Roric McCorristin is the Program Director for "The Transatlantic Energy and Climate Network" at the Heinrich Böll Foundation North America. Before joining HBF, Roric spent seven years as a Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament in Brussels. Prior to that he worked in Washington at the German Embassy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, and The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. He has also received the International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS, at the time IPP) to Berlin from the German Bundestag. Roric holds a B.A. in Political Science and German Language and Literature from The George Washington University.