Phil Burgess
Co-Chair
Phil Burgess is president of The Annapolis Institute, established in 1993 to advance principled leadership in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Burgess previously served as a C-suite executive for government relations, communications and corporate affairs for global media-telecommunications companies in the US and Australia after years as an association executive and advisor to leaders of business and government – including CEO of the Western Governors; Policy Office, during West’s energy boom years (1975-82) and chief executive of the Congressionally-chartered National Academy of Public Administration.
For 20 years, Burgess was a university professor, teaching public affairs, policy management, national security policy and mineral economics while serving on the faculties of The Ohio State University, where he was director of the university-wide Behavioral Sciences Laboratory; the University of Colorado, where he was the founding director of doctoral programs in public administration and non-profit management; Colorado School of Mines where he was director of the Institute for Minerals and Energy Management – and visiting professorships at UCLA, Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and others.
Burgess has lectured worldwide on issues related to science and technology, leadership and policy management, government regulation, aging, energy and economic and community development. He has appeared on PBS, NPR, CNN, and CNBC, and his views have been reported in regional, national and international media – including Sydney Morning Herald, The Financial Times (London), The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Denver Post, and Vital Speeches. For details see https://bit.ly/2xjTHC0.
The author of nine books, including most recently Reboot! What to do when your career is over but your life isn’t, he also writes Bonus Years, a weekly newspaper column on changing aging and America’s emerging longevity culture. For examples, see https://bit.ly/3oQ0gRR.
A sailor and adventurer, Burgess explored the Friday Islands in Puget Sound, sailed the Gulf of Mexico from Tampa to Key West, crossed the Atlantic from Spain to the Bahamas in an open cockpit sailboat on the 500th anniversary of the crossing by Columbus – and more recently, inland waterways, navigating navigated the Intra-Coastal Waterway (ICW) from Toronto to Stuart, Florida; the Erie Canal; and four of the five Great Lakes. He currently lives on the Chesapeake Bay with Mary Sue, his wife of nearly 40 years. He can be contacted by e-mail at pburgess@annapolisinstitute.net