President & CEO
Asians in Energy founder, president and CEO Susie Y. Wong leads the national nonprofit organization to educate and outreach to Asian Pacific Islanders (API) on energy issues, policies and trends. She currently is a government affairs and public policy consultant advising state legislators, local elected officials, c-suite executives, and nonprofits on regulatory, permitting, licensing, and financing solutions. Earlier, as a former appointee for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration at the California Environmental Protection Agency, Wong was responsible for special projects and external messaging to implement AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requiring California to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions across communities and industry sectors. She also served as lead on API outreach for the governor’s office in Northern California. Wong formerly was deputy director of external affairs for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and deputy director of communications at the California Department of Corporations.
Her long-standing commitment to delivering positive impact to communities includes her volunteer work as member of Solar Power International and Energy Storage International Education Committee on managing growth, advisory board of Alliance for Climate Resistant California, member of FBI-sponsored Infragard’s energy sector, advisory board and past president of the Asian Pacific State Employees’ Association Foundation, founder and co-chair of the Sacramento Regional Coalition for Tolerance, and former member of the board of Asian American Journalists Association in Sacramento.