BIOGRAPHY
Thomas L. Brewer is the U.S. Special Adviser and a member of the International Advisory Council for Climate Strategies, an international network of leading scholars on economic and policy issues concerning climate change; its secretariat is located at Cambridge University in the UK. He is presently a Schoeller Foundation Research Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. He also has a recurring appointment as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University. He is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, and an emeritus faculty member of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
He is presently a member of the Panel of Experts for the Environmental Assessment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a project of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of NAFTA. He is also a Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III chapter on "International Cooperation: Agreements and Instruments."
His research focuses on the intersections of climate change issues with international trade, technology transfer and investment issues. His publications include numerous articles in the refereed journals Climate Policy and Energy Policy, as well as chapters in books published by the Brookings Institution, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and other leading publishers. He is the editor and author of the introduction to a symposium on the intersection of international trade issues and climate trade issues in the refereed journal The World Economy (June 2010). He is writing a book on the political economy of US government, business and public responses to climate change issues. He has made presentations on climate change issues at The Brookings Institution in Washington, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, the European Union and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Tokyo, the London embassy of the government of Japan, many COP/MOP climate change conferences, the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, the World Bank in Washington, DC, and conferences of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in Geneva and Shanghai, as well other conferences for academic, business and government audiences. He has authored or edited numerous books and published articles in a wide range of refereed journals on international business issues, including trade and investment issues at the World Trade Organization (WTO). For five years, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies, a leading academic journal for interdisciplinary social science studies. He has been a consultant to the World Bank (including IFC and MIGA), the United Nations (UNCTAD), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He can be reached by email at thomas.brewer@climatestrategies.org.
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