Judy O'Brien, Senior Associate and Director, Keystone Energy Board
Director, Keystone Food and Nutrition Roundtable, Center for Science & Public Policy

Ms. O’Brien has been a facilitator and mediator with Keystone since 1994, focusing primarily on energy and health issues. In addition to managing the Keystone Energy Board, a group of 55 energy experts, which meets several times a year to discuss cutting edge technology and policy issues, Ms. O’Brien has facilitated stakeholder groups on electricity transmission siting; natural gas pipeline siting; development of regional transmission organizations; nuclear reactor decommissioning; and environmental technologies and international markets.

In the health area, Ms. O’Brien manages the Keystone Food and Nutrition Roundtable, and over the years has also been a part of the facilitation team on several health initiatives, including obesity prevention, AIDS, and prescription drug labeling.

Additionally, Ms. O’Brien has experience facilitating several strategic planning initiatives including working with the Business Roundtable as they set priorities for reducing consumption of energy; a major utility to create an inclusive stakeholder engagement process; the Army to develop a new environmental strategy; the American Petroleum Institute executive strategic planning session; and with the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association on their Strategic Issues Assessment Forum Stakeholder Dialogue.

Prior to joining The Keystone Center, she spent five years working on energy policy issues for Congressman Phil Sharp on the staff of the Energy and Power Subcommittee. Judy graduated from Siena College with a B.S. in Marketing and Management.