A government affairs authority based in New York City, with a practitioner's record across energy regulation, legislative strategy, and external affairs.
Michael-Christopher Warren’s career was shaped inside the government and external affairs function at Pepco Holdings and Exelon Corporation — two of the most complex utility operating environments in the Mid-Atlantic region. The work was consequential and unforgiving: stakeholder coalition management, legislative engagement across multiple jurisdictions, and the kind of direct engagement with how power actually moves that no briefing document can replicate.
RegulatorIndex was born from a practitioner’s frustration. After years of navigating fragmented, inconsistent, and often inaccessible Public Utility Commission data across 50 states, Michael-Christopher Warren built the intelligence infrastructure he’d always needed. What began as a personal research tool became a platform built for government affairs professionals, regulatory attorneys, energy consultants, and infrastructure investors who make high-stakes decisions and can’t afford to work from incomplete information.
The project reveals something essential about his approach: when existing structures are inadequate, the answer is not to work around them — it is to build something better and make it available to the field.
Where regulatory proceedings, legislative calendars, and utility capital strategy intersect. The sector where government affairs fluency was built.
AI infrastructure, data center development, and emerging tech platforms are discovering for the first time that government has opinions about what they build. Regulatory naivety is expensive.
Institutional capital flowing into regulated assets needs practitioners who understand what a commission order actually means for returns. Intelligence before deployment.
State legislative relationships, certificate of need proceedings, and Medicaid policy create a government affairs surface area that most healthcare systems underestimate until it's too late.
Serving on the board of the Friends of Art & Design High School, the oldest public school of its kind in New York City, supporting the next generation of design and arts professionals. The school’s alumni roster includes Tony Bennett, Calvin Klein, Harvey Fierstein, Marc Jacobs, and Art Spiegelman — a legacy that reflects what disciplined creative development produces over time.
Excel Golf is Maryland’s premier junior golf program, developing the next generation of players while using the game as a vehicle for life skills, leadership, and community. Serving on the board reflects a long-standing commitment to youth development and civic investment beyond the professional sphere.
The practitioners who shape consequential outcomes in government affairs are not the ones with the most connections or the loudest presence in the room. They are the ones who understand the actual mechanics — who read the primary sources, who know how a bill dies in committee, who can map a stakeholder landscape before anyone else has identified the stakeholders. That fluency is built over time, tested in real engagements, and either sharpens or atrophies depending on how seriously a practitioner takes the discipline. This is the work.