Background
Sharp, Philip Riley was born on July 15, 1942 in Baltimore. Son of Riley and Florence Sharp.
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Sharp, Philip Riley was born on July 15, 1942 in Baltimore. Son of Riley and Florence Sharp.
After graduating there from Wendell Willkie High School in 1960, he attended DePauw University in 1961 before going on to graduate cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1964. He then went on to do graduate work at Exeter College, Oxford University in 1966 before returning to Georgetown University to earn his Doctor of Philosophy in 1974, when he was elected to Congress.
During his years in Congress, Sharp participated in the passage of major energy legislation. As chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, he played key roles in the 1990 Clean Air Acting Amendments and the 1992 Energy Policy Acting. He also chaired the Secretary of Energy’s Electric Systems Reliability Task Force, which issued its major report in 1998.
Sharp went on to serve as director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University"s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
In 2005, he became president of the nonpartisan think tank Resources for the Future in Washington, District of Columbia Sharp serves on the Board of Directors of the Duke Energy Corporation and as vice chair on the Board of the Energy Foundation. Before joining RFF, Sharp was Senior Policy Advisor of the Washington, District of Columbia based law and public policy firm Van Ness Feldman.
He was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards, which issued its major report in 2001. He is the congressional chair for the National Commission on Energy Policy, is a member of The National Academies’ Committee on America’s Climate Choices and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America"s Nuclear Future.
Married Marilyn Kay Augburn, 1972. Children: Jeremy Beck, Justin Riley.