Julie Kozeracki is the Director of Strategy for the US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office, which has over $300B in loan authority for clean energy deployment. LPO provides attractive debt financing for high-impact, large-scale clean energy infrastructure projects in the United States, and has provided loan guarantees to Vogtle, the first new start-to-finish US nuclear power plant in 35 years, and a conditional commitment to Palisades, which would be the first restart of a closed nuclear power plant in the US. She leads the cross-DOE effort on Advanced Nuclear Pathways to Commercial Liftoff, a collaboration between LPO, the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, the Office of Technology Transitions, and the Office of Nuclear Energy. Prior to DOE, she was a Principal with the Boston Consulting Group, where she was a leader in the firm’s federal and operations practices. She holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School and a BA in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania.