Susan Tierney
Ms. Tierney served as the Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy under President Clinton (1993-1995); was the Secretary for Environmental Affairs in Massachusetts under Governor William Weld, and a Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. She co-chaired the Department of Energy Agency Review Team for the Obama/Biden Presidential Transition Team. She was expected to be named Deputy Secretary of Energy in the United States Department of Energy under President Barack Obama, until she withdrew her candidacy for the position in March 2009
She is a Managing Principal at Analysis Group in Boston, Massachusetts. Since August 2008 she has also served as a director at Evergreen Soler, Inc. and EnerNOC, Inc. Prior to joining Analysis Group in 2003, she was Senior Vice President at Lexecon, where she consulted on energy and environmental economics and policy.
She serves on a number of boards of directors and advisory committees involved with clean energy markets and policy, including a co-chair position of the National Commission on Energy Policy. She serves as a director of EnerNOC, Inc. and Ze-gen, Inc. She chairs the board of directors of the Energy Foundation and External Advisory Council of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); is a director of Clean Air-Cool Planet, the World Resources Institute, Clean Air Task Force, and Northeast States Clean Air Foundation. She chairs the External Advisory Council of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); and is a member of the Environmental Advisory Council of the New York Independent System Operator, and the China Sustainable Energy Programs Policy Advisory Council.
She was previously chair of the Electricity Innovations Institute, a director of Catalytica Energy Systems Inc., a director of Renegy Holdings, a director of ThermoEcotek; a director of the Electric Power Research Institute, a member of the Advisory Council of the New England Independent System Operator, a member of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust Advisory Council, and a director of ACORE (American Council on Renewable Energy).
For the past 15 years, she has consulted to electric utilities, other energy companies, large energy customers, government agencies, and other organizations on energy markets, the structure and regulation of the electric industry in the U.S. and other countries. She has been an advisor, observer or policy maker involved in renewable energy market developments and relevant national/state policies for many decades. For the past 10 years, she has been involved with the China Sustainable Energy Program and its interactions with Chinese government agencies and non-governmental organizations on renewable energy issues, among other energy topics.
Ms. Tierney has authored numerous articles and speaks frequently at industry conferences discussing energy market developments. She has taught at the University of California at Irvine, and she earned her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in regional planning at Cornell University and her B.A. at Scripps College.
