Jeffrey Kupfer is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College and an advisor to Beacon Global Strategies.
Jeffrey Kupfer is an adjunct professor of policy and management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and an advisor to Beacon Global Strategies, a Washington DC based strategic advisory firm. He is also a co-founder of Starling Trust Sciences, an applied behavioral sciences technology company.
Mr. Kupfer has served in a number of senior roles in the U.S. government. From 2006 to 2009, he was Chief of Staff and then Acting Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer at the U.S. Energy Department. He played a central role in the development and implementation of U.S. energy policy.
Before coming to the Department of Energy, Mr. Kupfer worked in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and in the U.S. Treasury Department as the Deputy Chief of Staff. He also served as the Executive Director of President George W. Bush’s Panel on Federal Tax Reform, a bipartisan group that unanimously recommended two different options for overhauling the tax code.
In the private sector, Mr. Kupfer was a senior advisor for policy and government affairs at Chevron. Mr. Kupfer holds degrees from Yale University and Harvard Law School.
