Jenny Dissen

Ms. Dissen is a graduate of North Carolina State University, where she earned her Masters in Civil Engineering - Environmental Systems Analysis, and Bachelors in Environmental Engineering, with a minor in Business Management. Ms. Dissen specializes in management consulting and project management in both public and private sector. Starting with a career at Accenture, Ms. Dissen was a member of the High Performance Asset Management Team for their North American Utilities Practice. She specialized in performance optimization in utility operations and deployment of large-scale business transformation initiatives through process improvement and technology enablement. Her project expertise encompassed: 1) electric and gas utilities asset management; 2) capital program planning; 3) helping clients optimize capital and O&M spending to improve the value of assets through the use of technologies and integrating finance; and 4) operations and engineering applications. She supported the development of a new practice in Climate Change and Sustainability at Accenture, where she developed a new project offering in Sustainability Solutions for clients.

To further her interests in studying climate change and sustainability, Ms. Dissen served as Regional Coordinator in Southeast Asia for the William J. Clinton Foundation in their Clinton Climate Initiative. She was responsible for analyzing and evaluating various waste management alternatives across Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia, and for developing technical and financially feasible projects that helped to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Ms. Dissen joined CICS-NC in October 2010. She is the Director of the Summer Institute on Climate Change and supports the Director of CICS on Climate Literacy initiatives.