in development decision-making.  She also spent two years as foreign law associate with the North-South Center’s Environmental Law Program, providing legal policy support to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean through technical assistance and training.  Ms. Jorge-Tresolini holds a Masters of Law from American University where she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Award in 1996.  She also holds a bachelor of law from the Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic.