Michael is a co-founder, Executive Director, and Dean of the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, a non-profit organization with the unique mission to train and professionalize a global community of experts for measuring, auditing and managing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Michael is a thought leader on GHG measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV), carbon offsets, additionality, green power, and environmental markets.  Beyond guiding the Institute’s strategy and programming, Michael also directs the Institute’s curriculum development and educational initiatives.

He has been a lead author for the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1999, and has been engaged in the work of the UN Climate Change secretariat, including the training of compliance experts for the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC. He is a core advisor and contributing author to the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol. At the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he was lead author of the U.S. GHG emissions inventory, which serves as the official report and statistics on U.S. emissions. He has also served on the U.S. negotiating team to UN conferences on climate change.

He founded and serves as a co-Editor in Chief for the peer reviewed journal Carbon Management published by Tyler & Francis. Michael completed his PhD at the Science, Technology & Environmental Policy Program at Princeton University, where his research was on the economics of renewable energy and emission markets and design of environmental commodities.

Michael has three master’s degrees: in environmental engineering, technology policy, both from MIT, and in evolutionary systems from the University of Sussex where he was a Fulbright scholar. He has bachelors in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M.

Michael specialises in climate change policy, capacity building, carbon management, renewable energy, non-profit management, GHG accounting, MRV, and green power.