Credits  

See also: Introduction, Getting Started, History

Contributors

LEAP is developed and managed by Charlie Heaps of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).  The original version of LEAP was conceived in 1980 by Paul Raskin of Tellus Institute. Other contributors have included:

• Jack Sieber

• Nicolas di Sbroivacca

• Evan Hansen

• Michael Lazarus

• Jason Veysey

• Silvia Ulloa

Additional contributors to the development of the Integrated Benefits Calculator (IBC) include:

• Daven Henze (University of Colorado)

• Johan Kuylenstierna (SEI)

• Chris Malley (SEI)

• Harry Vallack (SEI)

• Douglas Wang (SEI)

Special thanks to Eva Heaps for contributions to the user interface graphical design.

Funders

Major funders of LEAP have included:

• The many users of LEAP who have contributed to LEAP development by purchasing LEAP licenses, as well as:

• The Government of the Netherlands

• The Government of Sweden (Sida)

• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

• The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA)

• The Energy Foundation

• The US Agency for International Development (US-AID)

• The European Climate Foundation (ECF)

Language Translations

Language translations have been contributed by:

• Albanian: Lorenc Malka

• Arabic: Safwan Bany Saleh (not yet implemented)

• Bosnian: Esad Smajlovic

• Chinese: Liya Cai, Zhou Nan, Shuyan Cao, Ye Lin

• Filipino/Tagalog: Alnie Demoral

• French: Innocent Nkurikiyimfura, Libasse Ba

• Irish (Gaelic): Tomás Mac Uidhir

• Indonesian: Zulfikar Yurnaidi, Oetomo Tri Winarno

• Korean: Hoseok Kim  (not yet implemented)

• Portuguese: Gilberto Mahumane, Flavio Pinheiro

• Spanish: Silvia Ulloa, Nicolas di Sbroivacca

• Swahili: Emmanuel Mudaheranwa

• Thai: Atit Tippichai, Bundit Limmeechokchai

• Urdu: Waqas Nazir Awan

• Yoruba: Marius Dona Kinnouhezan

Third Party Components

LEAP makes use of the following components:

• NEMO: the Next Energy Modeling system for Optimization, which is developed by Jason Veysey of SEI

• MapWinGIS: Thanks to Paul Meems, the lead developer of MapWinGIS, for his help with integrating MapWinGIS and LEAP.