Eric Washburn Biography

Eric Washburn is a partner at BlueWater Strategies, providing federal legislative advice to industry, non-profit, and philanthropic foundation clients on a broad range of natural resource and energy issues. He is legislative counsel to the Bipartisan Policy Center/National Commission on Energy Policy and the American Coalition for Ethanol and has numerous corporate clients in the energy field.

Prior to joining BlueWater Strategies, he was a partner in the firm Windward Consulting. In 2003 and 2004 he was the executive director of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.

From 1993 until 2003, Mr. Washburn worked in various policy-making and management capacities in the United States Senate. He was a Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle, where he oversaw the development and U.S.Senate passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2002. Prior to that, he worked for Senator Harry Reid as the Democratic Staff Director for the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. Before joining the EPW Committee, he was the Legislative Director for Senator Daschle during the Senator's term as the U.S. Senate Democratic Leader for four years. His initial service in Congress was as Legislative Assistant to Senator Daschle, where he led the development of Senate Democratic Caucus strategy on a range of environment and energy issues.

Prior to working in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Washburn consulted with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He received a Masters Degree in Forest Science from the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Bachelors Degree in Psychobiology from Bowdoin College. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Robin and sons Marat and Shokhan.