Priya Barua

Senior Director of Market & Policy Innovation, Clean Energy Buyers Alliance

Priya Barua has expertise in emissions and attribute accounting, utility business models, regulatory frameworks, and corporate energy buying strategies. Prior to joining the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance, she worked at the World Resources Institute, where she helped establish WRI’s work on green tariffs and fostered collaborations between utilities and large energy buyers in traditional, regulated markets to develop innovative utility business models that support an efficient and economic transition to clean energy resources. Previously, she worked at the World Bank on renewable energy and energy efficiency in India and Afghanistan. She also worked at ICF International, supporting the Energy Star energy-efficiency program, and at IHS Emerging Energy Research, producing solar market development reports on the Asia-Pacific region. Priya holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor of arts degree from Brandeis University.