Bruce Nilles
Bruce Nilles is a Managing Director at Rocky Mountain Institute where he is leading its work on electrifying everything with clean electricity, starting with the building sector. Over the past 15 years Bruce helped build and lead the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, a nationwide effort to replace coal with clean energy. He holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and spent the first four years of his career at the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division. He is the 2018 recipient of the Packard Foundation Climate Breakthrough Award. Nilles currently resides in Oakland, California with his wife and two children and enjoys running among the redwoods whenever he can find the time.
Biography current as of September 17, 2019