Andrew McElwaine

Andrew McElwaine, President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, announced this week he is leaving to become head of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.

Brian Hill, now PEC’s Executive Vice President, will assume the position of Interim President. The PEC Board will shortly announce the formation of a search committee to fill the position on a permanent basis.

"While I'm looking forward to new challenges I will miss my friends across PA whom I have enjoyed working with in three different jobs over the last 20 years,” said McElwaine. “PEC is in good hands with interim President Brian Hill and a very strong Executive Committee. The organization has doubled in size over the last five years and will likely do so again in the next five."

“Andrew has done an excellent job for the Council and he will be missed,” said Paul M. King, PEC Board Chairman. “We appreciate his leadership on Growing Greener II, on nutrient trading and a host of other public policy and educational programs. We wish him well in his new ventures.”

McElwaine joined PEC in 1999 and worked since then to double the group’s revenues and increase its profile on a statewide basis.

Before joining PEC, McElwaine was Director of Environmental Programs at the Heinz Endowments, a consultant for The Conservation Fund, Director of Congressional Affairs for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. and legislative assistant to the late Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Heinz.

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