Gerald Keenan

Gerald Keenan is the Managing Director of Palmer Bellevue LLC, which provides strategic advisory services to private, public and not-for-profit entities. He served as the Chairman of the Illinois Pollution Board, appointed to the Board by Governor Bruce Rauner in 2015. He has many years of experience as a regulator, entrepreneur, consultant and financier in the electric, natural gas, and telecommunications industries. His wide ranging energy industry experience includes: service as General Manager of the Illinois Commerce Commission; extensive experience in strategic and corporate planning, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring; board level advisor to Fortune 500 energy companies; active participation in Federal and state efforts to develop market based solutions to environmental issues, including development of SO2, NOX and VOC trading markets; and development and implementation of competitive market frameworks for natural gas and electricity in the US and other countries. His most recent focus is on the development of a Nutrient Trading Initiative to use market-based mechanisms to improve water quality in Illinois and adjoining states. 

Mr. Keenan was a partner in PriceWaterHouseCoopers LLP, where he led the Energy Strategy Consulting practice for North America, and in Coopers & Lybrand LLP. He has extensive international experience, including significant work in China, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, England, Scotland and Germany. He has worked in Haiti since 2001 and serves as a director of three not for profit organizations that operate educational, medical and economic development programs in Haiti.