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Carbon Offset Panelists' Biographies
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Dan Kalafatas
President & COO
3Degrees Group Inc. |
Based in San Francisco, Dan leads 3Degrees Renewable Energy
Certificate, Carbon Product, and Utility Partnership Groups. In
his capacity as Chief Operating Officer, Dan has relevant
experience in all aspects of the REC, Carbon and Utility
programs. Dan designed, ran, and launched all of 3Degrees’
utility partnerships.
As COO of 3Degrees, Dan oversees all company operations,
including business development, contracting, supply management,
and general partnership operations. Dan is invited to speak
frequently at conferences on the Renewable Energy Certificate
and Carbon Markets as well as on how to structure and manage
successful green pricing utility programs.
A native of Massachusetts, Dan has a BA in Economics from
Dartmouth College, and an MBA with a certificate in Public
Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Margret J. Kim
Senior Advisor for International Climate Change
California Air Resources Board |
Margret Kim is Senior International
Climate Change Counsel and China Program Director for the Air
Resources Board and the California Environmental Protection
Agency. Previously, she was appointed by California Governor
Davis to serve as Public Adviser to the California Energy
Commission. Prior to her CEC appointment, Margret was Deputy
Secretary and General Counsel to the California Resources
Agency, a cabinet level agency with over 30 departments and
boards responsible for natural resources. Before entering public
service, Margret served as General Counsel and Vice President of
government relations to diverse multinational corporations.
Margret has extensive litigation experience both as an associate
and later as a partner specializing in environmental law with
firms in Los Angeles.
Ms. Kim currently serves as Chair of the International Energy &
Resources Transaction Committee of the American Bar
Association’s Natural Resources & Environment Section. She is a
member of the Commission on Environmental Law of IUCN (World
Conservation Union) and was appointed to its Specialist Groups
on Environmental Governance and Energy & Climate Change. She was
visiting professor and Fulbright Senior Specialist at Beijing
University Law and visiting scholar at Tsinghua University
School of Public Policy. Margret is also a co-founder of Ecolinx
Foundation (a California non-profit to assist China transition
to a more sustainable energy and environmental future).
Ms. Kim earned a Master of Environmental Law and a Master of Law
in International and Comparative Law from George Washington
University National Law Center, a Juris Doctor from Southwestern
University School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of Southern California where she majored in
International Relations and Political Science.
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Peter Hsiao
Partner
Morrison & Foerster, LLP
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Peter Hsiao is a
partner in the global technology and finance law firm of
Morrison & Foerster LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Clean Tech
practice and head of both the Land Use and Environmental Law
Group in Los Angeles and the firm’s Green Chemistry Group.
Drawing upon his science background as a chemical engineer, Mr.
Hsiao has more than 25 years of experience in environmental law
and clean technology, both in the United States and
internationally. He was Chair of the State Bar of California’s
Section on Environmental Law and is consistently identified as
one of California’s best environmental lawyers by the Legal 500,
the PLC Global 3000, the International Who’s Who of Business
Lawyers and the Los Angeles Magazine.
Mr. Hsiao formerly served as a senior environmental trial lawyer
at the Justice Department during his appointment as an Assistant
U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. Mr. Hsiao
was lead trial counsel representing the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency in major environmental enforcement litigation.
He obtained several multi-million dollar judgments for the EPA,
including cases involving enforcement of the volatile organic
compound limitations for consumer and industrial coatings, the
EPA’s power to request information under the Clean Air Act, and
the EPA’s unilateral administrative order authority. He received
the U.S. Department of Justice’s Special Commendation Award, the
U.S. Attorney’s Office Special Achievement Award, and the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service Golden Eagle Award. He also lectured
at the Justice Department’s trial practice institute on the
Clean Air Act and its regulatory enforcement.
In private practice, Mr. Hsiao advises Fortune 500 clients on a
wide variety of environmental, natural resources and toxic tort
matters, with a specialty in clean technology regulations both
internationally and at the national and state level. He practice
intersects the specialties of clean air, water and hazardous
waste regulation with the rapidly developing areas of
alternative and renewable energy, carbon trading, green
chemistry and green product claims. He is the co-editor and
co-author of the California Environmental and Natural Resources
Law Handbook, a comprehensive treatise in its 12th Edition. He
is asked to speak on a wide variety of clean technology and
environmental law issues, and has served as a lecturer for the
American Law Institute and the American Bar Association on clean
air regulations and litigation.
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Rahul J. Young, LEED AP
Manager
ICF International
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Mr. Young is a Senior Manager in ICF
International’s San Francisco office, and a LEED Accredited
Professional. He currently manages the office’s private-sector
sustainability strategy practice for clients such as Yahoo!,
eBay, and Time Warner and also leads projects in renewable
energy new business models and building energy efficiency. Mr.
Young has over ten years of experience in corporate
sustainability strategy, green building, residential
multi-family and single-family development, green building
policy design, energy efficiency program design, and city
government administration. Mr. Young served as the City of
Berkeley, CA’s Green Building Coordinator, designing and
implementing the City’s LEED Green Building Ordinance,
overseeing the greening of municipal and private-sector
developments, and directing green building education and
outreach events. Mr. Young co-founded and chaired the Bay Area
Build-It-Green Public Agency Council, an organization dedicated
to bringing Northern Californian local governments together to
work collaboratively to develop green building throughout the
state. While working at WorldBuild, Inc. with David Gottfried,
Founder of the US Green Building Council, Mr. Young managed the
greening of over 20 building projects, including the City of
Santa Monica’s Public Safety Facility, the State of California’s
East End Complex and the Headquarters of the California
Environmental Protection Agency. He was the primary author of
the California Integrated Waste Management Board’s Sustainable
Building Implementation Plan, the founding document of the
agency’s green building policy efforts. Mr. Young has also
served on the Board of Directors for the Sacramento chapter of
Habitat for Humanity International.
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Heidi Livingston Eisips
Founder,
Korala Consulting
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Heidi Livingston Eisips
is a sustainability consultant and seasoned marketing and
business development professional with over twenty years of
experience launching and managing entrepreneurial ventures in
both the private and not-for-profit sectors. Based in Silicon
Valley, CA, Heidi is the Principal and Founder of Korala
Consulting, a marketing and strategy consultancy focused on
helping organizations achieve breakthrough results by shifting
their products, services and business practices to more
sustainable models which maximize “triple bottom line” profits
using financial, social and environmental measures.
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