Joel Beauvais

Joel Beauvais serves as Audubon’s Managing Director, North America. In this role Joel oversees Audubon’s conservation and climate efforts across the United States and Canada, helping to integrate implementation of Flight Plan, Audubon’s strategic plan to protect birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Joel’s work as a conservation leader at Audubon is informed by over 25 years of experience, including over a decade of public service spanning all three branches of the federal government and extensive private sector and non-profit work.

Most recently, Joel served as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Exelon, a Fortune 200 company, and prior to that as a partner with the global law firm Latham & Watkins. Previously Joel held senior leadership roles at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he led both the Office of Policy and the Office of Water. His portfolio included developing federal regulations on climate and air and water quality; managing national grant and public-private partnership programs; and representing EPA at international climate forums. Earlier in his career, Joel worked on Capitol Hill, where he served as Counsel to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. He began his legal career clerking for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court and for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Before law school, he worked with The Nature Conservancy in Nicaragua, advocating for indigenous land rights and conservation in the remote BOSAWAS Biosphere Reserve.

Joel holds a JD from NYU School of Law, an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, a B.A. in political science from Yale University and a certificate in Leadership and Performance Coaching from Brown University.