Jonathan Elkind

Jonathan Elkind is a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy. Elkind came to the center after a long and distinguished career devoted to energy and environmental policy. From 2009 to 2017, he worked on international energy and climate issues at the US Department of Energy, helping coordinate energy policy in the Obama Administration and leading climate and energy programs with key global partners. Previously, he founded Eastlink Consulting, where he guided corporate and nonprofit clients on commercial energy projects in Europe and Eurasia, and served as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, researching international energy security issues. Early in his career, Elkind focused on energy, environment, and economic issues in the post-Soviet nations in a variety of posts with the Joint Global Change Research Institute, the US National Security Council, the Office of the Vice President of the United States, the Department of Energy, and the Council on Environmental Quality. Elkind holds an MBA from the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, an MA in Russian history and certificate in Soviet studies from the W. Averell Harriman Institute, and a BA with distinction in history from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also a distinguished associate with the Energy Futures Initiative.