Reid Detchon is Executive Director of the Energy Future Coalition and Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation.

The Energy Future Coalition is a broad-based non-partisan public policy initiative that seeks to bring about change in U.S. energy policy to address three critical challenges related to the production and use of energy:

• The political and economic security threat posed by the world’s dependence on oil.
• The risk to the global environment from climate change.
• The lack of access of the world’s poor to the modern energy services they need for economic advancement.

In June 2003, the Energy Future Coalition issued a report on the findings of a year-long collaborative process that brought together business, labor, and the environmental community to develop politically viable recommendations for change. It has continued its work to educate the public and policy makers about the need for action.

From June 1999 through December 2001 Reid served as Director of Special Projects in Washington for the Turner Foundation, managing a portfolio of major grants aimed at increasing the effectiveness of environmental advocacy and encouraging federal action to avert global climate change.

Previously he spent six years at Podesta Associates, a government relations and public affairs firm in Washington, D.C., where he was a principal. From 1989 to 1993 Reid served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Previously he was principal speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush. Reid worked for five years in the U.S. Senate, advising Senator John Danforth of Missouri on energy and environmental issues and serving as his legislative director. He was a reporter for the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune from 1974 to 1980. He is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Bethesda, Maryland.