The Foundation Welcomes a New Employee

Peggy Duxbury – Program Officer, Environment Program.

Peggy Duxbury joins the Foundation to focus on U.S. and western state energy policy issues as well as U.S. and international climate policy. She will pursue grantmaking strategies to minimize the damage from fossil fuel development in the West, promote increased use of renewable energy sources, and encourage energy efficiency and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Before she joined the Foundation, Duxbury served as director of governmental and regulatory affairs at Seattle City Light, where she was responsible for external affairs at one of the nation's largest municipal utilities and the first in the United States to be carbon neutral. She started her career as a legislative assistant to Congressman Bill Frenzel from Minnesota. During the Clinton administration, she was a senior policy advisor to the White House Council on Sustainable Development, led by Vice President Al Gore. She also was a vice president for corporate strategies at Redefining Progress, a leading think tank that works on shifting public policy to achieve a sustainable economy. Later, at Calpine, the nation's eighth-largest energy producer, she was a vice president for governmental and environmental affairs and directed clean energy strategies. Duxbury earned a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from Old Dominion University and a master's degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.