Senior Director Lee Beck to depart Clean Air Task Force
BOSTON – Today, Clean Air Task Force announces that Lee Beck, Senior Director, Europe, Middle East, and Africa will leave the organization at the end of the year to take on a new role as Senior Vice President for Global Policy and Commercial Strategy at HIF Global.
“Lee’s strategic vision and tenacious advocacy have contributed significantly to CATF’s success,” said Armond Cohen, Executive Director of Clean Air Task Force. “She has helped push the global environmental community toward a more realistic reckoning with the climate challenge and has led teams that have driven major policy and commercial progress around the world. Her leadership has helped shape CATF into the global organization it is today”
Beck played a critical role in advancing Clean Air Task Force’s efforts to design and pass innovative climate and energy policies, including the key clean energy provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, the European Union’s Carbon Management Strategy, and global carbon management efforts. Her work helped governments in Europe and the Middle East to define and adopt a technology inclusive and regionally-tailored approach to climate action. More recently she helped to create the Nuclear Scaling Initiative. She also led CATF’s organizational strategy around global climate summits like the annual Conference of the Parties (COP), bringing CATF’s unique approach to the world’s largest climate stage.
“I’m very proud of my work at CATF and all of the success my colleagues and I have achieved in changing the way the world addresses climate change,” Lee Beck said. “My work over the years has made it very clear to me that private-sector collaboration is key to research and advocacy that works in the real world, and that’s one of the reasons I’m excited to approach the challenge of global energy transformation from a new vantage point — joining the private sector to create business cases to propel at-scale deployment of solutions. AT HIF Global, I’m looking forward to working at the intersection of project, market, commercial and policy reality, and to continuing my work to expand the climate solution set and promote pragmatic approaches to climate action.”
CATF’s directors in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East will continue to drive CATF’s work forward, advancing innovative policies and driving commercial progress around the world.
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About Clean Air Task Force
Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is a global nonprofit organization working to safeguard against the worst impacts of climate change by catalyzing the rapid development and deployment of low-carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies. With more than 25 years of internationally recognized expertise on climate policy and a fierce commitment to exploring all potential solutions, CATF is a pragmatic, non-ideological advocacy group with the bold ideas needed to address climate change. CATF has offices in Boston, Washington D.C., and Brussels, with staff working virtually around the world. Visit catf.us and follow @cleanaircatf.
