Adam Wagner

Adam Wagner is a lead advisor at NSI and the vice president for strategic partnerships at the EFI Foundation (EFIF), where he leads efforts to advance priorities through engagement with high-impact donors, corporations, and foundations. Wagner collaborates with EFIF leadership, board and advisory councils, and program teams to secure support for their work, highlight the critical role of EFIF in the energy transition, and explore beneficial partnerships that further our mission.

Before joining EFIF, he was the director of individual giving at Clean Air Task Force, where he built and grew the private and family donor portfolio function for the organization. Wagner has over a decade of experience in higher education, public health, and energy and climate philanthropy and has held various leadership roles in the nonprofit sector.

A proud Buckeye, Wagner’s career began at the Ohio State University as an assistant to president E. Gordon Gee supporting him and the executive cabinet to advance strategic university priorities, including the successful completion of the $2 billion “But for Ohio State” campaign. Wagner is a graduate of the Ohio State University.