Nana Menya Ayensu

As a member of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Climate Policy Office, Nana leads several workstreams related to clean energy and climate. On decarbonizing and modernizing the power sector, this encompasses items like nuclear energy, electric grid modernization and expansion through advanced conductors reconductoring and grid enhancing technologies, offshore wind, and distributed energy resources. There’s additional focus around the policies, business models, and collaborations that catalyze early and rapid deployments. His climate finance work includes supporting the development of new capital solutions to help promote manufacturing and project investments, voluntary carbon markets, and climate related financial risk. Moreover, he covers emerging climate and energy-related issues such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and commercializing new technologies. Nana has spent his career leading innovation at the intersection of technology and business, bringing innovative and differentiated solutions to the global energy, digital, and financial services sectors. Before joining the White House, he was a Partner at Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, which builds and invests in technology-enabled infrastructure platforms; a Director at ENGIE helping industrial and infrastructure clients address their decarbonization challenges; and at GE, where he had roles in project finance, new business development, technoeconomic modeling, and R&D. Nana has a S.B. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering and Japanese from Harvard University and a M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. He lives in Brooklyn with his amazing wife and his two energetic young sons.