Larisa Dobriansky

Larisa Dobriansky is senior advisor to the law firm of Baker & Hostetler on environmental and energy matters relating to clean energy technology commercialization, with a principal focus on developing new financing instruments, policies, and institutional structures that can interact to spur technology innovation and manage risks associated with the deployment of advanced energy technologies. Special areas of expertise are designing market development strategies, structuring risk-sharing public-private partnerships to accelerate market transformation and facilitating local programs for integrating energy and environmental systems on a community-scale.

Prior to this position, Ms. Dobriansky served as deputy assistant secretary for National Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy. There, she coordinated and provided strategic policy direction for Departmental activities to implement national energy policy objectives. As the lead for programs such as, the U.S. Clean Energy Initiative's Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development Partnership, Climate VISION and the APEC Energy Working Group's Task Force on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Financing, she focused on promoting deployment policies and financing instruments that can enable strategic risk management and address barriers to the commercial adoption of clean energy technologies. In representing DOE and the U.S. Government in bilateral and multilateral forums such as, the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), the U. N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, G-8 Summits and the U.S.-China Joint Working Group on the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she strived to foster effective public-private partnerships, technology transfer and market development especially through the building of local commercial infrastructure and enterprises.

As senior counsel in the Washington office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., her work dealt with a broad range of environmental and energy policy issues, corporate governance, project and carbon finance, and emissions trading. She joined that firm after serving in senior legal positions in the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government (U.S. House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission).

Ms. Dobriansky received her B.S.F.S cum laude in international relations and economics in 1973, J.D. in 1977 and L.L.M. in securities regulation and taxation in 1990 from Georgetown University. She is a member of the District of Columbia and Virginia Bars.