Brendan FitzSimons

Work

Brendan helps lead EDF's Corporate Partnerships "Innovation Pipeline" to identify and develop groundbreaking environmental initiatives with leading U.S. companies, including working with companies to find "sweet spots" where new technologies or processes can transform industries and solve pressing environmental problems.

Brendan also is working to overcome barriers to industrial energy efficiency by developing a demonstration project with a labor union and a manufacturing plant in order to identify and implement cost-effective energy-efficiency opportunities.

Recent Projects

• Brendan developed EDF's website Less Carbon, More Innovation —which aims to provide user-friendly "one-stop shopping" for industrial energy-efficiency research and data from government and third party resources, including McKinsey, EPA, and DOE.
• Brendan was on EDF's National Climate Campaign, which worked with the U.S. House of Representatives to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation.

Background

Prior to joining EDF in 2008, Brendan had over a decade of experience and wide-ranging responsibilities working at innovative child advocacy organizations aimed at advancing federal and state investments in children and youth programs, including managing fund development, strategy and operations.

Degrees

• M.B.A., George Washington University, with a focus on Environmental Policy and Management.
• B.A., History, Middlebury College