Elected and Appointed Government Officials 2020

Mandy Gunasekara is a veteran Republican climate and energy strategist, communicator and environmental attorney. She returned to the Trump EPA earlier this year as Chief of Staff to Administrator Andrew Wheeler.

Prior to her latest EPA post, she founded and ran the Energy 45 Fund, a Jackson, Mississippi-based non-profit dedicated to informing the public about the energy, environmental and economic gains made under the Trump Administration. In that role she regularly appeared on Fox and Fox Business, wrote numerous opinion pieces for the Daily Caller, Y’all Politics, and USA Today, and was regularly quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post and E&E News.

Prior to ENERGY 45, Gunasekara served President Trump in the EPA as the Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation. While at EPA, she spearheaded many of the Trump Administration’s greatest energy and environmental policy achievements. She was the chief architect of the Paris Accord withdrawal and the repeal of the Clean Power Plan – a costly regulation that undercut state’s authority and would have substantially increased electricity prices.