Daniel Lieberman
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STRENGTHS & EXPERTISE
Carbon Management
- Developed tools and analyses for public and private sector clients to forecast carbon market prices.
- Provided expert advice to industry leaders on cost-effective emissions mitigation opportunities.
- Formulated methodologies for World Resources Institute’s GHG Protocol Initiative.
Climate Economics, Market Forecasting, Risk Analysis
- Familiar with UNFCCC, Kyoto mechanisms & related agreements.
- Contributing editor to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines.
- Responsible for U.S. government’s management of uncertainty in national GHG inventory.
Communication and Management Skills
- Bridge gap between technical & program staff; facilitate government & industry meetings.
- Contribute to interaction and communication strategies between EPA and private enterprise.
- Responsible for managing in-house and contracted staff on research and modeling.
Technical Writing, Editing, Speaking
- Published various reports and articles in the field of climate change.
- Served as chief editor on forthcoming book on uncertainties in national GHG inventories.
- Significant experience presenting at and participating in workshops and conferences.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Chevron Corporation
San Ramon, CA
Corporate Advisor, Carbon Management – Present
- Develop internal company policy for handling of greenhouse gas emissions
- Develop and implement facility-level protocol and management systems worldwide
- Advise senior executive staff on environmental / climate change strategic decision-making
ICF International
Washington, DC
Manager, Corporate Strategic Initiatives – 2006 - 2007
- Reported directly to COO
- Developed and managed revenue forecasting and corporate financial planning models
- Responsible for internal communication of firm-wide corporate strategy
- Conducted corporate strategy implementation workshops
- Participated in strategic decision-making with senior executive staff
ICF Consulting, Inc.
Washington, DC
Senior Associate 2005 – 2006
- Provide technical assistance to newly independent states to achieve international climate change commitments; advise on inventory management process, UNFCCC requirements, and methodologies.
- Manage a team of GHG Inventory source-category analysts in the process of quantifying uncertainty associated with EPA emissions estimates; serve as US uncertainty expert for annual publication.
- Direct planning and development of a secure, online data reporting system to track US ODS production & consumption and monitor phase-out.
Associate 2003 – 2005
- Forecast future market supply curves (i.e., MAC Curves) to project costs & opportunities for emission reductions in various industries, and develop carbon market forecasts and analytical tools.
- Estimate current and future GHG gas emissions from various sources in the U.S. and internationally.
- Provide expert analysis of semiconductor manufacturing industry’s business & environmental trends.
- Design and develop spreadsheet tools to implement Monte Carlo Stochastic Simulation of emissions estimation methodologies for various energy and industrial sectors.
- Lead development of standardized series of carbon management tools for various clients
Analyst 2001 – 2003
- Reported to Canadian government on CDM/JI opportunities for Kyoto compliance.
- Developed tools to estimate source category-specific emission baselines & reductions
- Developed portions of and served as webmaster for site: http://www.emissionstrategies.com.
- Wrote and reviewed technical documents.
Research Assistant 2000 – 2001
- Conducted research; collected and analyzed environmental and economic data.
- Developed various spreadsheet tools.
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Lieberman, Daniel; Jonas, M.; Nahorski, Z.; Nilsson, S. (Eds.). Accounting for Climate Change; Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories - Verification, Compliance, and Trading. Springer, Hardcover, August 2007 ( ISBN: 978-1-4020-5929-2)
Choate, Anne; Ravi Kantamaneni; Dan Lieberman; Pam Mathis; Beth Moore; Diana Pape; Lauren Pederson; Marian Van Pelt; John Venezia. Emission Reduction Opportunities for Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases In California. California Energy Commission publication CEC-500-2005-121, July 2005.
Sussman, Fran, T. Mandel, M. Harris, A. Vemuri, D. Lieberman, & A. Choate. Tools for Projecting the Long-term Future of the United States Economy. U.S. Climate Change Science Program Workshop, 2005.
