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Jonathan Haskett, Associate Director, Ph.D.
Jonathan Haskett is a climate change scientist whose work focuses on the nexus
of land use climate change mitigation, adaptation and poverty reduction in the
developing world. His work spans the creation of land use carbon projects, the
development of landscape carbon measurement methodologies, and climate
change policy at the domestic and international levels. He helped in the
development of the long-term acquisition plan for the Landsat-7 satellite while
at the University of Maryland. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador (2002-
2005), Dr. Haskett worked with indigenous communities on soil conservation,
agroforestry and mapping of the landscape carbon resource. During the period
2007-2011 he worked with the World Wildlife Fund, the World Agroforestry
Centre, and other development and conservation organizations.
Dr. Haskett holds a Ph.D. and a Masters in soil science from the University of
Minnesota and has done post-doctoral research on the effect of climate change
on agriculture with USDA-ARS. He received his Bachelors from the University of
Chicago.
Deborah Bleviss, Associate Practitioner in Residence, B.A.
Deborah Lynn Bleviss is a Professor in, and formerly Acting Director of, the
Energy, Resources and Environment Program and has served as a Professorial
Lecturer at SAIS since 1993. She has worked in the energy and environmental
field for more than 30 years.
From 2002 through June 2009, she worked as an independent consultant in
energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable urban transportation. She
was also a partner (2003-2007) in the BBG Group, a small consulting firm
focusing on sustainable transportation. Previously, Ms. Bleviss worked first as
an advisor to and then as program director of the Inter-American Development
Bank’s Sustainable Markets for Sustainable Energy (SMSE) program. Prior to
her work at the IDB, she worked at the U.S. Department of Energy as an advisor
to the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, developing international and domestic clean transportation and energy
financing initiatives. She was also a founder and the first director of the
International Institute for Energy Conservation.
Her educational background includes graduate studies at Princeton University
and she holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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