Our People

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Eban Goodstein

Director and Faculty, Bard MBA in Sustainability; Director, Bard Center for Environmental Policy

Ph.D. (Economics), University of Michigan; B.A. (Geology), Williams College. Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, (John Wiley and Sons, 2010) now in its sixth edition; Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming (University Press of New England, 2007); and The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment (Island Press, 1999). Articles by Goodstein have appeared in, among other outlets, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, Chemical and Engineering News, The Economist, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record, and Environment, Workplace and Employment, and is on the steering committee of Economics for Equity and the Environment. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Follett Corporation, and is on the advisory committee for Chevrolet's Clean Energy Initiative. In addition Goodstein directs two national educational initiatives on global warming: Campus to Congress (C2C) Fellows and The National Climate Seminar. In recent years, he has coordinated climate education events at over 2,500 colleges, universities, high schools, and other institutions across the country.

Rania Antonopoulos

Research Scholar and Program Director, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., New School University. Antonopoulos was associate professor of economics at New York University from 1997 to 2006, where she was the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award in 1997. She is a consultant and adviser to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ILO, as well as a specialist in feminist economics, international trade and the economics of globalization, and the history of economic thought. She is the co-editor of Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Developing Countries (2010). Other publications include “State, Difference, and Diversity”; “Asset Ownership along Gender Lines: Evidence from Thailand” (with Maria Sagrario Floro); “Hidden Vacancies”; “What Is Wrong with Employment Statistics? The Case of Greece”; Oikonomikos Tahidromos; and “Asset Depletion Among the Poor: Does Gender Matter? The Case of Thailand” (Vassar Economics Working Paper Series No. 59). She is the co-principal investigator of the Gender, Macroeconomics, and International Economics program, supported by the Ford Foundation; the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs; and the International Development and Research Centre of Canada. She has been at Bard since 2001.

James Brudvig

Vice President for Administration, Bard College

Brudvig teaches undergraduate courses in logic and ethics at Bard College. He is a member of the Bard Sustainability Council.

Donald R. Carlson

Founding Partner, The Forefront Law Group

J.D. (1986), Harvard Law School; B.A. (Political Economy, 1983), Williams College. Professor of Williams College (1990–1992). His primary business focus is in the alternative energy sector, and he serves as an advisor and/or investor in a number of fast-growing wind and solar firms. In 1997 Carlson joined the Corporate Executive Board, a cross-industry best practices research firm in Washington, D.C., acting as steward of the firm’s growth strategy. He launched several successful new membership-based businesses serving the strategic research needs of senior executives at Fortune 1000 firms, and was frequently featured as a speaker at annual retreats for CEB member executives.  Carlson has held several management positions at Goldman Sachs including chief knowledge officer for the Investment Banking Division and chief of staff for the Office of General Counsel. Throughout his five years at the company, Carlson was a frequent teacher of leadership and negotiation seminars for the firm’s executive education program, now known as Goldman Sachs University. He led Carlson Consulting, Inc., consulting with select clients to help them hone leadership skills and refine strategy. He worked with groups such as the World Economic Forum, the New York Private Equity Network, and a major global investment bank to develop and lead seminars in principled negotiation skills and leading with emotional intelligence. Most recently, Don became a founding partner of The Forefront Law Group – an innovative law firm that unites talented experienced attorneys with growth stage companies to provide expert counsel. In addition to his work as a lawyer, Don works with select clients to help them hone leadership skills and refine business strategy.

Alex W. H. Chung

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance, Bard College

B.A., M.A. (Business Administration), Chinese Culture University; M.A. (Finance), Drexel University; M.A. (Economics), Ph.D., City University of New York. Dr. Chung teaches in the fields of corporate finance, accounting, and money and banking. Research interests include asset pricing, initial public debt offerings, corporate governance, financial statement analysis, and earnings management. He has taught at Queens College, Fairfield University, and the City University of New York. He has been at Bard since 2010.

