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Kate Gordon is an American lawyer, urban planner, non-profit advisor, and leader in the "green jobs" and climate risk movement.^[1] In 2021, she became Senior Advisor to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm at the United States Department of Energy.^[2] In 2019, she was appointed by Governor of CaliforniaGavin Newsom to lead the California Governor's Office of Planning and Research.^[3]

Before that appointment, Gordon served as an independent consultant and Senior Advisor at the Paulson Institute, where she provides strategic support on issues related to climate change and sustainable economic growth.

She is also a nonresident Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal as one of the paper's “Energy Experts".^[4] She currently serves on the non-profit boards of Vote Solar, Center for Carbon Removal, and the American Jobs Project and writes