Ian Bowles
{{Short description|American environmentalist, businessman, politician, and political aide}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Ian Bowles
|image = Ian Bowles (1).jpg
|caption = Bowles circa 2007
|office = Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs
|governor = Deval Patrick
|term_start = January 4, 2007
|term_end = January 5, 2011
|predecessor = Robert W. Golledge, Jr.
|successor = Rick Sullivan
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}}
|birth_place = {{nowrap|Woods Hole, Massachusetts,}}
U.S.
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = Democratic
|spouse = {{marriage|Hannah Riley|2003}}
|education = Harvard University (BA)
University of Oxford (MLitt)
}}
Ian A. Bowles (born c. 1966), is an American environmentalist, businessman, politician, and political aide who served as Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs from 2007 to 2011. Bowles is a native of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Falmouth High School and Harvard College. He also has a master's degree from Oxford College and an honorary doctorate from Emerson College. He resides in Dover, Massachusetts, with his wife Hannah Riley Bowles{{cite web|url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/hannah-riley-bowles|title=Hannah Riley Bowles}} and their two children.
Background
Bowles began his career in politics as a legislative aide to Congresswoman Claudine Schneider.{{cite news|title=Ian Bowles, 41, Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/gallery/deval_patricks_staff?pg=8|work=Boston.com|access-date=13 July 2011|date=9 January 2007}} After Schneider left office, Bowles became a policy analyst and later Vice President at Conservation International.{{cite news|last=Raeburn|first=Paul|title=Earth Summit survives at 'point of civilizational change'|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jYEzAAAAIBAJ&pg=4680,5421779|access-date=13 July 2011|newspaper=Associated Press|date=June 13, 1992}} He played a key role in creation of the Central Suriname Nature Reserve, a 4 million acre park that is one of the largest tropical forest protected areas in the world.{{cite web|title=Green Reserves for Suriname|url=http://www.luxner.com/cgi-bin/view_article.cgi?articleID=965}} Bowles was co-editor of Footprints in the Jungle: Natural Resource Industries, Infrastructure, and Biodiversity Conservation (Oxford University Press).{{cite web|title=Footprints in the Jungle|url=http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Sociology/EnvironmentTechnology/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTEyNTc4OA==}}
In 1996 he was a Democratic candidate for United States Representative in Massachusetts's 10th congressional district. He finished in third place, with 22 percent of the vote, in the four-candidate primary behind Bill Delahunt and Philip W. Johnston.{{cite book |title=Massachusetts Election Statistics 1996 | url=https://archive.org/stream/massachusettsele1996mass#page/274/mode/2up }}
From 1999 to 2001, Bowles served under President Bill Clinton as Senior Director of Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council and as associate director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Clinton also appointed Bowles to the Enterprise for the Americas Board.{{cite web|title=Bowles named to Enterprise for the Americas Board|url=http://clinton6.nara.gov/2000/02/2000-02-02-ian-bowles-named-to-the-enterprise-for-the-americas-board.html}}
He then served as a senior research fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (part of the John F. Kennedy School of Government),{{cite news|author1-link=Emilie Feldman|last=Feldman|first=Emilie R.|title=Biologist Addresses ARCO Forum|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/10/2/biologist-addresses-arco-forum-politicians-and/|access-date=13 July 2011|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson|date=October 2, 2002}} and as a senior advisor to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a $4 billion U.S. charitable foundation set up by the founder of Intel Corporation and his wife.{{cite web|title=MassINC names Bowles Executive Director|url=http://www.massinc.org/Press-Room/MassINC-News/Ian-A-Bowles-appointed-Executive-Director-of-MassINC.aspx}}
From 2003 to 2006, Bowles was President of Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC), a nonpartisan think tank based in Boston, and Publisher of CommonWealth magazine.