Frank Dixon

Founder, Global System Change

M.B.A., Harvard University. Author and consultant. Frank advises businesses, governments and other organizations on sustainability, system change and enhancing financial performance through increased corporate responsibility. For seven years, managing director of research for Innovest Strategic Value Investors, the largest corporate sustainability research company in the world. His work overseeing the sustainability analysis of the world's 2,000 largest made it clear that systemic issues compel all companies to operate unsustainably by making full impact mitigation impossible. To engage business and investors in driving the system changes needed to achieve sustainability, he developed a new sustainability approach focus on system change, called Total Corporate Responsibility. He is advising Wal-Mart and other companies on sustainability.

Julie Engerran

Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited

M.A. (Higher Education Administration), University of South Carolina; B.A. (Psychology), Texas Christian University. Currently on a one-year sabbatical, Engerran served as the global director of corporate responsibility for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited from 2003–2011. In that role, she founded the corporate responsibility function and developed and implemented strategies and solutions related to global corporate citizenship, sustainability and responsible business practices for the world's largest professional services network.


From 1997–2003, Ms. Engerran led strategic projects in talent management for both DTTL and Deloitte U.S., including managing an international career development program, the deployment and analysis of a global employee survey, and the development of disaster and crisis management protocols. Her professional experience prior to joining Deloitte includes various positions in university-level international education and student affairs as well as cross-cultural training and consulting to corporations.

Carl Frankel

Founder, The Bridge Group; Managing Director, The Center for the Intimate Arts; Journalist, Green Futures Magazine

Carl Frankel is a nationally known writer, journalist, consultant, speaker, and entrepreneur specializing in business and sustainable development.

In 1990 he founded Green MarketAlert, a newsletter tracking green business strategies that he wrote, edited, and published until 1994. He then became North American editor for Tomorrow Magazine, which tracked issues relating to global corporations and sustainable development. He also served as contributing editor to Yes! The Journal of Positive Futures and as senior columnist for Green@Work Magazine.

Frankel’s 1998 book In Earth’s Company: Business, Environment, and the Challenge of Sustainability (New Society) has been called “the best book I have seen about the business aspects of sustainable development” (David Buzzelli, co-chair, President’s Council on Sustainable Development).

Frankel is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School.

Peter C. Fusaro

Chairman, Global Change Associates; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs; Author, What Went Wrong at Enron

M.A. (International Relations), Tufts University; B.A., Carnegie-Mellon University. Peter C. Fusaro is a best selling author, keynote speaker and thought leader on emerging energy and environmental financial markets. He is Chairman of Global Change Associates an energy and environmental consultancy in New York since 1991 and is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron as well as 15 other books on energy and the environmental financial markets. Peter’s latest book is Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation: New Investment Techniques. Peter is has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 36 years focusing emissions, energy efficiency, cleantech, carbon trading and renewable energy markets. Peter has worked over 20 years on climate change issues and is currently advising on carbon trading and finance as well as clean energy technology and renewable energy to companies worldwide. Peter was selected for Who’s Who in America for 2007-2012 and Who’s Who in the World for 2009-2012. He coined the term “Green Trading” and holds the annual Wall Street Green Summit XI each spring. Peter is advisor to 8 cleantech software and hardware companies in the US and UK. In 2009, Peter launched the Global Change Foundation focused on environmental education and projects and held its first Green Jobs Summit in March 2010. The foundation also runs the Green Salon where artists perform and environmental experts speak. 

Ann Goodman

Co-Founder & Strategic Director, WNSF; President, Telesys; Journalist, GreenBiz.com

Ann Goodman, Ph.D., University of Chicago, is an expert on business and sustainability as an executive, social entrepreneur, communicator, commentator, and educator. She is cofounder and strategic director of the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF), which she launched and led for over eight years as executive director. WNSF, launched in 2002, is an international nonprofit organization that advances sustainability through the commitment, talent, and leadership of businesswomen. Under Dr. Goodman’s leadership, WNSF distinguished itself as the premier sustainability organization for women in business. Notably, she forged an ongoing sustainability alliance and exchange among businesswomen in China. She also created the annual Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit, now in its eighth year, along with a West Coast counterpart, which attract the most senior women executives from corporations and government, including the White House. Recently Dr. Goodman was awarded the prestigious University of Chicago Social Service Award; fellowships from the Leader to Leader Institute and the Clean Tech Incubator at New York University–Polytechnic Institute; and a professional certificate from the Global Reporting Initiative. In academia, Dr. Goodman has held positions at New York University, Bard College, and the University of Paris, developing curricula on business and sustainability-related topics. She currently serves on the Advisory Council of the San Francisco–based Presidio Graduate School in Sustainability Management; the Baruch College Sustainability Advisory Committee; and the Columbia University Business School Alumni Sustainability Advisory Committee.

