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Renée Leduc Clarke, an AMS Member, is a project lead with Development Alternatives, Inc., a major USAID contractor in Bethesda, Maryland. She is Chief of Party for a USAID project, in partnership with NASA, that is focused on SERVIR Global, an international collaborative effort to improve environmental management and resilience to climate change by strengthening the capacity of governments and other key stakeholders to integrate Earth observations and geospatial technologies into decision making for sustainable development. Ms. Leduc Clarke works closely with NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; regional environmental NGOs in Nairobi, Kenya and Kathmandu, Nepal; and other locations in West Africa and Southeast Asia.

Before joining DAI, Ms. Leduc-Clarke she was the Director of Government Affairs and International Environmental Strategy at I. M. Systems Group in Rockville, Maryland. I. M. Systems Group is an environmental services firm that helps governments manage the risks associated with the changing global climate. With 15 years of experience in international environmental and space policy, she led IMSG's efforts to communicate with key leaders in both U.S. federal agencies and Congress. She is led business development efforts to build partnerships with environmental and space agencies in developing countries as they work to tackle the impacts of climate change. A former Fulbright scholar in Malawi and Zimbabwe, she lived nearly two years in southern Africa, and has extensive travel experience and awareness of the diverse cultures in Southern, East, and West Africa. For more than seven years, she worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where she advised two Administrators on environmental satellite policy and making environmental information more accessible to developing countries for sustainable development. In 2012, she is President-Elect of Women in Aerospace, an organization with networks across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Africa dedicated to expanding women's opportunities for leadership and increasing their visibility in the aerospace community. She will serve as President of the group in 2013. Ms. Leduc Clarke has a bachelor's degree in anthropology and biology from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where she is now an active elected member of the college's Alumni Council. She also has a Master of Public Policy degree, with a focus on international politics, from American University in Washington, D.C.

The content of this profile was last updated 6 August 2012
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