Charles B. Curtis is a former senior energy and environmental adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Curtis founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) in 2001 with former Senator Sam Nunn and CNN founder Ted Turner. A nonprofit organization working to reduce the threats from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, Curtis is currently NTI’s president emeritus and an emeritus board member, having served as its founding president. Prior to this, Curtis was executive vice president and chief operating officer of the U.N. Foundation and led the energy practice at Hogan & Hartson, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm with domestic and international offices.
Curtis served as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1977 to 1981. He has held positions on the staffs of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Treasury Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He served as vice chair of the International Security Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of State and is a former member of the Defense Policy Board and the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Defense.