Thomas C. Heller
Executive Director
Thomas C. Heller has served as CPI's Executive Director since the organization's start in September 2009. Before joining CPI, Heller was a professor at Stanford University for thirty years...
Juliano J. Assunção
Director, CPI Rio
Juliano J. Assunção, the director of CPI’s Rio Office, is a professor in the Department of Economics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Juliano’s research...
Ruby Barcklay
Director, Communications
Ruby has been a communications counselor for more than 20 years. At Fleishman-Hillard, an international communications agency, she was a senior vice president in the San Francisco office...
Keven Brough
Director of Strategy and Chief Operating Officer
Keven serves as the Director of Strategy and Chief Operating Officer for CPI. Prior to joining CPI, Keven was a Program Officer for the power sector at the ClimateWorks...
Barbara Buchner
Director, CPI Europe
Barbara Buchner is the head of CPI Europe, managing both the CPI Venice and CPI Berlin offices.Her work focuses on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of market-based mechanisms and of other policy approaches to GHG mitigation...
David Nelson
Senior Director
As Senior Director, David manages CPI's research across all of its global offices. Before joining CPI, David worked for more than 20 years as an investor and strategic advisor...
Qi Ye
Director, CPI Beijing
Dr. Ye Qi is the Cheung Kong Professor of Environmental Policy at Tsinghua University's School of Public Policy and Management and the Director of Climate Policy Initiative Beijing.
Kath Rowley
Director, CPI San Francisco
Kath Rowley leads CPI’s North America research program. Kath joined CPI after 20 years in the Australian government, working in policy and regulatory agencies...
Dong Wenjuan
Analyst, CPI Beijing
Dong Wenjuan’s current research focuses on renewable energy and the carbon market. Before she joined CPI, Wenjuan worked as a consultant with the Renewable Energy Power Consulting...
Wang Bingyan (Isabel)
Associate, Operations at CPI Beijing
Since 2002, Isabel has been working on various issues related to atmospheric environment research and management, mainly involving topics of urban air pollution control...
Wang Xiao
Analyst, CPI Beijing
Wang Xiao came to CPI from Beijing Normal University, where she focused on environmental planning and management and water resources, as well as sustainable urban development...
Wang Pai
Analyst, CPI Beijing
Born in China, Pai Wang has lived in Europe for the last ten years, graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a M.A. (honors) in Economics earlier this year.
Xie Xintao
Executive Assistant, CPI Beijing
Xintao joined CPI in the spring of 2010 as the Beijing Director’s executive assistant, and now she also supports the entire Beijing team. She graduated from Zhengzhou University...
Yu Yuqing (Ariel)
Analyst, CPI Beijing
Ariel joined CPI in May as manager of the Industry and Technology Program at CPI Beijing. She received her PhD in Science and Technology Education from Columbia University...
Zhang Shengyuan
Analyst, CPI Beijing
Zhang Shengyuan’s focus is on China’s building sector and technology. He is co-author of the “Annual Report on China’s Building Energy Efficiency” (2007-2010)...
Zhang Hua
Analyst, CPI Beijing
Before joining CPI in 2011, Zhang Hua worked as a procurement officer in the Global Environment Facility Thermal Power Efficiency Project office, which falls under the Chinese Ministry...
Zhao Xiaofan (Michelle)
Analyst, CPI Beijing
Xiaofan grew up in Shandong province and Shanghai. She received a B.S. in environmental engineering from Stanford University in 2009 and completed her M.S. in management science and engineering...
Zhu Yan
Analyst, CPI Beijing
Zhu Yan previously worked for Scientists and Engineers for America, where she conducted a comparative study of the clean energy industry in the US and China.
Zuo Wen
Administrative Assistant, CPI Beijing
Zuo Wen is in charge of the daily administrative work in the CPI at Tsinghua office and also assists the research team, working closely with Xintao and Isabel.
Hermann Amecke
Analyst, CPI Berlin
Hermann holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics (LSE) where he studied environmental policy. Prior, he gained a BA at Maastricht University...
Rodney Boyd
Analyst, CPI Berlin
Since 2006, Rodney has been involved in the energy and climate change sector, with a focus on renewable energy and carbon economics and an interest in market-based...
Thilo Grau
Fellow, CPI Berlin
Thilo holds a Master of Science degree in Business Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and a Maîtrise degree in Economics from Ecole Normale Supérieure...
Aleksandra Novikova
Senior Analyst, CPI Berlin
Aleksandra Novikova has worked on various issues of sustainable energy development since 1999, participating in research for such organizations as the UNEP...
Anja Rosenberg
Senior Analyst, CPI Berlin
Anja was most recently an environment and climate change adviser for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), working in close cooperation with different Ministries in Indonesia.
Anne Schopp
Fellow, CPI Berlin
Anne works as an analyst with the Berlin team and is currently pursuing her doctorate from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), CPI Berlin's partner organization.
Kateryna Stelmakh
Analyst, CPI Berlin
Kateryna holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Central European University in Hungary and a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration...
