Dr. Widawsky is the Director of the Office of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund at EPA. He previously served as the Director of the Data Gathering and Analysis Division, in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. He provided leadership for the EPA’s mission focus on chemical safety and sustainability in the implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Pollution Prevention Act, and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. The multi-disciplinary staff under his leadership provided expertise, analysis, method development, and innovation in a number of key disciplines. He lead several pollution prevention programs at EPA, including grants to states and tribes for working with businesses to promote source reduction and an environmentally preferable purchasing program for federal procurement. He also lead programs in sustainability through safer and sustainable chemistry and chemical products, including EPA’s Green Chemistry Challenge Awards and EPA’s Safer Choice labeling program for safer chemical products. Dr. Widawsky is a graduate of the University of California with B.Sc. degrees in Political Economy of Natural Resources and in Plant and Soil Biology, received his M.S. from Colorado State University (Agricultural Economics), and earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University (Applied and Development Economics). He has worked at the U.S. EPA since 1998, where he has served in a number of leadership roles across the Agency. He has lived and worked in six different countries.