Bipartisan Policy Center

Leadership & Staff

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Xan Fishman centrist energy policy advocate and political operative

• Senior Director of the Energy Program

Michael Thorning centrist Congressional expert

• Director of Structural Democracy

Alfonso Costa Jr.

• housing advisory council member (Jan '21→?)

Neal Simon 2018 Independent Maryland candidate for US Senate; former CEO, Highline Wealth Management

• Board member

Antonio R Villaraigosa 41st mayor of Los Angeles.

• Senior Fellow

Curt Hebert Former FERC Commissioner, 1997 - 2001

• Visiting scholar ('11→?)

Scott McKee Senior policy analyst, Energy Project, Bipartisan Policy Center

• senior policy analyst (Aug 1 '12→?)

Bryan Cunningham Information security and privacy lawyer

• Cyber Security Task Force

Ashley Clark

• Deputy Press Secretary ('08→?)

Jason Grumet founder of the Bipartisan Policy Center

• Founder and President ('07→?)

Board Members

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Madhu Beriwal

• Board Member (Jul '24→?)

Pamela Patenaude Former Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2017-2019)

• Board Member ('20→?)

Ralph Cavanagh Senior Attorney and Co-Director, Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council

• Board Member

Howard Henry Baker Jr Senior Counsel, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC; former US Senator from Tennessee

• Advisory Board

Lawrence M Higby Former CEO, Apria Healthcare Group

• Board Member

Doyle Beneby President and Chief Executive Officer, CPS Energy

• Board Member (Jan '21→?)

Mark Walsh CEO and Chairman, GeniusRocket

• Board Member

General Charles F Wald Senior Advisor, Deloitte & Touche, LLP Retired General, U.S. Air Force

• Board Member

Mark W Heising Managing Director, Medley Partners

• Board Member

Frances Townsend Self-Employed at Frances Fragos Townsend, LLC 

• Board Member [+1]

• Board Member

Donors

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Arnold Ventures Foundation of natural gas billionaire John Arnold

• Grant · 800,000 USD ('15)

Walton Family Foundation Inc Philanthropic foundation affiliated with family that owns Walmart

• Donation/Grant · 25,000 USD ('15→'16)

The Achelis and Bodman Foundations

• Donation/Grant

Lumina Foundation for Education Inc

• Donation/Grant

The Kresge Foundation Private foundation headquartered in Troy, Michigan

• Donation/Grant

Democracy Fund Bipartisan Group Political Participation

• Donation/Grant

William O Fleischman Chairman and chief executive of W/F Investment Corp.

• Donation

Mark Walsh CEO and Chairman, GeniusRocket

• Donation

Mortimer Zuckerman Real estate billionaire and owner of the Daily News

• Donation

Sara Tirschwell Created a distressed-debt fund at TCW but was fired in 2017

• Donation

Donations

Brookings Institute Major Washington think tank

• Donation · 100,000 USD ('09)

Energy Futures Initiative Ernest Moniz energy think tank

• Funder

Resources for the Future Energy think tank

• Donation ('11)

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Liberal policy organization specializing in federal budget issues from a low-income perspective.

• Grant ('09)

Child Organizations

Debt Reduction Task Force Chaired by former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici and former White House Budget Director and Federal Reserve Vice Chair Alice Rivlin, and includes 19 former White House and Cabinet offi

• Child Org

National Commission on Energy Policy Defunct commission operated by the Bipartisan Policy Center

• Child Org (past)

Members

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Matthew K Rose Chairman & CEO of Burlington Northern Santa Fe

• Strategic Energy Policy Initiative member

Richard Schmalensee Howard W. Johnson Professor Dean Emeritus, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Strategic Energy Policy Initiative member

Susan Tierney Managing Principal, Analysis Group

• Strategic Energy Policy Initiative member

Susan N Story CEO, American Water Works

• Strategic Energy Policy Initiative member

Thomas O Hunter Former President and Lab Director, Sandia National Laboratories

• Strategic Energy Policy Initiative member

Colette Honorable Former commissioner, FERC

• Strategic Energy Policy Initiative member

William A Von Hoene Jr Senior Executive VP + Chief Strategy Office, exelon

• Strategic Energy Policy Initiative member

Edwin D Hill International President, International Brotherhood of Electric Workers

• Strategic Energy Policy Initiative member

Dennis McGinn American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)

• Strategic Energy Policy Initiative member

Ellen Jamison Kullman DuPont CEO

• Strategic Energy Policy Initiative member

Memberships

Debt Reduction Task Force Chaired by former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici and former White House Budget Director and Federal Reserve Vice Chair Alice Rivlin, and includes 19 former White House and Cabinet offi

• Member

Services & Transactions

Kenneth B Medlock III James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in, Energy and Resource Economics and, Deputy Director, Energy Forum,, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Adjunct Professor, Economics D

• consultant

Miscellaneous Relationships

Bipartisan Policy Center Action

• Affiliation

Commission on Evidence-Based Policy Making Established in 2016 to Promote Use of Data in Evaluating Government Programs

• supported by ('16→?)*