GFEI Advisory Group Members
Michael P. Walsh
Michael Walsh
Michael P. Walsh is a mechanical engineer who has spent his entire career working on motor vehicle pollution control issues at the local, national and international level. For the first half of his career, he was in government service, initially with the City of New York and subsequently with the US Environmental Protection Agency. With each, he served as Director of their motor vehicle pollution control efforts. Since leaving government, he has been an independent consultant advising governments and industries around the world. In addition he currently co-chairs the US EPA’s Mobile Sources Technical Advisory Subcommittee and is actively involved in motor vehicle related projects in several countries around the world. He has participated in numerous National Academy of Science committees and studies and authored or co-authored over 100 papers or reports. He is a recipient of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Lifetime Individual Achievement Award, the California Air Resources Board’s “Haagen Smit” award and has also been selected as a MacArthur Fellow for “extraordinary originality and dedication”. In 2009, he received the Silver Magnolia award from the City of Shanghai. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Council on Clean Transportation.
Drew Kodjak
Drew Kodjak
Drew Kodjak is Executive Director of the International Council on Clean Transportation, a group of government environmental regulators and international experts from around the world who participate as individuals with a common purpose of improving the environmental performance and efficiency of vehicles and fuels. Prior to joining the ICCT in 2005, Mr. Kodjak served as Program Director for the DC-based National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP), a bipartisan 16-member Commission of energy experts that released a highly influential report, Ending the Energy Stalemate, in December 2004. Before the NCEP, Mr. Kodjak spent several years as an Attorney-Advisor to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality in Ann Arbor, MI. During his tenure with the EPA, Mr. Kodjak was awarded the EPA Gold Metal for his work on the heavy-duty diesel rule. Mr. Kodjak is a member of Bar Associations in Minnesota, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Steven E. Plotkin
Steven E. Plotkin
Steven Plotkin is a transportation energy analyst with the Center for Transportation Research of the Argonne National Laboratory. His recent work focuses on advanced automotive technology, greenhouse gas reduction strategies, and automotive fuel economy policy. He was a co-principal investigator (with David Greene and K.G. Duleep) of the joint U.S. Department of Energy/Natural Resources Canada study Examining the Potential for Voluntary Fuel Economy Standards in the United States and Canada, and a consultant to the National Research Council’s study on the Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards. He is a lead author on the Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (chapter on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector), and has been a consultant to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on its CAFE Reform effort. Before joining Argonne, he was a Senior Associate with the Energy Program of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), where he was the project director and principal investigator for 11 OTA assessments of transportation energy conservation policy and technology and U.S. oil and gas resource availability, and directed the environmental analysis for a number of other OTA assessments. Previous to this he was an environmental engineer with the Office of Research and Development of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, evaluating the impacts of large-scale energy development, and a staff engineer with TRW Systems Group, where he participated in studies of high speed ground transportation systems.
Mr. Plotkin has a BS in Civil Engineering from Columbia University and a Master of Engineering (Aerospace) from Cornell University. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the Transportation Research Board, and is the 2005 recipient of the SAE’s Barry D. McNutt Award for Excellence in Automotive Policy Analysis.
Anumita Roychowdhury
Anumita Roychowdhury
She has researched and written widely and designed advocacy. She co-authored the book `Slow Murder: The deadly story of vehicular pollution in India’ in 1996 that catalyzed clean air campaign in CSE. She authored the second book The Leapfrog Factor: Clearing the Air in Asian Cities in 2006 to launch the second generation action in cities. She has published numerous articles and contributed to the series on Citizens Report on the State of India's Environment.
Over the years she has participated in many global forums on environmental issues and is also associated with various regional networks on air pollution and transportation. She has also served on national and international committees on air pollution and transportation related matters.