Energy Policy and Energy Careers – Lunch Talk with California Energy Commission Chief Counsel Sanjay Ranchod (SLS ‘01)
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Stanford’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program, Climate and Energy Policy Program (CEPP), and the Environmental Law Society are hosting a lunch discussion with Sanjay Ranchod, SLS ‘01 alum and Chief Counsel for the California Energy Commission (CEC). If you are interested in energy policy and private and public sector energy careers, join us!
Ranchod will talk about what the CEC does and how it fits into California’s larger energy policymaking/decisionmaking apparatus, as well as the role of the CEC’s Chief Counsel’s office. He will also discuss his career path and how someone who’s interested in energy work may get into it, what the market for budding energy lawyers might look like over the next five or so years, and how people might get into this work.
Ranchod has more than a decade of experience in legal and policy leadership roles at clean energy companies, including SolarCity, Tesla, and OhmConnect. He joined the CEC from Renew Home, where he was the chief legal officer. He previously represented large-scale renewable energy project developers and other businesses as an attorney at Paul Hastings. Ranchod began his legal career working on complex litigation matters and served as a law clerk to Jeremy Fogel when he was a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California.
Ranchod was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, where he served as a commissioner for seven years. He has also served on a federal advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health and on the boards of several nonprofit organizations.
Ranchod earned his JD from Stanford Law School and graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. After college, he was a California Senate Fellow for the Office of State Senator Byron Sher, where he first worked on California energy law and policy.
Sponsored by: Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program, Climate and Energy Policy Program, and Environmental Law Society