ALBANY, N.Y. — Basil Seggos was unanimously confirmed by the State Senate and has become the 15th commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
Seggos was previously both deputy secretary for the environment and assistant secretary for the environment for Governor Andrew Cuomo, according to a DEC news release.
Since 2012, Seggos has advised the governor on environmental policy and overseeing the operations of the state’s environmental agencies, including DEC, the Office of Parks Recreation & Historic Preservation, the Environmental Facilities Corporation, and the Adirondack Park Agency.
Prior to working in the governor’s office, Seggos was VP of business development at the clean-tech private equity company Hugo Neu Corp., chief investigator and attorney at Riverkeeper, associate at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and as a legal clerk at the White House, according to the release.
Seggos received his law degree from Pace Law School in 2001 and his bachelor’s degree from Trinity College in 1996. Seggos is a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
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