INFORMATION ABOUT SPEAKERS

Larisa Dobriansky
Former Deputy Asst. Sec. of Energy, National Energy Policy
U.S. Department of Energy
Director, Global Energy Network

Ms. Dobriansky is director of the Global Energy Network and senior advisor to energy companies, governments, financial firms, and public policy organizations on environmental and energy matters relating to climate change, sustainable buildings, and communities and clean energy technology commercialization. Her focus is on developing new financing mechanisms, business models, policies, incentives, and institutional structures that can interact to spur technological innovation and project development, mobilize investment, and scale up replicable infrastructure. Special areas of expertise are structuring risk-sharing public-private partnerships, integrated financing schemes, and carbon strategies to underwrite energy efficient urban development, incorporating resource systems planning into community land-use development and urban design.

In her role as Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy, Ms. Dobriansky coordinated and provided strategic direction for Departmental activities to implement national energy policy objectives. As the lead for a number of clean energy initiatives, she focused on promoting deployment policies, incentives, and financing mechanisms to enable risk management and to address barriers to the commercial adoption of clean energy technologies, including spearheading the Department’s first loan guarantee program for clean energy technology.