Senior Attorney and Co-Director, Energy
Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Ralph Cavanagh is a senior attorney and
co-director of NRDC's energy program, which he
joined in 1979. In addition, Ralph serves on
the U.S. Secretary of Energy's advisory board
and the board of the Electricity Innovation
Institute (E2I), and he is vice chair of the
Portland-based Bonneville Environmental
Foundation and of the Center for Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT),
which unites representatives of the
environmental, energy efficiency, and renewable
energy communities. He has held appointments as
Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford and the
University of California (Berkeley), and as
Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School. Mr.
Cavanagh is also a founding board member of the
Northwest Energy Coalition and of E-Source, a
Colorado-based energy services company. His
awards include the Heinz Award for Public
Policy and the Bonneville Power
Administration's Award for Exceptional Public
Service.
He received his bachelor's and law degrees
from Yale University.
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