Jason Miner

Managing Director

Jason Miner is a Managing Director in the Public Affairs division at The Glover Park Group. Miner is a leader in GPG’s quickly growing environment and energy practice area and manages a diverse group of accounts for the firm. Miner focuses on large, integrated campaigns that often include public opinion research, advertising and government relations in addition to messaging and earned media strategies. At GPG, Miner serves as a lead strategist for Vice President Gore’s non-profit organization, The Alliance for Climate Protection. In this role he is responsible for planning and implementing messaging and earned media strategies for the organization’s unprecedented multi-million dollar, multi-year campaign to raise the urgency of enacting solutions to the climate crisis. For the Academy Award-winning film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” he coordinated the rapid response effort to protect the film against attacks from climate skeptics and other critics.

Miner’s issue expertise includes a broad range of energy and environmental topics including policies and politics related to climate change, renewable energy deployment, electricity transmission, energy efficiency, sustainable development and electricity market structure.

Miner’s expertise in understanding and advocating for complex public policies in a competitive environment is rooted in his experience on the front lines of national-level electoral politics. A veteran of presidential campaign rapid response operations and coalition management, Miner has developed communications strategies and supporting media tactics for Fortune 100 companies, as well as leading trade associations, industry groups and non-profits involved in legislative, regulatory, reputation and legal challenges.

Prior to joining The Glover Park Group, Miner was Research Director for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), overseeing the national issues and opposition research effort for the party. Miner was also a senior member of the Kerry/Edwards Rapid Response War Room. He helped create and run on-site response during the Republican and Democratic Conventions and the presidential and vice presidential debates. He was responsible for creating and implementing a media strategy for moving message and research materials and hundreds of stories to television, print and radio reporters.

During the 2000 Presidential campaign, Miner also served at the DNC, directing opposition research and coordinating the rapid response operation at the 2000 Republican Convention. Prior to joining the DNC, Miner worked on a number of statewide campaigns, conducting issue and opposition research. Miner attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.