Craig Hart is counsel to Alston & Bird’s Energy Infrastructure, Climate Change and Technology Practice in the Washington, DC office. Mr. Hart has over 10 years’ experience practicing in the infrastructure and project finance, corporate finance and capital markets transactions areas. He has acted for project developers and lenders, negotiating financing agreements, joint venture and partnership agreements, construction agreements, and technology agreements. Mr. Hart has extensive experience in public securities and private equity, including initial public offerings of equity and public bond transactions.

Mr. Hart works with various types of renewable energy and carbon management technologies. He recently advised the developer of a combined heat and power biomass power project in China to be registered under the Clean Development Mechanism, and investors in their acquisition of a portfolio of carbon credit generating projects.

Mr. Hart is executive director of The Energy + Environment Foundation, a nonprofit organization that operates Energy + Environment OpenCourseWare, dedicated to strengthening environmental education in developing countries.

He served as the Climate Change Law Fellow at the Center for International Environmental Law and directed their climate change program. He speaks and writes on the subjects of renewable energy policy, climate change and works extensively on China energy and environmental issues. Mr. Hart served as a law clerk to The Honorable Lisa Hill Fenning in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California and to The Honorable Richard W. Goldberg in the U.S. Court of International Trade. Mr. Hart speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese.