Leslie Carothers
President
202-939-3855
202-939-3868
carothers@eli.org
Expertise
- Climate Change: climate change—private-sector strategy
- Environmental Performance Measurement: environmental performance measurement
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): environmental policy development and management—corporate, EPA, and state
- Law: environmental enforcement—federal and state
Profile
Leslie Carothers has been President of ELI since 2003. Before coming to ELI, she served in legal and executive positions at EPA, Connecticut, and two major manufacturing companies. At United Technologies, she was Vice President, Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) for 11 years, with worldwide responsibility for company EHS policy and implementation. She taught environmental regulation in 1991 as an adjunct lecturer at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Education
- L.L.M. in environmental law, George Washington University, 1978
- L.L.B., Harvard Law School, 1967
- B.A. in government, Smith College, 1964
Selected Publications
Leslie Carothers & Linda K. Breggin, Governing Uncertainty: The Nanotechnology Environmental, Health, and Safety Challenge, 31 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 286 (2006).
Opening Argument (President’s column), Envtl.
F. (2003 to date).
Review of What We Learned in the Rain Forest: Business Lessons From Nature, by Tachi Kiuchi & William K. Shireman; From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism
(expanded edition), by Andrew F. Hoffman; and Research in Corporate Sustainability: The Evolving Theory and Practice of Organizations in the Natural Environment, by Sanjay Sharma & Mark Starik eds., 8 J. Indus. Ecology 266 (2004).
The Environmental Manager (columns), Envtl. F. (1998 to 2000).
Leslie Carothers, Leadership in State Agencies, in Environmental Leadership: Developing Effective Skills and Styles (J. Berry & J.
Gordon eds., 1993).
Leslie Carothers, An EPA Region’s View of Pollution Control, 1 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 345 (1976). |
