Carol Werner

Carol Werner serves as Executive Director of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute in Washington, DC- a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to sustainable development, believing that a sound environment and a sound economy go hand in hand.  Ms. Werner came to EESI in late 1987 and was the director of EESI's Energy & Climate Change Program through January 1998.  Ms. Werner has more than 20 years of public policy experience on energy and environmental issues.  She has organized dozens of Congressional briefings on science, technology and policy issues and has been a frequent speaker at many conferences and workshops on energy and environmental issues in EESI’s program areas.

Carol serves on the steering committees of the Sustainable Energy Coalition, the Surface Transportation Policy Project, the Environmental Advisory Committee of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy.   She also serves on the board of the National Center for Appropriate Technology, the board of the New Uses Council and the editorial board of BioCycle magazine.  She was a member of the Department of Energy's (DOE) State Energy Advisory Board for six years, was on the World Council of Churches Task Force on Climate Change, and  was a stakeholder in the DOE/USDA Bioenergy Initiative.  Carol also was a member of DOE's Federal Advisory Committee on the Commercialization of Renewable Energy Technologies and had been on the steering committee of  the U.S. Climate Action Network.

Before joining EESI in late 1987, Ms. Werner developed an energy efficiency/oil security project for Environmental Action.  From 1985-1987, she served as the legislative director of the Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition.

Contact Carol Werner at 202/662-1881 or cwerner@eesi.org