Alisa Newman Hood is Senior Vice President at Excelerate Energy, an industry leader in FSRUs and floating LNG import solutions. She was previously general counsel of Akfel Commodities, a Singapore-based natural gas and power trading company with significant assets in Turkey. Prior to that, she was general counsel of London Stock Exchange-listed Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. Earlier in her career, she was an attorney in the energy and project finance practice at White & Case LLP in New York. She also spent two years in Dili, East Timor (Timor-Leste) serving as petroleum legal advisor to the Prime Minister.
From 2012-2016, Alisa served as senior advisor to the US Special Envoy for International Energy Affairs at the State Department. She has published a number of op-eds and articles on energy-related topics, including in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, and China Daily, and was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2005 to 2010. She is an adjunct professor (oil and gas law) at Georgetown University Law Center.
She is a graduate of Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude) and Georgetown University Law Center (Dean’s List).