Excels at defining and delivering successful outcomes in complex environments -- Talent for communicating complex ideas to a wide audience – Expertise in Oregon housing, natural resource, economic development, and energy policies.

PROVEN ABILITY AND RESULTS

Success in Local, State, and National Political Environments

Secured $5MM in state funds to support an innovative affordable housing loan program
Secured $5MM in state funds to launch a pilot project to build modular houses made from mass timber products
Forged bi-partisan support and funding for an affordable loan program to help families replace failed septic systems -- $10MM in state funding secured over four legislative sessions
Passed major energy legislation in Montana, Washington, and Oregon
Built markets for biomass by expanding its eligibility as a fuel stock under Washington and Oregon’s renewable energy laws

Sustainable, Successful, Organizational Leadership

Built and maintained an independent consulting company, now in its ninth successful year
Managed as many as 25 direct reports and forty indirect reports
Oversaw the Oregon Department of Energy policy development and implementation
Led Sustainable Northwest through transition from founding executive director
Created new policy programs at two national environmental organizations and two international policy organizations.
- One of those programs was established in Brussels, Belgium

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

John Audley Consulting, July 2015 to present
- Clients include the Oregon Business Council, Craft3, Vision To Learn, Capital Power, Hacienda CDC, and the Washington Department of Natural Resource\

Sustainable Northwest, President. 2013-2015
Oregon Department of Energy, Policy Administrator, 2012-2013
Renewable Northwest Project, Deputy Director, 2008-2012
The Nature Conservancy in Oregon, Federal Government Relations, 2007-2008
The German Marshall Fund of the United States, European Fellow, 2003-2006
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Founder and Director Trade, Equity and Development Policy Program, 2001-2003
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Trade Program Coordinator, 1998-2001

PUBLIC SERVICE

Staffed Governor Kate Brown’s Council on Wildfire Response, 2018-19
Board Member, PECI, 2017 to 2020
Board Member, The Climate Trust, 2013 to 2016
Board Chair, Sustainable Northwest Wood, 2013-2015
Working Forest Landscape, Oregon State University School of Forestry, 2014-15
Steering Committee, Strategic Health Impact Assessment on Wind Energy Development in Oregon, Oregon Health Authority, 2012.
Oregon Sage Grouse Advisory Committee, 2010-2012

EDUCATION

The University of Maryland, Ph.D, political economy
The University of Arizona: BA, political science, MA, political science
The American Graduate School of International Management, Masters in International Business Management

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

With Martin Doyle, Securing Oregon’s Water Future. 2022. Oregon Business Council Report.

Importance of Water in the North Santiam Watershed; an Economic Description. 2019. EcoNorthwest (organized by Oregon Business Council).

with Scott Campbell, Work in Eastern Oregon is Tied to the Land, Oregonian op ed, 2014

with Mike MacArthur, Wildlife Officials Should Involve Public in Sage Grouse Plan, Bend Bulletin, op ed, 2010

Publications from The Carnegie Endowment

Green Politics and Global Trade: NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Politics.1997; Georgetown University Press.