Barbara J. Goldsmith

Founder/President

Barbara J. Goldsmith is a specialist with 25 years experience in national and international environmental policy and corporate environmental management, particularly the interface between environmental regulatory requirements and industrial planning and development, and the effects of environmental policies on industrial operations and productivity. She is a leading authority on national policies and practices related to natural resource damages liability and assessment.

In 1986, she established an environmental management consulting practice, Barbara J. Goldsmith & Company. She was previously associated with a national consulting firm and held several positions, including manager of the firm’s Washington, DC office.

She has substantial experience with national industry and business trade groups, corporations in all major industrial sectors, the U.S. Government, international agencies and many countries worldwide. The range of her work is diverse, from managing a multi-year contract evaluating air quality issues for the U.S. Department of Energy, to ongoing assignments for The Business Roundtable related to air quality and groundwater issues, to briefing Members of the U.S. Congress on various environmental topics, to assisting in the establishment of the environment program of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

She has worked for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, and she is the author of numerous publications on environmental regulatory issues affecting industry.

Her biography is included in Who's Who of American Women and The World Who’s Who of Women. She holds a Master of City Planning (M.C.P.) in Environmental Analysis from Harvard University. The latter was a joint degree program between the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is also an alumna of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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