Janice McMahon is Senior Director, Sustainability Assurance with Aster Global Environmental Solutions where she is responsible for client and team coordination, proposal preparation and review, maintenance of Aster Global’s ANAB accreditation and Management System, and QA/QC for GHG validation and verification projects around the world.

As an experienced and recognized thought leader in the areas of validation and verification of GHG compliance and climate change mitigation and reporting, Ms. McMahon also serves as a unique resource to Aster Global’s clientele by providing education and insights related to the ever-changing carbon marketplace. She also leads seminars regarding the carbon markets and the processes and value derived from conducting accredited third-party GHG emissions offset project and emissions inventory validations & verifications.

Ms. McMahon has over 26 years of experience in ecology, wildlife biology, forestry, natural resources, GHG emissions inventories and reduction projects, GHG inventory verifications, offset project validations/verifications, large-scale project management, and team management; with 21 years of experience in VVB services and managing VVB accreditation, program approvals, and Aster Globa’s Management System. She specializes in Natural resource management projects, Carbon sequestration feasibility assessments, GHG emissions and reduction assessments, GHG validations/verifications, Wetland assessment and mitigation, and Biodiversity and E/T species assessments.

She is a Wildlife Biologist, an ISO 14064/14065 trained lead verifier, ICAO trained CORSIA verifier, and was formerly a CSA Standards Certified GHG Verifier and Inventory Quantifier. She has conducted over 100 organizational-level GHG emissions verifications throughout North America and has provided technical review and/or QA/QC on 300+ AFOLU offset projects around the world and methodology assessments for VCS, CCB, CAR, ACR, ARB and SD VISta.

Ms. McMahon has often led Aster Global to be one of the first accredited verifiers to be awarded or to complete projects including:

• a large-scale Agricultural Land Management (ALM) project
• a Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) project with the World Bank
• an Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) project
• the first REDD+ project validation under Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM)

Through Ms. McMahon’s leadership, Aster Global continues to be an industry leader in an ever-changing marketplace.

Education:

Master of Science - Wildlife Science
Auburn University

Bachelor of Science - Wildlife Ecology & Conservation - Minors in Forestry and Zoology
University of Florida

Years of Experience: 26

Professional Affiliations:

• Society of American Foresters
• The Wildlife Society

Certifications:

• International Civil Aviation Organization
  • Certified CORSIA Verifier

• ISO 14064 Series Class Certification

Contact: jmcmahon@AsterGlobal.com