Ellen Gilinsky, Ph.D. is President of Ellen Gilinsky, LLC., which she started in January 2017 to work with government, industry and the private sector on finding environmental solutions to water challenges. Her clients include Resources for the Future, the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, and the Environmental Defense Fund. As part of the Obama Administration from 2011 through 2016, she was the Associate Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water at the Environmental Protection Agency, where she played a key role in water programs at the federal, state and local levels, working closely with diverse stakeholders in the water quality, quantity, and agriculture sectors. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Gilinsky served as Director of the Water Division at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, and in the early 1980s she worked for the Virginia State Water Control Board as part of its Chesapeake Bay Program staff. In addition, she has twelve years of experience as an environmental consultant at several regional and national environmental engineering firms. Dr. Gilinsky received her B.A. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in Zoology, with a concentration in Aquatic Ecology, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been a Past President of the Association of Clean Water Administrators, held a past gubernatorial appointment to the State Advisory Board of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center and a current appointment to the Science and Technical Advisory Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program. Dr. Gilinsky has also served as an Adjunct Faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Departments of Biology and Environmental Studies.