Dan Carol

Strategist Dan Carol is a leading catalyst and evangelist for new ideas and approaches to galvanize and build the Green New Deal, working with green businesses, foundations, governments and non-profits. Most recently, Carol served as the Content & Issues Director for the Obama for President Campaign, where he guided the launch of Obama's NewEnergyforAmerica.com plan and the 2008 Democratic Platform, Listening to America.

In response to September 11th, Carol spearheaded the creation of The Apollo Alliance (www.apolloalliance.org), a growing strategic effort to promote a "moon mission" national commitment to energy independence and unite Americans of all political stripes in a common purpose. Before that, Carol was an environmental and energy budget analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a Presidential Management Fellow, and a trend consultant for the Congressional Institute for the Future.

A member of the Clinton Global Initiative and a co-founder of the Clean Economy Network, Carol teaches public policy at the University of Oregon.