Bob Kerr is Co-founder and Principal of Pure Strategies, Inc.  During the last three decades, he has advised businesses, agencies and non-profit groups on approaches to accelerating environmentally and socially sustainable products, services and programs.  Recent work includes support for the multi-stakeholder, safer-chemical initiatives of the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council and for company supply-chain sustainability assessments and initiatives.  An expert in chemicals management, Bob authored Sustainable Chemicals Management Software: A Pure Strategies Review of Tools for Managing Chemicals in Products.

Bob has also worked extensively with state environmental agencies on the design and implementation of sustainability and pollution prevention programs – most recently in support of a safer chemical alternatives assessment for Maine and the alternatives assessment chemical guidance for Washington and the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse. 

Appointed by the Administrator of USEPA in 2016 to serve a second term on EPA’s National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, Bob  chairs the Strategic Opportunities Subcommittee.   He is working with the Council to develop and strengthen approaches through which the Agency can galvanize stakeholder engagement to drive a more rapid national transition to environmental and economic sustainability.

Prior to consulting, Bob spent a decade working on environmental, energy and public health legislation on House and Senate Congressional staff.  He also managed oversight of the implementation of some of these laws by executive agencies.