Management Team
Members of the Management Team
Steve Cohen (Chair)
Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer
sc32@columbia.edu
phone: (212) 854-4445
Joanna Rubinstein (Deputy Chair)
Chief of Staff to Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director of Strategic Initiatives
jr2073@columbia.edu
phone: (646) 724-5267
David C. Dvorak
Director, Finance and Administration
ddvorak@ei.columbia.edu
phone: (212) 854-5441
Terry Karamanos
Director, Funding Initiatives, University Development and Alumni Relations
tk2326@columbia.edu
phone: (212) 870-2434
Louise Rosen
Director, Office of Academic and Research Programs
lar46@columbia.edu
phone: (212) 854-0463 or (212) 870-2434
Erin Trowbridge
Director, Communications
trowbridge@ei.columbia.edu
Tel: (212) 854-9485
Members of the Academic Committee
Peter Schlosser, Chair
Associate Director, the Earth Institute
Vinton Professor, Earth and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
schlosser@ldeo.columbia.edu
Lisa Anderson
James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations, School of International and Public Affairs
la8@columbia.edu
Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, Ex Officio
Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
pwb1@columbia.edu
Wallace S. Broecker
Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
broecker@ldeo.columbia.edu
Mark A. Cane
G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth Climate Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Chair, Earth and Environmental Science
mcane@ldeo.columbia.edu
Robert Chen, Ex Officio
Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network
bchen@ciesin.columbia.edu
Joel E. Cohen
Director, Laboratory of Populations
Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Populations, Columbia University and The Rockefeller University
jec2545@columbia.edu
Steven A. Cohen, Ex Officio
Executive Director, The Earth Institute
Director, Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs and Earth Institute
Director, Concentration in Environmental Policy Studies, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
sc32@columbia.edu
Dr. Richard Deckelbaum
Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Epidemiology
Robert R. Williams Professor of Nutrition
Director, Institute of Human Nutrition
Columbia University Medical Center
rjd20@columbia.edu
Peter deMenocal
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
peter@ldeo.columbia.edu
Joseph Graziano
Associate Dean of Research, Environmental Health Sciences
Professor, Pharmacology
Professor, Mailman School of Public Health
jg24@columbia.edu
Geoffrey Heal
Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Graduate School of Business
Director, Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development
gmh1@columbia.edu
Patrick Kinney
Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
plk3@columbia.edu
Klaus S. Lackner
Ewing Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
kl2010@columbia.edu
Upmanu Lall
Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering and of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
ula2@columbia.edu
Robert Lieberman, Ex Officio
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of International and Public Affairs
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
rcl15@columbia.edu
Edward Lloyd
Evan M. Frankel Clinical Professor of Environmental Law, School of Law
Director, Environmental Law Clinic, School of Law
El570@columbia.edu
Ann E. McDermott, Ex Officio
Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemistry
aem5@columbia.edu
Vijay Modi
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
modi@columbia.edu
John C. Mutter
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
jcm@ldeo.columbia.edu
Shahid Naeem
Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
sn2121@columbia.edu
Stephanie Pfirman
Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Science, Barnard College
spfirman@barnard.columbia.edu
Kenneth Prewitt
Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs
kp2058@columbia.edu
G. Michael Purdy, Ex Officio
Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
mpurdy@ldeo.columbia.edu
Dr. Allan G. Rosenfield, Ex Officio
Dean, Mailman School of Public Health
DeLamar Professor of Public Health Practice and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
rosenfield@columbia.edu
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development
sachs@columbia.edu
Pedro Sanchez, Ex Officio
Director, Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program
Director, Millennium Villages Project
sanchez@iri.columbia.edu
Nickolas J. Themelis, Ex Officio
Stanley-Thompson Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
njt1@columbia.edu
Elke Weber
Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Columbia Business School
Professor, Department of Psychology
euw2@columbia.edu
Stephen E. Zebiak, Ex Officio
Director General
International Research Institute for Climate and Society
steve@iri.columbia.edu
Academic Committee Subcommittees
Strategic Planning: Peter Schlosser (chair), Mark Cane, Joel Cohen, Steve Cohen, Joseph Graziano and G. Michael Purdy
Appointments: Shahid Naeem (chair), Robin Bell (ex officio), Wally Broecker, Steve Cohen, Geoffrey Heal, Klaus Lackner and Peter Schlosser
Education: Stephanie Pfirman (chair), Paul Brandt-Rauf, Peter deMenocal, Kevin Griffin (ex officio), Louise Rosen (ex officio) and Joshua Graff Zivin (ex officio)
Fellows: John C. Mutter (chair), Richard Deckelbaum, Sharyn O'Halloran (ex officio), Ken Prewitt and Elliott Sclar (ex officio)
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