Biography
Lisa DeMarco is a Senior Partner and CEO at Resilient LLP and recognized as a Canadian and global expert in climate and energy law. She has over 25 years of experience in law, regulation, policy, and advocacy relating to all aspects of climate change and clean energy.
Lisa also assists leading financial and energy companies and Indigenous
business organizations on domestic and overseas renewable power project development, energy storage projects, sustainable and climate finance transactions, carbon capture and storage, climate related financial disclosure, corporate climate risk, environmental and social governance (ESG), green bonds, and sustainable business strategy.
Lisa plays an active role for Fortune 500 companies in corporate ESG, climate change, transition strategy, target setting, and compliance. Lisa also represents several governments and leading energy companies in a wide variety of natural gas, power, pipeline, and energy storage matters
before the Ontario Energy Board and the National Energy Board.
Lisa was recently elected Chair of the International Emissions Trading Association, is a director of the boards of the Advanced Energy Centre at MarRS and Radicle Inc. and was a member of the consultation group of the Task Force on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets. She is ranked by
Chambers Global as one of the world’s leading climate change lawyers and regularly attends United Nations climate negotiations.
She has been an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, is a guest lecturer at a number of law schools, and presents regularly on the topics of climate change, ESG, and emissions trading.