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Daniel ("Dan") C. Esty, Chairman Staff Ezequiel Hart, Managing Consultant Affiliates Derek Osborn
Leadership Daniel ("Dan") C. Esty, Chairman
George Favaloro, Managing Partner
Amy P. Longsworth, Partner
Staff Ezequiel Hart, Managing Consultant
Sandra Lauterbach, Managing Consultant Sandra has more than 15 years of strategy consulting experience, with emphasis on corporate environmental business strategy. Sandra has worked for the New England Consulting Group, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and Scient. Her clients have included companies in the energy, electric utility, chemical, consumer goods, healthcare and media sectors. Prior to joining EEP, Sandra was the Senior Sustainability Analyst for AIG Investments, integrating environmental, social and governance issues into investment analysis. Sandra holds a B.A. from Colgate University, a M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, a Masters in Environmental Management from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Conservation Biology from Columbia University.
Kevin Eckerle, Consultant Kevin has 15 years of experience in environmental science and public policy. An expert in songbird ecology, he spent three years teaching biology at the college level. More recently, he has worked as a consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme to promote investments in renewable energy and assess biodiversity indicators for the Convention on Biological Diversity. Kevin has also served as a Legislative Fellow on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, working on marine resource management and conservation, climate change, and the nation’s climate and weather satellites program. Kevin holds a B.A. from Thomas More College; a Master’s in Biology from the University of Dayton; a Ph.D. from Illinois State University; and an M.B.A. from The George Washington University.
Eric J. Maltzer, Consultant Eric brings years of experience in public policy, corporate communication, and strategic development to EEP client teams. He has worked with a wide range of public and private organizations—including the government of Dubai, Zogby International, and the U.S. Army—to develop innovative programs, targeted communications, and long-term strategies for growth. Eric’s background in sales, diplomacy, and conflict resolution contributes to EEP’s work on branding, eco-positioning, and stakeholder engagement. At EEP, Eric has developed in-depth analyses and frameworks for clients in the grocery, hospitality, transportation, and high-tech industries. Eric holds a B.A. from Yale in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and a Master’s degree in energy, environment, and natural resources policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School.
B. Britten Harter, Senior Research Associate Trained as an environmental scientist, Britt has years of experience in researching and communicating on scientific issues to a range of audiences. His research has been published in several leading peer-reviewed journals including Marine Ornithology and Ostrich; he has also written for general-audience publications. The winner of numerous internationally competitive scientific research grants, Britt has studied human impacts on animals in some of the world’s most remote places and has on-the-ground experience with the effects of industry on sensitive habitats in places like Equatorial Guinea and the North Slope of Alaska. Britt holds a B.S. from Yale in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and an M.Sc. from the University of Manitoba in Biological Science.
Elizabeth Mygatt, Senior Research Associate With a focus on environmental research and training in hydrogeology, Liz brings strong research and analytical skills to EEP client teams. Liz focuses on market research, data collection and organization, and benchmarking and has participated on EEP teams serving clients in the bottled water, high-tech, and waste industries. She previously worked as a hydrogeologist at HydroQual, Inc., focusing on groundwater remediation issues. Just prior to joining EEP, Liz worked as a staff researcher for the Earth Policy Institute, a leading environmental organization, where she wrote reports on global issues including water scarcity, deforestation, and transportation. Liz holds a B.A. in geosciences from Williams College.
John Masland, Research Associate John joined Esty Environmental Partners after graduating from Bowdoin College in May 2008. As a double-major in government and legal studies and environmental studies, John completed an honors thesis entitled “Conceptualizing the Precautionary Principle: The Case for a New Model of Environmental Decision Making under Conditions of Uncertainty.” John is also a StartingBloc fellow, trained in corporate social responsibility. Outside of the classroom, John has conducted ecological reserve monitoring in Maine’s northern forest for The Nature Conservancy and has assisted in the preparation of amicus briefs and reviewed congressional testimony on environmental policy issues for the U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resource Division.
Lauren Sinatra, Executive Assistant to the Chairman & Office Manager EEP—New Haven
Susan Wheeler, Business Manager Susan has 25 years of experience in administration and finance with companies ranging from start-ups to multinationals. She has worked in a variety of industries, including nonprofit, employee benefits consulting, holistic health and international textbook publishing. She volunteers with and is trained to present programs relating to environmental sustainability and social justice, under the aegis of the Pachamama Alliance. Susan holds a B.A. from Tufts University.
