Offshore WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition 2019

Jack Clarke
Director of Public Policy & Government Relations
Mass Audubon


Jack Clarke is Mass Audubon’s Director of Public Policy. He has helped draft and pass a comprehensive ocean management law, the Massachusetts Rivers Protection Act, Community Preservation Act, five environmental bonds, and the Climate Change Adaptation bill. Jack has held gubernatorial appointments to the Special Commission on Coastal Erosion and chaired the Massachusetts Ocean Advisory Commission. For his work on behalf of the environment, Jack has received commendations from the US Department of the Interior, US Environmental Protection Agency, and Massachusetts House and Senate, among others. Prior to his position at Mass Audubon, Jack worked for the US Department of the Interior/National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore for almost a decade, and received their Outstanding Achievement Award. Following that, he served thirteen years and three governors, both Republican and Democratic, in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, for the last five of which he was the Bay State’s Assistant Director for Coastal Zone Management. In that capacity, he served as acting Assistant Secretary, helped draft and pass legislation to establish Cape Cod’s regional regulatory planning agency, and oversaw the state’s National Estuary Programs for Massachusetts and Buzzards Bays. He also negotiated and wrote the state and nation’s first comprehensive Guidelines for Barrier Beach Management.

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