Danielle Deane-Ryan - Senior Advisor for External Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement Director (Acting)
As the Senior Advisor for External Affairs and Acting Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Danielle Deane-Ryan supports the Assistant Secretary's efforts to strategically execute on EERE's mission and improve understanding of its successes among key audiences. Danielle brings a multidisciplinary perspective, having served in the private, philanthropic and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) sectors.
Danielle brings to EERE a wealth of experience in outreach and stakeholder relations, both in the clean energy policy and diversity arenas. She was previously a principal at The Raben Group, a strategic communications and public policy consulting firm. Her role included serving as Executive Director of Green 2.0, a groundbreaking campaign to scale up executive-level diversity, which won praise from CEOs of the nation's largest environmental foundations and NGOs. Before that, Danielle was the Program Director for Energy and Environment at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, where she managed the Commission to Engage African Americans on Energy, Climate Change, and the Environment.
Previously, at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as an environment program officer, Danielle designed and implemented the multi-million dollar New Constituencies for the Environment initiative. The initiative strategically bolstered support for organizations that were instrumental in broadening the base of support and equity provisions in California's global warming solutions and clean air policies.
Danielle was also a fellow of the United Nations-led Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, served as a National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program board member, and gained reinsurance finance experience at the Fortune 500 firm Marsh & McLennan.
Danielle has a bachelor's degree in political economy from Williams College with an environmental studies concentration and a master's degree in environment and development from the London School of Economics.