Kiersten Korczynski

Kiersten Korczynski is the General Counsel for ExxonMobil’s operations in Indonesia where her team provides legal counsel and advice on matters related to business in the upstream, lubricants, fuels, chemicals, and carbon capture and storage industries. Prior to her assignment in Indonesia, she was Exxon Mobil Corporation’s subject matter expert on trade sanctions and export controls, providing advice to ExxonMobil’s operations across the globe.

 

Before joining the energy industry, Kiersten was a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) National Security Division, Counterterrorism Section where she managed high-profile international and domestic terrorism prosecutions, including directing the investigative efforts of federal and state law enforcement agents and developing and implementing strategies to protect classified information at trial. She regularly trained non-U.S. prosecutors, judges, law enforcement and intelligence officers on best practices for investigating and prosecuting national security cases in conformity with host-country laws and regulations. Before DOJ, Kiersten served 10 years in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a prosecutor in the Guantanamo Bay tribunal of United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, et al. and trial defense counsel in Great Lakes, Illinois.

 

While Kiersten is a new member (having only joined AIEN in 2022), she has since helped plan several networking events in Jakarta, served on the organizing committee for the Asia Chapter Conference on “CCUS in the APAC Energy Industry,” and is a member of this year’s IES planning committee.