Wagner, Mark, et al. OPS3: Progressing Toward Environmental Results. Overall Performance Study of the Global Environmental Facility. Global Environment Facility, 2005.
Lieberman, Daniel. Use of IPCC Good Practices to Conduct QA/QC and Uncertainty Analysis of National Inventories. EU TACIS Conference, Minsk, Belarus, Oct 2005.
Lieberman, Daniel, Matthias Jonas, Sten Nilsson, Wilfried Winiwarter and Zbigniew Nahorski. Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Verification, Compliance & Trading: Summary and Conclusions. Workshop Proceedings. Warsaw, Poland. September 2004.
Fernandez, Roger, Daniel Lieberman, & Don Robinson. US Natural GasSTAR Program Success Points to Global Opportunities to Cut Methane Emissions Cost-Effectively. Oil & Gas Journal, V102.26, July, 2004.
Bartos, Scott C., Daniel Lieberman, and C. Shepherd Burton. Estimating The Impact of Migration to Asian Foundry Production on Attaining the World Semiconductor Council’s 2010 PFC Reduction Goal. Presented at 11th Annual International Semiconductor Environment, Safety and Health (ISESH) Conference, Makuhari, Japan, July 2004.
Burton, C. Shepherd and Daniel Lieberman. PFC Reduction/Climate Partnership for the Semiconductor Industry: Trends in Quality of Emissions Data and Documentation: 1995-2003, Final Report prepared for Non-CO2 Gases and Sequestration Branch, U. S. EPA, Washington, DC. 20005, July 2004.
Abyd Karmali, Tom Cleary, Barry Galef, Myfanwy Price-Jones, Sebastian Foot, Jens Wolf, Kim Keats, Diana Pape, Marian Van Pelt, Daniel Lieberman, Sarah Dawson, and Liam P O Cleirigh. Determining the Share of National Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Emissions Trading in Ireland, Final Report, prepared for Department of the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, Ireland, February 2004.
D. Upson, J. Cohen, M. Van Pelt, J. King, C.S. Burton, D. Lieberman, P. Friedman, M. Barwis, & R. Kantamaneni. “Development of an International Marginal Abatement Curve for High Global Warming Potential Gases.” Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases: Scientific Understanding, Control Options and Policy Aspects. Ed. J Van Ham, A.P.M. Baede, R. Guicherit, & J.G.F.M. Williams-Jacobse. Millpress: Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2002. (ISBN 90-77017-70-4)
Harris, Maria-Richetta, Daniel Lieberman, and Jill Testerman. Economic Losses of Livestock Caused by Malignant Catarrhal Fever And Management Strategies on the Athi Kapiti Plains . The Centre for Wildlife Management Studies, Nairobi , Kenya , May 1999.
EDUCATION
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
M.B.A. Candidate (part-time) 2004 –
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
B.A., Economics; Environmental Studies Program 1996 – 2000
American-British Teacher Training
Barcelona, Spain
TESOL Certificate (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Summer 2002
School for Field Studies
Athi River, Kenya
Environmental Economics, Wildlife Management & Environmental Policy Coursework Spring 1999
RELEVANT COURSEWORK AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Economics of Development
- Environmental Economics
- Econometrics & Statistics
- Environmental Law & Policy
- Strategic Environmental Mgmt
- Mathematics of Economics
- Project Management
- Environmental Auditing
- Energy Management
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Risk & statistical analysis—Palisade @RISK, SPSS, MS Excel
- Internet, Graphics—Macromedia Dreamweaver & Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, ASP & HTML programming
- Computer Modeling—Visual Basic programming, advanced modeling in Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office Suite—expert user: Word, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, Excel.
LANGUAGES
English
- fluent (native) speaking
- expert technical writing & editing (U.S. Citizen)
Swedish
- fluent (native) speaking
- basic proficiency in reading & writing (Swedish Citizen)
Spanish
- proficient speaking
- intermediate proficiency in reading & writing
French
- proficient speaking
- intermediate proficiency in reading & writing