Carol Browner
Carol Browner has a lifelong commitment to securing environmental and public health protections. She has worked in government, the private sector, and non-profit. She has served two presidents, a governor, and two senators. As assistant to President Obama and director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, she oversaw the coordination of environmental, energy, climate, transport, and related policies across the US federal government.
During her tenure, the White House secured the most significant investment ever in clean energy. It established the national clean car standards, including new automobile fuel efficiency standards and the first-ever climate pollution reductions for vehicles.
From 1993 to 2001, Browner served as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. As administrator, she adopted stringent air pollution standards for soot and smog, including, for the first time, a fine particle clean air standard; spearheaded the reauthorization of the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Food Quality Protection Act. She was known for working with both environmentalists and industry to set scientific-based public health protections while providing businesses with important flexibility in meeting those standards. She worked across the agency to ensure a focus on protecting the most vulnerable, particularly children.
From 1991 through 1993, Browner served as Secretary of Environmental Regulation in Florida, where she launched one of the largest ecological restoration projects ever attempted in the United States to restore the natural water flow to the Everglades.
Today, she works with the private sector, helping navigate government policy and building public-private partnerships. She is chair of the board of the League of Conservation Voters. She also serves on the board of Bunge Limited, where she chairs the board’s Sustainability Committee. She is senior counsel at Covington and Burling.
Browner splits her time between the Green Mountains of Vermont and Washington, DC.