Executive Director
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Washington, DC, United States
Tim Male is the founder and executive director of the Environmental Policy Innovation Center, a 10-staff person nonprofit focused on policy changes that will speed up environmental progress, including significant work on equitable water infrastructure, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, private investment in conservation, and new approaches to the public procurement of environmental outcomes.
Prior to launching this startup, he served as an Associate Director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality from 2014 to 2017, Vice President for Conservation Policy at Defenders of Wildlife, Director at National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and Co-Director of agriculture policy at Environmental Defense Fund. At the White House CEQ, he led work on mitigation policies, conservation investment, water, drought, wildfire, and a diversity of other natural resource issues.
He holds degrees in science from Yale University and the University of Hawaii. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Science magazine and a diversity of peer-reviewed journals. He has received a Marshall Memorial Fellowship and AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship (declined). He also ran for office and won, serving three terms as a city councilmember and leading the successful effort for that city to become the first in the country to lower its voting age to 16.
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