Kerry C. Duggan (she/her) is a sustainability expert, national political advisor, climatech executive, and former climate advisor to President Joe Biden. Known as “climate MacGyver”, Duggan is the founder and CEO of SustainabiliD, leading a team of cross-sector connectors and change agents. SustainabiliD is a woman-owned strategic advisory firm working with game changers to equitably solve the climate crisis. They find and drive creative ways to implement equitable clean energy principles into actionable climate policy, processes, and projects.
Duggan is a Board Director of Perma-Fix (NASDAQ: PESI) and a senior advisor at RockCreek. She also sits on several corporate advisory boards, including Our Next Energy (ONE), Aclima, Inc., Walker-Miller Energy Services, Arctaris Impact Investors, and BlueConduit. She was named the founding director of the University of Michigan’s SEAS Sustainability Clinic in Detroit.
Duggan is an appointee to the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board (SEAB) under Secretary Jennifer Granholm, as well as an appointee to the State of Michigan’s Council on Climate Solutions under Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In 2020, Duggan served on the Biden-Harris Transition Team and on the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force as one of Biden’s five delegates alongside Gina McCarthy and Sec. John Kerry. From 2010 to 2017, Duggan worked in the White House as a senior policy advisor for then-Vice President Biden and as deputy director of the Detroit task force. Earlier in the Obama-Biden administration, she held several senior roles at the Department of Energy.
After her time in public service, Duggan returned to Detroit and co-founded the Smart Cities Lab and was a Partner with the Honorable Thomas J. Ridge’s firm. She was named to the prestigious “40 Under 40” list by Crain’s Detroit Business in 2018, as well as their inaugural class of “Notable Leaders in Sustainability” in 2022.
Duggan earned her BS from University of Vermont and her MS from University of Michigan. Kerry currently resides in Detroit, Michigan with her husband and two young children.
She has been written about in The New York Time, CNN, E&E News, Bloomberg, Crain’s Detroit Business, The Detroit NEws, The Detroit Free Press, Vox, Huffington Post, Scientific America, GreentechMedia, Inside Climate News, The Japan Times, Grist, WDET, and Politico.
