Franz was the Founding CEO and Co-founder of the climate investment platform Raise Green and New Haven Community Solar. With over 15 years of experience in clean energy and climate, he spent 8 years in the Obama Administration, as Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the State Department, where he played a key role in negotiating the Paris Agreement. His previous roles include working on energy, environment, and climate policy at the White House CEQ, and conservation, energy, food security, data, and science policy at the USDA. Franz also worked on Obama’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
