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Biographical Statements of Active Participants
Mr. Robert REINSTEIN
President, Reinstein & Associates International, U.S.A.
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Mr. Robert Reinstein
Reinstein & Associates International
10316 Rockville Pike, 302
Rockville, MD
20852
U.S.A.
Tel: +1.301.5719587
Fax: +1.301.5715038
E-mail:
reinsteinb@aol.com
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Bob Reinstein is President of Reinstein & Associates International, Inc., a consulting firm, where he specializes in energy, environment and international trade from his offices in Washington, Helsinki and Brussels. He has had a varied series of careers during more than four decades of professional experience as a scientist, economist, negotiator and diplomat.
Prior to leaving government service in 1993, he served with the US Department of State as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Health and Natural Resources from 1990 to 1993 and as chief US negotiator for the UN convention on climate change and for the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer. He was also chairman of Working Group III (on response strategies, 1991-92) and of Working Group II (on impacts, adaptation and mitigation, 1992-93) of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
From 1982 to 1990 Mr. Reinstein was a trade negotiator at the White House Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), responsible for coordinating US trade policy for energy, chemicals, natural resources and environment. From 1975 to 1982 he was with the Federal Energy Administration and the Department of Energy, where he was chief economist of the Department's Economic Regulatory Administration from 1978 to 1981. He was a teacher, writer and editor from 1961 to 1975, specializing in several sciences, economics and computer science, including serving as Senior Science Editor at Columbia University Press from 1972 to 1974.
After leaving government Mr. Reinstein served as Executive Vice President of the Washington International Energy Group, a consulting firm, from 1993 until he founded his own company in May 1996. In addition, during 1993 he was also visiting professor of environmental management at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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