Elliot Diringer is director of International Strategies at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

He served in the Clinton White House as deputy press secretary and as a senior policy advisor and director of communications at the Council on Environmental Quality. In those capacities, he helped develop major policy initiatives, led White House communications strategy on the environment, and was a member of US delegations to the international climate change negotiations. Before coming to Washington, Diringer was an environmental reporter and an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he covered the 1992 Earth Summit and authored several award-winning environmental series.

Elliot Diringer holds a degree in environmental studies from Haverford College. In 1995-96, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he studied international environmental law and policy.

• Prospects for a New International Climate Agreement under the Obama Administration (December 22, 2008)