Taiya Smith

Taiya M. Smith is a senior associate in the Carnegie Energy and Climate Program and the Carnegie China Program, where she focuses on China’s climate, energy, and environmental policy. She has spent the last decade working in international negotiations.

Most recently Smith served as a member of Secretary Hank Paulson’s senior management team from 2006 to 2009 as the deputy chief of staff and executive secretary for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In this role she provided policy and operational oversight for Department priorities and also managed the secretary’s relationship with China. As Paulson’s representative and lead negotiator in China, she led the U.S. government’s economic engagement with China through the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue and established the U.S.–China Ten Year Framework on Energy and the Environment.

Additional Information:

• Taiya Smith’s homepage

Publications:

• International Climate Change Policy (Testimony to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources)