Meredith Berger is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center and a member of the Energy and Defense Advisory Committee .
Most recently, Berger served as the Senate-confirmed US assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations, and environment. In this role, she worked on critical infrastructure, providing oversight and policy for Navy and Marine Corps energy and water; infrastructure hardening and resilience; military construction; acquisition, utilization, and disposal of real property and facilities; environmental protection; safety and occupational health; and tribal and indigenous affairs. As assistant secretary, she established the role of, and served as, the first chief sustainability officer for the US Department of the Navy. She was also the designated health and safety official for the department.
For most of the first year of her tenure, Berger concurrently performed the duties of the undersecretary of the Navy. In this capacity, she was responsible for oversight and policy for defense and naval strategy, intelligence and intelligence-related activities, sensitive activities, special access programs, space activities, small business programs, the naval audit service, business operations, performance management, and risk management within the department. Previously, Berger served in senior roles in the US Department of Defense, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Florida Department of Financial Services.
Berger is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, Shepard Broad College of Law at Nova Southeastern University, and the Harvard Kennedy School. Berger is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has been recognized for her work with the Navy Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service, the Environmental Protection Agency Gold Medal for Exceptional Service, the Guam Maga’håga Award, and Governor’s Medal. She was also named as one of Fin-Erth’s Leading Women in Climate. She is the proud sponsor of the USS Fort Lauderdale, an amphibious ship in the US Navy fleet.
