Paul Bodnar is a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Office of Global Change at the U.S. Department of State. He is a member of the climate change negotiations team, with responsibility for finance and carbon markets. Paul was previously a Director of Carbon Finance at Climate Change Capital, where he was responsible for structuring and executing over $600 million in Clean Development Mechanism transactions for Climate Change Capital’s carbon funds, principally in China. From 2001 to 2003, Paul was a founding partner at Vertis Environmental Finance, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading carbon market firm. Prior to that, Paul served in the State Department as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Management. He is an honors graduate of Stanford University and holds an MA in Political Science from Harvard University, where he studied international climate politics.