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Phil Radford
Philip David Radford (born January 2, 1976) is an American consumer and conservation leader, currently serving as the President and CEO of Consumer Reports, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that works with consumers to foster truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace. Radford began his career working with nonpartisan organizations such as the Public Interest Research Group and Public Citizen, focusing on consumer protection, fair trade, and public health initiatives.
Over the course of his career, Radford's approach to creating change evolved from activism to a more collaborative, nonpartisan, solutions-oriented model that began to emerge towards the end of his tenure leading Greenpeace and came to fruition at Consumer Reports. While he initially gained prominence through tactics aimed at pressuring corporations and policymakers, Radford made a full-circle return to nonpartisan approaches and pragmatic coalition-building, grounded in his belief that all Americans share a common desire to be safe, healthy, and wealthier.
Radford began his civic engagement as a high school student at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, volunteering on a public health campaign to stop the building of trash incinerators in the West Side of Chicago near his family's Oak Park home.
His first job in community engagement was canvassing door to door for nonpartisan Illinois PIRG. While studying political science at Washington University in St. Louis, he directed campaign and canvass offices during summers for the Fund for Public Interest Research for clients including PIRGIM and Ohio PIRG. Radford took time off of school to work for Public Citizen on global trade issues. After graduating college in 1998, Radford became a lead organizer at Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing.
Radford received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998.
From 1999 to 2001 Radford was field director for Ozone Action, an organization dedicated to working on the atmospheric threats of global warming and ozone depletion. As field director, Radford planned and executed a number of grassroots campaigns, including a campaign during the 2000 presidential primaries, which was the initial impetus for Senator John McCain sponsoring the Climate Stewardship Act.
Radford also managed the grassroots mobilization for the Global Warming Divestiture Campaign, which resulted in Ford, General Motors, Texaco, and other companies ending their funding of the Global Climate Coalition, which spread misinformation about global warming. According to The New York Times, the result of the campaign was "the latest sign of divisions within heavy industry over how to respond to global warming."
In 2001, Radford founded Power Shift, a non-governmental organization dedicated to driving clean energy market breakthroughs and building the grassroots base to stop global warming.
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Phil Radford
Philip David Radford (born January 2, 1976) is an American consumer and conservation leader, currently serving as the President and CEO of Consumer Reports, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that works with consumers to foster truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace. Radford began his career working with nonpartisan organizations such as the Public Interest Research Group and Public Citizen, focusing on consumer protection, fair trade, and public health initiatives.
Over the course of his career, Radford's approach to creating change evolved from activism to a more collaborative, nonpartisan, solutions-oriented model that began to emerge towards the end of his tenure leading Greenpeace and came to fruition at Consumer Reports. While he initially gained prominence through tactics aimed at pressuring corporations and policymakers, Radford made a full-circle return to nonpartisan approaches and pragmatic coalition-building, grounded in his belief that all Americans share a common desire to be safe, healthy, and wealthier.
Radford began his civic engagement as a high school student at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, volunteering on a public health campaign to stop the building of trash incinerators in the West Side of Chicago near his family's Oak Park home.
His first job in community engagement was canvassing door to door for nonpartisan Illinois PIRG. While studying political science at Washington University in St. Louis, he directed campaign and canvass offices during summers for the Fund for Public Interest Research for clients including PIRGIM and Ohio PIRG. Radford took time off of school to work for Public Citizen on global trade issues. After graduating college in 1998, Radford became a lead organizer at Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing.
Radford received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998.
From 1999 to 2001 Radford was field director for Ozone Action, an organization dedicated to working on the atmospheric threats of global warming and ozone depletion. As field director, Radford planned and executed a number of grassroots campaigns, including a campaign during the 2000 presidential primaries, which was the initial impetus for Senator John McCain sponsoring the Climate Stewardship Act.
Radford also managed the grassroots mobilization for the Global Warming Divestiture Campaign, which resulted in Ford, General Motors, Texaco, and other companies ending their funding of the Global Climate Coalition, which spread misinformation about global warming. According to The New York Times, the result of the campaign was "the latest sign of divisions within heavy industry over how to respond to global warming."
In 2001, Radford founded Power Shift, a non-governmental organization dedicated to driving clean energy market breakthroughs and building the grassroots base to stop global warming.
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