Albert Bressand, PhD | Executive Director, CEMTPP; Director Marine Transportation Program; and Professor in the Practice of International and Public Affairs

Stephen A. Hammer, PhD | Director, Urban Energy Program

David Nissen, PhD | Director, Program in International Energy Management and Policy

Jeanene Mitchell, MPA | Researcher, Urban Energy Program

Chantal Mbuyi | Program Coordinator

Barbara Kates-Garnick | Special Adviser to the Director

Dr Barbara Kates-Garnick, Special Adviser to the CEMTPP Executive Director, is a leader in the energy and environmental fields with a broad career that has included serving as a corporate officer in KeySpan, a Fortune 500 utility, establishing a start up venture as a successful energy supplier, appointment as a Massachusetts public utility commissioner and as a management consultant on engagements dealing with critical public policy issues. Based on her breadth of her experience, Dr. Kates-Garnick has expertise in strategic decision making in complex organizations, both from a regulatory and corporate perspective, the cost and benefits of implementing environmental mandates, and how organizations respond to change and the adaption of emerging energy technologies.

As Vice President of Corporate Affairs at KeySpan, Dr. Kates-Garnick directed the government and media relations, crisis communications and operations support in New England and community outreach corporate wide. She was the strategic decision maker on public policy issues at the city, state and federal level on issues ranging from energy siting, green house gases, energy efficiency, alternative energy investments, hazardous waste, and resolved complex operational problems that had a public sector component. Known for building partnerships with both the public and private sector, Dr. Kates-Garnick created the KeySpan “College to Career Program“ which has become a model program for retaining minority university students in Boston area corporations and for helping other business identify opportunities to enhance diversity.

As a path breaker in the implementation of energy deregulation, Dr. Kates-Garnick lead the New England office of one of the nation's most successful competitive energy suppliers where she designed the strategy leading to the sale of the first deregulated electricity in the nation in Rhode Island. She was also asked to testify before the U.S. House Energy and Power Subcommittee and promoted competition in state houses and regulatory bodies throughout the country. As a Public Utility Commissioner in Massachusetts, Dr. Kates-Garnick facilitated the adaption of the early energy efficiency programs that propelled Massachusetts into a leadership role in the design and implementation of those programs and addressed environmental issues related to generation and hazardous waste cleanup. In her consulting practice, Dr. Kates-Garnick provided strategic advice on a wide range of economic and regulatory issues faced by the energy, environmental and telecommunications industries as they confronted change and transformation.

An engaged member of the community, Dr. Kates-Garnick sits on numerous non-profit boards with a range of missions. She established Social Venture Partners in Boston, played a critical role in Bryn Mawr College’s acceptance of Posse Foundation scholars, and is taking a leadership role in the American Red Cross’ new fundraising paradigm.

Dr. Kates-Garnick has a Ph.D. in international political economy from the Fletcher School of Tufts University, an A.B., cum laude, in political science from Bryn Mawr College and was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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Benoit Lefèvre is a Post-Doctorate Fellow with CEMTPP’s Urban Energy Program. Dr. Lefèvre’s research focuses on analyzing the institutional structures related to transport and land use systems that influence the development dynamics (and hence, energy consumption) of mega-cities in developing countries. His objective is to achieve a better understanding of how urban authorities can intervene in transport, housing and real-estate markets and stakeholder decisions to orient private investment toward the construction of a more energy efficient city. Bogota (Colombia) is the principal case study city to be used in conducting this research, with comparisons made to other mid-sized cities in Asia and on other continents.

Dr. Lefèvre received his PhD degree in Urban Environmental Economics from the École des Mines de Paris (Paristech —ENSMP), an MPhil in Environmental and Natural Resources Economics from INAP-G, ENGREF, Polytechnique and EHESS, and a Master degree in Applied Agronomics and Executive Engineering from ENSA-Montpellier.

He has previously lectured on “Urban Transitions in the South and Sustainable Development” in the Master of International Affairs program at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (IEP Paris). He has also carried out research contracts funded by the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development (MEDD), and provided research support on urban transportation and energy efficiency issues to the French Development Agency (AFD), the French Agency for the Environment and Energy Management (ADEME), and a consulting agency in Bangalore, India (SCE-CREOCEAN). Dr. Lefèvre has published chapters of books and articles in Ciudad y Territorio, Revue d’Economie Financière, Urbanisme, Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, and Libération.

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