Nisha Thirumurthy
Nisha worked for more than a decade at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Her work focused on accelerating the commercialization and deployment of renewable energy technologies, which included building microgrids at US Federal Agencies, the Army, Navy and Air Force and abroad. Nisha served as the lead for NREL’s support to the Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program’s (FEMP). In this role she was responsible for the development, testing and implementation of the Federal Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting guidance and GHG mitigation framework to help Federal Agencies meet their GHG reduction targets. Nisha led several Caribbean island nations to develop their GHG reduction targets for presentation at the UNFCCC COP21 summit in Paris in December 2015. Previously, Nisha served as the Director of Transportation with the Clinton Foundation’s Climate Initiative. In that role, she led the worldwide commercialization of hybrid-electric and alternative fuel buses in large cities.
Nisha has an MBA from Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business and a Masters in Economics and Energy from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.