Alice M. LeBlanc is a Vice President at Environmental Financial Products, L.L.C. which specializes in developing and trading in new environmental, financial, and commodity markets. Environmental Financial also designs risk management and hybrid financial instruments that enhance the interrelationships between the capital, commodity, and environmental markets.

Ms. LeBlanc previously worked as an independent environmental and economic consultant in the area of climate change and emissions trading. Her clients included the World Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Australian Greenhouse Challenge Office, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Center for Clean Air Policy and several U.S. and Canadian private sector energy companies. Her work has involved projects in Russia, Mexico, Costa Rica and Poland.

Prior to her independent consultancy, Ms. LeBlanc was Senior Economist with the Environmental Defense Fund, a leading US environmental, non-governmental organization. While at EDF, she participated in the USEPA Acid Rain Advisory Committee to implement the sulfur dioxide emissions trading policy in the Clean Air Act of 1990. She also prepared EDF’s proposed guidelines for the registration of emissions reduction projects under section 1605(b) of the National Energy Policy Act. She coordinated a team of Russian economists in the design of a forestry carbon offset project in Russia, including the assessment of institutional capacity of Russia for emissions trading.

Ms. LeBlanc also worked in the energy and banking sectors in Houston, Texas, as an international economist at Texas Commerce Bank and in strategic planning at United Gas Pipeline and Cooper Industries.

She is the author of numerous papers dealing with domestic sulfur dioxide emissions trading, CFC regulation, international and domestic greenhouse gas emissions trading and incorporating forestry based offsets into a greenhouse gas emissions trading system. She has also been an invited speaker at numerous government and private sector sponsored panels and workshops related to the use of economic instruments for air pollution control. She has prepared testimony and testified before Congress regarding the use of taxation as an environmental policy and regarding the U.S. Climate Change Action Plan.

Ms. LeBlanc holds an Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Smith College in Northampton, MA and a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Houston.