Todd Stern
| Todd Stern | |
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| United States Special Envoy for Climate Change | |
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In office January 26, 2009 – April 1, 2016 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Jonathan Pershing |
| White House Staff Secretary | |
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In office June 30, 1995 – March 11, 1998 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | John Podesta |
| Succeeded by | Phillip Caplan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 4, 1951 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Education |
Dartmouth College (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Todd D. Stern (born May 4, 1951) served as the United States Special Envoy for Climate Change, leading talks at the United Nations climate change conferences and smaller sessions, appointed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on January 26, 2009. He was the United State's chief negotiator at the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
Stern previously served under the Bill Clinton administration as Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary in the White House from 1993 to 1998, during which time he also acted as the senior White House negotiator at the and Buenos Aires negotiations.
Stern graduated from Dartmouth College in 1973, and earned a J.D. at Harvard Law School.
He has proposed the creation of the E-8, a novel international group uniting leading developed nations and developing ones for an annual gathering focused on combating global warming.
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