Alexander Vasa
Fellow, CPI Berlin
Alexander is currently pursuing his PhD in Law and Economics (EDLE) with a focus on climate policy and the role and efficiency of the Clean Development Mechanism...
Ingrid Weyher
Executive Assistant
Ingrid joined CPI in January 2012 and provides operations, event, and communications support for the CPI Berlin office.
Meagan Jooste
Fellow, CPI Berlin
Meagan Jooste started work at CPI Berlin as a research fellow through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. For the next year, Meagan will be working...
Marina Carvalho
Executive Assistant, CPI Rio
Marina supports Director Juliano Assunção and CPI Rio de Janeiro’s team. Prior to joining CPI, she worked for five years as an Executive Assistant at Shell Company...
Clarissa Costalonga e Gandour
Senior Analyst and Operations Associate, CPI Rio
Clarissa received her Bachelor's and Master's in Economics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) with high honors, having spent one year as...
Romero Rocha
Senior Analyst, CPI Rio
Romero received his PhD in Economics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Romero's work to date has focused on impact evaluation of programs in areas such as education, health, and social protection...
Elinor Benami
Analyst, CPI SF
Elinor is a recent Phi Beta Kappa graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she earned a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Environmental Studies/Sciences.
Alex Coonce
Senior Associate, Operations and Strategy
Alex has experience working with several startups in both the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors, international work experience in three developing regions, and a Master's in Research Methodology...
Jeff Deason
Senior Analyst, CPI SF
Originally from Chicago, Jeff moved to California for college. He received a BS in Earth Systems and an MS in Environmental Engineering and Science from Stanford...
Andrew Hobbs
Analyst, CPI SF
Prior to joining CPI, Andrew studied economics at the University of British Columbia and the University of Utah, where his research focused on the political economy of environmental policy...
Anne Montgomery
Executive Assistant, CPI SF
Originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas, Anne graduated from Harvard University in 2010 with an honors degree in Social Studies. At Harvard she took coursework in social and political theory...
Barbara Pastorello
Comptroller
Barbara began work with CPI in August of 2010. She is in charge of finance and accounting for all of CPI’s global offices. A consultant for the last seven years, she has been a comptroller...
Brendan Pierpont
Analyst, CPI SF
Brendan joined CPI's San Francisco office in November 2010. Before CPI, Brendan spent the last three years working at Analysis Group, where he conducted research and analysis for regulatory and litigation cases...
Uday Varadarajan
Senior Analyst, CPI SF
Uday joins CPI from Washington, D.C., where he was a program examiner in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Executive Office of the President and oversaw the budget...
Tim Varga
Associate, Knowledge Management
Tim comes to CPI after three years at TerraPass, a leading originator of carbon offsets, where he saw 500,000 mT of greenhouse gas reductions through verification and sale...
Thomas Vladeck
Analyst, CPI SF
Tom joined CPI's San Francisco office in January 2012. Tom holds an MSc in Environmental Policy from the London School of Economics and a BA in Mathematics from Pomona College.
Julia Zuckerman
Analyst, CPI SF
Julia comes to CPI from Princeton University, where she completed a master’s degree in public affairs focused on economics and environmental policy.
Angela Falconer
Analyst, CPI Venice
Prior to joining CPI, Angela was a consultant with the environmental consultancy AEA, where she focussed on assessing the implementation of EU climate policies...
Gianleo Frisari
Fellow, CPI Venice
Gianleo works as an analyst at CPI Venice and is currently enrolled in a PhD program on the “Science and Management of Climate Change” at Ca’ Foscari University...
Morgan Hervé-Mignucci
Senior Analyst, CPI Venice
Prior to joining CPI, Morgan worked for JPMorgan, EDF, and Caisse des Depots/CDC Climat and earned a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification along the way.
Valerio Micale
Analyst, CPI Venice
Valerio is a graduate of the Business Economics (MC) program at Bocconi University in Milan and has a Master’s degree in Environmental Management and Economics.
Chiara Trabacchi
Fellow, CPI Venice
Chiara works as an analyst at CPI Venice and is currently enrolled in a PhD program on the “Science and Management of Climate Change” organized by...
Jane Wilkinson
Associate Director, CPI Venice
Jane Wilkinson is the Associate Director of the CPI Venice Office. Prior to joining CPI, Jane served the Australian government on climate change and international policy issues for more than eight years. She joined the Department of Climate Change...
Marni Wood
Executive Assistant, CPI Venice
Marni provides support for the CPI Venice office. Before joining CPI, she was the secretariat for the Advanced School of Economics at the University Ca’ Foscari...
Paul Brest
Board of Directors
Paul Brest is the President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California. Mr. Brest received an A.B. from Swarthmore...
Stewart J. Paperin
Board of Directors
Stewart J. Paperin is the Executive Vice President of the Open Society Foundation and is the President of the Soros Economic Development Fund...
Orville Schell
Board of Directors
Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. He was formerly a professor and Dean at the University of...
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