Impact Investing and the Public Sector
Creating Jobs, Driving Profits
October 7, 2010
Dan Carol
Dan Carol is the Senior Fellow for Innovation and Clean Economy at NDN's New Policy Institute, where he serves as a strategic adviser to their Electricity 2.0 and 21st Century Economy projects, focusing on bottom-up and regional innovation. He is the author of a new working paper, The Acceleration Agenda (http://ndn.org/blog/2010/09/acceleration-agenda). Most recently, Carol served as the Content & Issues Director for the Obama for President Campaign, where he guided the launches of Obama's NewEnergyforAmerica.com plan and Clean Tech and Green Business Leaders for Obama (CT40). A long-time catalyst and evangelist for building new approaches for a Green New Deal, Carol co-founded The Clean Economy Network in 2009 and before that spearheaded the creation of The Apollo Alliance (www.apolloalliance.org), an early, post 9/11 effort to promote a "moon mission" national commitment to energy independence and unite Americans of all political stripes in a common purpose. Before that, Carol was an environmental and energy budget analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a Presidential Management Fellow, and a trend consultant for the Congressional Institute for the Future. Carol earlier served as Research Director for the Democratic National Committee during the 1992 presidential cycle, where he directed staff work on the Party's national platform and worked in Little Rock on the Clinton-Gore debate team. A program advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, Carol also teaches public policy at the University of Oregon. A founding contributor to the Huffington Post, his writings and commentary have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, C-Span, CNN and The Boston Review.
