Alisa Newman Hood

Alisa Newman Hood is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Excelerate Energy. Alisa brings her impressive 20-year worldwide legal, government relations, and energy policy background to the role.

Alisa joined Excelerate Energy in 2019 as Senior Vice President, providing legal advice and managing the company’s U.S. government relations function in Washington, DC.

Before joining Excelerate, Alisa served as general counsel in three previous roles, including Akfel Commodities, the parent company of the largest private importer of natural gas and largest trader of gas and power in Turkey; Aluminium Bahrain, where she guided the company through its IPO on the London Stock Exchange; and ARTIC, a Qatari real estate holding company of more than 30 luxury, internationally branded hotels.

From 2012 to 2016, Alisa served as senior advisor to the U.S. Special Envoy for International Energy Affairs at the State Department. She began her legal career in the project finance and energy practice at White & Case LLP in New York and Washington.

Alisa holds a B.A. from Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude and with honors) and a J.D. (Dean’s List) from Georgetown University Law Center, where she has been on the adjunct faculty teaching oil and gas law since 2007. She also lends her expertise to media outlets and has published op-eds and articles on energy-related topics, including The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, and China Daily. She was previously a Council on Foreign Relations term member.