Audrey Zibelman
Audrey Zibelman is an internationally known and experienced energy industry executive with a reputation of driving positive change toward decarbonisation and innovation within individual organisations and across the sector. Audrey has been at the helm of multiple organisations leading the transition of the industry. She now serves as a board member, strategist, and advisor on the transformation of the energy industry.
Audrey currently serves an Advisor and Non-Executive director to multiple companies in the US, Australia and Europe leading on the Energy Transition. She is Vice Chair of Landis &Gyr, and a Non-Executive Board Director at Pollination Group, Squadron Energy and Sosteneo Infrastructure Partners. She also is Co-Chair of the Pew Advisory Council for accelerating adoption of distributed energy resources and recently completed her term as a member of President Biden’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council.
Her most recent executive role was as Vice President of X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory where she led a team focused on building digital tools necessary for a decarbonised power system and was an advisor on climate technology.
Audrey joined X from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), where she was the Managing Director and CEO. AEMO plans and operates the electricity and gas systems and markets for all of Australia.
Before joining AEMO, Audrey was the Chair of the New York Public Service Commission where she was a member of the Governor’s cabinet and regulated the electric, gas, water,steam, and communication utilities in New York. As chief economic regulator, Audrey led massive regulatory reform of the electric industry to support a decarbonised grid, known as Reforming the Energy Vision, or REV. Earlier in her career, Audrey was the Founder,Chair and CEO of Viridity Energy, the EVP and COO of PJM, the world’s largest wholesale energy market and a long-time executive of Xcel Energy, the US 5th largest multi-state integrated gas and electric utility located in the Mid-West and West of the United States.