Ted Bardacke

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Member

Blue Ribbon Commission on Climate Action and Fire Safe Recovery

Feb 2025 - Current (1 year 6 months)

Established by Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, the Blue Ribbon Commission for Climate Action and Fire-Safe Recovery brings together a broad range of independent experts and community leaders. The Commission’s goal is to deliver actionable recommendations for how the governments, the private sector and philanthropic partners in the Los Angeles region, in collaboration with the state and federal entities can lead a climate-resilient rebuilding effort.

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Board Chair

California Community Choice Financing Authority CCCFA

Apr 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)

CCCFA is a California Joint Powers Authority founded in 2021 with the goal of reducing the cost of renewable energy power purchases for community choice aggregators (CCAs) through pre-payment structures. As of June 2025, CCCFA has issued 19 prepay bonds worth over $19 billion, saving CCA customers $120 million annually on renewable energy purchases.

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Board Member

California Community Choice Financing Authority CCCFA

Aug 2022 - Mar 2024 (1 year 8 months)

Chief Executive Officer

Clean Power Alliance

Feb 2018 - Current (8 years 6 months)

Clean Power Alliance is the preferred retail electricity provider for over one million customers in 38 communities across Los Angeles and Ventura Counties and the largest retail supplier of green energy in the United States. Working with our Board made up of local elected officials, we are creating a clean energy future that empowers communities and customers are given a choice about the source of their energy. As founding CEO and CPA's first employee in 2018, I've led an executive team that has taken the organization from a $10 million start-up loan from Los Angeles County to: * become a financially-independent electricity provider with over $1 billion in in annual revenue and more than 80 staff. * procure more than 4.5 Gigawatts of rene

Director of Infrastructure

City of Los Angeles

Apr 2015 - Feb 2018 (2 years 11 months)

Responsible for policy direction and oversight of city departments that build and operate major infrastructure systems including electricity generation, transmission and distribution, waste collection and recycling, street and sidewalk maintenance, street lighting, urban forestry, and municipal building design. Integrator of departments and systems that touch the entire water cycle, including potable supply, recycled water creation and distribution, rainwater management, and groundwater recharge. Goals are to move this infrastructure towards more distributed and sustainable systems, in line with the LA’s first-ever Sustainability Plan, which was crafted during previous role as Deputy Director of Mayor Garcetti’s Office of Sustainability.

Deputy Director, Sustainability Office

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

Aug 2013 - Apr 2015 (1 year 9 months)

Crafted Los Angeles first-ever Sustainability Plan, which lays out long-term goals, and specific policy measures to achieve them, in the areas of environment, economy, and equity. Managed internal staff and outside consultants, ran internal and external stakeholder consultation processes, and forged cross-departmental collaborations. Key projects included drafting City's drought response strategy, managing City's municipal GHG inventory, local solar program design, and energy efficiency policy development. Grew office from two people to seven people in under two years.

Visiting Fellow

Instituto de Recursos Mundiales México WRI México

Jan 2012 - Dec 2013 (2 years)

Worked with non-profit organizations, government agencies, and affordable housing developers on policies supporting transit-oriented development, establishment of local urban growth boundaries, and development of sustainability metrics.

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Member, LEED for Neighborhood Development Core Committee

United States Green Building Council

Jan 2008 - Dec 2013 (6 years)

Collaborating with the Congress for New Urbanism and the National Resources Defense Council, developed technical criteria and program design for the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system. Program covers broad areas of neighborhood design and revitalization, including urban infill and transit oriented development, walkable street design, neighborhood-scale green infrastructure, district energy and water strategies, and local food production, among other areas. In parallel, served as technical advisor to four LEED-ND certified projects, including a 600-acre specific plan for the Cornfields Arroyo Seco area that straddles the Los Angeles River east of downtown and 14-acre new residential development in the City of Richmond that incl

Lecturer

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Jan 2007 - Dec 2017 (11 years)

Teach graduate-level two-class sequence for urban planning, architecture, public policy and environmental engineering students on urban environmental issues and green aspects of urban development. Second class of the sequence, Green Urban Studio, is required course for Environmental Analysis concentration for Urban Planning graduate students.

Senior Associate, Green Urbanism Program

Global Green

Jul 2003 - Aug 2013 (10 years 2 months)

Responsible for providing neighborhood planning, green building technical assistance, and sustainability and renewable energy program development for public agencies, real estate professionals, design and construction organizations, financial institutions and affordable housing developers. Key projects included: • US EPA funded program providing technical assistance to 16 local governments and community organizations across the US on efforts to transform specific neighborhoods into ones that are more economically prosperous, healthy, and environmentally responsible. • 98 units of Zero Energy Affordable Housing units under contract from the California Energy Commission. Projects set national precedent for combining Low Income Housing Tax Cre

Southeast Asia Correspondent

Financial Times

Jan 1995 - Dec 2000 (6 years)

Wrote news and feature stories on Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Designated lead reporter on financial crises, regional trade and diplomacy. Specialized in economic restructuring, urbanization, environmental and natural resource use issues, and cross-border movement of people, goods and capital. Covered East Timor independence in 1999.

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Co-Coordinator, Youth Education Division, Rural Development Program

American Friends Service Comittee SEDEPAC

Jan 1987 - Dec 1988 (2 years)

Managed youth volunteer construction projects in rural Mexican communities. Prepared communities to receive volunteers and advocated for them in negotiations with local governments over budgeting for local infrastructure projects. Recruited and selected volunteers. Designed and implemented week-long orientation program. Prepared internal evaluations and external publicity on behalf of international donors.

Mexico Correspondent

Financial Times

Jan 1993 - Dec 1995 (3 years)

Wrote news and feature stories on Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Designated lead reporter on peso devaluation in 1994. Specialized in Mexican politics, US-Mexican trade relations and urban integration and environmental management on the US-Mexican border. Covered US invasion of Haiti in 1994.

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