Alan B. Sielen

 Email: asielen@ucsd.edu
Office:  Washington DC
Phone: 858-822-2790

Alan Sielen is a non-resident Senior Fellow for International Environmental Policy. He is a former career senior executive at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. where he served as EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator for International Activities from 1995-2001. His extensive experience on ocean policy and negotiation includes chairing the London Ocean Dumping Convention meetings of contracting parties from 1997-2000. In the course of his career, he has led U.S. delegations to the OECD Environment Committee, the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, and to various oceans related negotiations. Mr. Sielen received the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service in 1997 and the EPA Gold Medal in 1995 for his work on the protection of the global  environment.
 
His environmental policy research interests include coastal pollution; the effectiveness of international agreements on the protection of the marine environment; and scientific, technical and institutional capacity building for the protection and sustainable use of oceans and coasts.
 
He received an A.B. in Political Science in 1971 at the University of California, Berkeley and later served as Campus Executive for Cal Berkeley as part of the EPA Academic Relations Program. He received an M.A. in 1974 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Bologna, Italy and Washington, D.C.

Selected publications:
An Oceans Manifesto: The Present Global Crisis, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Winter 2008.

The New International Rules on Ocean Dumping: Promise and Performance, to be published by the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review in two parts: winter and spring issues, 2009.

Contributions:
While visiting Scholar from 2003-2005 at the National Academies, Ocean Studies Board, initiated and designed NRC study, Increasing Capacity for Stewardship of Oceans and Coasts: A Priority for the 21st Century, National Research Council, 2008.

Symposium Coordinator, Capacity Building for the Protection and Sustainable Use of Oceans and Coasts, Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Department of State and the National Academies, 2005.