Jeff Nesbit

JEFF NESBIT was the public affairs chief for five Cabinet departments or agencies under four presidents and the communications director to former Vice President Dan Quayle. He was most recently the assistant secretary for public affairs at the Health and Human Services department and the deputy commissioner for communications at the Social Security Administration in the Biden-Harris administration.

He was the founder and executive director of Climate Nexus; a nationally recognized climate communications non-profit; and a strategic communications advisor to media, health, science, tech, academic, corporate and non-profit clients including the Discovery Channel networks, Yale University, Lockheed Martin, the American Heart Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Porter Novelli and the American Red Cross.

He has been a contributing writer to The New York Times, Time magazine and Axios, and wrote a weekly science, health and tech column called “At the Edge” for U.S. News & World Report for nearly a decade. He’s written 33 books, including Poison Tea and This is the Way the World Ends with St. Martin’s Press.