Nikki Buffa is a lawyer at Latham and Watkins, LLP, with two decades of experience in energy and environmental policy. She served eight years in the Administration pf President Obama, including service as Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Deputy Director of Cabinet Affairs of the Executive Office of the President, and Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of the Interior, which manages the federal lands and waters of the U.S. Government. She is currently Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Parks Conservation Association. Nikki holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles.