Doug Ogden is an attorney and private clean energy investor. He focuses on public and private equity as a principal at North Ridge Investment Management and commercial real estate as a partner at Marin & Montecito Country Marts.
Ogden served as executive vice president of the Energy Foundation in San Francisco and director of the China Sustainable Energy Program in Beijing. Previously, he practiced environmental law and litigation with the Seattle law firm Foster Pepper & Shefelman and taught for two academic years at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.
Doug Ogden holds a master’s in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a juris doctor from the University of Washington (editor, Washington Law Review) and a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford.
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