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Suzanne Watson received her BA in political theory from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She was awarded a juris doctor and master of intellectual property law from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire. She has worked extensively on the linkages between energy policy, environmental quality, and economic development issues from the early nineties to today. Additionally, Suzanne works in New England, and nationally, on multiple clean energy efforts as Principal for Watson Strategy Group.

Suzanne served for almost ten years as the Policy Program Director for the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) starting in 2008, where she worked with staff and external partners to determine how ACEEE’s analysis and expertise could best be directed to create the policy opportunities needed for optimal outcomes in the interest of ever greater energy efficiency leading to a stronger national economy.

Prior to joining ACEEE in 2008, she served many different companies and associations holding various titles including Director for the Office of Innovation at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Energy and Climate Policy Director for the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), Senior Policy Advisor for the Northeast-Midwest House and Senate Coalitions on Capitol Hill, and as Founder and Director of the Maine Environment & Energy Center (E2 Center), which is now E2Tech.