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Dr. Jonathan PERSHING
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, U.S.A.

Dr. Jonathan Pershing World Resources Institute 10 G Street, NE 20002 Washington DC U.S.A. Tel: +1 202 7297630 Fax:+1 202 7297651 E-mail: jpershing@wri.org URL: http://staff.wri.org/staff_biosketch.cfm?StaffID=624

Jonathan Pershing is Director of the Climate, Energy and Pollution Program at the World Resources Institute. He is active in work on domestic and international climate and energy policy, including emissions trading, energy technology and the evolving architecture of international climate agreements. He currently serves on the Resources Panel of the Northeast States Regional GHG Initiative, on the Advisory Board of the Oregon Climate Trust, and on the Chicago Climate Exchange. He is actively involved in projects with individual US States and the US federal government on climate change and energy policy, as well as governments in the OECD, G8 and major developing nations. Prior to his move to WRI, he served for five years as the Head of the Energy and Environment Division at the International Energy Agency in Paris . His responsibilities there included research on emissions trading and project based offsets, as well as other aspects of the interface between energy and the environment. From 1990 to 1998, Dr. Pershing served in the US Department of State, where he was both Deputy Director and Science Advisor for the Office of Global Change. In this capacity, he was a senior U.S. negotiator for the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Dr. Pershing is the author of several books and numerous articles on climate change, energy, and environmental policy, has served as a Review Editor for the IPCC, and will be a lead author for the IPCC's 4th Assessment Report. Dr. Pershing has taught at American University and the University of Minnesota , and worked in Alaska as a petroleum and mining exploration geologist. He holds a doctorate in geology and geophysics from the University of Minnesota .