Alissa Benchimol

Alissa is a Project Manager at the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute. Her expertise includes corporate and national GHG accounting, MRV capacity building, data management systems, and program implementation. At GHGMI, Alissa leads the Software Evaluation program, delivers capacity-building training, authors technical reports, and provides technical expertise to multiple MRV systems projects.

In corporate accounting, Alissa has authored publications on scope 2, scope 3 (category-specific, and for common carrier energy infrastructure), and currently leads a project with GHG Protocol Secretariat to refine their GHG Calculation Tools. In national accounting, Alissa is a nominated expert in the UNFCCC Roster of Experts and specializes in the Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU) and Waste sectors. In the IPPU sector, Alissa also specializes in fluorinated gases (F-gases) emissions and data management. She was also an activity data prototype developer for SAGE.

Alissa’s professional experience also includes the water-energy-GHG nexus. Prior to working at GHGMI, Alissa worked as a Sustainability Specialist at The Climate Registry, leading the implementation of the Water-Energy Nexus Registry for California, developing and delivering GHG training, and developing verification guidance for water- and wastewater-related data and performance metrics.

Alissa is Brazilian and moved to the United States to further her education. She received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Lindenwood University, and an M.S. in Sustainability from Saint Louis University, where her research focused on social-technical approaches to maximize formal access to electricity in low-income settlements through human rights lenses. In Brazil, she also received a technical degree in meteorology and climatology. She is fluent in English and Portuguese. In her free time, she also enjoys completing Python programming courses when not exploring the outdoors.