15 Facts About Ian Bowles

Ian Bowles has a master's degree from Oxford College and an honorary doctorate from Emerson College.

Ian Bowles began his career in politics as a legislative aide to Congresswoman Claudine Schneider.

Ian Bowles played a key role in creation of the Central Suriname Nature Reserve, a 4 million acre park that is one of the largest tropical forest protected areas in the world.

Ian Bowles was co-editor of Footprints in the Jungle: Natural Resource Industries, Infrastructure, and Biodiversity Conservation.

Ian Bowles finished in third place, with 22 percent of the vote, in the four-candidate primary behind Bill Delahunt and Philip W Johnston.

From 1999 to 2001, Ian Bowles served under President Bill Clinton as Senior Director of Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council and as associate director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Ian Bowles then served as a senior research fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and as a senior advisor to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a $4 billion US charitable foundation set up by the founder of Intel Corporation and his wife.

From 2003 to 2006, Ian Bowles was President of Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, a nonpartisan think tank based in Boston, and Publisher of CommonWealth magazine.

Under the Global Warming Solutions Act, Ian Bowles set the most stringent greenhouse gas reduction requirement in the nation at 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.

Ian Bowles oversaw the first state ocean management plan, as required by the Oceans Act.

Under the state's Green Jobs Act, Massachusetts established a new quasi-government authority, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, to promote renewable energy and clean energy job creation, of which Ian Bowles was its first chairman.

Ian Bowles was at the center of key regulatory decisions related to Cape Wind, which was the nation's first proposed offshore wind energy development, having approved the project's state environmental review in 2007 and chairing the state energy siting board that gave the project its key permit.

In 2011, Ian Bowles co-founded and is a managing director of an investment management company, WindSail Capital Group LLC, which lends funds to clean energy companies.

Ian Bowles is a senior director at Albright Stonebridge Group, with former Clinton Administration colleagues Madeleine Albright and Carol Browner.

Ian Bowles is a corporate board member for several public and private clean energy companies.