Emily Sanford Fisher

Emily Sanford Fisher is Executive Vice President, Clean Energy, and
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary for the Edison Electric Institute
(EEI) in Washington, D.C. EEI is the trade association that represents all
U.S. investor-owned electric companies. Emily oversees and coordinates
clean energy policy engagement across EEI and across the federal
government. She also is responsible for managing EEI’s litigation and legal
affairs, covering a wide range of energy and environment regulatory and
policy issues, at the state and federal level. Both the Office of the General
Counsel and the Environment Department at EEI report to her.
Prior to joining EEI in 2008, Emily was a Foreign Service Officer with the
U.S. Department of State. She served at the U.S. Embassies in Bangkok,
Thailand and Bogotá, Colombia. She also worked at the law firms Dewey
Ballantine llp and Dickstein Shapiro llp in Washington, D.C., representing
investor-owned electric companies and independent power producers in a
range of regulatory proceedings and transactions.
Emily received a B.A. in international affairs with a concentration in
economics from the George Washington University and a J.D. from
Georgetown University Law Center, where she was the Administrative
Editor of The Georgetown Environmental Law Review. She is admitted to
practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia. She was 2014-2017
Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Climate
Change, Sustainable Development and Ecosystems and is currently one of
that group’s Vice Chairs for Deep Decarbonization. She serves on the
Board of the Energy Bar Association and was appointed to the Energy
Systems Integration Group’s Advisory Council in 2019.
Emily lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and son. A proud
Washingtonian, she serves on the Advisory Board of CityYearDC, a
national service program that brings educational support to D.C. public
schools.