Amy Drake is an assistant director at the Nuclear Energy Policy Initiative with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. She supports the initiative’s events programming, strategic partnerships, and research. 

Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Drake worked at the Brookings Institution, where she was responsible for executing events and managing digital communication. Her experiences working at the National Park Foundation inform her interests in domestic energy policy and preservation of natural resources, while her international perspective drives her research efforts in addressing climate challenges on a global level. 

She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she earned a bachelor of science in social policy and communications.