Jonathan J. Halperin
Mr. Halperin is Executive Director of the Environmental Education Media Project, and leads its Campaign for Climate Stability, Ecosystem Restoration, and Poverty Eradication. He has more than 25 years of experience in nonprofit and commercial organizations such as SustainAbility, Ltd., Resources for the Future, and FYI Resources for a Changing World. He has provided research-based strategic counsel to executives at Chevron, Hewlett-Packard, Nestle, Exxon-Mobil, DuPont and other major multinational firms as well as to nonprofit organizations such as GreenHome, The Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, and Everyday Democracy.
A strategic communications and business planning specialist, Mr. Halperin has been deeply involved in energy, environmental, and water resource issues for two decades. He worked in the Soviet Union for seventeen years and lived in the former Soviet Union from 1996 to 2000. He serves on a number of nonprofit boards, is a frequent public speaker, and provides commentary as a trusted source for print and electronic journalists.
He is a graduate of Duke University and lives with his two young children near Washington, DC.