Scholars

Trusted Expertise. Pragmatic Insights. Engaged Partners. 

LEI follows a practitioner-scholar model, so we have the skills to tailor our work to decision-making contexts. Our strategy is to pair consultant-grade expertise with the credibility of an independent, mission-driven nonprofit. 

LEI’s team has a century of energy experience combined.

LEI staff have held previous positions that include Chairman of the Kentucky Public Service Commission; President and CEO of the Electricity Consumers Resource Council; energy economics professor at Texas Tech University; director of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas Independent Market Monitor; two representatives on the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s Member Representatives Committee; two energy and environmental policy think tank directors; head of the Organization of PJM States, Inc., and staffers at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.