CPA Staff

Alexandra McPherson
Project Director, Clean Production Action (North America)

Alexandra McPherson has been working in the field of clean production for the last five years specializing in building the capacity of the environmental health movement in the United States to incorporate clean production strategies into their campaigns. As North American director of Clean Production Action, she develops transatlantic strategies, policies, position papers and activist tools for NGOs who are working on precedent setting clean production campaigns. Prior to joining CPA, she worked on a binational campaign in the Great Lakes, directing Great Lakes United's clean production program. 

Mark Rossi
Research Director, Clean Production Action (North America)

As research director, Mark is responsible for identifying alternatives to products of environmental concern, developing methods to document that alternative materials are indeed safer than the materials they replace, and promoting the integration of alternatives assessment into chemicals policies at the state and federal levels, businesses, and advocacy campaigns. Since 1999 Mark has worked with Health Care Without Harm as a Senior Research Associate promoting safer alternatives, particularly safer plastics, in the health care sector internationally. 

Beverley Thorpe
Director, Clean Production Action (International)

Beverley Thorpe has researched and promoted clean production strategies internationally for over fifteen years and in 1990 was a co-founder of the first UNEP Cleaner Production Programme. She worked with Greenpeace International in the 1980s to help secure a global ban on ocean incineration and dumping of waste at sea and she initiated the first English language campaigns against PVC plastic and waste. As international director, she networks with progressive businesses, academics, governments, and advocacy groups around the world. Her current focus is the promotion of Green Chemistry practices, including sustainably grown biobased materials. She has written extensively on the benefits of producer responsibility for product take-back and is the author of The Citizens Guide to Clean Production, published by University of Massachusetts.