The following are Adjunct Professors:
Robin Gregory
Robin began his career as an economist (Yale, 1972), interested in choices made by individuals in relation to tradeoffs between economic development and environmental protection. After moving to the west coast of Canada and completing a Master’s degree in Natural Resource Economics (University of British Columbia, 1974), he worked as a teacher and consultant for several years, focusing on questions relating to the pros and cons of the many hydroelectric developments that at that time were reshaping the societies and economics of the Pacific Northwest.
Mahbod Rouhany
Mahbod is one of the three CSA certified GHG verifiers in BC, an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, the founder of Strategic Carbon Management, and an experienced GHG inventory and carbon offset expert. Mahbod holds a Master of Science in Environmental Technology and a Graduate level certificate in Environmental Science. He has over twelve years of multidisciplinary international experience in project management, research, consulting, and as a technical, operations, and a United Nations project officer. His expertise is in GHG management strategies, GHG life cycle assessments, CDM project development, and validation and verification of GHG reduction/removal projects.
Mahbod is one of the three CSA certified GHG verifiers in BC, an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, the founder of Strategic Carbon Management, and an experienced GHG inventory and carbon offset expert. Mahbod holds a Master of Science in Environmental Technology and a Graduate level certificate in Environmental Science. He has over twelve years of multidisciplinary international experience in project management, research, consulting, and as a technical, operations, and a United Nations project officer. His expertise is in GHG management strategies, GHG life cycle assessments, CDM project development, and validation and verification of GHG reduction/removal projects.
Raffaele Vignola
Raffaele Vignola is a research fellow at EfD-CA from the Climate Change Program at CATIE. He has a doctorate from Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich (Switzerland). Raffaele did Engineering Studies in the Agricultural University of Florence (Italy) and obtained Masters in Environmental Economics at the Agricultural Center Tropical Research and Education (CATIE). Since 2005 serves as Senior Adviser Scientist and professor for the Climate Change Program at CATIE, is responsible for providing advice on design management mechanisms and ecosystem services analysis and design of policies for adaptation to climate change. Raffaele supported the coordination of Italian delegation to the GEF-World Bank. He developed watershed management projects in Honduras and coordinated of the DIPECHO-EU Project for risk management in El Salvador. He co-investigated and did a post-doctoral research at the College for Interdisciplinary Studies and at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at University of British Columbia, Canada. The project, awarded by Social Science Research Council of Canada, focuses on the human dimension of global change characterizing soil degradation in Costa Rica and the relationship between ecosystem services management and poverty in Latin America.
