Judi Greenwald

Director of Innovative Solutions

Judi Greenwald is the Director of Innovative Solutions at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. She oversees the Solutions program and develops mechanisms for learning about and promoting innovative solutions -- including research, publications, web-based information and data bases, and workshops. Ms. Greenwald focuses on business solutions, state and regional solutions, and technological innovation. She served on the Resource Panel for the northeast Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the California Market Advisory Committee and is now serving as a policy advisor to the Western Climate Initiative.

Ms. Greenwald has over 25 years of experience working on energy and environmental policy. Prior to coming to the Pew Center, she worked as a consultant, focusing on innovative approaches to solving environmental problems, including climate change. She also served as a senior advisor on the White House Climate Change Task Force. As a member of the professional staff of the U.S. Congress Energy and Commerce Committee, she worked on the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the 1992 Energy Policy Act, and a number of other energy and environmental statutes. She was also a Congressional Fellow with then-Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, an environmental scientist with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and an environmental engineer and policy analyst at EPA.

Ms. Greenwald has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, cum laude, from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Science, Technology and Public Policy from George Washington University.