Susan F. Tierney

Sue Tierney is a senior advisor at Analysis Group, an economic consulting firm headquartered in Boston. She was a managing principal in the company’s Boston office from 2003 through 2014, and now works out of Analysis Group’s Denver office. Sue is an expert on energy policy, and on economic and environmental regulation of the electric and gas industries. She has consulted to businesses, government agencies, foundations, tribes, environmental groups, and other organizations.

Sue previously served as assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Energy. In Massachusetts, she served as secretary for environmental affairs, commissioner of the Department of Public Utilities, chair of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority board, and chair of the Massachusetts Oceans Commission. She taught in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and at the University of California, Irvine, and was a visiting fellow in policy practice at the Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago.

Sue serves as chair of ClimateWorks Foundation board and chair of the Resources for the Future board. She also serves on the boards of the World Resources Institute and the Energy Foundation. Until recently, she chaired the U.S. Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s External Advisory Council.

Sue earned a bachelor’s degree from Scripps College and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in regional planning from Cornell University. After living in the Boston area for more than three decades and raising her two now-adult sons there, she recently moved with her husband to his native Denver.

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