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Alison Wise

Founder & Principal
Wise Strategies

Twitter:
@cleaneconomist

Areas of Expertise:

Biofuels, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Demand Side Management, Electric Vehicles, Energy Economics, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Energy Storage, Environment, Environmental Policy, Geothermal, GHGs, Human Capital, Hydraulic Fracturing, Hydropower, Infrastructure, Innovation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Power Sector, R&D, Regulation, Renewables, Smart Grid, Solar, Tax Policy, Transmission, Transportation, Water, Wind

Additional Areas of Expertise:

Data visualization for policy creation, Saas and CleanWeb innovation, Impact investment and entrepreneurship, Micropower

Alison is engaged in several communities in the clean tech space, lending strategic advice to entrepreneurs and investors in the clean economy so profits accelerate. Her analytic background covers the spectrum of clean technologies, as well as SaaS. She blogs at the Huffington Post as The Clean Economist and is actively working on "clean economic development" strategies. She has spoken on these issues both nationally and internationally, from Silicon Valley to Dalian, China. She's spent 20 years working on socially/environmentally responsible business, clean tech and policy issues, including innovative finance, CSR and strategic consulting for Fortune 500 firms. She founded one of the first trade associations for sustainable businesses, Sea Change, a decade ago and engages political and corporate decision-makers to rethink the meaning of value in a carbon constrained economy. Alison was a senior strategist at NREL, a senior research consultant at Clean Edge, Inc., the director of business development & public policy at Future 500 and one of six strategists who built the Sustainable Business Achievement Rating system (S-BAR) whose methodology has just been adopted by UL for their assessment of business sustainability.