As Global Program Delivery Director at WRI Polsky Center for the Global Energy Transition, Laura Van Wie McGrory works with colleagues and partners across WRI’s geographies to help align and scale up the Center’s programs. Her work focuses on addressing policy barriers to the clean energy transition, sharing lessons learned across countries and regions, and mobilizing investment for clean energy supply, decarbonized energy consumption, energy access & equitable development, and energy minerals & circularity.

Before coming to WRI, Laura worked with the Alliance to Save Energy, managing international energy efficiency projects and coalitions and providing energy policy guidance in the United States, Asia, Africa, SE Europe, and Latin America. Her previous positions included a decade-long stint with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory supporting the U.S. appliance standards program and the Department of Energy’s international work, and serving as the Head of LBNL’s Washington, DC office. Prior to that she worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to produce several climate change mitigation reports and held consulting roles with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the World Bank, and the International Institute for Energy Conservation.

Laura serves on the board of the Efficiency Valuation Organization. She has a Master of International Affairs/Environmental Policy degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College.