Gershuny, Greg

<p> Greg Gershuny currently serves as the Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program (EEP). Greg started at the Institute as the James E. Rogers Energy Fellow and then went on to serve as Managing Director for two years. The Energy and Environment Program, one of the longest running at the Aspen Institute, challenges thought leaders to test and shape energy, conservation, and environmental policies, governance systems, and institutions that support the wellbeing of both nature and society. The Program’s forums and dialogues are designed to cultivate leadership and develop collective solutions based on the ideal that both humankind and the natural world have intrinsic value. Like the Aspen Institute as a whole, the Energy and Environment Program seeks to inspire and explore new ideas that provoke action in the world. </p>

<p> Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Greg served as the Associate Director for the US Department of Energy Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis as well as Chief of Staff to Energy Policy Director Melanie Kenderdine. He was also the Director of Energy and Environment at the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, where he oversaw the Presidential appointment process for the energy and environment mission within the federal government and served as a policy aide to the Associate Director for Science and Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, on basic science R&D issues and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. Greg was a Research Associate for the White House National Economic Council for technology and innovation policy as well as working on several Recovery Act projects. He is a graduate of George Mason University and originally hails from New Jersey. </p>

<p> Greg Gershuny is the Executive Director of the Aspen Institute's Energy and Environment Program, and has also served as Managing Director and James E. Rogers Energy Policy Fellow for the program. Prior to joining The Aspen Institute, Gershuny was the Associate Director and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis as of July 2015. Prior to that, he was the Director of Energy and Environment at the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, the Confidential Assistant to Carl Wieman at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, an Associate at the White House National Economic Council and a Field Organizer on the 2008 Barack Obama Campaign for Change in Hammond, Indiana. </p>

<p> Gershuny graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor's degree in Political Conflict History. He was born in New Jersey. </p>

Greg Gershuny has served as the Associate Director for the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis at the Department of Energy, as well as Chief of Staff to Director of EPSA Melanie Kenderdine, since 2013. Prior to this, Gershuny served as the Energy and Environment Director for the White House Presidential Personnel Office from 2011 to 2013. In that role, he oversaw the process to recruit, interview, and vet, and place Presidential appointees for the energy and environment agencies as well as several White House Offices and a dozen boards and commissions. Prior to that, he served as Confidential Assistant to the Associate Director for Science and Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he worked on basic science R&D issues and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. Mr. Gershuny also served as an Associate in the National Economic Council in 2009 and from 2007 to 2008 he worked for the Barack Obama Campaign for Change. From 1998 to 2007 he worked in the private sector in several management roles and received a Bachelor of Individualized Studies in Political Conflict History from George Mason University.