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William Moomaw
Director, International Environment and
Resource Policy Program
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
William Moomaw is Professor
of International Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he founded the
International Environment and Resource Policy Program and
co-founded the Global Development and Environment Institute. He
is also Senior Director of the, interdisciplinary,
university-wide, Tufts Institute of the Environment.
He is a physical chemist, who works to translate science and
technology into policy terms using interdisciplinary tools. He
was a coordinating lead author of the Year 2001
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chapter on greenhouse
gas emissions reduction, and has been a lead author of previous
IPCC reports. He provides advice to fuels and power sector
companies and governments on environmentally significant issues.
He was the first director of the Climate Energy and Pollution
program at the World Resources Institute, and directed the
Center for Environmental Studies and taught chemistry at
Williams College. As a Congressional Science Fellow, he worked
on legislation that eliminated the use of CFCs to protect the
ozone layer in a cost effective manner, and worked on energy and
forestry legislation.
Moomaw currently also serves on the Board of Directors of
Earthwatch (a conservation research and education organization),
Consensus Building Institute and Clean Air-Cool Planet
(addressing climate change and air quality). He recently
co-edited with Barbara Baudot a book on population and the
environment entitled, People and their Planet: Searching for
Balance, and with Lawrence Susskind of MIT and Kevin Galhager,
Transboundary Environmental Negotiations. He has also co-edited
nine volumes of papers for the Program on Negotiations at
Harvard Law School. He is currently working to develop an
international reactive nitrogen pollution assessment program. He
has also facilitated sessions with negotiators of international
treaties, other diplomats and government, business and
non-governmental representatives.
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