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Keiner had been the director of the Program
on Environmental Governance and Management Program at the
Environmental Law Institute, where she had also served as
a senior attorney since 1988. ELI is an internationally recognized,
independent research and education center that has played
a pivotal role in shaping the fields of environmental law,
policy, and management. Keiner's many responsibilities at
ELI included developing and delivering training courses, managing
research projects, and writing research reports.
Keiner assumes her post with a thorough
understanding of the Center's mission, having co-authored
a recent research paper that appeared in the newly released
Center report, Environment.Gov: Transforming Environmental
Protection for the 21st Century. Keiner's paper evaluated
state and EPA efforts to adopt performance-based management
of their respective environmental programs under the National
Performance Partnership System.
"The Academy is fortunate to have someone
of Suellen's experience and stature to lead the Center for
the Economy and the Environment," said Robert J. O'Neill,
Jr., president of the National Academy of Public Administration.
"Her demonstrated leadership, vision, and understanding
of complex environmental management issues at the federal,
state, and local level will serve the Center well as it seeks
to expand on its past successes."
Keiner replaces Dr. DeWitt John, who had
been director of the Center since its creation in 1992. John
left the Academy to become the Thomas F. Shannon Director
of the Environmental Studies Program at Bowdoin College in
Brunswick, Maine.
"The Center for the Economy and the
Environment has laid a solid foundation for the future of
environmental management," said Keiner. "The Center's
latest project, Environment.gov, provides especially valuable
lessons for the incoming administration on how to encourage
innovation and collaboration at the federal, state, and local
levels."
Prior to her work at ELI, Keiner was general
counsel and director of the Litigation Project for the Environmental
Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., from 1984 to May 1986.
In this role, she was responsible for all EPI litigation and
managed legal services for EPI's technical and
lobbying staff. As a consultant for Natural
Resources Management to the Council of State Planning Agencies
from 1982 to 1984, Keiner researched, analyzed, and wrote
reports to the governors on state economic development through
innovative policies for renewable natural resources.
Keiner has practiced environmental law since
1972, first representing citizen groups in early NEPA and
Clean Air Act case and later serving as assistant solicitor
and deputy assistant secretary at the Department of the Interior,
where she worked with states in setting up their regulatory
programs for coal mining.
Keiner received her law degree from Georgetown
University Law Center and a B.A. in French and Political Science
from Bryn Mawr College. She also studied at the Institut des
Estudes Politiques and Sorbonne in Paris.
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national, and international. The Academy's membership consists
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in 1967, the Academy has assisted hundreds of federal agencies,
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