Consulting
In addition to my research and pro bono policy work, I am also available for paid consulting. I currently consult for:
UNFCCC Article 6.4 mechanism Supervisory Body, based in Bonn, Germany, on the Methodological Expert Panel (A6.4-MEP).
Isometric, a carbon dioxide removal credit registry based in London, UK.
I have previously consulted for:
Capstone LLC, a private consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., on carbon markets, carbon removal, and hydrogen policy.
Carbon Market Watch, a research nonprofit based in Belgium, for a report on the climate value of temporary carbon storage.
The Utility Reform Network (TURN), a utility consumer advocacy organization in San Francisco, CA, on this CPUC matter.
Lineage Logistics, a cold storage and logistics company with operations across the United States, on demand response.
The National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, DC, as part of a report on U.S. tax policy.
The World Resources Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC, on carbon markets.
I also receive occasional payments in connection with:
Book royalties from Polity Press.
Freelance writing for Heatmap News and The Washington Post.
Participation in the Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund advisory group.
Funding history
From 2020 to 2023, I worked at CarbonPlan, a nonprofit research organization that discloses its funders here. From 2016 through 2020, I worked at the Carnegie Institution for Science via an appointment funded by Dr. Ken Caldeira and Near Zero, a nonprofit research organization based in Seattle, WA. From 2013 through 2015, I held a research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley that was funded by the Philomathia Foundation. I have also been paid to teach courses at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Stanford Law School, as well as occasional educational lectures in undergraduate teaching programs and in a masters program at TU Berlin.
From 2008 through 2013, when I was in graduate school, I was supported by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship, which was funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and a Kimmelman Family Fellowship in Environment and Resources. During law school, I worked as a summer associate in the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, an international law firm. I also received a small number of internal research grants from Stanford University. Before beginning my PhD program, I worked for MAP Energy, an energy investment company based in Palo Alto, CA, and the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University. I also spent a summer in the San Francisco office of the Natural Resources Defense Council on a fellowship funded by MAP Energy.
Public service
As a requirement of my appointment to California’s Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee, I am legally prohibited from having any financial conflicts with companies that participate in California’s carbon market. I believe that this requirement would best be satisfied if Committee members were required to publicly disclose their income via Form 700, but I have been unable to convince the California Environmental Protection Agency to require this practice nor to accept voluntary filings.
I also serve as an alternate member of the Hearing Board of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, where I previously served as a principal member of the Hearing Board and a member of the Advisory Council. As part of my past and current work on the Hearing Board, I receive modest stipends from the District for each Hearing Board matter in which I participate.