Bob Keefe

Roles: Special Guest

Bob Keefe is executive director of E2, a national nonpartisan organization of more than 10,000 business leaders who advocate for policies that are good for our economy and good for our environment. He is the author of “Clean Economy NOW: Stories from the Frontlines of an American Business Revolution” (2024) that helped serve as the basis for the Clean Economy NOW film series. Bob is also author of “Climatenomics: Washington Wall Street and the Economic Battle to Save Our Planet” (2022) about the economics costs of climate change and the economic benefits of climate action. Bob speaks regularly about the clean energy economy and the economic benefits of smart environmental policies. He has testified before Congress and numerous state legislatures and has appeared in media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Fox, CNN and others. Prior to joining E2 in 2011, Bob spent more than 20 years as a journalist, covering business, political, national and environmental news from coast to coast. He served as the Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; as a California-based national reporter for Cox Newspapers/Cox News Service; as technology editor for the Austin (TX) American-Statesman and as an investigative and business reporter at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and The Greenville (SC) News. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

2025 Program(s):
Clean Economy NOW