Full Name
Katie Mehnert
Job Title
Chief Executive Officer and Founder Representative, National Petroleum Council Ambassador, US Department of Energy
Company
ALLY Energy
Speaker Bio
The modern architect of the energy workforce, Katie Mehnert is the Chief Executive Officer of ALLY Energy™ helping people and companies to find each other to accelerate jobs and skills development using proprietary generative AI. ALLY Energy is a graduate of Greentown Labs Houston, the top climate tech incubator in North America.
Ms. Mehnert has held global leadership roles with BP and Shell in safety and environment during periods of financial crisis, spills, divestment, and globalization. Her early career included assignments with Duke Energy, Entergy, and Enron. Her corporate path drove her to entrepreneurship to help energy companies prepare for the looming workforce disruptions needs to address energy poverty and climate change.
She was appointed Ambassador to the United States Department of Energy in 2020 during the Trump Administration and has testified before Congress on the clean energy workforce of the future. She was re-appointed in by the Biden Administration to the National Petroleum Council.
Ms. Mehnert is a speaker, author, and trusted source in the energy industry. She has been published in Scientific American, Forbes, The Hill, CNBC, and CNN. Her first book, Grow with the Flow, was published in 2020. She co-authored Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy, a children’s book focused on energy careers. Mrs. Mehnert also has appeared in Hot Money, a documentary produced by Academy Award-winning actor, Jeff Bridges and Retired NATO General Wesley Clark on the financial complexities of climate change and finance. She also produced Dirty Nasty People, a film on the future of the energy workforce with NOV.
Katie graduated from Louisiana State University, completed Rice University's Executive Energy program, and graduated from the University of Texas LBJ Campaign School for Women. She serves on the Advisory Board of the American Conservation Coalition and serves on the board of Allies in Energy, a nonprofit focused on energy and climate literacy. She is a five-time World Major marathoner, a wife to Mark, and a mom to a 13-year-old daughter, Ally.
Ms. Mehnert has held global leadership roles with BP and Shell in safety and environment during periods of financial crisis, spills, divestment, and globalization. Her early career included assignments with Duke Energy, Entergy, and Enron. Her corporate path drove her to entrepreneurship to help energy companies prepare for the looming workforce disruptions needs to address energy poverty and climate change.
She was appointed Ambassador to the United States Department of Energy in 2020 during the Trump Administration and has testified before Congress on the clean energy workforce of the future. She was re-appointed in by the Biden Administration to the National Petroleum Council.
Ms. Mehnert is a speaker, author, and trusted source in the energy industry. She has been published in Scientific American, Forbes, The Hill, CNBC, and CNN. Her first book, Grow with the Flow, was published in 2020. She co-authored Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy, a children’s book focused on energy careers. Mrs. Mehnert also has appeared in Hot Money, a documentary produced by Academy Award-winning actor, Jeff Bridges and Retired NATO General Wesley Clark on the financial complexities of climate change and finance. She also produced Dirty Nasty People, a film on the future of the energy workforce with NOV.
Katie graduated from Louisiana State University, completed Rice University's Executive Energy program, and graduated from the University of Texas LBJ Campaign School for Women. She serves on the Advisory Board of the American Conservation Coalition and serves on the board of Allies in Energy, a nonprofit focused on energy and climate literacy. She is a five-time World Major marathoner, a wife to Mark, and a mom to a 13-year-old daughter, Ally.
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