Dan Adler

Senior Advisor for Climate Finance,
​​​​​​​Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development at State of California

Mr. Adler is Senior Advisor for Climate Finance at the California
Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and
the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank), where he is
leading the development of the Climate Catalyst Fund.

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Mr. Adler is Senior Advisor for Climate Finance at the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank), where he is leading the development of the Climate Catalyst Fund. Prior to this role, he was Vice President for Policy at the Energy Foundation, a partnership of philanthropies advancing clean energy markets across the U.S. He was previously Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) and President of CalCEF Ventures, where he led the firm’s efforts to identify and catalyze transformational new investment theses across venture capital and project finance.

He has served as a senior analyst in the Division of Strategic Planning at the California Public Utilities Commission, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of California's Renewables Portfolio Standard and was senior staff for climate policy, and on the boards of the American Council on Renewable Energy, the Coalition for Green Capital, the Vote Solar Initiative, and Energy Efficiency for All.

​​​​​​​He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.