Team
Nigel Purvis is the founder, President and CEO of Climate Advisers, a Washington, DC-based consultancy specializing in U.S. climate change policy, international climate change cooperation, global carbon markets, and climate-related forest conservation. Previously, Mr. Purvis directed U.S. environmental diplomacy, most recently as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment, and Science. In that capacity he oversaw U.S. foreign policy relating to climate change, biodiversity conservation, forests, toxic substances, ozone depletion and environmental aspects of international trade, and served as the deputy chief U.S. climate negotiator. Mr. Purvis currently holds climate change and international affairs research appointments at Resources for the Future, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and The Brookings Institution. He also serves as the Executive Director of the bipartisan Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests. He is a prize-winning honors graduate of Harvard Law School.
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Samuel Grausz is a director of policy and research at Climate Advisers and manages its domestic energy, transportation, and carbon markets practices. He has extensive experience working with leading energy companies and has co-authored several studies for prominent think tanks, including Resources for the Future (RFF), the Brookings Institution, and the Center for American Progress. Samuel also holds a research position at RFF, where he works with leading economists on a broad set of energy and environmental policy issues ranging from state-level energy efficiency policies to national carbon policy. Previously, he worked at National Economic Research Associates (NERA), a Washington, DC-based economic consulting firm, where he participated in environmental, energy, anti-trust, and intellectual property cases. Samuel received his B.A. in economics and political science magna cum laude from Amherst College.
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Glenn Hurowitz is one of Climate Advisers' Managing Directors
and shapes the firm's political, communications, and field work. He helps the
firm's clients achieve their policy and public education goals by designing and implementing winning
campaigns. In this work, Glenn draws on his experience in a variety of senior positions in the
environmental movement and as a veteran of many election campaigns, as well as work advising private
sector clients. An accomplished writer, Glenn is the author of the critically acclaimed book Fear and
Courage in the Democratic Party, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, Politico, The
Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and many other publications. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, FOX,
CBS, NPR, and others. Glenn also serves as the Director of the Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition,
an alliance of environmental, business, scientific, and agricultural groups working to protect tropical
forests as part of the solution to climate change. A graduate of Yale University and the Green Corps
environmental organizing fellowship, Glenn is also a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.
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Abigail Jones is one of Climate Advisers' Managing Directors and
helps shape research and policy work on international economics and
development assistance, adaptation and energy efficiency. In this role she has worked closely with
multilateral development banks, bilateral development agencies and leading charitable foundations.
Abigail previously worked at the Brookings Institution in the Global Economy and Development Program
where she conducted research on foreign assistance reform and climate change. She also managed the
Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty, an annual forum for policymakers to discuss innovative
ways to alleviate global poverty, and co-edited Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in
the Balance? (Brookings Institution Press, 2009). She holds an M.A. in international relations and international economics
from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. with highest honors from Brown University.
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Deborah Lapidus is Climate Advisers' outreach director, and shapes the firm's field, communications,
and public education campaigns. Deborah has years of experience leading environmental and electoral
campaigns around the country that have engaged public officials, health professionals, educators,
students, celebrities, business leaders, community advocates, organizations and tens of thousands
of people. Prior to joining Climate Advisers, Deborah led Corporate Accountability International's
Value [the] Meal Campaign, working to reverse the epidemic of diet-related disease and foster a more
sustainable food system. In this role, Deborah built a grassroots coalition to secure the passage of San
Francisco's landmark Healthy Meals Incentive Ordinance, setting nutritional standards for children's
meals sold with toy giveaways.
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Lea Rosenbohm directs Climate Advisers' operations and business strategies. Lea has extensive experience managing environmental policy programs relating to climate change, energy security and clean air. Lea joined Climate Advisers from the Brookings Institution where she managed multi-disciplinary programs out of the office of the president. Prior to that, she helped launch Brookings' Energy Security Initiative, one of Brookings' first institution-wide policy initiatives. Prior to joining Brookings, Lea served as a program officer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where she played a key role in administering its climate and energy program, and starting up a newly created urban program, including a transatlantic fellowship. Lea holds an M.A. in public management with a focus on environmental policy from the University of Maryland and is fluent in German.
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Cecilia Springer is an associate at Climate Advisers. Her interests include energy security, U.S.-China relations, international environmental policy and energy resources. Her experience at Climate Advisers includes projects relating to global deforestation, carbon markets, and sustainable supply chains. She also manages the firm's emerging practice on health, population and development. Previously, Cecilia served as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar conducting research in China on green urban development and stakeholder perceptions on eco-cities. She is the founder and editor of the Eco-City Notes website platform, which facilitates discussion and provides local perspectives on eco-cities in China. Cecilia holds an Sc.B. in environmental science from Brown University, where she studied environmental health, toxicology and chemical regulation.
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Michael Wolosin is one of Climate Advisers' Managing Directors
shaping research and policy work on reducing emissions from global
deforestation. He also serves as the program director for the bipartisan Commission on Climate and
Tropical Forests. Michael previously led the Nature Conservancy's efforts to strengthen U.S. policies
to conserve tropical forests, bringing the organization's on-the-ground experiences around the world
to bear in the U.S. policy process through new multi-stakeholder coalitions and direct outreach. Before
this he was a Policy Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, where he authored and edited
a number of climate policy briefs. He did his doctoral research in forest ecology at Duke University,
studying light competition and growth using advanced remote sensing and statistical techniques, and is
co-author of a number of peer-reviewed papers published by top academic journals.
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