Ms. Shirley Neff
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Released 21 March 2004
Ms. Shirley Neff
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Ms. Shirley Neff is an energy consultant and a nationally recognized expert in energy policy. She is a senior advisor to Goldwyn International Strategies, Co-Director of the American Bioenergy Association, and an advisor to the National Renewable Energy Lab and the California Wind Energy Association. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Energy, Law & Enterprise at the University of Houston, where she is involved in a major project on liquefied natural gas (LNG). She is a regular lecturer at Columbia University and often speaks at international energy conferences.
Ms. Neff served as an economist on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1993 until 1996, and again from 1999 until 2003. While on the staff of the Committee, she was the lead Democratic staff person responsible for all domestic and international oil and natural gas policy and market issues. Ms. Neff was the lead staff person responsible for major incentive legislation for oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico -- the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. She was part of the Congressional delegation to the international negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change and participated in and led Congressional staff delegations to Western Europe, the Caspian region, China, Indonesia, Japan, and Singapore.
From 1996 until 1998, Ms. Neff was Governmental Affairs Director with Royal Dutch Shell. In that capacity she advised the CEO, general counsel, and senior management on energy and environmental policy matters, including international oil issues and global climate change. She was also responsible for corporate interface with the Congress and executive branch.
Ms Neff was Director of Legislative Affairs and Public Policy at the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) from 1989 until 1993. She worked directly with natural gas pipeline CEOs and company representatives in Washington to develop and implement industry strategy on major natural gas restructuring legislation.
Ms. Neff is a Vice President of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics and a recipient of the organization’s Senior Fellow Award and a special congressional award from the American Wind Energy Association. She is a two-time honoree of the global award 50 Key Women in Energy. Ms. Neff is on the Advisory Board of the International Energy and Environment Program (IEEP) of The Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, and she served as a member of an Independent Task Force on Strategic Energy Policy for the Council on Foreign Relations in 2001.
Fluent in French, Ms. Neff earned a B.S. at Iowa State University and an M.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.