Peter C. FusaroChairman, Global Change Associates
New York, NY
Peter C. Fusaro is a best selling author, keynote speaker and thought leader on emerging energy and environmental financial markets. Peter is Chairman of Global Change Associates a financial services advisory in New York and is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron as well as 15 other books on energy and the environmental financial markets. He has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 34 years focusing on how to use energy more efficiently and in an environmentally benign manner. His current focus is on environmental financial market acceleration for carbon trading and finance, cleantech, and renewable energy markets. Peter is currently advising on carbon trading and finance to financial services companies worldwide.
Peter’s latest book will be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press on
Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation: New Investment Techniques. Peter has been selected for
Who’s Who in America for 2007-2010 and
Who’s Who in the World for 2009-2010. He coined the term “Green Trading” and holds the annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit in New York each spring (
www.wsgts.com) with the next summit scheduled for April 13 & 14, 2010. He is also a well known expert on Asia Pacific energy and environmental financial markets. Peter co-founded the Energy Hedge Fund Center LLC (
www.energyhedgefunds.com) in 2004 which tracks energy and environmental hedge funds, and published the first “Green Hedge Fund Directory” in January 2009.
Peter launched the Global Change Foundation Inc. as an educational non profit foundation oriented toward accelerating knowledge transfer on environmental and energy issues including cleantech, carbon trading and renewable energy. In the fall of 2008, he launched the Green Salon in New York which pairs musicians with environmental experts in an informal artistic setting for knowledge transfer and fun. Peter graduated with an MA in international relations from Tufts University and a BA from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is on the Advisory Board of the ERB Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Peter is advisor to several cleantech software and hardware companies. Peter is on a member of the board of CleanAir Technology (mobile sources of pollution) and Mission Markets (environmental and SRI broker dealer trading platform), and member of the Advisory Boards of Belgrave Carbon Exchange (carbon offsets), Carbon Flow (carbon documentation web-based system), AtmosAir (indoor air quality appliance), Ecoverdance (plant accelerant to produce carbon credits from agriculture), CRD Analytics (NASDAQ CRD Global Sustainability Index scoring), Zerofootprint.net (measuring the business carbon footprint through software), and Fluid Trade (cloud computing applications in green) and Aspiralink (green professional services portal).