International Work
Meet Our Experts
Richie Ahuja - India Program Manager
An expert in business development strategies and spearheads EDF’s outreach efforts in India.
Denise Choy Stetten - Latin America & Caribbean Program Manager
Provides support and oversight to a team of staff and consultants working to create transformational change in Cuba, Belize and Mexico.
Daniel J. Dudek - Chief Economist
Leads EDF's China office, where he designs carbon demonstration projects and develops market mechanisms to address large-scale environmental problems.
Scott Edwards - Director of Latin America & Caribbean
Joined Environmental Defense Fund in January 2007 after seven years at the National Parks Conservation Association.
Larry Epstein - Mesoamerican Reef Program Manager
Project work is focused on using market-based tools and economic incentives to encourage fishermen to use sustainable fishing strategies.
Rod M. Fujita - Senior Scientist and Director, Ocean Innovations
A leader in the theory and practice of sustainable fisheries that align conservation with the business of fishing, Rod Fujita has extensive experience working with fishing communities, regulators, and business leaders in the US, Mexico, Canada and internationally.
Jason Funk - Conservation Analyst
Works with communities, coalitions, partners and consultants to improve the cost-effectiveness of federal farm conservation programs, to expand coastal wetlands restoration using carbon-market finance, to explore the impacts of agricultural markets on U.S. land use and, at the international level, to develop policy strategies for rewarding better land-use practices through carbon markets.
Peter Goldmark - Program Director - Climate and Air
Directs the Climate and Air program for EDF.
Alexander Golub - Senior Research Fellow
Specializes in climate economics and environmental finance, particularly the application of analytical instruments designed for financial economics.
Steven Hamburg - Chief Scientist
Is EDF's public voice for its commitment to science-based advocacy and is responsible for the scientific integrity of EDF's positions and programs.
Jennifer A. Haverkamp - Managing Director for International Policy and Negotiations
Ms. Haverkamp is a former U.S. trade negotiator and an expert in international environmental and trade law.
Mary Kelly - Senior Counsel, Rivers and Deltas
Manages program work, including major projects to protect and restore stream flows, riparian habitat and coastal deltas.
Nathaniel Keohane - Director of Economic Policy and Analysis
Oversees EDF's analytical work on the economics of climate policy, and helps to develop and advocate the organization's policy positions on global warming.
Jake Kritzer - Senior Scientist
Serves as the principle scientific advisor to the Environmental Defense Fund Oceans team in New England working to reform management of important regional fisheries through catch shares, such as the iconic and historical fishery for cod, haddock, flounder and other groundfish.
Ruben Lubowski - Senior Economist
Oversees EDF's analytical efforts to reduce emissions from tropical deforestation using emerging carbon markets, and develops and promotes proposals to integrate forestry and agriculture into domestic and international climate policies.
Oleg Lugovoy - High Meadows Fellow
Supports EDF's team with economic research and studies analysis, and specializes in Russian green house gas emissions reductions, carbon created through trade and consumption, and assessment models for climate policy.
Christina McCain - Science Policy Advisor, Biodiversity & Climate
Christina McCain works on research, policy analysis and advocacy around tropical forest conservation and climate change.
Chris Meyer - Project Coordinator, Amazon Basin
Mr. Meyer leads EDF’s work with indigenous peoples in Central and South America, serving as a liaison between indigenous communities and policy makers at the national and international levels.
Annie Petsonk - International Counsel, Climate & Air
Ms. Petsonk coordinates EDF’s advocacy efforts on international environmental law, international agreements and institutions and works to develop international laws that provide economic incentives for environmental protection.
Douglas N. Rader - Chief Oceans Scientist
Advises the leadership of our national organization on the scientific aspects of policies and programs affecting oceans.
Steve Schwartzman - Director, Tropical Forest Policy
Dr. Schwartzman works directly with indigenous peoples, forest peoples, government officials and international policy makers to develop strategies to protect tropical rainforests.
Gustavo Silva-Chávez - International Climate Change Policy Analyst
Mr. Silva-Chávez performs research, analysis and advocacy around climate change policy issues in the United Nations Framework Convention negotiations and in U.S. legislation.
Gernot Wagner - Economist
Specializes on global greenhouse gas emission reduction pathways and works on developing and applying economically sound climate policy in the U.S. and internationally.
James Wang - Scientist
Educates policymakers and the public on scientific and policy aspects of global warming, air quality and anthropogenic perturbation of the nitrogen cycle. He specializes in climate change physics and their impacts on society and ecosystems.
Lei Wang - China Program Coordinator
Lei Wang is responsible for communicating of our work in China to the English-speaking world, and provides day-to-day liaison between the Beijing office, supporters and management.
