Jennifer Granholm is a Senior Counselor at DGA Group. She is an American lawyer, educator, author, and politician who served most recently as the 16th United States secretary of energy and previously as the two-term governor of Michigan.

At DGA Group, Secretary Granholm advises multinational corporations, investors, as well as energy and infrastructure firms as they navigate complex cross-border dynamics – from nuclear and grid modernization to supply chain resilience and energy-intensive technologies such as AI and data centers.

As governor, she spearheaded Michigan’s economic recovery after the Great Recession by diversifying the state’s economy to focus on clean energy and revitalizing the auto industry to build electric vehicles.

As secretary of energy (2021-2025), Granholm restructured the U.S. Department of Energy to focus on research and development of advanced clean energy solutions and the deployment of zero-carbon technologies. She oversaw $200 billion of DOE investments into companies and projects to accelerate the clean energy transition. During her tenure as secretary, thanks to the policies and laws she helped shape, the country saw record deployment of clean energy — adding the equivalent of nearly 30 Hoover Dams of zero-carbon energy to the nation’s electricity grid in 2024, more than twice as much solar power deployed as ever before. Due to incentives to manufacture in America, businesses announced almost 1,000 factories were coming or expanding in the U.S. to build clean energy products — solar panels, EVs, batteries, small nuclear reactors, clean hydrogen, geothermal, and more. Thanks to DOE’s work, the nation’s transmission grid is seeing an 11X expansion of new transmission miles.

During her tenure as secretary, DOE with its 110,000 employees was ranked among the top 10 best places to work in the federal government. Secretary Granholm was named in 2024 to the Time 100 Most Influential People list and Forbes’ list of top climate leaders.

Secretary Granholm serves on the board of Edison International and is the CEO of Granholm Energy LLC, advising businesses and organizations on clean energy solutions. She taught law and public policy at UC Berkeley from 2011-2020, specializing in clean energy and public leadership. A former attorney general of Michigan (1998-2002) and an honors graduate of Harvard Law School (1987), she is the author of “A Governor’s Story: The Fight for Jobs and America’s Economic Future,” has penned scores of articles and opinion pieces on clean energy and continues to play a leading role in shaping America’s energy future.