Board of Advisors

HUCEG’s Board of Advisors comprises leaders in industry, government, and academia—providing key mentorship to our members and organizational strategy while navigating U.S.’s clean energy field.


  • President, Natural Resources Defense Council

    Manish Bapna joined NRDC as president and chief executive officer in August 2021, taking the reins of one of the world’s largest and most influential environmental organizations. With more than 700 attorneys, scientists, advocates, and policy experts on staff, as well as three million supporting members, NRDC is confronting the interlocking climate, health, nature, and inequity crises facing the world today.

    During his 25-year career prior to joining NRDC, Bapna’s leadership roles have focused on scaling solutions at the intersection of the environment and human development. Most recently, he served as executive vice president and managing director of the World Resources Institute (WRI). Over his 14-year tenure, WRI increased its impact and reach, with staff and budget expanding sixfold. Bapna played the lead role in establishing WRI offices in China, India, and Brazil and was a key architect of several influential, multi-stakeholder initiatives, such as the Global Commission on Adaptation, NDC Partnership, New Climate Economy, and the International Research Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals. He also helped launch WRI’s programs on cities, energy, finance, and adaptation.

    An economist by training, Bapna became the executive director of the Bank Information Center (BIC) in 2003, a nonprofit that works to protect the rights of local communities and the environment from the negative impacts of projects and policies financed by development banks. He was inspired to join BIC after serving as a senior economist at the World Bank for seven years, where he designed and implemented water, forestry, and rural development projects in Asia and Latin America. Several of these projects received international recognition and were highly rated in independent evaluations. Prior to joining the World Bank, Bapna was a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company in the financial services and technology industries.

    Bapna was born outside of Chicago. He holds master’s degrees in business and political and economic development from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT.


  • Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment

    Daniel P. Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Professor of Public Policy.

    Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history. He is particularly interested in how information on climate change from the geologic past can lead to better understanding of anthropogenic climate change in the future. In addition to his work on geochemistry and climatology, Schrag studies energy technology and policy, including carbon capture and storage and low-carbon synthetic fuels.

    From 2009-2017, Schrag served on  President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.  Among various honors, he is the recipient of the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union and a MacArthur Fellowship. Schrag earned a B.S. in geology and geophysics and political science from Yale University and his Ph.D. in geology from the University of California at Berkeley. He came to Harvard in 1997


  • Former Senior Director for Climate & Energy, White House National Security Council.

    Jake Levine is former Senior Director for Climate & Energy at the National Security Council, where he served as Special Assistant to the President until January 20, 2025. Prior to joining the White House, Levine served as the first Chief Climate Officer of the U.S. Development Finance Corporation (DFC). In that role, Levine sat on DFC’s Investment and Risk Committees, and led the work to develop the agency’s climate strategy. During Levine’s tenure, DFC’s climate finance portfolio grew from $451M in FY2021, to nearly $4B in climate mitigation and adaptation commitments by FY2024, representing hundreds of transactions in dozens of emerging markets and developing economies. Levine is an attorney by training, and while an Associate at Covington, represented clients in various climate, clean energy, and clean air matters. Levine previously served in government in the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change, where he worked on developing the most stringent fuel economy standards ever set and the first-ever greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks, and later as Senior Counsel to California State Senator Fran Pavley, where he led the successful campaigns to draft, design, and enact landmark California climate and environmental justice legislation. Levine also served as Chief of Staff to the President of Opower, a software firm (now Oracle Utilities) that uses big data and behavioral science technology to help consumers save energy. Levine was a founding advisor to the California Climate Action Corps, a statewide service corps focused on climate resilience in underserved communities, which he helped to design and launch as a consultant to Governor Newsom. Levine holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a law degree from Harvard Law School.


  • Director, Electricity Law Initiative, Harvard Law School

    Ari Peskoe is the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program. He has written extensively about regulation of the U.S. power sector, on issues ranging from Constitutional challenges to states’ energy laws to interstate transmission development. Prior to the Environmental and Energy Law Program, Ari was an associate at a law firm in Washington, D.C. where he litigated before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about the Western Energy Crisis. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in electrical engineering and business.


  • Former U.S. Policy Lead, Tesla

    Arushi Sharma Frank is an expert in energy market economics, law, regulation, and technology. Her work spans the intersection of policy, markets, and infrastructure, shaping how complex energy systems evolve under changing regulatory, economic, and technological conditions. She has served in strategy execution and policy leadership roles at Tesla, the American Gas Association, Electric Power Supply Association, and Exelon Constellation. She now runs Luminary Strategies, a consulting practice focused on high-impact work at the frontiers of power system transformation. She advises private equity teams and portfolio companies engaged in utility grid technology, retail energy, battery storage, hyperscale development, and load flexibility solutions. The firm also supports emerging nonprofit and advocacy organizations advancing American energy dominance, competitive energy markets, and industrial policy objectives. Her areas of expertise span all facets of her work driving energy policy reform and business innovation. They include behind-the-meter grid integration, commercial energy project execution and operations, energy and capacity market design, large-load interconnection with co-located generation and storage, and transmission and distribution interconnection and utility grid planning. She has also led work on complex electric infrastructure development, natural gas commercial regulation, energy metering and telemetry requirements, and the formation, launch, and compliance of both wholesale and retail energy companies.

  • President, Conservation Law Foundation

    For over 30 years, Bradley M. Campbell has been at the forefront of shaping the country’s most significant environmental policies and laws. A former White House senior appointee during the Clinton administration, Brad was the Regional Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mid-Atlantic Region and served as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

    Brad has a wide range of experience overseeing large public agencies, developing strategic litigation, and negotiating innovative agreements that have resulted in environmental milestones in New England and across the United States.

    As Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Brad set the toughest stormwater pollution standards in the nation; initiated and negotiated the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to control greenhouse gas emissions from power plants; and secured permanent protection for more than 800,000 acres of watershed lands under threat of development in New Jersey’s Highlands region.

    As founder and principal of Bradley M. Campbell LLC, he successfully litigated on behalf of a low-income community to remedy drinking water contamination; negotiated agreements supporting the development of solar energy projects; and led litigation arising from catastrophic oil and chemical spills. During this time, Campbell also founded Swan Creek Energy, LLC, a renewable energy development firm responsible for several of the largest commercial-scale solar projects in New Jersey.

    During his time at CLF, Brad has overseen numerous successes in the courtroom and in state houses throughout New England. Under his leadership, CLF has taken on Exxon, Shell, and Gulf Oil for their failure to protect communities and prepare their facilities for climate impacts. CLF has also succeeded in passing enforceable new climate laws in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Maine.

    CLF has expanded its staff since Brad took the helm as president, which has greatly increased the reach and impact of the organization’s work in New England and beyond. At the same time, grant funding and individual giving have grown significantly under Brad’s leadership.

    Campbell lectures and writes regularly on major legal and policy issues.