Elysa Hammond

Director of Environmental Stewardship, Clif Bar & Company

B.S. (Crop Science), California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. When Elysa Hammond joined the staff of Clif Bar in the summer of 2000, she assumed the title of “corporate ecologist” and took on the task of improving the energy bar company’s environmental impacts.

She started by helping Clif Bar become the first certified organic energy bar, then went on to redesign to the bars’ packaging to save 90,000 pounds of shrink wrap every year. But Hammond wasn’t finished. She turned her attention next to the environmental impacts that are less obvious to customers—the internal workings of its offices.

Jeff Hittner

Adjunct Professor, New York University; Founder, ethikus; Co-founder, 3CS

Jeff Hittner is an experienced social entrepreneur and corporate innovator. Currently an adjunct professor of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at New York University, Hittner cofounded and currently runs two social ventures, Ethikus and 3CS. Ethikus is an online community of ethical consumers that seeks to harness consumer purchasing power to positively influence local business practices. 3CS is a university program that fosters collaboration between business leaders, university students, and professors in order to bridge the sustainability gap in the undergraduate education space. Previously, Hittner was deputy chair and director of research at the Corporate Eco Forum, a membership organization dedicated to bringing influential executives of Global 500 companies together to share sustainability best practices. Prior to this, Hittner spent more than five years at IBM, where he founded and led the corporate social responsibility consulting practice for IBM Global Business Services, coauthoring three global studies on CSR. He was quoted in more than 200 articles worldwide on behalf of IBM, and has published byline articles in Forbes, Businessweek, Environmental Leader, GreenBiz, Boardmember, and other publications. Hittner received his master's degree in cultures and development studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and a bachelor's degree of business administration from The College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is currently the chairperson of the Carnegie New Leaders Program at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City.

Laurie Husted

Sustainability Coordinator, Bard College

M.B.A. (Production and Operations Management and Entrepreneurship), Carnegie Mellon University; B.A. (Biology and Society), Cornell University. Husted is the co-chair of the Bard Sustainability Council and is responsible for campus-wide environmental stewardship, including overseeing Bard’s compliance with STARS, LEED, and other sustainability assessment metrics. Prior to her work at the College, she was in the environmental consulting field for over 15 years, including work in the private, non-profit, and public sectors.

Sharon Livesey

Associate Professor, Fordham Business School

J.D., Northeastern University. Livesey is a tenured associate professor at the Fordham Schools of Business, where she has served on the faculty since 1996. She teaches several courses in the Fordham M.B.A. program, including Cross-Cultural Negotiation and Communication, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Management Communication, and the foundations course in Managing and Communicating for Global Sustainability. Livesey also teaches in Fordham's executive education program, as well as in its undergraduate business school. In 2006 she taught in China in Fordham's Beijing International Management Program. In 2007 she was awarded the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence for her graduate and executive-level teaching. Livesey's research explores the relationship between language and social change, particularly as relates to the role of business in promoting more socially- and environmentally-friendly practice. Her published work on business and sustainability includes studies of business-environmental partnerships, corporate social and environmental reporting, and business response to environmental crises. She is currently researching the relationship between climate politics in the United States and Exxon Mobil's corporate discourse. She has also studied water conflicts affecting the California rice industry and municipal water privatization efforts in the United States. She authored a Harvard Business School case on McDonald's and the environment, a study of the communication challenges arising from a watershed U.S. business-environmental partnership.

Hunter Lovins

President, Natural Capitalism, Inc.

