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Philip Angell
Philip Angell is the Director of the World Resources Report (WRR). He was also the Editor in Chief of the previous WRR, "World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience." That volume focused on the links between environment and poverty, and the impact of climate change.
Angell has a long record of involvement in environmental policy issues in both the public and private sector. He served in senior posts at the Environmental Protection Agency, since it was established in 1970. He was Special Assistant to the Agency's first two Administrators, William Ruckelshaus and Russell Train. He served as Chief of Staff to Ruckelshaus during his second terms as Administrator from 1983-1985. He also served as Senior Counselor to Michael Leavitt when he headed EPA in 2004.
Angell has served as staff to participants in high-level panels dealing with key environmental issues: The National Commission on the Environment; Enterprise for the Environment; the Superfund Group. He also assisted William Ruckelshaus in his position as the U.S. member of the United Nations Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission). Angell attended the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972 as staff to the U.S. Delegation.
Angell has been involved with the World Resources Institute in a number of positions since 2001: in addition to his involvement in the last two editions of the World Resources Report, he has served as acting director of External Affairs and advisor to WRI senior staff.
psangell@wri.org | +1 (202) 729-7659
Polly Ghazi
Polly is WRR's writer/editor. She has extensive experience writing on sustainability issues as a journalist, author and consultant. She was most recently a freelance sustainability writer and before that worked as the Environment Correspondent of The Observer, a UK national Sunday newspaper. She has published three books, including the bestselling Downshifting: A Guide to Happier, Simpler Living and The Low Carbon Diet, published in 2007. She continues to contribute occasional articles to The Guardian's environment pages and writes a column American Eye for Green Futures, a UK magazine.
Polly lives in Washington D.C. with her husband Allan Thornton, a Greenpeace founder and their two daughters.
Polly lives in Washington D.C. with her husband Allan Thornton, a Greenpeace founder and their two daughters.
polly.ghazi@wri.org | +1 (202) 729-7907
Kelly Levin
Kelly Levin is a senior associate with WRI's international climate objective. She leads WRI's work on developed country emission reduction pledges and has conducted an annual review of climate change science for WRI since 2005. She is also Research Director of the 2010 World Resources Report, which is dedicated to climate change adaptation. She pursued her doctoral work at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she dedicated her research to enhancing adaptation policies to contend with climate change impacts to biodiversity. Kelly was a writer for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Reporting Services, covering biodiversity and climate change meetings, including the UN climate change negotiations. Kelly has also worked as a climate policy/technical analyst at NESCAUM (Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management), where she devoted her time to developing a regional greenhouse gas registry in the Northeast. Kelly holds a PhD and Master of Environmental Management from Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale College.
klevin@wri.org | +1 (202) 729-7910
Brian Lipinski
Brian is a Research Analyst and Program Coordinator for the World Resources Report. Prior to joining the WRR team, he interned with WRI's Vulnerability and Adaptation Project. He received his M.S. in environmental policy from the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. He originally hails from Lansing, MI and now lives in Washington, DC.
blipinski@wri.org | +1 (202) 729-7797
