Andrew Wishnia
At a glance
Former political appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration as the first ever Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate Policy in the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Served in the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, White House, Federal Highway Administration, and stood up the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation.
Principal architect of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Former USDOT Chief Environmental Review and Permitting Officer (CERPO).
Former Senior Policy Advisor to the Committee on Environment and Public Works in the U.S. Senate, and held leadership roles at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the Office of Federal Sustainability and worked in the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressman John Yarmuth.
Andrew has served in both chambers on Capitol Hill, in multiple Administrations, and as a political appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration as the first ever Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate Policy in the U.S. Department of Transportation. He has also served in the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, White House, Federal Highway Administration, and stood up the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation.
Andrew was a principal architect of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including conceiving, authoring, negotiating, and implementing the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) and National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program provisions that total the largest federal investment of EV charging infrastructure in our nation's history.
Andrew has played a unique and pivotal role infusing climate and sustainability into federal transportation programs and institutions. He has designed and deployed transformative investments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act in ways that have advanced health outcomes and expanded U.S. clean technology and good paying jobs.
Within Andrew's roles, he also served as USDOT's Chief Environmental Review and Permitting Officer (CERPO), established DOT's vision for the first-ever U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, and co-designed the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation - which facilitates collaboration across USDOT and the U.S Department of Energy. Andrew also led USDOT's delegation at the Conference of the Parties (COP-27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and created and oversaw climate and sustainability initiatives and policy across every DOT modal administration.
Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, Andrew was a Senior Policy Advisor to the Committee on Environment and Public Works in the U.S. Senate, and held leadership roles at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the Office of Federal Sustainability and worked in the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressman John Yarmuth.
Andrew earned a Juris Doctorate at Hamline Law School in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a B.S. in speech and political communication from Emerson College.
