Christopher Phalen Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Senior Policy Advisor on energy, natural resources, environment, Tribal affairs, agriculture, and trade.
• Responsible for writing, analyzing, and advising on all policies and legislation in the energy, environment, water, natural, resources, sustainability, agriculture, tribal, and trade portfolios.
• Wrote and passed into law significant sections of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including energy and mining provisions, water and forestry, tribal infrastructure, and resiliency.
• Conceived of and passed $4 billion in drought funding in the Inflations Reduction Act, and shaped the energy, climate, and minerals provisions of the law.
• Passed critical tribal bills in 2022, including two Indian Water Rights Settlement bills for the Hualapai and White Mountain Apache Tribes.
• Spearheaded the successful legislative and administrative effort to create a new Grand Canyon National Monument in 2023.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Oversaw and wrote significant portions of the firm’s 2020 Report on US Sustainable and Impact Investing Trends, the definitive report on the state of the US sustainable finance industry, released every two years.
• Conceived, wrote, and published multiple research pieces on the sustainable finance industry in the United States to advance the goals of the industry and push back against false narratives.
• Assisted in policy advocacy, including leading a member delegation on Hill Day and writing policy recommendation documents, with Congress, The SEC, the Department of Labor, and other agencies.
• Managed outreach to all association members to ensure connectivity and satisfaction and discuss opportunities for collaboration on their business and policy priorities.
• Led strategic communications planning for various report releases and industry initiatives, including writing op- eds and serving as organization spokesperson for press interviews.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Advised and helped formulate the company’s strategic development partnerships, corporate responsibility and reputation management portfolios, along with other key public policy issues.
• Analyzed the company’s work with USAID for recommendations around future collaborations, and development/social investments in general.
• Researched and summarized global development institutions’ positions on energy project finance and energy access policies, to inform executive leadership.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Produce sector-leading research on the Argentine political economy, energy industry, and foreign affairs.
• Write weekly update emails on current events in Argentine politics, policy, economics, and culture.
• Responsible for producing long-form research papers on developments in the Argentine politics and economics.
• Assist the Project Director in leading fundraising activities.

Santiago, Chile

• Worked as part of a team developing the financing of multiple wind, solar, and thermal generation projects in Argentina.
• Consulted with companies and investors operating or seeking to invest in Chile's energy and mining sectors.
• Prepared investor presentations for the CEO, conducted legal and political research, and performed translations of complex documents (Spanish to English, and vice versa), among other tasks.
• Actively applied new industry-specific knowledge, and strengthened skills in business analysis and modeling.

Washington, DC

• Conducted U.S. government affairs and international stakeholder engagement, resulting in extensive experience successfully advocating on a variety of legislation and regulation, with particular focus on global trade.
• Managed Rio Tinto’s relationship with multi-lateral development and financial institutions.
• Led grant applications and strategic partnership proposals with Executive Branch agencies, including the Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute for renewable energy research.
• Responsible for maintaining day-to-day relations with foreign embassies in the U.S., resulting in significant experience executing high-level embassy policy dialogues and bilateral meetings.
• Executed strategic communication skills; drafted position statements, speeches, social media content, compiled social media analytics, and assisted in the development of an international advertising campaign.
• Led and worked within large, diverse, cross-cultural internal and multi-stakeholder groups; including the company’s Ebola outbreak business resilience response team.

• Performed research, writing, legislative/legal analysis and other support tasks on projects supporting immigration reform.
• Wrote blog posts on immigration and refugee issues.
• Helped implement grassroots organizing and messaging across the country. Mentored and informally supervised two interns over the course of the year.
• Lead the scheduling of numerous constituent meetings with senators and congress-people along with performing various administrative tasks.

• Updated the Organization's website, dealt with issues pertinent to the OAS regarding the U.S. Congress/government.
• Worked in tandem with another intern to summarize relevant policy issues and congressional hearings, along with performing entry-level lobbying and administrative tasks.

U.S. House Of Representatives

• Performed policy research, created constituent information database, drafted correspondence to constituents, fielded constituent emails and phone calls, assisted with administrative tasks.
• Gained practical knowledge of the Federal legislative process and Congressional offices practices.

Master’S Degree, Latin American Studies, Emerging Markets And Finance

Activities and Societies: President, Latin American Studies Club M.A. in Latin American Studies, with a focus on emerging markets, finance.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Affairs -- Latin American Studies, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. Studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the Spring 2010 semester

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: -Graduated with a 3.9 GPA in the top 20% of my class. -Attended Arizona Boys State in the summer of 2007..