Ted Ellis is the Campaign Director of Power America, and Deputy Director of Energy and Environment at AFPI, where he spearheads strategic initiatives to strengthen America’s energy dominance. He joins AFPI after serving as vice president for government affairs at Energy Freedom Fund and is a former professional staffer for the Republican Study Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. In all, he has more than a decade of experience in public policy, government affairs, coalition building, and strategic communications.

Ellis has studied at Roanoke College, Oxford University, the Universidade de Vigo, and the Universidad de Murcia. He is a proud native son of Texas and was raised in Franklin, Tennessee. You might catch him musing about electricity markets to the pups and cats in his life — four-legged policy advisors in training.