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The RESOLVE TeamStephen D’Esposito (President)Stephen D’Esposito is President of RESOLVE
. RESOLVE builds strong, enduring solutions to
environmental, social, and health challenges. We
help community, business, government, and NGO
leaders get results and create lasting relationships
through collaboration. RESOLVE is an independent,
non-profit organization with a thirty-year track
record of success. RESOLVE helps diverse interests engage in
dialogue, collaborative decision-making and action,
and strengthens the capacity of others to act as
collaborative leaders. Steve is designing and launching the
Solutions Network a new RESOLVE initiative designed
to catalyze, incubate and reward solutions to urgent
environmental, social and public health challenges. From 1997 through September 2008, Steve was
President and CEO of EARTHWORKS. Former
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stuart L. Udall
founded EARTHWORKS as the Mineral Policy Center.
Steve positioned Mineral Policy Center as the
leading, independent research NGO on mining, oil and
gas issues enhancing its reputation for providing
policy and technical support to community groups,
expanding to address international issues,
strengthening is policy and science capacity, and
launching new initiatives to engage directly with
leading companies in the sector. In 2004 Steve led an effort to re-brand
Mineral Policy Center as EARTHWORKS. This
repositioning also joined together Mineral Policy
Center, the Oil and Gas Accountability Project and
other NGOs into a new organizational umbrella with
Steve at the helm. This merger also led to a
strategic alliance with the Center for Science in
Public Participation—designed to strengthen the
scientific and technical base for the programs of
EARTHWORKS and its allies. Under Steve's leadership, EARTHWORKS
promoted policy reform, corporate best practices,
and support to communities on environmental,
economic, and social issues related to mining and
energy development projects. A hallmark of
EARTHWORKS' activities during Steve's tenure was
engagement with corporate leaders to advance
responsible mining and oil and gas development
practices and build support for transparency and
verification systems. Steve conceptualized,
initiated and co-chaired the Initiative for
Responsible Mining Assurance with brought together
NGOs, mining companies and jewelry retailers in an
effort to establish mine site standards and create a
verification system. Before joining EARTHWORKS, Steve was
instrumental in building Greenpeace USA into one of
the largest environmental groups in the United
States, from 1986 through 1992. During that time he
served as Field Director, Deputy Director and Acting
Executive Director. In particular, Steve is
credited with building a nationally respected field
program and leading a difficult integration of
previously independent Greenpeace corporations (i.e.
fiefdoms) spread across the U.S., into one, unified
Greenpeace in the U.S. From 1993 through 1995 Steve was Deputy
Director and then head of the Executive Committee of
Greenpeace International, based in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, where he helped reposition a number of
offices and programs to integrate corporate
engagement strategies into advocacy campaigns. Steve began his career with the New York
Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) where he
worked on environmental, energy and consumer issues
and built the organizations field program. After moving to the Washington D.C. area
from New York, Steve also played an active role in
local civic affairs. Seeing that the nation’s
capital lacked a recycling program or a bottle
return law he helped organize new local community
groups with a focus on recycling and the urban
environment. These groups were built around
local, voluntary recycling programs that he
organized. Eventually, these local recycling
programs, scattered through the city, built enough
support for recycling that they drafted and then
advocated for a citywide recycling law, which was
then enacted. Education
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