What is the background of noted environmentalist David Bancroft?

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David B. Bancroft, who has over two decades of experience in the environmental nonprofit community, is the Founder and President of Council on Environmental Affairs (COEA). COEA provides a forum for innovative policy ideas on clean air, clean water, renewable energy, sustainability and climate change. During 2008, he served on the Obama Campaign as a member of the Energy and Environment Work Group Prior to that, David was President of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. At the Alliance, his dynamic leadership revitalized the organization, and began a period of programmatic growth addressing agricultural, stormwater and watershed restoration issues. In addition, he devised and performed the Institutional Governance Analysis: The Role of the Headwaters States in Chesapeake Bay Cleanup. That study resulted in states of Delaware, New York and West Virginia being invited to play a leadership position in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Chesapeake Bay Program. As Executive Vice President of the Solar Energy Industries Association, David helped spearhead the creation of the Million Solar Roofs program. That initiative was announced by President Clinton at the United Nations in 1997, as the first U.S. commitment to help fulfill the global climate change goals of the Kyoto Protocol. Earlier in his career, David spent five years as the Deputy Executive Director of the Council of Great Lakes Governors, a consortium of eight governors and two Canadian premiers focused on the environmental protection and economic development of the Great Lakes Basin. He was instrumental in the success of several multi-state agreements including the implementation the Great Lakes Charter and the genesis of the Great Lakes Toxic Substances Control Agreement. While at the Council, David formed a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, creating of the Great Lakes Regional Biomass Energy Program, an advanced biofuels commercialization program. He fostered the groundbreaking study, Biomass Resources: Generating Jobs and Energy, adopted by six Midwestern governors as a green jobs and economic development strategy, twenty years before it became federal policy in the Obama Administration. David did graduate work in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a Masters degree in Technology and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and Bachelors in Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.