Charles Hernick leads energy and environmental policy for Amazon. Before joining Amazon in 2022, he led policy and advocacy for a Washington D.C.-based organization that engaged Republicans on bipartisan clean energy and climate policy. For the decade before that, as a private sector consultant, he led environmental and social impact assessments in over a dozen countries around the world for USAID, and he advised the U.S. EPA on policy design and program implementation. He has testified before the U.S. Congress twice and is fluent in English and Spanish. He serves on the board of the National Wildlife Federation Action Fund and the International Emissions Trading Association.