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Ana Unruh Cohen is the director of energy, climate and natural resources for Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts). She has worked on a variety of energy and environmental issues during her career. In the U.S. House of Representatives, she served as the deputy staff director of the Natural Resource Committee Democratic staff from 2011 until July 2013 and as the deputy staff director and chief scientist of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming from 2007 through 2010. Unruh Cohen played a role in developing and passing the Energy Independence and Security Act and the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Prior to joining the Select Committee, she was the first director of environmental policy at the Center for American Progress. She has a B.S. in chemistry from Trinity University and received her Ph.D. in earth sciences from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.