David Livingston currently serves as the inaugural Innovation & Sustainability Fellow at the University of Southern California (USC)  in Los Angeles. He also serves in an advisory capacity to several leading organizations, including on the Sustainability Advisory Council of Novo Nordisk, Europe’s largest company.

Before coming to USC, Livingston served across two Presidential administrations: in the Biden administration as as senior advisor and managing director for energy in the office of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry; and in the Obama administration as the inaugural Robert S. Strauss Fellow for Geoeconomics at the Office of the US Trade Representative in the White House.

Prior to joining government, Mr. Livingston previously worked at the Eurasia Group, a consultancy, focusing on energy, climate, trade and technology issues, and as a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.