J.D., Loyola Law School; B.S. (Sociology, Political Science). L. Hunter Lovins is president and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS). NCS educates senior decision makers in business, government, and civil society to restore and enhance natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. Lovins is also currently a faculty member at Bainbridge Graduate Institute and the chief insurgent of the Madrone Project. Lovins has consulted for scores of industries, governments, and large and small companies worldwide. Recipient of such honors as the Right Livelihood Award, Lindbergh Award, and Leadership in Business, she was named Time Magazine 2000 Hero of the Planet and in 2009 Newsweek dubbed her a “Green Business Icon.” She has co-authored nine books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 book Natural Capitalism, 2006 e-book Climate Protection Manual for Cities, and the 2009 book Transforming Industry in Asia. She has served on the boards of governments, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit companies. Lovins’s areas of expertise include natural capitalism, sustainable development, globalization, energy and resource policy, economic development, climate change, land management, fire rescue, and emergency medicine. She developed the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development. She was a founding professor of business at Presidio Graduate School, one of the first accredited programs offering an M.B.A. in sustainable management.

Ralph Meima

Director, Resilient Design Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont

Ph.D. (Ek.Dr.) Lund University, Sweden, MBA, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, M.A. (International Relations) Johns Hopkins/SAIS; B.S. (Industrial Engineering) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Ralph Meima serves as program director of the Resilient Design Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont, launched in 2012 to advance practical solutions to help communities, businesses, and individuals adapt and thrive amid accelerating economic, ecological, and climatological change.  He also leads Meima Associates, a consultancy specializing in management, communication, and trade in energy and cleantech businesses. Dr. Meima was the founding director of the Marlboro MBA in Managing for Sustainability from 2006 to 2012. He was previously Assistant Professor of Management at the School for International Training. He has authored books and articles on environmental management, CSR, and business sustainability, and in speculative fiction. He is a member of the Brattleboro Town Energy Committee, an advisor to Brattleboro Thermal Utility, and a member of Vermont Energy Action Network.

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

President, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College; Executive Vice President, Bard College

M.A., Ph.D., New School University; B.A., Columbia University. Visiting distinguished scholar, Institute of World Economy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2002). Visiting scholar, Center for Economic Planning and Research, Athens; Wye Fellow, Aspen Institute (1985); Center for Advanced Economic Studies Fellowship (1983); Whittemore Fellowship (1968); Anglo-American Hellenic Fellowship (1968, 1969). Vice chairman, Trade Deficit Review Commission, U.S. Congress (1999–2001). Director and treasurer, American Symphony Orchestra; director, William Penn Life Insurance Company. Articles published widely. Editor and contributor to, most recently, The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation (2006); Government Spending on the Elderly (2007); and Hyman P. Minsky’s John Maynard Keynes and Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, with L. Randall Wray (2008). Author, Levy Institute Strategic Analysis reports; the public policy briefs Community Development Banking and A Path to Community Development, with Ronnie J. Phillips and Wray; An Alternative in Small Business Finance; Targeting Inflation: The Effects of Monetary Policy on the CPI and Its Housing Component; Does Social Security Need Saving?, with Wray; Monetary Policy Uncovered; Understanding Deflation: Treating the Disease, Not the Symptoms; Cracks in the Foundations of Growth and Fiscal Stimulus: Is More Needed?, with Greg Hannsgen and Gennaro Zezza; and, with Wray, the policy notes Fiscal Policy for the Coming Recession, Are We All Keynesians (Again)?, The April AMT Shock, and Time to Bail Out: Alternatives to the Bush-Paulson Plan, among others. Member, editorial board, Challenge, The Bulletin of Political Economy, and Review of Income and Wealth; book reviewer, Economic Journal. Witness to U.S. Senate and House Committee Hearings on banking, finance, and small business.

