Alex Kizer
EFI Foundation/Hydrogen Demand Initiative (H2DI)
Chief Operating Officer/Managing Director
Alex Kizer is the Chief Operating Officer at the EFI Foundation and Managing Director of H2DI, a DOE-sponsored initiative to support demand at the regional hydrogen hubs. He develops and manages projects on cross-cutting issues related to technology, policy, and innovation in the energy sector. At EFI, Kizer (pronounced KI-zer) oversees all qualitative and quantitative analysis for EFI reportsAt EFI, Kizer (pronounced KI-zer) oversees all the entire research program and leads the development and execution of H2DI. Kizer brings nearly 20 years of experience advising clients at institutions, such as Sandia National Laboratories, the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as energy companies that operate in the Middle East and Europe. At EFI, he designs and manages projects that focus on investment strategies for accelerating clean energy innovation, oversees cost-benefit analyses of electric sector cyber security, develops methods for valuing U.S. energy security, and examines techniques for evaluating the emission savings from the at-scale deployment of all clean technologies. Kizer holds a Bachelor of Arts in public policy from Ohio University and a Master of Arts in international security studies from American University.