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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014 | MassTransitmag.com | Mass Transit | 39 Benoit Lefevre, Ph.D. Director of Transport and Climate Embarq, World Resources Institute DR. BENOIT Lefevre leads an inter-dis- ciplinary team working to promote the development and acceleration of sustainable transport solutions in emerging economies at Embarq. He's a published author and has also designed useful tools, including the frst Transport Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) Database, which empowers de- veloping countries to create low carbon transport and strengthen sustainable transport systems. Lefevre was awarded his doctorate in economics and fnance at the Centre of In- dustrial Economics (CERNA) in 2007 and DEA (MPhil) in environmental and natural re- source economics in 2003. He also earned master's degrees in economics and general agrono- my and executive engineering in 2002. Lefevre complimented his academic knowl- edge with feldwork in India and Colombia. While a consultant for Memoris in Bangalore, India, he was a planner on the team designing the city's land use master plan. He also lent expertise to Bangalore's debate over building a bus rapid transit or metro system. In Bogotá, Colombia, Lefevre was instrumen- tal in helping Veolia Transport build its strategy, bringing issues of transport and climate to the forefront of decision-making. While with the Te Institute for Sustainable De- velopment and International Relations (IDDRI), a Paris-based research institute, he developed and man- aged a new program focused on urban transport, energy, climate change, and poverty reduction. One of his most notable achieve- ments there was launching and leading Te Club Ville, a group of private and public partners rep- resenting the diferent interests within urban production, ser- vices and management chains. Te Club brought together in- fuential stakeholders to design fnancial instruments that would fund energy efciency programs in buildings and transportation, chief among them a fnancial frame- work that integrated environmental externalities into decision-making for transport investment and in- frastructure. Tis framework was later adopted by French President François Hollande. www.MassTransitmag.com/11617566 For more information, visit www.MassTransitmag.com/10066174 "Transit is the blood of urban system. By working on urban transport and its links to the real estate market and housing markets, you really touch the economic dynamics of an urban region, the social cohesion of the urban society, and the quality of life of people."