Board of Directors and Advisory Board

Board of Directors

  • Jared Blum, EESI Board Chair, President, Polyisocyanurate Insulation Manufacturers Association (PIMA)
  • Shelley Fidler, EESI Board Treasurer, Sec Principal, Government Affairs, Energy and Environmental Policy, VanNess Feldman Attorneys at Law
  • Richard L. Ottinger, EESI Board Chair Emeritus, Professor Emeritus and former Dean, Pace University School of Law; former Member of Congress (D-NY)
  • John J. Sheehan, retired Legislative Director, United Steelworkers of America
  • Nancy Bacon, Senior Advisor, Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.
  • Ambassador Richard E. Benedick, Senior Advisor, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNL); former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, Health, and Natural Resources
  • Rosina M. Bierbaum Ph.D., Dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan; served as Acting Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); directed OSTP’s Environment Division
  • Quincalee Brown, former Executive Director, Water Environment Federation
  • Frances S. Buchholzer, former Director, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
  • Mortimer M. Caplin, Founder and Partner, Caplin and Drysdale; former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service
  • Kenneth M. Connolly, Vice President of Government Relations, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc; former Minority Staff Director for the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee
  • Gerald Decker, Chair, Decker Energy International, Inc.; Chair, Competitive Power Forum
  • Roger Duncan, former General Manager, Austin Energy Services
  • Bob Edgar, President and CEO of Common Cause; former General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; ordained United Methodist Church Minister; former Member of Congress (D-PA)
  • John Gibbons, Resource Strategies; former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; former Director of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
  • Elliott Laws, Senior Counsel, Crowell and Moring LLP; former President of Safety, Health and Environment for Texaco Inc.; former EPA Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response
  • Chris Schepis, Consultant; Former Professional Staff, Homeland Security Committee; former Legislative Assistant, Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL)
  • Claudine Schneider, Independent Consultant; former Member of Congress (R-RI)

Advisory Board

  • James P. Barrett, Ph. D., Board Chairman, Redefining Progress
  • Barbara Bramble, Senior Program Advisor, National Wildlife Federation
  • Lester R. Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute
  • Dr. Marilyn A. Brown, Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Donna Wise Buckley, Communications Director, Brookings Institution
  • Tom Buis, CEO, Growth Energy
  • Jesse Caputo, PhD Candidate, State University of New York (SUNY) School of Environmental Science and Forestry
  • Ken Colburn, Director, Symbiotic Strategies, LLC
  • Charles Cooke, Principal Associate Director, The Energy Institute, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Dr. Bruce Dale, Professor and Chair, Chemical Engineering Department, Michigan State University
  • John E. Echohawk, Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
  • Cynthia Gardstein, Program Manager, Sustainable Buildings Industry Council
  • Karl Gawell, Executive Director, Geothermal Energy Association
  • Andrew Goldberg, Senior Director, American Institute of Architects
  • Glenn Hamer, President and CEO, Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Bill Holmberg, Chairman/Director, New Uses Council
  • Stephen S. Kalland, Associate Director, North Carolina Solar Center, North Carolina State University
  • Skip Laitner, Director of Economy Analysis, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
  • Michael MacCracken, Ph.D., Chief Scientist for Climate Change Program, Climate Institute
  • Joesph Michels, Director for Research Initatives, Princeton University
  • Frank Murray, President & CEO, New York State Energy Research and Development
  • Robert Musil, Professor, School of International Service, American University
  • Shirley Neff, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Ruth Patrick, Senior Curator, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
  • Rhone Resch, President, Solar Energy Industries Association
  • Joseph Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
  • Roger Sant, Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation, Principal, Sant Associates, LLC
  • Jeff Seabright, Vice President for Environment and Water Resources, The Coca-Cola Company
  • Beth Shearer, President, Beth Shearer and Associates
  • Scott Sklar, President, The Stella Group, Ltd.
  • Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Paul Thomsen, Senior Vice President and Counsel, Ormat Technologies
  • Scott A. Weiner, Petra Solar, Inc.
  • Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission