Tristan Brown

Tristan Brown serves as Vice President, Energy & Environment, Infrastructure, where he leads the organization’s efforts to promote U.S. economic growth through advancing national policies for Infrastructure as well as Energy and Environment.

Prior to joining Business Roundtable, Brown served as the Acting Administrator of the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) where he led the agency responsible for overseeing the safe transportation of nearly 2/3 of the energy consumed in the U.S. and developed the agency’s first infrastructure grant program—investing nearly $1 billion in modernizing local energy distribution systems. Brown served on the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS) Task Forces; the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Nontraditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT) Council, the Executive Safety Council; and the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board’s Executive Committee.

Previously, Brown served as counsel in the U.S. Senate on matters related to transportation, space policy, energy, the environment, agriculture, and native American issues; and practiced law in the private sector, focusing on regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. Brown was also previously appointed Deputy Associate Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He earned a J.D. from the University of California Berkeley School of Law, an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge where he was a Gates Scholar, and a B.S. from Western Michigan University where he was a Udall Scholar and a member of USA Today’s All-Academic Team.