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Additional comments about Tim Profeta becoming the first
director of the new Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy
Solutions at Duke:
Duke Provost Peter Lange, the university’s chief academic
officer:
"At Duke we have long recognized that environmental
studies demand interdisciplinary approaches, and the Nicholas
School has led in developing cooperative research and programs
across the university.A hallmark of the new institute will
be to expand this approach well beyond the boundaries of the
university.Tim Profeta already has embraced this approach
in his career and shown considerable talent for bringing together
a variety of partners to solve multifaceted issues."
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn:
"Tim has shown an innate and uncanny ability to translate
a rough concept into a mature and sophisticated policy proposal.There
is no better example of that than his consistent and creative
leadership over the years in championing the Climate Stewardship
Act—a massive intellectual, legislative and political undertaking
to address the most critical, overarching environmental challenge
of our times. I am supremely confident that Tim has the abilities,
the energy and the commitment to turn the Nicholas Institute’s
exciting vision for environmental leadership into a reality."
Law and environmental policy professor Jonathan B.Wiener,
who chaired the search committee for the Nicholas Institute
director:
"Tim Profeta launched his career as an outstanding student
of environmental law and science here at Duke a decade ago—in
fact, he was my first research assistant.Tim has now rocketed
to the frontiers of environmental policymaking in Washington,where
he has deftly led the ambitious and highly complex campaign
to harness markets for global environmental protection.Tim
will be a stellar leader of the Nicholas Institute’s mission
to craft creative solutions to complex environmental problems."
Nicholas Institute benefactor and chairman of the Duke University
Board of Trustees Peter Nicholas:
"I am very pleased that Tim Profeta and Bill Reilly
will be in the key leadership positions at the Nicholas Institute.The
institute is envisioned by Duke leaders to extend its reach
from Durham,N.C., to Durham, England, and indeed across the
globe, bringing together foundations, research institutions,
governments, NGOs, corporations and other groups to improve
our understanding of the great global environmental challenges.
It’s an extraordinarily ambitious and exciting agenda, but
one that is much needed if we are to find policy solutions
to the environmental challenges facing our world."
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