Board of Directors
Key Staff and Consultants
Affiliates
CCS programs are supported by affiliates who are representatives of universities, policy and research institutions, nonprofit and private organizations, and financial, legal, and communications experts on issues related to climate change and economic, energy, and environmental security.
Thomas D. Peterson
President
Tom Peterson founded CCS in 2004 to help governments and stakeholders understand and formulate responses to climate change. Over the past decade this included developing and implementing a widely recognized template for comprehensive, multi objective, consensus-based planning and analysis that led to the development of 20 US state plans, national scale up and integration of subnational climate action plans in the US, the Low Emissions Development System for the Border States of Mexico, and the Low Carbon Development Planning and Analysis System for the Provinces of China. His posts over the past 38 years include Senior Advisor to the White House Climate Change Task Force, Legislative Fellow to US Senator Joe Lieberman, Economist with the US Environmental Protection Agency, and Vice President of DSL Capital Corporation. Mr. Peterson is an Adjunct Professor and Teaching Fellow at the Energy and Climate Center at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his expertise and innovations in climate policy development; climate, energy and economic security integration; and stakeholder consensus building.
Arianna Ugliano
Senior Project Manager and Policy Analyst
Arianna Ugliano has extensive experience in designing, developing and managing short- and long-term low carbon policy plans, including Long-term strategies, LEDS, Net-zero pathways and Green growth plans .She has led multi-sector, stakeholder-driven policy actions assessments and capacity building programs in over 10 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia at national and subnational level, and has supported numerous government agencies as well as development organizations, partners and donors. She is an attorney by training and, prior to joining CCS, she worked with law firms and as in-house counsel on research and analysis of energy regulatory frameworks to support clients’ investment decisions. Ms. Ugliano holds a J.D. from the LUISS Guido Carlo University of Rome, Italy, a Master in International Business Law (LL.M.) from King’s College, University of London, UK, and a Master of Science in Energy Policy and Climate at the Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Ugliano is a native speaker of Italian, is fluent in English and Spanish, and has basic knowledge of French.
Holly Lindquist
Senior Policy Analyst
Holly Lindquist has extensive experience in emission inventory development and GHG mitigation policy analysis. Her experience includes development of emission estimates, estimation methodologies, and emission factors, for criteria air pollutants (CAP), greenhouse gases (GHG), and hazardous air pollutants (HAP) for multiple source sectors, including transportation; residential, commercial, and industrial (RCI) fuel use; industrial processes; fossil fuel industry; agriculture; forestry and other land use (FOLU); and waste management. She has supported many climate change stakeholder projects by conducting research to support baseline and policy development, estimating costs and benefits for proposed mitigation policies, and supporting technical workgroup facilitation. Ms. Lindquist has also supported GHG inventory verification projects for 9 corporate reporters to North American emissions registries. She holds a Master of Science in Environmental Science and a Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Transylvania University.
Stephen M. Roe
Senior Policy Consultant
Stephen M. Roe over 30 years of experience in climate change, energy, natural resources and air quality consulting; environmental management; and process engineering. He leads the development and implementation of CCS' analytical toolkit which supports the 10-step action planning approach developed and applied by the organization since 2004. The toolkit supports national and subnational action planning and addresses: baseline (inventory and forecast) development (e.g. energy, emissions, economy); policy/strategy identification/screening/selection/design; microeconomic (direct) impacts analysis; and macroeconomic (indirect) impacts analysis. Mr. Roe is also experienced in organizational greenhouse gas management, including energy and emissions baselines and action plan development, including experience as an inventory and emission reduction project verifier with work covering California's mandatory reporting program, The Climate Registry, the California Climate Action Registry, and the Climate Action Reserve. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Biology from Florida State University and a Masters Degree in Environmental Chemistry & Toxicology from California State University, Sacramento.
David von Hippel
Senior Policy Consultant
David von Hippel has worked internationally for multinational (including UNDP, GEF, UN-DESA, UNEP) and many other clients for nearly 30 years on hundreds of projects, including project evaluation assignments and projects on greenhouse gas emissions scenario development and analysis, energy analysis and planning at the national level (including energy efficiency and microeconomic analysis), utility integrated resource planning, demand-side management planning and related analysis, air pollution inventory development, and a host of other issues. Extensive experience with LEAP and related modeling tools.
Bill Dougherty
Senior Policy Consultant
Dr. Dougherty has worked over the past 20 years on a wide variety of climate change related issues, with an emphasis on energy and environmental analysis. He has assisted governments in the development of national GHG mitigation and adaptation strategies, analyzed energy efficiency and renewable energy options for achieving emission reductions, and contributed to the development of methodological approaches, training programs and software tools that are used throughout the world. Dr Dougherty has been invited as a speaker or expert participant in meetings of the World Bank, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Development Programme, the African Development Bank, the World Energy Summit, and the United Nations Environment Programme. He has worked throughout North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East in support of national government agencies, multi-lateral organizations, and development banks. He has authored or co-authored over 100 technical reports.
Hal Nelson
Senior Policy Consultant
Hal Nelson, Ph.D., CFA, is the Co-founder and CEO of Residential Energy and Water Intelligence, or Res-Intel, a social-justice focused analytics company that performs mass-scale building energy and water benchmarking. Res-Intel’s software and services help utilities and local governments make their residential building sector more equitable, more efficient, and more resilient. Dr. Nelson is also a tenured professor at Portland State University where he teaches data science, energy justice, grid modernization, and public policy courses. He has peer-reviewed publications appearing in Energy Policy, Climate Policy, Land Use Policy, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, and other top journals.
Advisory Council
Dr. Kathy Wagner Hill, Director Emeritus CCS; Director, Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies
Dr. Emir Metry, Chairman Emeritus CCS; Director, Versar Corporation
Alex Beehler, George Washington University Energy Management Institute, Faculty and former Assistant Secretary, US Army Installations
Diane Duff, former Executive Director, Southern Governor's Association. Washington, DC
Dr. David von Hippel, Senior Policy Analyst, CCS; President, David von Hippel Analysis and Planning. Eugene, OR
Dr. Bill Dougherty, Senior Policy Analyst and Affiliate, Stockholm Environment Institute
Tom Looby, Senior Project Director CCS; Former Director, Colorado Environment Protection Division. Frisco, CO
Dr. Hal Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, CCS; Visiting Professor, School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University. Los Angeles, CA
Scott Sklar, President of The Stella Group, Ltd; Energy Director of the GWU Environment & Energy Management Institute (EEMI) and Acting Director of GWU's Solar Institute.