 Ellen B. Farmer has joined TIA in the new position of Environmental Program Manager. Farmer will manage TIA’s recently-acquired EIATRACK environmental information alert regulatory tracking service and TIA’s global “green” program for the ICT industry.
“This important TIA initiative has the complete support of the association’s Board of Directors. We intend to play a key role addressing industry needs as companies determine how to participate in the green and sustainable resources movements,” said Grant Seiffert, President of TIA. “Ellen Farmer’s international training and diverse experience make her the ideal person to lead our pivotal efforts.”
Farmer brings extensive management and environmental information research experience to TIA, as well as impressive college credentials in the environmental arena. Her master’s degree with honors from King’s College in London focused on the environment, politics and globalization, and her bachelor’s degree was in government and sociology from Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., where she was on the Dean’s List.
Farmer’s experience ranges from environmentally-conscious management of The Mansion on O Street, a boutique hotel and private events venue in Washington, D.C., to consulting and information research at Booz Allen Hamilton, where Farmer focused on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund and the U.S. Postal Service’s energy efficiency program. In addition, she was a researcher and writer at Green Guide Publishing in the United Kingdom.
TIA’s EIATRACK service, acquired in January, provides global benchmarking in environmental intelligence, as well as product-oriented regulatory tracking analysis and reporting. Hundreds of subscribing companies throughout the world use the tool as an early-warning system for monitoring and evaluating environmental legal and regulatory activity. The EIATRACK team consists of experts from the legal, environmental policy and science sectors, including the law firms Beveridge and Diamond (United States); Hunton and Williams (Europe); Holland and Knight (China); and subject-matter experts EcoFrontier (Korea); Tokio Marine (Japan) and WSP Environmental (Australia).
More information is available at www.eiatrack.com.
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