2024 Board Nominees
The USSEE Board of Directors is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2024 Board Elections. The following nominees are for 1 available position: President-Elect (3 nominees). Nominees are presented in no particular order. Election closes on Saturday June 1.
Additionally, two At-Large Member Positions are available for appointment by the Board. Please contact us with At-Large nominations or self-nominations.
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President-Elect
Tania Briceno
Tania Briceno has more than 15 years of experience as an ecological economist conducting environmental valuations, socioeconomic analyses, and ecosystem service assessments. She currently serves as Chief Economist at the Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEG), overseeing standards for ecosystem service valuations. Prior to joining IEG, Tania worked on ecosystem service valuations for government agencies, NGOs, and the private sector. She served as Lead Economist at Conservation Strategy Fund and was part of the leadership team for Earth Economics. She also worked for the National Round Table on the Environment and Economy in Canada and at various universities in Europe and North America. Tania has a PhD from Universite de Montreal where she focused on how ecological principles were considered in ecosystem service valuations, a masters in Ecological Economics from Leeds University, and a BA in Economics from McGill University.
Candidacy Statement
I have been drawn to the discipline of Ecological Economics ever since I learned it existed, at the age of 19, while I was studying Economics at McGill University. From the beginning, it made sense to me. After completing my PhD in the subject I was eager to apply my work and ventured into the world of policy, consulting, and integrating nature into financial decisions. I am interested in running for the President-elect position at USSEE and if elected I would focus on the following areas:
- Implementing Ecological Economics: Focus on practical applications and leverage my experience in natural capital accounting to explore what ecological economics can contribute to this area of work.
- Standardizing Interdisciplinary Approaches: Understand where inter, multi, and transdisciplinarity is at in the field of ecological economics today and see how these approaches can become standard practices.
- Enhance Relevance: Align our work with current challenges and opportunities.
I hope to tap into the scientific leadership and expertise found within USSEE and expand membership into new areas that can benefit from the thinking of ecological economics and provide insight into some of the current challenges and opportunities we face today.
Md Rumi Shammin
Dr. Md Rumi Shammin is a Professor and the Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. He has a Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign and a Master’s in Natural Resources with a minor in Agricultural & Biological Engineering from Cornell University. His undergraduate training is in Civil Engineering from Khulna Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh with specialization in environmental engineering. Dr. Shammin’s scholarship focuses on energy and climate change analysis, their impacts, and related policies in the US and abroad. He studies behavioral and human dimensions of environmental studies; energy and resource use; ecological economics; refugee camp environmental management; environmental justice; and applied research on sustainability in the built environment. He has published in journals such as Ecological Economics, Ecological Indicators, Energy Policy, Gastronomica, Landscape and Urban Planning, Solutions Journal, Sustainability, and PLOS One. Most recently, he co-edited a volume with collaborators in South Asia on Climate Change and Community Resilience: Insights from South Asia published by Springer Nature in 2022. This open-access volume has been accessed >300K times and includes several chapters coauthored by Dr. Shammin that represent a decade of field work and research in climate vulnerable communities of Bangladesh.
Candidacy Statement
I am humbled to be nominated for the position of USSEE President. This is the society I relate to most closely personally and professionally ever since I became a member as a graduate student in 2004, later served as a board member 2012-14, and co-chaired the 2015 USSEE-CANSEE Biennial Conference in Vancouver. During field research in South Asia, I have also collaborated with the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE), became a life member of INSEE, and am currently serving as an Associate Editor for the INSEE journal. I have been inspired by the work of Herman Daly, Bob Costanza and Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, and trained by mentors like Bob Herendeen and Bruce Hannon. I have appreciated how a non-economist like me who uses the tools of economics in environmental and climate change analysis has found a welcoming space in this society. I believe that the theory and practice of ecological economics have tremendous opportunity to contribute to the pursuit of a just and sustainable future. As President, I would like to explore initiatives that connect the work of ecological economists in academia with solutions at different scales implemented by researchers, development agencies, non-profit organizations, and grassroots community groups. I would love to see greater opportunities for students to access professional and intellectual engagement in the society. It will be wonderful if we can expand chapters for undergraduate students so that they are able to see alternative economic paradigms that can be more holistic, inclusive, and equitable early in their academic journey.
John Pozzi
My Businesses: General Contractor, Owner Leo’s Campground, Key West Florida, and property in Bayside, New York, Dade and Broward counties FL, and Montmagny Canada (semi-retired, children/grandchildren manage properties).
Candidacy Statement
My Plan: Establish the People’s Global Resource Bank now.
Member At-Large (2 positions)
Vacant
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