Elliot Diringer

Director of International Strategies, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Elliot Diringer is Director of International Strategies at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

Prior to this, Mr. Diringer was Deputy Assistant to President Clinton and Deputy Press Secretary. He has also served as Senior Policy Advisor and as Director of Communications at the Council on Environmental Quality.

Before joining the White House, Mr. Diringer was a veteran environmental journalist — and a reporter and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle from 1983 to 1997.

He holds a degree in environmental studies from Haverford College. In 1995-96, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he studied international environmental law and policy.