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    Kevin T. Knobloch, MPA

    President
    Knobloch Energy
    ARLINGTON, Massachusetts

    Kevin Knobloch is President of Knobloch Energy LLC, a firm working with mission-driven companies and organizations to accelerate the deployment of clean energy projects and innovative climate technology solutions.

    Knobloch was Chief Executive Officer and President of Greentown Labs, the largest climatetech incubator in North America, with more than 225 startups in its labs in Somerville, MA, and Houston, TX. Earlier, he was President of New York OceanGrid LLC, where he led Anbaric’s efforts to develop offshore wind transmission in New York from 2018 to 2020. As a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) at the Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, he co-authored the report Clean Energy Policy and Expanding Markets: Insights from Corporate, Labor and Investor Leaders.

    Knobloch was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Energy in President Obama’s second term, where he worked with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz from June 2013 through January 2017. He led the Union of Concerned Scientists as its President for ten years and was its Executive Director for the preceding four years. Earlier in his career, he served as Legislative Director for U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth of Colorado and Legislative Assistant for U.S. Representative Ted Weiss of New York.

    Recently, he was named a General Partner of London GreenCity, a new climatetech incubator in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center at Stony Brook University and a Distinguished Associate at the Energy Futures Initiative. Knobloch holds a Master in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, with a focus on natural resource economics, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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