Ed Quevedo is Senior Counsel in the Paladin Law Group LLP, and is Chair of the firm’s Sustainability Practice Group. He has over 25 years of experience advising clients on domestic and international environmental and health & safety (EHS) law compliance and litigation matters, sustainability planning and program development, and strategic EHS program development and performance counseling, both as an attorney and consulting advisor. Ed provides his clients with traditional EHS compliance counseling and international EHS auditing program development, implementation of environmental management systems (EMS) and Sustainability Management Systems (SMS), sustainable development strategy, and green building and sustainable master planning. He has also pioneered the implementation of Regenerative Management Systems (RMS), which promise to move organizations beyond sustainable development. He began his GHG and carbon reduction management practice in Europe in 1994, and more recently has broad expertise in advising large multinational clients on AB32 and related national and international greenhouse gas reduction protocols. His clients include major colleges and universities and firms in the high technology, wine, agricultural, food and beverage, life sciences, biotechnology, automotive and manufacturing industries, as well as public agencies at the municipal and state levels. During his legal career, Ed has argued cases before the California Supreme Court, the International Board of Arbitrators in The Hague, and the European Court of Justice. He has led high-impact pro bono litigation teams in important Civil Rights, Clean Water Act, and environmental damages recovery litigation in public interest cases brought in state and federal courts. He is the Chair of the board of directors of the Silicon Valley Environmental Partnership, serves as a member of the board of the Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance , and is Past President of the Pacific Industrial & Business Association. Since 2003, Ed has served on the faculty of the GreenMBA. He also teaches regularly at the Advanced Environmental Management Program at U.C. Santa Cruz Extension and the Department of Environmental Studies at De Anza College in Cupertino. He has lectured on environmental management, applied ethics, sustainable development, and sustainable business practices at various universities, including the Haas Business School and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; Tulane University; Lund University (Sweden); The San Jose State University School of Law, the Technical University of Berlin, and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.