Erwin Rose
Erwin is an Associate at Earthmind, a senior fellow at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, and a liaison to the US Trade Representative’s Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee.
Erwin has extensive experience in sustainable development policy, including as a community organizer in the Bronx, NY, chief of staff to a New York State senator, and economic affairs officer at the UN Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. He served as the trade promotion coordinator for the US Department of Commerce at the American Institute in Taiwan and the local government advisor for the US Agency for International Development in Paraguay.
He was a foreign affairs officer at the US Department of State, Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science from 2001-2006 and 2008-2009. He received the State Department’s Superior Honor Award for his achievement as Acting Division Chief for Trade and Environment. He was the lead US negotiator of the US-Central America-Dominican Republic and the US-Peru Environmental Cooperation Agreements and participated in trade negotiations. As the bureau’s North American Affairs Officer, he monitored implementation of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation and the US-Canada Air Quality Agreement. As a regional policy advisor for East Asia, he served on the secretariat of the cabinet-level US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
Erwin co-edited Linking Trade, Climate Change and Energy for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in 2006. He was a senior fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Program on Governance for Sustainable Development from 2007-2008. He holds a MA in Education from Columbia University, a BA in English and History from the University of Pennsylvania, and has completed courses in international relations at the US Foreign Service Institute.
