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Bracken Hendricks is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Urban Ingenuity, a company offering solutions to finance and develop advanced energy infrastructure projects that speed the clean energy future. He is a longtime leader in promoting policies that create green jobs, sustainable infrastructure, and investment in cities.

Hendricks was most recently a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, working on policy solutions at the interface of clean energy and economic development. He served as an adviser to the campaign and transition team of President Barack Obama, and was an architect of clean-energy portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He also served in the Clinton administration as special assistant to the Office of Vice President Al Gore, with the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and with the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.

He was founding executive director of the Apollo Alliance for good jobs and energy independence and has served as an energy and economic advisor to the AFL-CIO, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s Energy Advisory Task Force, and numerous other federal, state, and local policy-makers and elected officials.

Hendricks’ publications include the book Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy, which he co-authored with U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA).