Paul Gilman

Biography

 Dr. Paul Gilman, Ph.D. has been the Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President of Covanta Holding Corporation since 2008. Mr. Gilman has also been the Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President of Covanta Energy, LLC since April 2008. He joined Covanta in 2008. Mr. Gilman served as Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2002 to 2004 and held senior policy positions in the public and private sectors, including positions at the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House Office of Management and Budget. Prior to joining EPA, he was Director for Policy Planning at Celera Genomics. He served as Founding Director of the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies, a collaborative effort of several prominent universities and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory focused on societal issues with scientific and engineering content. Mr. Gilman was previously the Executive Director of life sciences and agriculture divisions of the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. In addition, Mr. Gilman has held several senior government positions, including Associate Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Natural Resources, Energy and Science and Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Energy for technical matters. He has 13 years of experience working on the staff of the United States Senate in several capacities, including as a Congressional Science Fellow sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Gilman received both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. He earned his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, also from Johns Hopkins University.

Research Interest

 Natural Resources, Energy and Science