Nigel Purvis
Senior Transatlantic Fellow
German Marshall Fund of the United States
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Nigel Purvis joined GMF as a senior fellow in May 2009. He is an established climate policy expert and was a senior international negotiator on climate change from 1998 to 2002, ending his tenure as the deputy head of the U.S. negotiating team. He currently serves as president of Climate Advisers, a strategic consulting firm specializing in U.S. climate change policy, international climate change cooperation, global carbon markets, and climate-related forest conservation. Previously, Purvis directed U.S. environmental diplomacy as deputy assistant secretary of State for oceans, environment, and science. In that capacity, he oversaw diplomacy on climate change, biodiversity conservation, forests, international trade, toxic substances, and ozone depletion. From 2005 to 2007, Nigel Purvis served as vice president for policy and external affairs at The Nature Conservancy. From 2002 to 2005, he was a senior scholar in the foreign policy program of The Brookings Institution. During that period, he also served as an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His essays and interviews on climate change, environmental diplomacy, international assistance, and foreign affairs have appeared in leading news outlets and academic journals around the world. Earlier in his career, Nigel Purvis worked as an international lawyer at the U.S. State Department, as a securities attorney at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, and as a lecturer at Georgetown University. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Nigel Purvis’ recent publication: “Jumpstarting green growth: International climate strategies in the new transatlantic context” (GMF Climate & Energy Paper Series 2010).
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