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Kathleen Callahan
International Affairs Building, Room 1406
Adjunct Associate Professor
Phone:
212-854-5208
kc2378@columbia.edu
Biography:
Kathleen Callahan holds a BA from Hunter College of the City University of New York, Beginning in 1971, she served in positions of increasing responsibility over her career with EPA in areas as diverse as enforcement, budgeting, policy analysis, management of all support programs, the Superfund Division, a multi-media, multi program division of Environmental Planning and Protection, which includes permitting and planning responsibilities in water, air, hazardous waste, radiation, indoor air, solid waste, environmental impact assessment and strategic planning for the Region. She served as the senior executive responsible for the EPA Region 2 response to environmental impacts resulting from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. In November of 2003, Callahan was appointed Region 2 Deputy Regional Administrator, and she served as Acting Regional Administrator between November 2004 and August 2005.
Callahan has served on a number of national policy work groups on topics including human resource development, managerial excellence, and Superfund reauthorization. She is a recipient of EPA's Award for Managerial Excellence and is a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES). In December 1996 and 2003 she received the SES Presidential Meritorious Executive Award. She is most proud of her recognition by EPA's Administrator Christine Todd Whitman of the Award for Excellence in response given to the many EPA employees who devoted untold hours of work and expertise in the national response and recovery effort from the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the U. S. Callahan has a growing passion for understanding and addressing issues of integral living and sustainability. She has taken executive leadership courses at Harvard's Kennedy School and the Integral Institute.
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