Mike Catanzaro

President and Chief Policy Officer, CGCN Group

Michael currently serves as President and Chief Policy Officer of the CGCN Group, an integrated consulting, advocacy, and strategic communications firm located in Washington, D.C. He also serves as a non-resident senior associate in Energy Security and Climate Change at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In May, Michael was named one of Washington DC’s 500 most influential people by Washingtonian Magazine.

Throughout his career, Michael Catanzaro has served in several senior energy and environmental policy positions in the federal government, including the House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, the EPA, and the White House.
Before joining CGCN, Catanzaro served as Special Assistant to President Trump for Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy at the White House National Economic Council. In that role, he helped craft energy and environmental policy at multiple agencies and advised the president on the administration’s major policy decisions in that space. He previously served on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and on the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign as a top adviser on energy and environmental policy. Catanzaro was Associate Director for Policy in the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Associate Deputy Administrator of the EPA under former President George W. Bush. He also served as a senior adviser to then-Speaker John Boehner on energy and environmental policy.