Cathleen Kelly previously served as the Director of the Climate & Energy Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where she led high-level business and policy dialogues and analysis to strengthen transatlantic cooperation on energy and climate policy.  Ms. Kelly served as the Deputy Associate Director for Climate Change Adaptation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in 2010 and 2011.  At CEQ, she managed the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force to strengthen U.S. policies to reduce the risks of climate change to communities and U.S. government services and assets, and helped formulate U.S. positions on international sustainable development and climate policy issues.

Prior to her work at GMF and the White House, Ms. Kelly was the Director of Climate Change Policy at the Nature Conservancy, where she worked with policy makers and business leaders to design energy and climate policy, including strategies to reduce deforestation and build the resilience of communities and natural places to climate change.  She was also a Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for Clean Air Policy, where she analyzed international and domestic energy and climate policy options and led policy and business dialogues in developing countries and Europe.

Ms. Kelly holds an M.A. in International Relations and Energy and Environmental Policy from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Education:
Cathleen holds an M.A. in International Relations with a focus in Energy and Environmental Policy from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in Political Science and Music from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.