[2] Before his position at ACCF, Banks was a senior adviser to President George W. Bush on international climate change.
[3] For his work on Montreal Protocol issues in the Bush White House, Banks was honored by the Obama Administration in 2009.
He was also a deputy director of the nuclear energy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, U.S. State Department diplomat, and CIA analyst.
[2] In April 2018, Banks was named a research fellow at Columbia University, specializing in nuclear power.
[6] He has also spoken in favor of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol's potential to create American jobs.