John Griffin

John Griffin is a senior policy advisor through a mobility assignment with the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center. Previously, he served as the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership (CCP) program manager, where he worked to advance large landscape conservation initiatives in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by convening diverse, multidisciplinary stakeholders. Griffin is the former secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources under two governors, the deputy secretary of the department, the general manager of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission and served as chief of staff for Governor Martin O’Malley.

Griffin brings decades of experience with resource conservation and environmental protection, as well as relationships across the Chesapeake watershed. Griffin holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Niagara University and a master’s degree in social work from the Catholic University of America.