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OIA Organization
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Staffed by a diverse and highly educated group of professionals with extensive international experience, OIA benefits from a wide variety of perspectives. Among OIA’s employees are economists, lawyers, engineers, political scientists, historians, teachers, zoologists, biologists, oceanographers, and urban planners. The Office’s staff includes veteran EPA employees, former State Department officials, and individuals with past service in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Peace Corps. A Presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed Assistant Administrator leads OIA.
Four program offices comprise OIA:
The Office of International Environmental Policy
provides leadership, analysis, and coordination for EPA’s work with
multilateral organizations, such as the United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP) 
and the Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
.
This Office also leads EPA’s work on international policy initiatives
that address marine pollution and the intersection between international
trade and the environment.
The Office of Western Hemisphere and Bilateral Affairs implements EPA’s bilateral technical assistance, capacity-building, and policy programs with priority countries and regions, including Mexico, Russia, China, India, and Central America.
The Office of Technology Cooperation and Assistance is responsible for managing international air, water, and toxics programs and for coordinating international training, technology transfer, and environmental information initiatives. The Office works with a wide variety of partners to develop, implement and manage international capacity building and technical assistance programs.
The Office of Management Operations provides administrative direction and guidance for all OIA programs, as well as for some EPA-wide initiatives. Among this Office’s responsibilities are the management of OIA’s finances and human resources, technology, and reviews of international grants and interagency agreements. The Office of Management Operations also manages the Agency’s International Travel and International Visitors Programs.
| Involvement
of EPA Regional Offices Drawing on extensive expertise and contacts at the state and local level, the EPA’s ten regional offices play a critical role in pursuing international environmental objectives. OIA coordinates this work through a network of international regional coordinators. |