On December 15, 2006, Governor-elect Deval Patrick named Bowles Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs.{{cite news|last=Kibbe|first=David|title=Bowles named Patrick's secretary of Energy|url=http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061216/NEWS01/312169993&cid=sitesearch|access-date=13 July 2011|newspaper=Cape Cod Times|date=December 16, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930222704/http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20061216%2FNEWS01%2F312169993&cid=sitesearch|archive-date=30 September 2012|url-status=dead}} Previously known as the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs was created by Cabinet restructuring legislation that took effect April 11, 2007, adding oversight of the two energy regulatory agencies, the Department of Energy Resources and the Department of Public Utilities. Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to combine oversight of energy and environment into one Cabinet agency.{{cite web|last=Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs|title=About Us|url=http://www.mass.gov/eea/utility/about-us.html}}
As Secretary, Bowles helped guide the passing of the Green Communities Act and four other major pieces of energy and environmental legislation into law in 2008.{{cite web|last=Ailworth|first=Erin|title=Green With Envy|url=http://www.deniseprovost.org/images/News/080808green%20with%20envy.pdf|publisher=Boston Globe|access-date=2013-01-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000752/http://www.deniseprovost.org/images/News/080808green%20with%20envy.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}} These bills put Massachusetts at the top of state rankings in American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's energy efficiency scorecard in 2011, where it has stayed ever since.{{cite web|last=ACEEE|title=State Energy Efficiency Scorecard|url=http://aceee.org/sector/state-policy/scorecard|access-date=2013-01-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127104616/http://aceee.org/sector/state-policy/scorecard|archive-date=2013-01-27|url-status=dead}} Under the Global Warming Solutions Act, Bowles set the most stringent greenhouse gas reduction requirement in the nation at 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.{{cite news|last=Barringer|first=Felicity|title=Massachusetts sets targets to slash carbon emissions|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/science/earth/30climate.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=29 December 2010}} Bowles also oversaw the first state ocean management plan, as required by the Oceans Act.{{cite news|last=Zezima|first=Katie|title=Massachusetts Law to Manage and Protect Ocean Waters|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/us/29ocean.html|work=The New York Times|date=29 May 2008}} Under the state's Green Jobs Act, Massachusetts established a new quasi-government authority, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, to promote renewable energy and clean energy job creation, of which Bowles was its first chairman.{{cite web|title=About the MassCEC|url=http://www.masscec.com/index.cfm/page/About-MassCEC/pid/11193|access-date=2013-01-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123082257/http://www.masscec.com/index.cfm/page/About-MassCEC/pid/11193|archive-date=2013-01-23|url-status=dead}}
Bowles was at the center of key regulatory decisions related to Cape Wind, which was the nation's first proposed offshore wind energy development, having approved the project's state environmental review in 2007 and chairing the state energy siting board that gave the project its key permit.{{cite news|last=Ebbert|first=Stephanie|title=Cape wind farm wins state environmental approval|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2007/03/cape_wind_farm.html|work=The Boston Globe|date=30 March 2007}} Bowles stepped down as secretary in 2011.{{cite news|last=Alspach|first=Kyle|title=Ian Bowles leaving Patrick Administration to become home-energy entrepreneur|url=http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2010/12/ian_bowles_leaving_patrick_administratio.html|access-date=13 July 2011|newspaper=Boston Business Journal|date=December 27, 2010}}
In 2011, Bowles co-founded and is a managing director of an investment management company, WindSail Capital Group LLC, which lends funds to clean energy companies.{{cite news|last=Kirsner|first=Scott|title=WindSail Capital wants to fill clean energy funding gap, providing loans to growing companies|url=http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2012/04/windsail_capital_wants_to_fill.html|work=The Boston Globe|date=24 April 2012}} He is also a senior director at Albright Stonebridge Group, with former Clinton Administration colleagues Madeleine Albright and Carol Browner. He is a corporate board member for several public and private clean energy companies.
In 2008, John Podesta recommended Bowles as a candidate to be Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/10/john-podesta-pushed-billionaire-donor-tom-steyer-as-energy-secretary-contender-in-2008/|title=John Podesta pushed billionaire donor Tom Steyer as energy secretary contender in 2008|last1=Matea Gold and Juliet Eilperin|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2017-06-22}}
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