David R. Hill has more than 25 years of energy experience, both in the public and private sectors. He served as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy and also as DOE’s Deputy General Counsel for Energy Policy during the George W. Bush administration, where he was responsible for the Department’s legal matters and regulatory activity. While at DOE, he had significant involvement with DOE’s fossil and renewable energy programs, federal power marketing administrations, energy efficiency programs, loan guarantee program, and Strategic Petroleum Reserve. He served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of NRG Energy, Inc. and NRG Yield, Inc., where he was responsible for all legal, regulatory, government affairs, and environmental matters of those companies. He has been a partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C., where he was co-head of the firm’s energy practice, and a partner at Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C. Early in his career, he was an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, and associate counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture. Mr. Hill currently serves on the board of the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. where he is vice chairman and is a nonresident fellow with Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Journalism from the University of Missouri, and a Juris Doctor from the Northwestern University School of Law.