Mike Phillips

Mr. Mike Phillips is Executive Director at Turner Endangered Species Fund.
He has served as the Executive Director of the Turner Endangered Species Fund since the nonprofit was launched by Ted Turner in June 1997, where he oversees all activities of the Fund.
From 1986-1994, he was the Field Coordinator for the Red Wolf Recovery Program.
He was also instrumental in the return of gray wolves to the Yellowstone Ecosystem, serving as Project Leader for the Yellowstone gray wolf restoration effort from 1994-1997.
In 2009, Mr. Phillips was appointed to the Turner Energy and Ecosystem Committee.
In 2006, he entered the political arena through election to the Montana legislature as the representative for House District 66, Bozeman.
Shortly thereafter, he founded the Montana Legislative Climate Change Caucus.
In 2009, he was elected as the Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.
He was re-elected in 2010 and will serve through 2012 as a member of the legislature's energy, tax, and fish and wildlife committees.
In addition to representing Montana's 66th House District, he served as a co-chair of Montana Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee during 2007 and 2008.
In the fall of 2009, he was recruited by the White House to join a coalition of state legislative leaders to work with the Obama administration and Congress to pass clean energy jobs and climate change legislation.
Mr. Phillips received his B.Sc.
in Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution from the University of Illinois in 1980, and his M.Sc.
in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Alaska in 1986.