Ian Bowles Biography

Ian Bowles is an environmentalist businessman and former political aide. He is the co-founder and Managing Director of WindSail Group. He served as the Senior Director of Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council and as Associate Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality from 1999 to 2001. He also served as Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs from 2007 to 2011.
Bowles served as principal international environment and natural resources advisor on the White House staff for President Bill Clinton. Holding the posts of Senior Director of Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council and Associate Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality he played key roles in the Kyoto Protocol process trade and environmental negotiations and clean energy development and accompanied the President on foreign travel to India New Zealand and the G-8 Summit in Okinawa.
In early 2011 Bowles stepped down after four years as Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs for Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. In that position he created the first state cabinet agency encompassing both energy regulation and environmental protection overseeing six line agencies. He oversaw environmental review of all major real estate development and business expansion projects in the Commonwealth spearheaded reform of environmental and energy permitting and led the largest land conservation initiative in the state's history.

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