: : Board Member

Charles Reith, PhD
Director of Industrial Strategies and Sustainable Solutions
Carbon and Energy Management
PACE

Charles Reith is Director of Industrial Strategies and Sustainable Solutions in the Carbon and Energy Management Department at Pace, a global energy consulting firm. In that capacity, he directs programs to prepare customers in the industrial and utility sectors, as well as various governmental organizations, for climate change. Dr. Reith and his colleagues develop strategic carbon management plans that include GHG reduction strategies, carbon trading, carbon sequestration, and deployment of renewable energy. Pace guides customers in business planning, training, technical analysis, and implementation of climate-driven solutions.

Prior to joining Pace, Charles founded/co-founded a series of small businesses including Naturally Green, Laughing Crow Organics, Raintree Garden Center, and Sustainable Systems. The latter venture provided consultancy services to businesses and ministries in five continents, addressing ways to improve environmental performance and prepare for a more sustainable economy. His consulting portfolio included waste management and beneficial reuse, toxicological and radiological risk management, energy systems, and ISO 14000 environmental management systems. Before starting his own green businesses, Dr. Reith served as Vice President of Environmental Safety and Health for DynMcDermott Petroleum Operations Company, managing contractor for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

While running his own businesses, Dr. Reith has long served as an adjunct professor of environmental management at Tulane University, where he has taught courses on sustainable energy, risk management, environmental remediation, and environmental development in the schools of business, law, public health, and international studies. While as a professor at Tulane, he was deeply involved in the response and recovery to Hurricane Katrina, serving on numerous task forces and private sector initiatives to advance a green rebuild with widespread use of clean technology.

Charles has a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of New Mexico. His MS was in zoology from UNM and his BS was in Environmental Studies and Ecology for the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Besides serving on the board of Louisiana Clean Tech, Dr. Reith is on the board of the Alliance for Affordable Energy.

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