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Dr. David Hunter is US Director of the International Emissions Trading Association. Prior to joining IETA in August 2007, Hunter spent 9 years on Capitol Hill, where he was the principal energy, environment, and climate change adviser to Senator Susan Collins of Maine, Staff Scientist for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and a Congressional Science Fellow for Air, Energy, and Climate in the office of Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont. During his tenure on Capitol Hill, he drafted numerous bills and amendments relating to climate change and energy policy; oversaw hearings on climate change, chemical security, and environmental regulation; and was a principal author of the chemical security legislation signed into law on October 4, 2006. He previously served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Environment and Development and was a Department of Energy Global Change Fellow at the White House Office on Environmental Policy. He holds a bachelor's from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Earth Science from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where his research focused on climate variability.
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