Wade Crowfoot
2019 - Present
2027
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Wade Crowfoot is the California Secretary for Natural Resources. Crowfoot assumed office in 2019. Crowfoot's current term ends on January 4, 2027.
Crowfoot was appointed to the position by Governor Gavin Newsom (D) on January 11, 2019.[1]
Biography
Crowfoot was the CEO of the Water Foundation from 2016 to 2018. He worked in the administration of California Governor Jerry Brown (D) as a deputy cabinet secretary and senior advisor from 2013 to 2016 and as deputy director for the Office of Planning and Research from 2011 to 2013. Crowfoot served as the West Coast political director at the Environmental Defense Fund from 2009 to 2011. He was senior environmental advisor to then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom from 2004 to 2007.[1]
Education
- B.A., political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.Sc., public policy, environmental policy, The London School of Economics
Political career
Secretary of Natural Resources (2019-present)
Crowfoot was appointed to lead the statewide natural resources agency by Governor Gavin Newsom on January 11, 2019.[1]
About the office
The secretary heads the California Natural Resources Agency, a conglomeration of a number of state departments, boards, and commissions concerned with protecting and managing the natural, historical, and cultural resources of the state.
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