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Bob Inglis, J.D.

Executive Director of republicEn.org


“CCL teams with enthusiasm and excitement in the search for solutions on climate change. Its positive spirit is its DNA. I’m grateful for the thousands who are devoted to the cause and open to free enterprise answers to climate change.”


About Bob

Bob Inglis is the Executive Director of republicEn.org, a growing group of conservatives who care about climate change.

He served in the U.S. Congress from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2005-2011, a Republican representing Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina.

On leaving Congress Inglis went full-time into promoting free enterprise action on climate change, launching a 501(c)(3) educational initiative now based at George Mason University and known as republicEn.org.

For his work on climate change Inglis was given the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. He appears in the film Merchants of Doubt, in the Showtime series Years of Living Dangerously (episodes 3 and 4), and has given TED Talks on political courage and on his metamorphosis on climate change.

Inglis was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics in 2011, a Visiting Energy Fellow at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in 2012, and Resident Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics in 2014.

Inglis grew up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, went to Duke University for college, met and married his college sweetheart, graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and practiced commercial real estate law in Greenville, S.C., before and between his years in Congress. Bob and Mary Anne Inglis have five grown children (a son and four daughters). They live on a small farm in northern Greenville County, South Carolina.