Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh is a Global Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy's Carbon Management Research Initiative. Previously he worked at Breakthrough Energy leading Carbon Management Policy and Advocacy. He served on the White House Task Force for the Responsible Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration and sits on the DAC Advisory Council.

He has a bachelor of science in biological systems from the University of Nebraska, a Masters of Public Affairs and a Masters of Environmental Science from Indiana University.