Affiliates Derek Osborn
Stephen D. Ramsey
Barton H. Thompson, Jr.
Julie Beth Zimmerman
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Dan is one of the world’s leading experts on corporate environmental strategy. He has advised top executives from dozens of companies on environmental issues management in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dan helped establish and serves on Environmental Advisory Boards at Coca-Cola, Unilever, and NetJets Europe. A former senior official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dan is currently Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University. He has written or edited nine books and dozens of articles on environmental strategy, policy, governance, and regulation, including the recent prize-winning book Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (with Andrew Winston). Dan holds a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from Oxford, and a law degree from Yale.
George has more than 20 years of strategic consulting and executive management experience. In addition to managing EEP’s growing portfolio of services, George focuses on developing environmental strategies and communications programs for clients, bringing deep expertise in carbon footprint management. He has developed environmental strategies for companies in the home products, apparel, chemical, consumer packaged goods, waste management, furniture manufacturing and retailing, and airline industries. George was formerly with McKinsey & Company’s Boston office, as well as with Compaq, where he founded, launched, and grew the Internet Solutions Division. He is a founder and board member of Terrapass, a retail carbon offset company, and chairs the Environmental Advisory Board of NetJets USA. George holds a B.A. from Princeton and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth.
Amy has 20 years of experience in environmental marketing, strategy and communications. As vice president for corporate programs at The Nature Conservancy, she developed significant marketing and philanthropic relationships with companies including SC Johnson, General Motors, Anheuser-Busch, and Canon. She also managed the International Leadership Council, a corporate executive working group that focused on environmental issues and business actions. As an independent communications consultant prior to joining EEP, Amy worked with business and NGO clients, including The Natural Resources Defense Council. She has published articles on natural resource issues for general audiences and serves as Vice-Chairman of the board of the American Farmland Trust. Amy holds a B.A. from Wesleyan and an M.B.A. from Harvard. 
Derek Osborn is former Director General of the Environment in the UK’s former Department of the Environment (now DEFRA). There, he was responsible for, among other matters, climate change policy and the negotiations that led to the adoption of the Climate Change Convention at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. He is currently a UK-appointed member of the European Economic and Social Committee and chairs that body’s newly created European Sustainable Development Observatory. For the past ten years he has pursued a career in the public, private, voluntary and academic sectors, focusing on environment and sustainable development issues at local, national, European and international level. In the business sector, Derek has served as non-executive director of Severn Trent PLC and chair of Jupiter Global Green Investment Trust. He is involved with numerous environmental organizations and serves as a trustee of the Institute for European Environment Policy and of the Green Alliance, as well as on many other boards. Derek has been a visiting professor at University College London School of Public Policy since 1998. 
Steve Ramsey is an environmental attorney who served as Vice President for Corporate Environmental Programs at General Electric Company (GE) from 1990 to 2007. In this capacity, he managed GE’s environmental health and safety programs and policies; negotiated resolution of GE’s principal remedial liabilities; and was integral to the development of GE’s Ecomagination strategy. Steve served as GE’s representative to the US Climate Action Partnership. In 2007 he received the American Bar Association Award for Excellence in Environmental and Resource Stewardship. Prior to his tenure at GE, Steve practiced law at Sidley & Austin, and he served as the first Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1980 to 1985. He holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a law degree from University of Texas. 
Buzz Thompson is the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University and the Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law at Stanford Law School. His research focuses on natural capital, the sustainable use of water and other natural resources, and the effective design of environmental institutions. The author of several books on water, the environment, and property, Buzz has published articles on such diverse topics as water markets, fisheries management, ecosystem services, land conservation, the use of economics and market tools in environmental regulation, and cognitive barriers to resource management. Buzz holds an A.B. in economics from Stanford University, an MBA from Stanford Business School, and a law degree from Stanford Law School. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and was a law clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist. 
Dr. Julie Beth Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering Program and the School of Forestry and Environment at Yale. She is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include green engineering, environmentally benign design and manufacturing, and the fate and impacts of anthropogenic compounds in the environment as well as appropriate water treatment technologies for the developing world. Dr. Zimmerman previously served as an Engineer and Program Coordinator in the Office of Research and Development at the United States Environmental Protection Agency where she managed grants to academia and small businesses in the areas of pollution prevention and sustainability. She holds a joint PhD from the University of Michigan in Environmental Engineering and Natural Resource Policy.