Charlie Anderson

Charlie Anderson is the Executive Vice President for Infrastructure at Arnold Ventures, where he leads efforts to advance building infrastructure faster, better, and at lower cost in the United States, including housing, transportation, and energy.

Charlie brings more than 15 years of high-level economic policy experience across the federal executive and legislative branches. Before joining Arnold Ventures, he served as a special assistant to the president for economic policy at the White House National Economic Council (NEC). In that role, he led the NEC's permitting and environmental review work in preparation for the opportunities presented by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act.

In 2021 and early 2022, Charlie was the director of Economic Policy and Budget for the COVID-19 Response Team. Previously, he served as the senior advisor for Tax and Economic Policy to Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) from 2017 to 2021, developing policies to expand the child tax credit (CTC), reform unemployment insurance, and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

Before his four years in the Senate, he served as special assistant to the president for Economic Policy and senior advisor to the director at the White House National Economic Council from 2014 to 2017; at the Department of the Treasury from 2010 to 2013; and at the White House Domestic Policy Council from 2009 to 2010.

Born in New York and raised in North Carolina, Charlie earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School and a BA in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.