Nancy Sutley

Nancy Sutley

Vice Chair of the Board
Member since November 2021

Born: Bayside, N.Y.

 

Representing

City of Los Angeles

Previous time on board: Served from January 2006 to May 2009

Current Met committee appointments:

Vice Chair of the Board - Board; Executive Committee

Member − Organization, Personnel and Effectiveness; Subcommittee on Long-Term Regional Planning Processes and Business Modeling

Professional and community activities:
Nancy Sutley is Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's senior assistant general manager of external and regulatory affairs, and the chief sustainability officer. Sutley oversees the department’s customer service operations, energy efficiency and water conservation programs, environmental regulation, public affairs and legislative teams. Sutley has initiated LADWP’s corporate sustainability programs, spearheaded LADWP’s La Kretz Innovation Campus, promoted the electrification of the transportation network and coordinated the Clean Grid LA plan.

 

Prior to joining LADWP in 2014, Sutley served as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Under her leadership, the council played a central role in shepherding the Obama Administration’s signature environmental projects and was one of the chief architects of President Obama’s 2013 Climate Action Plan.

 

Sutley has an extensive background in public service that includes posts as deputy mayor for Energy and Environment for the City of Los Angeles, member of the California State Water Resources Control Board, energy advisor for California Governor Gray Davis, deputy secretary for Policy and Intergovernmental Relations at the California Environmental Protection Agency, and senior policy advisor for the US EPA during the Clinton Administration.

 

Sutley holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a master's in Public Policy from Harvard University.

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