Gautam Sethi

Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, Bard Center for Environmental Policy

Ph.D. (Economics), University of California, Berkeley; B.A., University of Delhi; M.A., Delhi School of Economics; M.Phil., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, master’s thesis on the conflicts between utilitarianism and libertarianism. Research interests include natural resources and environmental economics, applied microeconomics, game theory, philosophy of economics, and history of economic thought. Sethi has worked on energy-economy-environment linkages and associated policy issues in India; fisheries management under uncertainty; costs and benefits of renewable energy; and water policy in developing countries. Sethi was recently engaged by Mexico’s Environmental Protection Agency to participate in a forum on ocean policy management. Sethi’s research has appeared in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and the Journal of Real Estate, and in publications for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Redefining Progress. He authored a companion volume to Jeffrey Perloff’s Microeconomics. He has presented research talks at academic institutions (Binghamton University and the University of California, Santa Barbara), research institutes (Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook and Tata Energy Research Institute, India), policy forums (OECD workshop, Oaxaca, Mexico), and numerous professional society meetings.

Andrea Spender

Assistant Director and Faculty

MPA, New York University, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; MLIS, University of Western Ontario; B.S., University of Guelph. Prior to joining Bard College, Andrea led Corporate Research and Programs at the National Council for Research on Women, a National research and advocacy non-profit. Prior to this, she was an Instructor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s School of Management, where she taught curriculum-integrated research modules in the MS in Management, MBA, and Executive MBA programs. Andrea also spent four years at McKinsey & Company, where she specialized in knowledge management and health care, and was a researcher in the Investment Banking group of Bank of Montreal (now BMO Capital Markets).

Victor Tafur

Lecturer in Environmental Policy, Bard Center for Environmental Policy

LL.M. and S.J.D. (Environmental Law), Pace University; J.D., Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia. Adjunct professor of energy, natural resources, and climate change law at the Pace Law School, and former staff attorney for the Pace Law School’s Energy Project. Currently senior attorney, and formerly staff attorney, for Riverkeeper. Tafur previously served as deputy director of the Program for Alternative Development for the Presidency of Colombia, and in private practice. Admitted to the bar of New York State and of Colombia. Contributing editor to a recent book by the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, through Cambridge University Press. Articles in the Pace Environmental Law Review and the Environmental Law Reporter.

Andrew Winston

Founder, Winston Eco-Strategies; Co-author, Green to Gold

M.B.A., Columbia University; M.E.M., Yale University; B.A. (Economics), Princeton University. Andrew Winston is a globally recognized expert on green business, appearing regularly in major media such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and CNBC. Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, is the author of Green Recovery, a strategic plan for using environmental thinking to survive hard economic times and prepare your company for growth when the downturn ends. He is also the co-author of Green to Gold, the best-selling guide for companies going green. Winston is dedicated to helping companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value, and build stronger relationships with stakeholders. His clients have included Bank of America, Bayer, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA. Winston bases his work on significant in-company business experience in more traditional corporate strategy and marketing roles at Boston Consulting Group, Time Warner, and MTV. He has served as the director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale's renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Today Winston is a highly respected and dynamic speaker, reaching a global audience of thousands and acting as a practical evangelist for the benefits of going green. He also writes extensively on green business strategy, including a weekly column for Harvard Business Online, regular pieces in The Huffington Post, and a monthly strategy e-letter, "Eco-Advantage Strategies." For his efforts, Winston was recently named a "Planet Defender" by Rock the Earth.

Ajit Zacharias

Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

Ph.D. (Social Research), The New School University; M.A., University of Bombay. Zacharias’s research interests include concepts and measurement of economic well-being, effects of taxes and government spending on well-being, valuation of noncash transfers, and time use. He, along with other Levy scholars, developed the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW), and utilizes the measure in tracking trends in economic inequality and well-being in the United States. The LIMEW is an alternative measure that can provide the foundation for a comprehensive view of the level and distribution of economic well-being. Zacharias is currently co-directing two research projects. The first is aimed at developing comparable measures of economic well-being in four other member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), all with widely varying political-economic systems. An effort to develop poverty thresholds that incorporate household production in three Latin American countries is the main task of the second project. His recent publications include “Do Gender Disparities in Employment Increase Profitability? Evidence from the United States” (with M. Mahoney), Feminist Economics, July 2009; “Household Wealth and the Measurement of Economic Well-Being in the United States” (with E. N. Wolff), Journal of Economic Inequality, June 2009; and “A New Look at the Economic Well-Being of the Elderly in the United States, 1989–2001” (with E. N. Wolff), Journal of Income Distribution, March 2009.