President
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Roger Ballentine provides management consulting and policy analysis services to corporate and financial sector clients ranging from the Fortune 5 to early-stage companies. Roger is an internationally recognized expert on energy technology and energy market transitions; bottom-line enhancing sustainability strategies; investment and transaction evaluation; energy procurement strategies; and the integration of energy and environmental policy considerations into business strategy. He is also a Venture Partner with Arborview Capital LLC. Roger is a widely published author and sought after speaker. Roger previously was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force, Deputy Assistant to the President, and Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Before joining the White House, Roger was a partner at Patton Boggs LLP.
Roger has helped some of the world’s leading companies and institutions overcome complex challenges and create value with bespoke strategies to increase competitiveness and manage market and regulatory risk. He has helped clients develop better business strategies, make better investment decisions, negotiate new business partnerships, build critical alliances with stakeholders. In 2024, Roger was named one of the world’s top twenty speakers on corporate sustainability.
He has served on numerous fiduciary and advisory boards in the energy sector and currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Clean Capital LLC, Brilliant Light Power, and the Trane Technologies’ External Advisory Council on Sustainability. Roger was a founding Board member of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and was a long-serving advisory board member of the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Roger also serves as the Co-Chair of the Aspen Institute’s Energy Innovation Forum and is a Trustee of The Nature Conservancy’s MD-DC Chapter.
In addition to being a frequent speaker, media commentator and writer, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University and Lecturer at Law at the Harvard Law School teaching one of nation’s first courses on climate law.
Roger is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Connecticut and a Cum Laude graduate of the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Connecticut, District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court bars.
