McKie Campbell

Campbell owns BlueWater Strategies, a Washington consulting firm focused on an energy, environment, and natural resource issues. He has over 30 years of governmental and private sector energy and natural resource experience working with Federal, state and local agencies, and with advocacy groups on all sides of issues.

Prior to BlueWater, Campbell was the Staff Director of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for Senator Murkowski. In that position, he worked on the gamut of energy and natural resource issues and legislative initiatives including electric generation and transmission, hydropower, water issues, nuclear energy, oil and gas issues, CCS, mining, land use, and all other aspects of U.S. energy and natural resource policy. As Staff Director, McKie worked closely with the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, the EPA, OMB and the White House, as well as Congressional decision makers on both sides of the aisle and in both Houses of Congress.

Prior to moving to Washington D.C., Campbell worked on natural resource policy in the State of Alaska. Among his positions, he was Deputy Chief of Staff in the Governor’s Office and the Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, where he sat on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and the EVOS Trustee council. He also ran a successful consulting business specializing in permitting, energy and natural resource consulting and the management of multi-discipline teams of scientists performing EIS’s and EA’s. McKie is a Visiting Fellow in Policy Practice at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).