 Basil Seggos is the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, appointed by New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2015 and was confirmed unanimously by the State Senate.Prior to the appointment, Seggos served as Cuomo’s Assistant Secretary and then Deputy Secretary for the, and in State government, Seggos served as Vice President of Business Development at Hugo Neu Corporation, a cleantech private equity company; Chief Investigator and Attorney for Riverkeeper; Associate at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); and legal clerk at the White House.Seggos serves on numerous boards, including as chair of the New York State Environmental Facilities Corp., the Delaware River Basin Commission, the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA), the Adirondack Park Agency (APA), the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and the New York Energy Planning Board.