People at CIE

Marian Chertow has been the Director of the IEM program since 1991, and is the original faculty organizer of the Corporate Environmental Leadership Seminar. Prior to that, she worked for ten years in state and local government and environmental business. Since 1995, she has led a project on the future of environmental policy, and is co-editor with Daniel Esty of Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (Yale University Press, 1997).

Barbara Reck is an Associate Research Scientist at Yale’s Center for Industrial Ecology who studies metals from a sustainable resource management perspective. Her work includes detailed life cycle characterizations of nickel and stainless steel across various spatial and temporal scales, studies of metal recycling efficiencies, and the current and future criticality of metals. Prior to her time at Yale, she worked for seven years at Lufthansa German Airlines as manager in environmental affairs.

Arnulf's research and teaching interests focus on the interplay between energy and technology systems and their implications on the environment, in particular on climate change. Both his research and teaching embrace a truly long-term view. He has studied major transitions in energy and technology systems that occurred during the last 300 years and is also an energy/environment futurist serving as lead author for the two major 100-year scenario studies available to date: Prof. Grubler is a resident faculty member every fall term. The remainder of the year he is senior research scholar at IIASA, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria.