Roger Ballentine

Roger Ballentine is the President of Green Strategies Inc., where he provides management consulting services to corporate and financial sector clients on sustainability strategy; decarbonization; investment and transaction evaluation; clean energy procurement strategies; and the integration of energy and environmental policy considerations into business strategy. He is also a Venture Partner with Arborview Capital LLC, a private equity firm making growth capital investments in the clean energy and energy efficiency sectors. Previously, Roger was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. Prior to being named Deputy Assistant, Roger was Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs where he focused on energy and environmental issues. Before joining the White House, Roger was a partner at Patton Boggs LLP.

Over the years, Roger has helped some of the world’s leading companies and institutions increase competitiveness and manage market and regulatory risk through cutting edge energy and sustainability strategies. Using his expertise and deep relationships, Roger has helped clients develop better business strategies, make better investment decisions, negotiate new business partnerships, build critical alliances with stakeholders, and develop and implement clean energy and other sustainability measures that achieve corporate buy-in and yield bottom-line value.

Roger serves on the Board of NetPower LLC, and the Advisory Boards of Clean Capital LLC, 8 Rivers Capital, Brilliant Light Power, and Uptake Technologies, and is a member of Trane Technologies’ External Advisory Council on Sustainability. He was a founding Board member of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and was a long-serving advisory board member of the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Roger is Roger also serves as the Co-Chair of the Aspen Institute’s Clean Energy Innovation Forum and is a Trustee of The Nature Conservancy’s MD-DC Chapter.

In addition to being a frequent speaker, media commentator and writer, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School teaching in the area of energy and climate law, and a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington D.C.

Roger is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Connecticut and a Cum Laude graduate of the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Connecticut, District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court bars.

Education

• JD Harvard Law School (1985 — 1988)
• BA University of Connecticut (1981 — 1985)

Companies

• Venture Partner Arborview Capital LLC (2007)
• President Green Strategies (2001)
• Lecturer on Law Harvard Law School (2007 — 2008)
• Chairman, White House Climate Change Task Force; Deputy Assistant to the President The White House (1998 — 2001)
• Partner Patton, Boggs LLP (1988 — 1998)