Michael Catanzaro
President and Chief Policy OfficerThroughout his career, Michael Catanzaro has served in several senior energy and environmental policy positions in the federal government, including the House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, the EPA, and the White House.
Before joining CGCN, Catanzaro served as Special Assistant to President Trump for Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy at the White House National Economic Council. In that role, he helped craft energy and environmental policy at multiple agencies and advised the president on the administration’s major policy decisions in that space. He previously served on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and on the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign as a top adviser on energy and environmental policy. Catanzaro was Associate Director for Policy in the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Associate Deputy Administrator of the EPA under former President George W. Bush. He also served as a senior adviser to then-Speaker John Boehner on energy and environmental policy.
- Former Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy, White House National Economic Council
- Former Deputy Staff Director, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee with Sen. Jim Inhofe
- Former Senior Policy Advisor to then Speaker John Boehner
- Joined CGCN in 2015, returned in 2018 after serving in the administration, Currently serves as:
- Non-Resident Senior Associate, Energy and Climate Change Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Visiting Fellow, Energy Policy Institute, University of Chicago
- 2017 – 2018: Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy, White House National Economic Council
- 2013 – 2015: Managing Director, FTI Consulting
- 2011 – 2013: Senior Policy Advisor, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)
- 2009 – 2011: Deputy Staff Director, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
- 2007 – 2009: Director of Federal Relations, PPL Corporation
- 2005 – 2007: Associate Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
- 2004 – 2005: Associate Director for Policy, White House Council on Environmental Quality
- 2004: Deputy Policy Director, Bush-Cheney Reelection Campaign
- 2003 – 2004: Communications Director, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee