Andrew Wishnia

Andrew has served in both chambers on Capitol Hill, in multiple Administrations, and as a political appointee as the first ever Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate Policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation. He has also served in the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, the White House, and the Federal Highway Administration.

Andrew was a principal architect of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including authoring, negotiating, and implementing the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) and National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program provisions that total the largest federal investment of EV charging infrastructure in our nation's history.

Andrew has played a unique and pivotal role infusing climate and sustainability into federal transportation programs and institutions. He conceived legislation and then deployed the transformative investments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act in ways that have advanced climate health and that expanded U.S. clean technology, good paying jobs, and greater environmental justice. Andrew served as DOT's Chief Environmental Review and Permitting Officer (CERPO), established DOT's vision for the first-ever U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, and co-designed the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation - which facilitates collaboration across DOT and the Department of Energy.

Andrew led the Department’s delegation at the Conference of the Parties (COP-27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and created and oversaw climate and sustainability initiatives and policy across every USDOT modal Administration. 

Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Andrew was a Senior Policy Advisor to the Committee on Environment and Public Works in the U.S. Senate, held leadership roles at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the Office of Federal Sustainability, and worked in the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressman John Yarmuth.

Andrew earned a Juris Doctorate at Hamline Law School in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a B.S. in speech and political communication from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in a bilingual household in Louisville, Kentucky, and spent time with his family in Quito, Ecuador, where his mother and sister were born and raised.

Andrew lives in Washington, D.C. with his family and enjoys biking and visiting new places in the U.S. and around the world.