Jim Lanard is CEO and Co-Founder of Magellan Wind. He founded and served as President of the Offshore Wind Development Coalition, a business membership organization that advocated for offshore wind developers and supply chain companies before federal and state legislative and administrative bodies. Before launching OffshoreWindDC, Jim was a Managing Director of Deepwater Wind (later acquired by Ørsted), with responsibilities relating to offshore wind development for the Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island (the first-in-the-nation offshore wind farm) and the company’s strategic planning, policy development, and regulatory affairs efforts. Prior to his work at Deepwater Wind, Jim led strategic planning and advocacy initiatives at Bluewater Wind. In this capacity, he led the company’s successful effort to win legislative and regulatory support for Bluewater’s power purchase agreement for its proposed offshore wind farm off the Delaware coast – the first utility-scale offshore wind PPA negotiated in the U.S.

Jim has worked in the environmental and energy sectors for his entire career. He has been executive director of two non-governmental environmental groups, Chief of Staff to a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Director of Environmental Programs and Government Relations for The Walt Disney Company’s Disney’s America project, and partner (with former New Jersey Governor Jim Florio) in an energy and environmental consulting firm.