Alex Kragie is the Director of the American Green Bank Consortium. Previously, Alex was the Acting Executive Director of the Montgomery County Green Bank, the nation’s first county-level Green Bank. He has also led work on the Nevada Clean Energy Fund and other Coalition for Green Capital initiatives.
Prior to that, Alex was the Deputy Chief of Staff at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, where he helped create the nation’s first Green Bank, the Connecticut Green Bank. In addition to his work with the Connecticut Green Bank, he created and managed Connecticut’s first-in-the-nation statewide microgrid program, as well as the Lead by Example state building energy efficiency program and the EVConnecticut electric vehicle program.
Before he began his work in Connecticut, Kragie helped create the Coalition for Green Capital in 2009, and served as Vice President of the organization. He also worked on the Obama-Biden Transition Team, and served as a Regional Field Director on the 2008 Obama for America campaign.
Kragie earned his M.B.A from the Yale School of Management, and his B.A. from Dickinson College.