Eric Pooley is Senior Vice President for Strategy & Communications at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an organization that designs and transforms markets to bring lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems. He is the author of The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth,which Bill Clinton hailed as “a riveting tale” and “the very first account of the epic American campaign to get serious about global warming.” Eric has served as Deputy Editor of Bloomberg Bussinessweek, Managing Editor of Fortune, Editor of Time Europe, and National Editor, Chief Political Correspondent, and White House Correspondent for Time. Eric’s journalism has been recognized with many honors, including a National Magazine Award and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. He has written for Time, Slate, Bloomberg Businessweek, among other publications. In 2008 he studied press coverage of environmental issues at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Eric lectures frequently and has appeared on numerous programs.
Eric Pooley
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Communications, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)