Dr. Mark C. Trexler, Managing Director
mark.trexler@ecosecurities.com

Dr. Mark C. Trexler is Managing Director of EcoSecurities Global Consulting Services. Mark has spent the last 17 years working on climate change issues, and founded TC+ES in 1991. He is involved in corporate strategic planning for climate change mandates and in the development and implementation of corporate response strategies, and his company was a leader in development of the international greenhouse gas market including the design and funding of carbon offset projects around the world.

Dr. Trexler has published extensively on technical and policy issues related to climate change mitigation and has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is a member of the editorial board of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies, a leading climate journal. Under his direction, TC+ES can claim a number of "firsts" in the climate change mitigation field, including writing the first carbon offset contracts in the field and providing litigation assistance and expert testimony in the first successful carbon offset contested regulatory proceeding in the United States. Prior to establishing TC+ES, Mark worked at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC, where he managed technical analysis of the very first carbon mitigation projects pursued by U.S. companies. Mark also has worked extensively on energy policy issues such as power-plant siting, technology R&D policy, and efficiency standards.

Dr. Trexler earned his M.P.P. in 1982 and his PhD in 1990 from the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. in 1978 from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He speaks German, Italian, French, and Spanish.