Lara Pierpoint

Director for Early Climate Infrastructure (ECI), Prime Coalition

Lara Pierpoint is the Director for Early Climate Infrastructure (ECI) at Prime, where she demonstrates systems innovation and catalytic investment approaches that will speed the commercialization, deployment, and scale-up of climate change mitigation infrastructure.

Before joining Prime, Lara co-founded Actuate and designed the Actuate Climate program, which accelerated the deployment of emissions-reducing technologies. Lara worked at Exelon as Director of Technology Strategy, advising on energy technology trends, investing in early-stage energy storage companies, and managing the partnership R&D program. Prior to joining Exelon, she directed the DOE Office of Policy and Systems Analysis and served as AAAS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Lara received her PhD from MIT in Engineering Systems and holds dual masters' degrees from MIT in nuclear engineering and technology policy, as well as a B.S. in physics from UCLA.