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 an associate at Climate Advisers and manages its domestic energy practice. He has extensive experience working with leading energy companies and has co-authored several studies for prominent think tanks, including the Center for American Progress and Resources for the Future. Samuel also holds a research position at Resources for the Future, 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, Samuel 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 Climate Advisers' director of campaigns 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 directs Climate Advisers' 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 received a B.A. with highest honors from Brown
University and is currently pursuing an M.A. in international economics and international relations from
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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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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Susan Pacholski
is vice president and general counsel of Climate Advisers, and also leads the firm's
regulatory practice. She joined Climate Advisers after nearly a decade at the U.S. Department of
Justice, where she represented the United States in the federal courts of appeals as an attorney
in the Environment and Natural Resources Division and in the Civil Division. She has a broad range
of expertise in federal statutes and agencies relating to U.S. natural resource, energy and climate
change policies. Prior to joining the Justice Department she worked as a litigator at Shea & Gardner
in Washington, DC, and served as a law clerk to Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Milton Shadur of the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois. She graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School,
where she served as an editor of the law review, and magna cum laude from Carleton College.
Alexandra Stark is an associate at Climate Advisers and assists with research, policy analysis, and communications campaigns, particularly related to international deforestation policy. Previously, Alex was a legislative program assistant at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, where she lead the organization's lobbying and grassroots organizing work on the connections between climate change and conflict. She was also a Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Research Intern at the Center for a New American Security's Natural Security Program, and has attended several sessions of the UN climate negotiations as part of tcktcktck.org's Adopt a Negotiator Program. Alex received her B.A. with honors in international relations and graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College.
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Andrew Stevenson is a senior adviser at Climate Advisers, providing
strategic guidance across the firm's practice areas. He is also currently pursuing a JD/MBA at Stanford University's
law school and graduate school of business. Andrew has extensive experience working with the U.S. Congress and
has co-authored studies on climate and energy policy for leading think tanks. His research and outreach have
generated innovative policy solutions, including helping to secure a $1 billion pledge from the United States
to reduce emissions from deforestation. Andrew previously completed a Fulbright research scholarship with Civic
Exchange in China on environmental policy and urban development.
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Michael Wolosin directs Climate Advisers' 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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