• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Louis Carranza

S&P Global

Managing Director, Head of CERAWeek

Louis Carranza is Managing Director, Head of CERAWeek. Previously, he was Associate Director of the MIT Energy Initiative, where he oversaw MITEI’s industry engagement and member recruitment. Lou spearheaded the development of eight new Low-Carbon Energy Centers as part of the Institute’s 2015 Climate Action Plan and served as the academic 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 co-author of MIT’s 2019 paper on Climate Related Financial Disclosures.

Sessions With Louis Carranza

Thursday, 21 March

  • 05:00pm - 06:00pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 10:00 pm - 21/mar/2024 11:00 pm

    Spotlight | "NextGen" Future Energy Leaders

    Future of Workforce/Diversity & Inclusion

    The race is on for innovative, fresh approaches to solve the world’s greatest energy and climate challenges. The emerging generation of future energy leaders, technologists and entrepreneurs have unprecedented opportunity for impact and to create real change. The energy world is hungry and open to disruptive ideas. There never has been a more exciting—or urgent—time to be part of the energy industry. Join this special interactive “Next Gen” dynamic session, featuring rapid-fire insights by leading minds on energy innovation, along with CERAWeek Future Energy Leaders. How can we achieve net-zero ambitions? How can we tackle climate change while meeting the planet’s need for more energy? What are promising and scalable technologies? What are the challenges and most exciting opportunities?