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Bob Perciasepe has been an environmental policy leader in and outside government for more than 40 years, most recently as the president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). He now serves as a senior advisor to several organizations including C2ES.
Prior to serving as C2ES’s president Bob was the longest serving Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is a respected expert on environmental stewardship, natural resource management, and public policy, and has built a reputation for bringing stakeholders together to solve issues.
Bob served as Deputy Administrator from 2009 to 2014. He was previously assistant administrator for both the agency’s water and clean air programs from 1993 to 2000, leading efforts to improve the safety of America’s drinking water and development of a new infrastructure revolving fund for drinking water. He also led efforts to lower sulfur levels in gasoline and diesel fuel to reduce smog.
In 2002, Bob joined the National Audubon Society, one of the nation’s oldest conservation organizations, as its senior vice president for public policy. He served as the group’s chief operating officer from 2004 to 2009, and worked to protect wetlands and expand environmental education, especially in urban areas.
He has also held top positions in state and municipal government—as Secretary of the Environment for the state of Maryland from 1990 to 1993 and as a senior planning official for the city of Baltimore, where he managed the city’s capital budget from 1980 to1986.
Bob is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He serves on the boards of the Keystone Policy Center, the George B. Storer Foundation, and the Environmental Law Institute. He has received American University’s William K. Reilly Award for Environmental Leadership, the Chesapeake Water Environment Association’s Abel Wolman Award, and the American Lung Association’s Distinguished Service Award.
Bob holds a master’s degree in planning and public administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Science degree in natural resources from Cornell University.
