Charles Imohiosen is the New York Power Authority’s Senior Vice President, Communications and External Affairs. He oversees NYPA’s public engagement efforts as well as its Environmental Justice and Corporate Communications groups.

Charles has held several public and private sector senior management positions. In New York, he served as the chief operating officer of Empire State Development, New York State’s economic development agency. In that role, he oversaw operations for all business units and managed an $80 million operating budget, and a $1.4 billion capital budget.

In Washington DC, Charles was a member for the White House Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, leading the Task Force’s infrastructure post-disaster planning efforts to allocate $60 billion in congressional appropriations to resilient rebuilding of electric, water, transportation, and bridge and tunnel infrastructure. Charles also held the position of Counselor to the Deputy Administrator and Special Policy Counsel to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, coordinating cross-functional teams and leading multi-agency initiatives focusing on strategic grants, permitting, and other regulatory activities relating to infrastructure, energy and communities.                      

In the private sector, provided strategic advisory support to several energy-related projects, including the Justice Climate Fund and Groundswell’s successful applications to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Clean Communities Investment Accelerator and Solar for All grant competition, respectively. 

An attorney admitted to the New York State bar, Charles has practiced as an attorney for two global law firms and served as a law clerk for a federal judge in the Southern District of New York. He was also senior director for digital engineering and global head of the customer engagement program for a large privately held enterprise software company.

Charles graduated from Harvard Law School and Williams College, majoring in physics and philosophy.