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Evan Westrup is a Senior Advisor with the California-China Climate Institute at UC Berkeley.

He has worked with former California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. for more than a decade, including serving as press secretary, communications director and chief spokesperson for the Governor from 2013 until the end of the administration in 2019.

Prior to that, Westrup was Deputy Press Secretary in the Governor’s Office, on the Governor's 2010 campaign and at the California Department of Justice. He also served as Deputy Youth Vote Director on President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign in New Mexico, Associate Communications Director to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and as an aide to a member of Scottish Parliament.

Westrup earned his bachelor’s degree from UC San Diego and master’s degree in International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He started his career as a Capital Fellow in Sacramento and as a Coro Fellow in Los Angeles and was recently selected to participate in the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, the German Marshall Fund's flagship Transatlantic leadership development program.