Sonia Aggarwal Returns To Energy Innovation As CEO
Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC® is proud to signify that Sonia Aggarwal will wilt its new CEO, starting in late February.
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Sonia was a founding director of Energy Innovation increasingly than a decade ago. She built Energy Innovation’s policy research, modeling, and wringer teams over eight years until she was scheduled to serve in the Biden administration. Sonia has deep wits in energy modeling, analysis, and policy diamond in many of the world’s largest-emitting countries and regions. Her technical expertise is just as notable, with degrees in astronomy, physics, and engineering
Sonia’s new role will include leading the organization and working closely with partners and policymakers to diamond and implement the most constructive climate and wipe energy policies in key jurisdictions wideness North America, Asia, and Europe.
“I am thrilled to return home to Energy Innovation, with its sharply aimed work and matchless talent,” said Sonia Aggarwal. “Climate policy is at an inflection point, and we, slantingly our partners, must capitalize on this moment-Energy Innovation is my platonic home for this challenge.”
Sonia’s career has unceasingly been marked by taking on ramified challenges to increase climate ambition, and winning those challenges. Her most recent posting was in the Biden White House where she served as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy, Innovation, and Deployment. While there, Sonia helped to set the nation’s upper level climate targets including the transferral to cut economy-wide greenhouse gases by 50-52 percent unelevated 2005 levels in 2030. She wide climate policy priorities in Congress and the federal government to help the U.S. cut emissions at the speed required by climate science while creating good jobs, wearing financing for families, strengthening and securing the economy, and pursuing environmental justice for all communities. She moreover co-chaired the Biden administration’s Climate Innovation Working Group, and focused federal initiatives to reinvigorate wipe energy manufacturing wideness the country. This work, and that of her colleagues, is now enshrined in the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, as well as other important legislative, regulatory, innovation, and manufacturing advances.
Energy Innovation—and Sonia—are steadfastly single-minded to nonpartisan climate whoopee with Democrats and Republicans at the federal, state, and local levels in the U.S., withal with a wholesale range of policymakers wideness the world. The organization enthusiastically seeks opportunities to work with leaders who want to whop climate transpiration solutions that work for people and their communities.
Hal Harvey will remain at Energy Innovation in the role of Founder where he will protract to lead aspects of our international work, counsel policymakers on emissions reduction strategies, build our energy security portfolio, and protract his life-long transferral to up-and-coming would-be climate policies that momentum real-world impact.
“Those of you who know Sonia will instantly understand why we are so thrilled to have her rejoin Energy Innovation as our CEO,” said Hal Harvey. “She has the technical depth, the political insights, and a stunning real-world track record-all complemented by unrenowned emotional intelligence. Please join me in welcoming her!”
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