Carol Casazza Herman

Founder and Managing Director, Casazza Herman, LLC

Carol Casazza Herman is the founder of her own firm, Casazza Herman, LLC, which provides consulting services to business, public interest, and academic organizations in environmental policy and sustainability programs. She is also a partner in Sustainability Employee Engagement/Resnick Consulting, which provides assistance to companies seeking to leverage sustainability to engage employees. She is presently special professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law teaching Environmental Law in Commercial Transactions and adjunct professor of law at Pace Law School teaching Climate Change and Corporate Practice.

Prior to forming her firm, Casazza Herman was vice president, environment, health and safety and assistant general counsel at Pfizer Inc where she managed the company’s worldwide environment, health and safety (EHS) program. In that capacity, she led a multi-disciplinary team of technical, legal, and medical professionals who supported business lines in the areas of compliance assurance, operational support, and stakeholder engagement. Previously at Pfizer, she headed the company’s EHS legal practice group and provided counsel regarding business transactions, regulatory compliance, and policy advocacy. She also represented the pharmaceutical industry in the development of international environmental policy and has chaired the trade association’s international environmental policy work group.

Casazza Herman started her career at the United States Environmental Protection Agency where she held positions first, as an environmental scientist and later, as assistant regional counsel. She earned her undergraduate degree in ecology from Rutgers College of Rutgers University and her J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law. Her public interest work has included board membership with the Environmental Law Institute and a local environmental education not-for-profit. She serves her community as Chair of the Larchmont, N.Y. Committee on the Environment were she advances sustainability programs at the local and county level. In addition, Casazza Herman was Project Counsel for New York University School of Law and New York Law School’s joint environmental policy reform initiative -- “Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Reform for the New Congress and Administration” where her responsibilities included outreach to Washington, D.C. and New York-based policy makers.