Director, Climate Protection Partnerships Division
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Kathleen Hogan is the Director of the Climate Protection Partnerships Division of the US Environmental Protection Agency. There she manages most of the Agency’s industry partnership programs designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while saving businesses and consumers money, including the ENERGY STAR Program. She has been the Division Director since 1997.

ENERGY STAR was introduced by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary labeling program designed to identify and promote energy-efficient products, in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. EPA partnered with the US Department of Energy in 1996 to promote the ENERGY STAR label, with each agency taking responsibility for particular product categories. ENERGY STAR has expanded to cover new homes, most of the buildings sector, residential heating and cooling equipment, major appliances, office equipment, lighting, consumer electronics, and more product areas.

Prior to this responsibility, she managed a number of partnership programs designed to reduce emissions of the more potent greenhouse gases. She has developed and managed successful voluntary programs with the U.S. natural gas industry and the U.S. primary aluminum industry, as well as a joint effort with the Russian natural gas industry.

Hogan has been with the EPA for 13 years. Prior to EPA, she worked in consulting and for a water resources planning commission for the Potomac River. She received her doctorate in systems analysis and environmental engineering from John Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Bucknell University.

Mark Ginsberg was appointed by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) to serve on a newly created EERE Board of Directors, effective July 1, 2002. In that capacity, Mr. Ginsberg and the Board direct EERE policy, strategies and budgets and serve as senior advisers and “ambassadors” for EERE. As a senior executive advisor to the Assistant Secretary, his portfolio includes energy efficiency, renewable energy, and climate change technologies. His work now includes promotion of EERE's highest priorities, including Zero Energy Buildings and Communities and an international portfolio, including several bi-lateral agreements, particularly in China and India, and work with the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate (APP), APEC and the European Union.

Mark Ginsberg served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS) from July, 1997 to July, 2002. In that position, Mr. Ginsberg oversaw a comprehensive set of programs to make buildings, equipment and appliances more energy efficient; support state, community and low income energy programs; and pave the way for a healthy and prosperous future through high efficiency research and development, building codes and appliance standards.

From December, 1991, until July 1997, Mark directed the Federal Energy Management

Program, where he provided leadership for Federal agencies to reduce energy consumption $1 billion in their 500,000 buildings. Prior to joining DOE in 1991, Mr. Ginsberg served as Director of the Arizona Energy Office, which was a division of the Department of Commerce, where Mr. Ginsberg oversaw energy and solar programs and helped make the connection between energy efficiency and economic development.

He has received many honors, including most recently, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alliance to Save Energy. To recognize his lifetime contributions, the U.S. Green Building Council established a permanent Ginsberg Fellowship in 2003.