Jake Higdon

Jake Higdon is the founding director of Advanced Industrial Zones and a fellow with California Forward and Center for Public Enterprise. Previously, he served as a senior advisor for U.S. manufacturing at the Department of Energy, where he built new manufacturing grant and tax credit programs and launched a partnership with the Department of Commerce to foster regional economic clusters. Prior to the DOE, he worked on energy and climate policy at the Environmental Defense Fund, Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, Data for Progress, and the Obama White House. Jake holds an M.P.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill.