Lesley Hunter, Senior Vice President - Policy and Engagement, ACORE
Lesley Hunter is ACORE’s Senior Vice President of Policy and Engagement, overseeing the organization’s policy work, including government and regulatory affairs and related member activities. Lesley also leads the development of educational resources and analysis on clean energy for policymaker and business audiences.

Lesley has over 15 years of experience in clean energy, leading prominent coalitions on tax equity, financial policies, corporate sustainability, and national security. She is the author of numerous publications and is a frequent commentator on these issues.

She is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, where she studied international relations, anthropology, and history.

Lisa Jacobson, President, Business Council for Sustainable Energy 
Lisa Jacobson is the President of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, a 65-member trade association representing the energy efficiency, natural gas, and renewable energy industries. Ms. Jacobson has over 20 years of experience advising federal and state policymakers on energy, tax, air quality, and climate change issues. She is a member of the United States Trade Representative’s Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, the Energy Efficiency Global Alliance Steering Committee, and the Gas Technology Institute’s Public Interest Advisory Committee.

Ms. Jacobson has testified before Congress and has represented energy industries before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Prior to her position with BCSE, Ms. Jacobson was a legislative aide in the U.S. Congress. She has a master’s degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont.

E. Dee Martin, Partner, Bracewell LLP
Dee has more than 20 years of experience providing strategic advice to corporations, non-profit organizations and trade associations. Her work covers the areas of energy, environment, national security and supply chain stability. Dee also works on LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention, as well as issues related to economic, political and social equality for women. She represents clients before the US Congress, federal agencies, and offices of the White House, developing and implementing policy and media strategies that achieve her client’s goals.

Dee has successfully led clients through legislative, appropriations and oversight campaigns. In addition to her policy work, Dee represents clients involved in agency inquiries and Congressional investigations, including hearings and testimony. Her unique and holistic approach to federal advocacy ensures that messages are coordinated across the three branches of government, as well as in the media, both traditional and digital.

To provide a platform for women who shape policy and create history, Dee created and currently hosts the Madam Policy podcast, where she interviews high-level federal officials, corporate leaders and advocates. Madam Policy has been recognized as a “Top Ten Podcast Elevating the Voices of Women in Politics,” by The Ascend Fund. Dee has also received national media attention as the co-founder of the award-winning Minute Mentoring, a women’s leadership program.

As an avid women’s rights advocate, Dee focuses her pro bono efforts on supporting women and girls globally, including working with young women escaping persecution by global terrorist organizations. For her work, Dee was honored with the “Unlikely Heroes Legacy Award” (2016) and was recognized by Professional Women in Advocacy as an “Excellence in Advocacy” award finalist (2016). Dee’s community service includes serving as the president of the board of directors of a transitional housing service for women experiencing homelessness and on the board of directors for a national non-profit organization dedicated to social, political, and economic equality for women.

Elena Maria Millerman, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Co-head of Davis Polk’s Infrastructure Finance practice, Elena is a recognized leader in project and infrastructure finance. She advises clients on sophisticated, high-profile financings in the Americas and globally, primarily across the infrastructure, power, energy transition, and oil and gas sectors. Her work includes many first-of-their-kind transactions.

Clients appreciate Elena’s deep understanding of the commercial arrangements involved in these projects and her sophisticated knowledge of project, term loan B, mezzanine and hybrid finance structures. She also has extensive experience with acquisition financings, project bonds and private placements, other debt-structured products, and equity financings.

Elena’s work is recognized by publications including Chambers, which describes her as “a go-to lawyer in the energy infrastructure space, with particular strengths advising clients on structured finance transactions.” Clients say she is “very knowledgeable” and “always available, sharp and on top of the issues.”

Serena Rwejuna, Partner, White & Case LLP
Serena A. Rwejuna is Head of White & Case LLP's Energy Markets and Regulatory Practice. Serena also serves as Co-Deputy Head for the North American Region of the White & Case Global Power Industry Group and Co-Head for the White & Case Global Green Policy, Regulation and Incentives Strategic Specialty Area. As an entrepreneurial and commercially-minded advisor who is formally trained in psychology, management, and public policy, Serena has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice focused on innovation, value creation and problem solving in highly-regulated, fast-paced industries. Serena specializes in energy law and her practice focuses on advising clients on commercial, regulatory, compliance, litigation, and enforcement matters. She has experience with a variety of clean energy technologies, including solar, onshore and offshore wind, hydroelectricity, waste-to-energy, and other advanced and evolving energy technologies. Serena counsels developers, sponsors, utilities, independent power producers, pipelines, natural gas distribution companies, technology companies, financial institutions and other traditional and emerging energy industry participants on compliance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulations, cross-border and multijurisdictional transactions and regulatory matters, and advises them on project development, drafting and negotiating complex and bespoke commercial agreements, mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution, and state regulatory compliance.

