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Hadia Sheerazi

Hadia Sheerazi

Senior Fellow
Constructive
I've helped organize major conferences, designed concept notes, developed moderation scripts for panels & fireside chats, and I've convened and co-hosted over three dozen high-level conferences, summits, roundtables and fireside chats, including sessions with C-suite leaders at Data Center World, DCD>Connect, Decarb Summits, and multiple engagements with Reuters Events, along with high-level energy, infrastructure and decarbonization convenings at NY Climate Week, D.C. Climate Week, America is All In, World Hydrogen North America, and Intersolar NorthAm Summit. As a subject matter expert, I've contributed as a thought leader to numerous webinars, workshops, roundtables and panels for Columbia Climate School, RMI, the Mission Possible Partnership, the United Nations, World Bank etc. 
I'm currently a Senior Fellow at Constructive, supporting strategic programming, partnerships, and stakeholder engagement for catalytic initiatives across decarbonization, energy storage, nuclear, critical minerals and the responsible deployment of critical infrastructure, including data centers. 

As an award-winning scholar-practitioner, I bring deep technical experience across the core issues shaping the next generation of data center development: de-risking siting and permitting processes by securing the social license for first-of-a-kind and commercial scale critical infrastructure through proactive and meaningful community outreach,  education and engagement for the responsible deployment of energy- and water-intensive projects across the U.S. and globally. 

 
I've also been invited to serve on expert committees and working groups convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the New York City Panel on Climate Change.
 

My approach is deeply place-based and focused on capacity-building for developers to improve transparency, accessibility of technical and policy information, acknowledgement of known and uncertain risks across project lifecycles, and creating opportunities for host communities and other stakeholders to help co-design benefits that respond to local priorities, economic ambitions, and quality-of-life goals. My data-driven methodology has delivered successful results across sectors and geographies around the U.S. and globally, and has highly replicable and scalable lessons for the data center industry which is encountering the same set of social license challenges as renewables, decarbonization, and other types of critical infrastructure. I'm also the lead author of RMI’s most widely read report of 2024 on best practices for meaningful community engagement and designed a first-of-its-kind digital stakeholder analysis and mapping tool - S.A.M. - in use by over 2,000 practitioners in more than 10 countries. 

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