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Kateri Callahan has been the President of the Alliance to Save Energy since election to the post by the Board of Directors in January 2004. She serves as the principal spokesperson for the Alliance in promoting energy efficiency worldwide as our most abundant, cost-effective and cleanest energy resource.
Under Callahan’s leadership, the Alliance to Save Energy was influential in the passage of both the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the latter of which is the most significant energy efficiency legislation to be enacted by the Congress in decades. Callahan participated directly in advocacy of both bills, having testified on numerous occasions before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee as well as the Senate Finance Committee and the House Science Committee, as well as participating in organizational and strategy meetings organized and led by congressional leadership and key Members of Congress.
Callahan also has overseen the Alliance’s success in turning around the systemic erosion in federal funding for the Department of Energy efficiency programs that began in the early years of the decades. Fiscal years 2007 and 2008 witnessed the first modest increases in funding to these programs since at least 2002.
As the chief spokesperson for the Alliance, Callahan has made numerous appearances and speeches. She has spoken before the United Nations, U.S. Energy Association, the European Parliament, National Association of State Energy Officials, the International Energy Agency, the Organization of American States, and a gathering of the World’s Major Economies, among many others. She also has been interviewed for CNBC, PBS’s “Nightly Business Report,” CNN and CNN News Source, MSNBC, Fox News, NBC News Channel, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Associated Press, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, CNN Radio, National Public Radio, AP Radio, CNN Radio, ABC Radio and a host of others.
As President of the Alliance, Callahan leads a staff of more than fifty and oversees a budget of $9 million annually that supports energy efficiency projects. Kateri oversees the Alliance Board of Directors, which includes Members of Congress and top executives from companies and utilities. Callahan serves as the Co-Chair of The Keystone Center Energy Board and on the Boards of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, the Building Performance Institute, and The Keystone Center. She also serves on an advisory council to the periodical Better Homes and Gardens and to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In June 2009, Callahan was among the 23 inaugural inductees to the new Energy Efficiency Hall of Fame established by Johnson Controls Inc. and the United States Energy Association.
Prior to joining the Alliance, Callahan served for 11 years as the Executive Director of the Electric Drive Transportation Association, a Washington-based international nonprofit coalition of industry, government, academia and nonprofit organizations that promotes the development and use of battery, hybrid and fuel cell transportation technologies. She has also worked for the Washington DC law firm of Van Ness Feldman, where she filled various management and advocacy roles for a number of the firm’s important coalition clients, and for former United States Senator Walter “Dee” Huddleston (D. KY.). Callahan graduated from the University of Louisville (B.A.).
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