Movers & Shakers

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Jigar Shah will spearhead

DOE’s Loan

Programs Of-

ce as execu-

tive director.

Shah most

recently served

as president

and co-founder

of Generate Capital, a

sustainable infrastructure

company.

Carlton Waterhouse is

the new deputy assistant

administrator

of EPA’s Oce

of Land and

Emergency

Management.

Waterhouse

has served as a

law professor at

Howard University and was

an ELI board member.

James Woods joins Lewis,

Longman &

Walker, P.A., in

its West Palm

Beach, FL, of-

ce, focusing on

environmental

and land use

law. Woods

previously served as counsel

at an accounting rm.

SHAKER

Benjamin Wilson, chair of

the Beveridge & Diamond

law rm board, and also

chair of the ELI board, has

been recognized

as one of the

“Most Inuential

Black Lawyers of

the Decade” by

Lawyers of Color,

a nonprot pro-

moting diversity

in the legal profession and

advancing equity in margin-

alized communities.

of the Emmett Institute on

Climate Change and the En-

vironment at UCLA School

of Law. Carlson previously

served as a member of ELI’s

Board of Directors.

Tiffany Ganthier joins

Van Ness Feldman LLP as a

director in its

government

advocacy and

public policy

practice. Gan-

thier previously

served as an

associate at the

Georgetown Climate Center,

providing legal and policy

analysis on climate adapta-

tion and environmental

justice.

e Department of Agricul-

ture welcomes Dewayne

Goldmon as senior advisor

for racial equity

to the secretary.

Goldmon most

recently served

as executive

director of the

National Black

Growers

Council, a group based

in Washington, DC, that

advocates for Black row

crop farmers.

Andy Green will now

serve as senior advisor for

fair and competitive markets

at USDA. Green previously

served as a senior fellow for

economic policy at the Center

for American Progress, a

research institute based in

Washington, DC.

Noah Kaufman, a carbon

tax expert, joins the White

House Council of Economic

Advisors as senior economist.

Kaufman previously served as

deputy associate director for

energy and climate change in

the Obama administration’s

Council on Environmental

Quality.

Van Ness Feldman LLP wel-

comes Michael Diamond

and Suzanne Keppeler as

partners in its Washington,

DC, oce. Jenna Mandell-

Rice also joins the rm as a

partner in its Seattle oce.

Diamond and Keppeler hold

expertise in assisting energy

companies on FERC regula-

tions and other environmen-

tal laws. Mandell-Rice previ-

ously served as an associate at

K&L Gates and will advise

municipal water utilities and

suppliers on water issues.

e Biden administration has

tapped Amanda Lefton as

director of the Department of

the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean

Energy Management. Lefton

previously served as a top en-

vironmental aide to New York

Governor Andrew Cuomo.

e Asian Infrastructure

Investment Bank announces

that Alberto Ninio will

serve as general

counsel. Ninio

served as the

bank’s direc-

tor general of

operational ser-

vices, and holds

over thirty years

of experience in international

development and sustainabil-

ity, including a stint at ELI.

Madeleine Para takes the

lead as president of Citizens’

Climate Lobby after serv-

ing as the organization’s vice

president of programs.

Ali Sharif joins Cardno, a

professional infrastructure and

environmental services rm, as

a project engineer in the com-

pany’s Glendale, CA, oce.

Movers & Shakers

MOVERS

e Biden administration has

appointed Vicki Arroyo as

associate adminis-

trator of EPA’s

Oce of Policy.

Arroyo previously

served as founder

and executive

director of the

Georgetown

Climate Center.

Jeremiah Baumann

moves in as deputy chief

of sta at the Department

of Energy. Baumann was

formerly a legislative director

for Sen. Je Merkley (D-OR)

and most recently served as

director of federal policy at

Energy Innovation: Policy

and Technology LLC.

Suzanne Biemiller takes

the helm as executive

director of

the Audubon

Mid-Atlantic

regional oce,

a strategic

merger between

two former

state programs,

Audubon Pennsylvania and

Audubon Maryland-DC.

Biemiller most recently served

as founder of the policy con-

sulting rm Highland Strate-

gies and previously worked as

rst deputy chief of sta for

the city of Philadelphia.

e National Highway

Trac Safety Administra-

tion has tapped

Ann Carlson

as chief counsel.

Carlson will take

a leave of ab-

sence from her

positions as the

Shirley Shapiro

Professor of Environmental

Law and faculty codirector

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