Prior to joining UCS in January of 2000, Knobloch was Director of Conservation Programs for the Appalachian Mountain Club in Boston for 6½ years. He served as Legislative Director for U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO) and Legislative Assistant and Press Secretary for U.S. Representative Ted Weiss (D-NY) during six years on Capitol Hill, beginning in 1983.
Earlier in his career, from 1989 to 1992, he was Legislative Director for Arms Control and National Security at the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Washington, D.C. office. Knobloch began his career as an award-winning newspaper journalist.
Knobloch holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration, with honors, from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, with a focus on environmental management and natural resource economics, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Ceres and the Environmental League of Massachusetts. He co-founded the Arlington (MA) Land Trust.