Global Biofuels Blog

Tammy Klein is executive director of the Global Biofuels Center (GBC). As an unbiased service, the GBC highlights and gathers all available global information on biofuels for its members, enabling them to make sound decisions based on industry-wide information, experience and analysis, without predisposition on the issues.

Klein is an expert on clean conventional fuels, alternative fuels and biofuels policy and is a senior analyst for Hart Energy Consulting. She also helped launch the International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC) in 1998 and served as its Deputy Director until 2003.  She co-launched the Partnership for Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV) at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2002. In its fifth year, the PCFV, now administered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), aims to assist developing countries to reduce vehicular air pollution through the promotion of clean fuels and vehicles.

Klein also serves in an advisory capacity to the GBC membership but also many companies, governments and NGOs on fuel quality and biofuels policy issues. She holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, with an emphasis on international environmental law. She is a member of the District of Columbia and Virginia bars, and is a current member of the ASTM, SAE, and NCWM, among other industry memberships. She was a board member of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Florida.