Frank Loy · Fmr. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs · Fmr. Chief U.S. Climate Negotiator

Frank Loy was Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs from 1998 to 2001. His portfolio included human rights, the promotion of democracy, refugee issues, international law enforcement and counter-narcotics, and the environment. He served as chief U.S. climate negotiator.
He was a senior official in the State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, and Director of the Office of Refugee Affairs. He served in the Obama Campaign as a co-leader of the Energy and Environment team. Formerly, he was president of The German Marshall Fund of the U.S. He has been chair of numerous non-profit boards, including the Environmental Defense Fund, and Resources for the Future. And serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy, EDF and a number of climate change-related organizations.

“We have a number of problems, but two of them are war - we see that at the very moment - but the one that is relatively new, that we didn't have a word for it when I grew up, we certainly didn't understand when I grew up, is environmental consequences. And we have gone from not understanding that to understanding it pretty well, but having a difficult time responding appropriately to that threat.

When I decided I would spend some time in the nonprofit sector, it was my wife who said, ‘Don't diddle around with a whole bunch of things, focus on something that you care about, and spend both time and your money on that.’ And so I picked the environment because it seemed to me it had a rather unusual and unique combination of social, economic, political, technical, and scientific elements to it that made it a really interesting complex issue.”

· Environmental Defense Fund: www.edf.org
· Resources for the Future: www.rff.org
· The Nature Conservancy: www.nature.org/en-us/
· The German Marshall Fund of the U.S.: www.gmfus.org

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