Reed Hundt

Reed Hundt is co-founder, former chairman and CEO of the Coalition for Green Capital, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports, and advocates for green banks to invest in the clean power platform. 

Hundt was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1993-97. Previously he was a partner at Latham & Watkins, an international law firm. He is a member of the District of Columbia bar. Since 1997 he has advised several venture capital and private equity firms, and served on more than two dozen for-profit and not-for-profit boards and commissions, including 19 years on the board of Intel Corporation (2001-20) and seven years on the board of the Connecticut Green Bank (2011-18). He also taught at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management. 

Hundt has written many articles and four books: A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama’s Defining Decisions (Rosetta, 2019);  Zero Hour: Time to Build the Clean Power Platform (Odyssey, 2013); The Politics of Abundance: How Technology Can Fix the Budget, Revive the American Dream, and Establish Obama’s Legacy (Odyssey, 2012); In China’s Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship (Yale University Press, 2006); You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics (Yale University Press, 2000).

Mr. Hundt has a B.A. from Yale College (1969) and J.D. from Yale Law School (1974). He lives in Chevy Chase, MD., and Portola Valley, CA. He is married to Elizabeth Katz and has three children: Adam, Nathaniel, and Sara.