Advisory Board

EESI is fortunate to have an Advisory Board that includes government officials, professors, scientists, business executives, and nonprofit administrators.

Advisory Board

Jim Barrett, Senior Consultant to the Loan Programs Office, Department of Energy
Bill Becker, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for the New Energy Economy; Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project
Barbara Bramble, Vice President, International Conservation and Corporate Strategies at National Wildlife Federation
Lester R. Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute
Marilyn A. Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Frances S. Buchholzer, former Director, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Jesse Caputo, Researcher, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Ken Colburn, former New Hampshire environmental regulator and U.S. Program Director, The Regulatory Assistance Project
Michael Couick, President and CEO, The Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, Inc.
Dan Delurey, Senior Fellow for Energy & Climate, Vermont Law School
Roger Duncan, Research Fellow, University of Texas Austin; former General Manager, Austin Energy Services
Karl Gawell, former Executive Director, Geothermal Energy Association
Deborah Gordon, Senior Principal, Climate Intelligence, RMI
Kay Goss, President, World Disaster Management, LLC.
Craig Hart, Executive Director, Pace Energy and Climate Center
Katie Huffling, Executive Director, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE)
Adaora Ifebigh, Director of Impact, Sol Systems
Stephen S. Kalland, Executive Director, North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center, College of Engineering at North Carolina State University
Marcus King, Director, Master of Arts in International Affairs/Professor, GWU
Charles Komanoff, Director, Komanoff Energy Associates; Co-Director, Carbon Tax Center
Skip Laitner, Principal and Independent Consultant, Economic and Human Dimensions Research Associates
Charles Lester, Director, Ocean and Coastal Policy Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael MacCracken, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, Climate Change Programs, Climate Institute
Katherine Magruder, Executive Director, Maryland Clean Energy Center
Bernice McIntyre, Esq., President and Owner, BKM Group
Dale Medearis, Ph.D., Senior Regional Planner, Northern Virginia Regional Commission
Christopher Miller, Partner, AJW, Incorporated
Robert K. Musil, Ph.D., M.P.H., President & CEO, Rachel Carson Council; former Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility; winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for Peace
Bill Parsons, Vice President for Federal and State Affairs, The American Clean Power Association (ACP)
Sam Ricketts, Co-Founder / Senior Advisor, Evergreen Action; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Joseph Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Melanie Santiago-Mosier, Deputy Director, Clean Energy Group & Clean Energy States Alliance
Claudine Schneider, Independent Consultant; former Member of Congress (R-RI)
Jeff Seabright, Co-Founder and Partner, IMAGINE
Beth Shearer, former Director, Federal Energy Management Program, Department of Energy
Scott Sklar, President, The Stella Group, Ltd.; Adjunct Professor and Energy Director, Environmental and Energy Management Institute, George Washington University
Scott Slesinger, former Legislative Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Heather Taylor-Miesle, Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Regional Conservation, American Rivers
Barbara Bauman Tyran, Director, Macro Grid Initiative, American Council on Renewble Energy (ACORE)
Scott A. Weiner, Principal, SAW Associates
Jon Wellinghoff, CEO, Grid Policy, Inc.; former Chief Policy Officer, SolarCity; Partner, Stoel Rives, LLP; former Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Franz Wuerfmannsdobler, Senior Advisor, Bipartisan Policy Center
Rob Young, Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, Western Carolina University

Testimonials

Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.)
	"Our efforts in Congress are aided by the great work of groups like the Environmental and Energy Study Institute and I'm thankful to have partners like you to help inform good energy policy."

Claudine Schneider, former Member of Congress (R-R.I.)
	"There could not be a more critical role for a non-partisan, public interest, non-profit than to advise and educate Congress on energy and environmental issues. It’s what EESI does well—and it’s essential that they continue to do so."

Dr. John Holdren, President Obama's Science Advisor
	"I think EESI has been an enormously positive influence on understanding in the Congress and in the public of the nature of the climate change challenge."

Anne Saliers, formerly with the Holland Board of Public Works
	"It was like a gift just falling in my lap that [EESI] was looking for municipal utilities and rural co-ops to help them develop on-bill loan programs."