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    Katie Bays (she/her/hers)

    Policy & Research Strategist
    Crux
    Lincoln, Nebraska

    Energy finance professional with over a decade of experience in clean and conventional energy policy, finance, and economics.

    Throughout her career, Katie has worked extensively with large institutional asset managers including mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds advising on policy and political risk to energy companies and projects. She has experience speaking to and advising policymakers at the state and federal level around complex and politically dynamic situations. Her areas of expertise include liquid fuel market policies and incentives; upstream, midstream, and LNG; global energy trade; climate policies including carbon regulation at the state, federal, and international level; GHG emissions analysis and disclosures; ESG analysis and best practices; utility financing and rate regulation; and bankruptcy law and arbitration. She has performed due diligence work for companies investing in clean energy projects and technologies.

    Previously, Katie was Senior Vice President at the DC-based investment bank Height Capital Markets and Managing Director of the financial advisory firm Sandhill Strategy. She provided economic consulting services to multinational energy companies and law firms as a Senior Managing Consultant at Berkeley Research Group. She began her career as a contractor to the Energy Information Administration conducting statistical analyses of energy market data.

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