Cameron Davis, who coordinated the work of 11 federal departments and served as the Obama Administration’s liaison to Congress on Great Lakes matters, has joined GEI. He is in charge of developing win-win solutions with the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

As Senior Advisor to two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrators in Washington, D.C., his responsibilities included coordinating Great Lakes policy and $2.2 billion in funding to state, municipal, tribal, business, and civic stakeholders for contaminated sediment cleanups, fish contaminant matters, dam removals, wetland and habitat restoration, runoff reduction, invasive species prevention, and other related water resource matters. He also served as a lead negotiator with the U.S. State Department in its development of the 2012 U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.

Mr. Davis brings several skill sets to assist GEI clients, including: governmental and legislative affairs; stakeholder outreach; navigating regulatory and agency landscapes particularly with complex contaminated sediment and water resource matters; media and communications advice; and other relevant issues.

For more than three decades, Mr. Davis has worked to develop and implement water quality and quantity policy. He is a lead author of the Great Lakes Legacy Act, which leverages federal-private funding partnerships for cleanups to rehabilitate riverside and coastal property values.

Prior to starting in federal service, Mr. Davis was a litigating attorney and adjunct clinical assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School before serving for 11 years as President and CEO of the Alliance for the Great Lakes. Under his leadership, the organization won the American Bar Association’s Distinguished Award in Environmental Law & Policy, the first time for a public interest organization in the honor’s history.