ACR Senior Advisor
Lauren Nichols, ACR Senior Advisor, was an ACR staff member between 2008 and 2023 and now provides strategic advice and guidance to ACR. In her 15 years at ACR, Lauren directly contributed to all aspects of ACR’s organizational development through progressively advanced technical, operational and management positions. She played a critical role in building ACR’s brand and global reputation including growing our team and our suite of methodologies to scale our climate impact, securing a leading role in the California compliance market and in the ICAO CORSIA, and developing and implementing three generations of ACR’s registry platform. She is accredited by the California Air Resources board in Offset Project Registry Operations, verification and in all regulatory offset protocols (ODS, Mine Methane Capture, Forestry, Urban Forestry, Livestock and Rice). She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Management, with a concentration of Environmental Economics, from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Bates College.
