About the Institute

What is the E-liability Institute?

The E-liability Institute is a not-for-profit learning organization advancing rigorous emissions-accounting practices to drive innovation in energy efficiency worldwide. Our founders developed the E-ledgers method for accurately and reliably tracking carbon emissions and removals across even the most complex of supply chains in as close to real-time as practicable. This information empowers operational managers to make better-informed decisions on building a competitive edge using energy efficiency, just as it enables customers and investors to better align their resource-allocation choices with their underlying preferences.

The E-liability Institute wants to create an ecosystem for rigorous emissions accounting worldwide that enhances market transparency, drives fair competition, and supports energy abundance. To do so, we help pioneering organizations, large and small, across the business, government, and nonprofit sectors, pilot the E-ledgers method, disseminating insights from these pilots, including economy-wide proto-standards for best practice, for the world to harness. We also work with technology providers, audit firms, and consulting firms that will help organizations move from pilot to enterprise-wide scale. And we seek to catalyze the broader network of policymakers, regulators, standard setters, and investors to urgently upgrade global commercial standards for emissions accounting, auditing, and reporting.

The Institute is funded through philanthropic donations from supporters who share our commitment to improving emissions accounting. The Institute does not charge for its services and has no commercial interests in furthering the adoption of the E-ledgers methodology.


Board of Directors

Robert S. Kaplan – Co-founder and Senior Fellow

Chris Liddell – Inaugural Chair Emeritus

Arun Majumdar – Board Member

Karthik Ramanna – Co-founder and Principal Investigator

Alicia Seiger – Board Member

Maria T. Zuber – Chair, see Announcement

Team Members

Lauren Holloway – Chief of Staff

Jasper Johnston – Head of Policy Research

Sandy Lum – Operations Associate

Marc Roston – Senior Fellow

Chloe Wenye Zhang – Head of Partnerships & External Relations

Advisory Board

Myles Allen – Professor of Geosystems Science, Oxford

Patricia Dechow – Professor of Accounting, Finance, and Economics, USC

Iván Duque – Formerly, President of the Republic of Colombia

Rebecca M. Henderson – John and Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard

Lucy Parker – Partner and Business & Society Global Lead, Brunswick Group

N Venkatram – Country Chair, CDPQ India

Past Members

Max Israelit

Harry Kirk

Michael Mahoney

Rushabh Sanghvi