Samantha Gross
Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative
Samantha Gross is a fellow in the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate. Her work is focused on the intersection of energy, environment, and policy, including climate policy and international cooperation, energy efficiency, unconventional oil and gas development, regional and global natural gas trade, and the energy-water nexus.
Gross has more than 20 years of experience in energy and environmental affairs. She has been a visiting fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, where she authored work on clean energy cooperation and on post-Paris climate policy. She was director of the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. In that role, she directed U.S. activities under the Clean Energy Ministerial, including the secretariat and initiatives focusing on clean energy implementation and access and energy efficiency. Prior to her time at the Department of Energy, Gross was director of integrated research at IHS CERA. She managed the IHS CERA Climate Change and Clean Energy forum and the IHS relationship with the World Economic Forum. She also authored numerous papers on energy and environment topics and was a frequent speaker on these topics. She has also worked at the Government Accountability Office on the Natural Resources and Environment team and as an engineer directing environmental assessment and remediation projects.
Gross holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science in environmental engineering from Stanford, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
Samantha Gross is a fellow in the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate. Her work is focused on the intersection of energy, environment, and policy, including climate policy and international cooperation, energy efficiency, unconventional oil and gas development, regional and global natural gas trade, and the energy-water nexus.
Gross has more than 20 years of experience in energy and environmental affairs. She has been a visiting fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, where she authored work on clean energy cooperation and on post-Paris climate policy. She was director of the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. In that role, she directed U.S. activities under the Clean Energy Ministerial, including the secretariat and initiatives focusing on clean energy implementation and access and energy efficiency. Prior to her time at the Department of Energy, Gross was director of integrated research at IHS CERA. She managed the IHS CERA Climate Change and Clean Energy forum and the IHS relationship with the World Economic Forum. She also authored numerous papers on energy and environment topics and was a frequent speaker on these topics. She has also worked at the Government Accountability Office on the Natural Resources and Environment team and as an engineer directing environmental assessment and remediation projects.
Gross holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science in environmental engineering from Stanford, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
Discussion | Climate Change: India, the US, and beyond in the late 2017 World
The future of the Paris Agreement and global climate change cooperation without U.S. leadership
Tackling the ‘Water Problem’: Challenges facing U.S. regulation, sustainability, and global geopolitics
[On the G-7 Summit] Justin Trudeau would clearly like to avoid a G6 + 1.
We're seeing a real push toward deregulation of all kinds, but particularly in the energy industry, particularly in oil and gas.
Pulling out of the Paris Agreement, I feel like this is actually very harmful to the US in terms of being viewed as a reliable party in international negotiations and agreements.
Samantha Gross on Twitter
Will Mexican energy reform survive political transition? brook.gs/2Lxw6zg via @BrookingsInst— Samantha Gross (@samanthaenergy) Wednesday, June 13, 2018
RT @BrookingsFP: North America’s energy future is on trial in Mexico’s presidential campaign, write Carlos Pascual, David G. Victor and Raf…— Samantha Gross (@samanthaenergy) Friday, June 8, 2018
What to expect at the G-7 summit brook.gs/2Ls6HqV via @BrookingsInst— Samantha Gross (@samanthaenergy) Thursday, June 7, 2018