Brendan Philip

Brendan Philip is a Knauss Marine Policy Fellow with the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the White House Executive Office of the President. Prior to joining CEQ as a Knauss Fellow, Brendan was an ORISE Fellow in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds, where he worked on estuarine climate adaptation and vessel discharge regulations in the Ocean and Coastal Management Branch. Brendan is a graduate of George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy in Washington, D.C., where he earned a master’s in Environmental Resource Policy. As a graduate student at GW, Brendan interned with the American Geophysical Union’s Public Affairs team and with the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee on Science, Space and Technology, where he advanced national geoscience policy legislation. Brendan also studied Oceanography and Marine Geology at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he worked with remotely operated vehicles and deep-sea observatories to study subduction zone geochemistry.

Brendan grew up living on a sailboat in Seattle with his family and spent many summers sailing throughout the Salish Sea. He is passionate about environmental protection and spends as much time outside as possible, enjoying biking, running, swimming, skiing, backpacking and sailing.