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Melissa E. Adams
Division Head, Sustainability & Business Development
WGL Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Washington Gas

Ms. Adams holds the post of Division Head for Sustainability and Business Development at WGL Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Washington Gas, where she leads the company’s initiatives on Climate Change matters, including internal sustainability and new business development. Before assuming this new role, Ms. Adams led investor relations function for WGL and other Fortune 500 energy companies. Prior to that she was the managing director of an energy and environmental communications and consulting firm that assisted Fortune 500 companies, national trade associations, and Federal Agencies on a wide range of energy and environmental issues. Ms. Adams is a graduate of The George Washington University.

She serves on a number of regional committees devoted to reducing the carbon footprint of the Washington Metropolitan Area – including the Greater Washington Board of Trade’s Green Committee, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government’s Climate Energy and Environment Policy Committee, and Arlington County’s Community Energy and Sustainability Task Force. She is a charter board member of the Association of Climate Change Officers and a member of Leadership Greater Washington.