Biography
Bob Sussman is the principal in Sussman and Associates, a consulting firm focusing on energy and environmental policy issues. He is chair of the Interstate Commission for the Potomac River Basin and has taught courses on climate change and energy at Yale Law School, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Management, and the Georgetown Law Center.
In 2013, Sussman completed four and a half years of service in the Obama Administration, first as co-chair of the transition team for the EPA and then as senior policy counsel to the EPA administrator. In this position, he functioned as the administrator’s principal policy advisor, providing oversight and guidance on the full suite of policy issues across the agency. He also played a key role in the EPA’s interface with OMB, CEQ, and other White House offices and worked closely with other agencies, particularly the Department of Energy and Department of Interior.
Sussman served in the Clinton administration as the EPA deputy administrator from 1993 to 1994. In 2007, Sussman retired as a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, where he headed the firm’s environmental practice in D.C. for 10 years.
Sussman is a 1969 magna cum laude graduate of Yale College and a 1973 graduate of Yale Law School.