Serena represents clients before FERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), state regulatory agencies and in federal and state courts on matters arising under various federal and state laws, including the Federal Power Act, the Natural Gas Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005, and the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

In her investigations, enforcement and compliance practice, Serena advises clients on proposed energy market transactions and trading strategies to avoid or mitigate enforcement risk from FERC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), NERC, state public utility commissions (PUCs), and regional transmission organization (RTO/ISO) market monitors. Serena represents clients before various federal and state agencies while counseling them in high-stakes non-public and public audits, investigations, settlements and enforcement proceedings. Serena also serves as Co-Chair for the American Bar Association (ABA) Environmental & Energy Litigation Committee where she is launching the committee's law student and young lawyers outreach initiative.

Serena advises clients on a variety of transmission and interconnection issues, compliance with FERC's standards of conduct, market-based and cost-based rate issues, and Order Nos. 888, 890, 1000 and 1920. She also assists clients with internal audits and developing and implementing compliance programs. In addition to maintaining the White & Case NERC Database (whitecase.com/nerc), which contains summaries of NERC Notices of Penalty, Administrative Citation of Penalties and Find, Fix and Track Reports, she advises clients on a broad array of reliability issues, including NERC registration requirements, audits, self-reports, methods for complying with reliability standards, developing compliance protocols and procedures, assessing and mitigating reliability related risk when purchasing and selling jurisdictional assets and negotiations with NERC and regional entities.

Serena also assists clients in negotiating agreements for energy management services and the purchase and sale of electric energy and related products, thermal energy and natural gas. She has also obtained regulatory approvals for clients seeking to merge, acquire or dispose of FERC jurisdictional assets.

Serena's robust practice also includes advising clients on a broad range of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG), sustainability, and cutting-edge energy transition matters that span the broad universe of pipes and wires, energy security, and net-zero targets.

In addition to her renewables, energy transition and ESG practice, Serena also maintains a robust pro bono practice where she (i) advises non-profit organizations, Black chambers of commerce and minority-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs on business and management related matters; (ii) flexes her litigation skills representing veterans in appeals before the Board of Veteran's Appeals; and (iii) leads other domestic and international advocacy and public policy-focused projects in connection with women's, civil and human rights issues, partnering with organizations including Acumen, Human Right 2 Water, and the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law Project. Within White & Case, Serena is an active member of the Firm's Racial Justice Task Force. Within her local community, Serena holds several non-profit Board leadership roles. Serena has also been a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated for nearly two decades.

Serena was recently appointed to the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability (NI) Board of Advisors. NI conducts and supports actionable research and undertakes sustained engagement with policymakers, businesses, and communities – in addition to delivering transformative educational experiences to empower future leaders. According to NI, some of the foremost environmental leaders sit on the Institute's Board of Advisors, which has included individuals from both the public and private sector, such as the chairman of the board of Duke Energy, as well as the presidents of the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Project.

A recognized industry leader, Serena was also recently appointed to the Duke Fuqua Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment (EDGE) Advisory Board. The EDGE Advisory Board is designed to foster close working relationships between leading business practitioners and academics to create new knowledge and solutions to energy and sustainability challenges that benefit both board members and EDGE. Advisory Board membership is by invitation only and is designed to include a diverse range of perspectives, geographies, and industries. The prestigious EDGE Advisory Board seeks to balance traditional and emerging players from across the entire energy value chain, as well as corporate sustainability leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and other energy and environmental business stakeholders.

Serena has a long list of energy and legal industry recognitions. Serena is a four times Chambers-ranked Partner, recognized in Nationwide Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation). Serena's other repeat rankings and recognitions include the Legal 500 "Rising Star" in USA Energy Regulation: Conventional Power, Lawdragon's Leading U.S. Energy Lawyers, the Best Lawyers In America to the Ones to Watch, the National Bar Association (NBA) Nation's Best Advocates Top 40 Under 40; Thomson Reuters, Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers, and the National Black Lawyers, Top 40 Under 40.

Other standout legal recognitions include Serena being named the 2023 Energy, Natural Resources and Mining Lawyer of the Year by the Women in Business Law Awards. That same year, Serena was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Energy Bar Association's (EBA) Rising Star in Energy Award, and also recognized as a Rising Star Partner by IFLR1000 North America for Energy: Project Development.

Most recently, in 2024, Oil & Gas Investor/Hart Energy named Serena one of their prestigious Most Influential Women in Energy, recognizing her as a "multifaceted leader with a career described as a masterclass in leadership, dedication and impact."