CE3 Names Inaugural Advisory Board

The Center for Climate, Energy, Environment and Economics (CE³) at UNC School of Law announced the members of its inaugural board of advisors on Oct. 18. The 22-member advisory board is comprised of former government officials, community partners, persons who work with energy and environmental businesses, and representatives from various UNC academic departments and centers. The standing student president of the UNC Environmental Law Project is also a member on the board.

CE³’s mission is to provide advanced student education while also examining policy and legal issues surrounding the law of climate, energy, environment and economic development, with particular attention to the intersection of these issues. CE³ is headed by co-directors Victor Flatt, Thomas F. and Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law and Jonas Monast, new assistant professor and C. Boyden Gray Distinguished Fellow. Monast, former director of the Climate and Energy Program at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, joined CE³ in July as part of the center’s renaming and expansion.

“I’m pleased to have Jonas on board as co-director of CE³,” Flatt says. “We have an amazing opportunity to do even more than we have done in the past to educate and integrate students in the areas of climate, energy, environment, and economic development, and by doing that, contribute even more to the national and international conversation about these very important issues.”

The board of advisors will provide intellectual and organizational support to CE³ in the execution of its mission.

“We are so excited that these outstanding community, business, academic and government leaders have answered our call to become the inaugural CE³ advisory board members,” Flatt says. “This engagement is necessary to help us realize our mission of education and analysis at the intersection of climate, environmental law, energy law and economic development.”

Latham Grimes, a principal at Cooperative Solar LLC, says he is proud to be part of the initial advisory team.

“By bringing together this diverse set of participants and taking a broad enough view of the issues, CE³ is well-positioned to generate meaningful insight and have a real impact."

CE3 Advisory Board Members – October 2016

· Gardner Altman ’71 – private practice

· Stephen Arbogast – Professor, UNC Kenan-Flagler School of Business

· Philip Blumenthal – Director, Blumenthal Foundation

· Marcilynn Burke – University of Houston Law Center; former Acting Assistant Secretary, Lands and Minerals – U.S. Dept. of Interior

· Laurence Cobb ’58 –Nexsen Pruet, Raleigh

· C. Boyden Gray ’68 – Boyden Gray & Associates

· Latham Grimes – Principal, Cooperative Solar LLC

· Donald Hornstein – Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law, UNC School of Law

· Kate Konschnik – Lecturer in Law and Director, Harvard Law School Environmental Policy Initiative

· Tas Lagoo – Student President, Environmental Law Project, UNC School of Law

· Brian Murray – Duke University’s Nicholas Institute and Energy Initiative

· John M. O’Sullivan – Kellogg Foundation Endowed Chair, Sustainable Agriculture (NCA&TSU, retired 2014)

· Michael Regan – M. Regan & Associates, LLC

· Jo Anne Sanford – Sanford Law Office PLLC

· Maria Savasta-Kennedy – Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Externship Program, UNC School of Law

· Theodore M. Shaw – Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights,

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· Daniel Simon ’99 – Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, LLP (Washington, D.C.)

· Katherine Skinner – NC Nature Conservancy

· Bo Somers – Deputy Counsel, Duke Energy

· Tom Taft – President, Taft Family Offices

· Susannah Tuttle – NC Interfaith Power & Light

· Andy Yates – Associate Professor, UNC Department of Economics

CE³ contact: Professor Victor Flatt, 919.962.4118

Media contact: Amy Barefoot, 919.843.7148

-October 20, 2016