Louis Carranza is the Associate Director of the MIT Energy Initiative, where he oversees MITEI’s membership programs and industry engagement, including member recruitment.  Lou spearheaded the development of eight new Low-Carbon Energy Centers as part of the Institute’s Climate Action Plan and serves as advisor to the MIT Energy Club. He has been a judge for the MIT 100K Business Plan competition, the MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneur Prize, and the MIT Energy Hackathon. Lou was previously vice president for strategic development at IHS, where he also served as Executive Director and Co-Chair of CERAWeek, a leading energy conference. He co-led the IHS Global Scenarios Initiative, which developed scenarios for the energy, automotive, aerospace, and defense industries. Earlier at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Lou was co-director of the CERA’s Global Power Forum. Prior to CERA, he was at the World Economic Development Congress, where he led the firm’s energy and water activities. He was also project advisor to Gasoline and the American People, a study of US gasoline consumers and markets. He was a contributor to Game Changers: Energy on the Move, a joint MIT and Stanford report, and contributing author of MIT’s 2019 paper on Climate Related Financial Disclosures.