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About SSF
Leadership Team
SSF is guided by experts who keep our programming at the forefront of the fields we cover.
Staff
Edward Saltzberg
Edward Saltzberg
Executive Director and Founder
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Edward Saltzberg founded SSF in 2009 drawing on four decades advising the federal government on energy, environmental, and social programs. A former senior executive at Battelle Memorial Institute and SAIC, he holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia and is a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental and Energy Management Institute at George Washington University. He consults to tribal governments on energy sovereignty. SSF reflects what he has spent a career building: a practitioner’s understanding of how these systems connect and where they break.
Arturo Herrera
Arturo Herrera
Digital Strategy and Communications
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Arturo Herrera keeps SSF’s digital presence current — maintaining the website and managing social media outreach around SSF’s webinar programming. He brings federal agency experience in digital communications, including work with NOAA.
Geetesh Veeravalli
Geetesh Veeravalli
IT and Software Development
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Geetesh Veeravalli is a software engineer who builds and maintains the business applications that run SSF’s operations. As technology evolves, he develops new applications to keep SSF’s systems current and effective.
Program Advisors
SSF’s Program Advisors inform our content, framing, and panel selection. Click any advisor to learn more.
Stratos Tavoulareas
Stratos Tavoulareas
Energy and Security
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Global Power lead at the International Finance Corporation Advisory Services of the World Bank Group, where he directed power sector transformation projects across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. His expertise spans energy policy, regulation, project finance, and the integration of renewable energy into complex grid systems.
Brings global energy finance depth at a moment when the transition is being tested by geopolitics and grid stress.
Joyce Coffee
Joyce Coffee
Climate Adaptation and Natural Hazards
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Founder of Climate Resilience Consulting, a firm focused on practical climate adaptation strategy, and former Executive Director of ND-GAIN at the University of Notre Dame, one of the leading programs measuring country-level climate vulnerability. Her work spans municipal resilience strategy, corporate climate risk, and the practical tools communities need to adapt to an accelerating climate.
Keeps SSF’s climate adaptation track connected to what communities and organizations actually face on the ground.
Michelle Wyman
Michelle Wyman
Security and Society
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Spent two decades inside the policy systems that govern climate, energy, and environmental decisions at every level of government. She served as Executive Director of the Global Council for Science and the Environment (GCSE, formerly NCSE), led ICLEI USA directing work with cities and counties on climate and sustainability, and earlier served as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. She now consults on environmental strategy and science-policy integration through Biosphere Strategies.
Brings SSF direct access to where federal, state, and local policy decisions are actually made.
Joseph Fiksel
Joseph Fiksel
Resilience
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Co-founded the Center for Resilience at Ohio State University, is a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) at George Washington University, and authored Resilient by Design, the foundational text in enterprise resilience. His consulting practice has spanned Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies, and international development organizations on resilience frameworks, supply chain resilience, and systems thinking.
Holds SSF to the standard that resilience is operationally useful, not just conceptually sound.
Andras Simonyi
András Simonyi
International Energy Security and Geopolitics
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Served as Hungary’s Ambassador to the United States and to NATO, bringing direct experience at the center of transatlantic security and energy diplomacy. A Visiting Scholar at the Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) at George Washington University and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, his career spans NATO expansion, U.S.-European energy relations, and the geopolitics of infrastructure security.
Grounds SSF’s energy security programming in diplomatic experience.
Bruce Piasecki
Bruce Piasecki
Corporate Decision-Making and Sustainability
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Founder and president of AHC Group, a management consulting firm that has advised Fortune 500 companies on environmental strategy and sustainability since 1981. Founder and president of AHC Group, a management consulting firm that has advised Fortune 500 companies on environmental strategy and sustainability since 1981. Named to Worth magazine’s Top 100, he has written 26 books on corporate sustainability, many of them New York Times bestsellers, including the acclaimed Doing More with Less.
Adds the corporate C-suite perspective to SSF’s programming.