David Gardiner

David Gardiner has more than thirty years of experience analyzing and shaping successful federal and international environmental policy in the public and private sector. As principal of David Gardiner & Associates, he provides high-level strategic guidance to the corporate executives and non-profit organizations with whom the firm works. Among his principal areas of expertise are energy efficiency, clean air policy, sustainable transportation concerns, and forest and land issues.

As a senior official in the Clinton administration for eight years, Mr. Gardiner was a leading strategist in the U.S. government’s climate change and environmental policy. He directed the White House Climate Change Task Force, the group President Clinton established to coordinate domestic and international climate change policies, including the development of the Administration’s climate change budget and tax credit proposals. He was a senior member of the U.S. delegation to five major United Nations climate treaty negotiations, including the Kyoto meeting, as well as numerous other diplomatic and negotiating efforts.

Mr. Gardiner served as Assistant Administrator for Policy at the Environmental Protection Agency for six years. He led EPA’s climate change efforts, as well as programs to reinvent EPA’s approaches to key sectors, such as transportation, agriculture, metal finishing, and real estate development. During his tenure, he directed the agency’s environmental economics and information policy initiatives, and was Administrator Carol Browner’s senior representative to the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.

Prior to joining the Administration, Mr. Gardiner was Legislative Director for the Sierra Club in Washington, DC, where he managed policy and developed issue campaigns on climate change, clean air, land protection and international issues.

Mr. Gardiner has a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Harvard College.