Clean Energy Strategies Conference

Name: Clean Energy Strategies Conference
Start: 2025-07-16T17:00:00
End: 2025-07-16T20:35:00
Location: Center for Strategic and International Studies

July 16, 2025 • 1:00 – 4:35 pm EDT

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Please join the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change program for a conference examining how U.S. clean tech firms can scale, compete, and thrive in global markets to drive domestic economic growth.

The conference will feature contributions from a diverse set of experts. Panel discussions will cover the U.S. manufacturing’s role in the global value chain, opportunities and barriers to exporting innovation models pioneered in the U.S. and their localization, and the use of development finance and strategic finance to support U.S. energy innovations abroad.

The conference will begin with a fireside chat between Representative Young Kim (R-CA) and Navin Girishankar, President of the CSIS Economic Security and Technology Department.

Please join us after the event for a reception.

This event is made possible by funding from the ClimateWorks Foundation and general funding to CSIS and the CSIS Energy Security & Climate Change Program.

Event Agenda

Welcome Address

1:00 pm

Joseph Majkut, Director, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program

Fireside Conversation

1:05 pm

Representative Young Kim (R-CA)
Navin Girishankar, President, CSIS Economic Security and Technology Department

1:30 pm

Panel 1: U.S. Manufacturing’s Role in the Global Value Chain

Cole Simons, Managing Director, Government Affairs, GE Vernova
George David Banks, Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Miriam D'Onofrio, Senior Director, International Markets and Policy, X-energy

Moderator: Leslie Abrahams, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program

2:25 pm

Panel 2: Fast Followers

Francesco Maria Graziani, Counsellor, Energy and Climate, Delegation of the European Union to the United States
Damian Doyle, Counsellor, Energy and Climate, Embassy of Australia, USA
Jonah Wagner, President and Co-Founder, Constructive
Jules Besnainou, Founder and Executive Director, Cleantech for Europe

Moderator: Joseph Majkut, Director, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program

3:20 pm

Panel 3: Finance Institutions

Rebecca Brocato, Founder and Principal, Stony Run Advisory
Nick Lombardo, Senior Program Director, International Policy, ClearPath
Joanna Lewis, Associate Professor and Director, Science, Technology and International Affairs, Georgetown University

Moderator: Erin Murphy, Deputy Director, CSIS Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics, and Senior Fellow, Emerging Asia Economics

4:15 pm

Closing Fireside Conversation

Geoffrey Pyatt, Senior Managing Director, Energy and Critical Minerals, McLarty Associates
Joseph Majkut, Director, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program