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

Donna Warndof

Neste

Head of Public Affairs, Americas

Donna Warndof is the Head of Public Affairs, Americas, for NESTE, a global leader in solutions for the hard-to-decarbonize transportation sector. NESTE’s wide range of products include 
renewable diesel for road transportation fleets, sustainable aviation fuel, and renewable 
polymers and chemicals.

Donna has over 20 years of experience in U.S. advocacy at the federal, state, and local levels. Her experience in the energy sector includes trade associations and Fortune 500 companies such as Occidental Petroleum. In the public sector, she has represented three of Texas’ most populous
counties (Harris/Houston, Bexar/San Antonio, and Travis/Austin), including recovery efforts after Hurricane Harvey.  In addition to policy subject knowledge, she is an expert in advocacy strategy, building and leading advocacy teams and coalitions.

Donna holds an MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and son.

Sessions With Donna Warndof

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 01:30pm - 02:10pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 06:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 07:10 pm

    Global Biofuel Policy
    Agribusiness & Biofuels

    While volumetric mandates for biofuels remain in much of the world, biofuel policies requiring aggressive carbon emission reductions are becoming more prolific, especially in Europe and the Americas. Join us for a discussion of EU’s Fit for 55 Plan, the U.S.’ Inflation Reduction Act, Canadian Clean Fuel Regulations and Brazilian Fuel of Future Program to learn how refiners and biofuel producers are adjusting their operations to become more climate-friendly and to comply with ever-changing laws and regulations.

Thursday, 21 March

  • 04:30pm - 05:10pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 09:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 10:10 pm

    Balancing the Appetite for Food AND Fuel
    Agribusiness & Biofuels

    As the demand for biofuel grows, the agriculture and feedstock industries have started to gear up to meet the new demand and balance it with on-going food consumption which has and continues to be the major market for agricultural products. Balancing food and fuel have brought a wave of expansion for vegetable oil production, redirected trade flows of fats and grease, driven a new era of innovation to expand feedstock output and lowered the carbon footprint of agricultural products for food and biofuels. How are the agriculture, food and biofuel sectors balancing the appetite for multiple agricultural products?