Charlotte completed a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) at Barnard College, Columbia University (1965) with a major in Natural Resources Conservation; she has a Master of City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley (1967) with a focus on ecology and ecosystems in land use planning and highest distinction in degree examinations. She completed coursework toward a PhD at the City University of NY specializing in Attachment to Place and Ownership of Natural Resources. She received a Certificat de Français Parlé from the Alliance Française de Paris and has professional competency in French.

Charlotte has 40-plus years of experience in environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) of major infrastructure projects and programs and small-scale community-based activities. She has prepared ESIAs, environmental and social management plans (ESMPs), performed site alternative analyses led multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural ESIA teams, conducted quality assurance/quality control, reviewed ESIAs to evaluate their acceptability, served as an independent technical reviewer and led independent panels of experts to assess project performance. Charlotte has conducted ESIA work in 21 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Brazil, the continental United States, and Puerto Rico. Currently, Charlotte is an independent consultant for international financial institutions and bilateral donors. Previously, she has served in senior, leadership positions with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the World Bank, and the USAID Regional Economic Development Services Office for Eastern and Southern Africa. For 17 years she worked with TAMS Consultants, NYC (now part of AECOM), becoming a Senior VP and Head of Environmental Planning and Socio-Economic Studies.

Beginning in 1980, Charlotte committed herself to environmental capacity building and training others. The Centre for Environmental Management and Planning (Aberdeen, Scotland) selected her for the International Seminar on Environmental Assessment and Management where she trained over 300 professionals from around the world during the early 1990s. For USAID during the late 1990s, she developed and conducted 18 Environmental Assessment training courses reaching over 600 NGO/PVO, USAID, and host country government participants in 11 Anglophone and Francophone African countries. As a consultant, Charlotte developed, organized, and co-taught courses in ESIA, Resettlement, Health Impact Assessment, Biodiversity, and Consultation/Participation for the World Bank’s Vietnam Learning Center. She also conducted training in 2019 to implement the Pakistan Dasu Hydropower Project’s Detailed Ecological/Biodiversity Management Plans.

Charlotte has been active in the International Association of Impact Assessment since the early 1980s. She was IAIA President 2007-2008 with one year before and after as Incoming President and outgoing President, respectively. In 2010 IAIA honored her with its Lifetime Achievement Award (formerly Rose-Hulman) for Sustained and Significant Contributions to Impact Assessment. In the recent two years, she has worked with the Disaster and Conflicts section to conduct surveys related to the impacts of COVID-19 on ESIA.

Gardening, cooking, and traveling with her two teenage granddaughters are among her favorite pursuits.