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Home Research Summary Research Activities Mentors Curriculum Vitae MentorsCatherine R. Leining, Ms. Leining is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Center for Clean Air Policy focusing on carbon sinks in the agriculture and forestry sectors, international climate change negotiations and greenhouse gas reduction opportunities in Eastern Europe. Ms. Leining has over nine years of experience conducting in-depth policy research and analysis in support of climate change, pollution prevention, market transformation, and ecosystem management programs. She currently manages the Center's International Dialogue on Future Commitments (formerly CDM dialogue), which has brought together negotiators from 27 industrialized and developing countries to hold discussions on design of the future climate policy. Having specialized in policy development and inventory and project-based accounting in the land-use change and forestry and agriculture sectors under the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, she also leads the Center's policy work on the integration of the forestry and agriculture sectors into domestic and international greenhouse gas (GHG) emission trading mechanisms. During the past year, she assumed the management of capacity building projects to design inventory and emissions trading systems in Slovakia, Ukraine, Poland, and the Czech Republic. In her previous position as an Associate with the ICF Consulting Group, Ms. Leining provided extensive policy and technical support on GHG accounting in the land-use change and forestry and agriculture sectors for the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the Secretariat of the US Initiative on Joint Implementation (USIJI), the US Country Studies Program (USCSP), the Asia Least-Cost Greenhouse Gas Abatement Strategy (ALGAS) Program, Canada’s National Climate Change Process, and the World Bank. Prior to joining ICF, Ms. Leining spent two years researching environmental science and policy issues and conducting educational outreach for an international local government association, where she specialized in ecosystem management, pollution prevention, and environmental justice. She has published reports or articles in each of the fields identified above. MR. PAUL R. THOMAS,
Mr. Thomas is an industrial economist and financial analyst with over
20 years
of direct international experience. He
has worked in Ukraine since January 1995. He
specializes in business valuation, financial appraisal, competitiveness
analysis
and the structuring and raising of investment capital. For 8 years as an economic research director at the United States Bureau of Mines, Mr. Thomas was responsible for international mineral supply analysis and worked in many countries conducting on-site enterprise evaluations. For 7 years as Vice President and Acting President of the Economics Institute of the American Economics Association, he was responsible for international business development and worked directly with a large number of foreign government ministries, banks, financial institutions and private businesses around the world. Mr.
Thomas is an adjunct professor of Economics and Business who has taught
for the
University of Colorado, the Colorado School of Mines and for Carnegie
Mellon
University in China. He has authored
numerous publications in the fields of
industrial economics and asset valuation. He
is a founding member and Vice President of the Ukrainian Valuation
Institute and
an Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Society of Appraisers. He regularly
teaches
seminars on business and intangible asset valuation and financial
analysis for
professional appraisers in Ukraine and on behalf of company clients
including
the Defense Enterprise Fund, UkrEsco, and the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) and the United States Department of
Energy.
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