Larisa Dobriansky

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Larisa Dobriansky is an environmental lawyer who spearheaded the lobbying and government action against the ratification of the Kyoto Treaty. She is currently (2005) Assistant Secretary for National Eergy Policy at the Department of Energy – in which capacity sheâ??s charged with managing the departmentâ??s Office of Climate Change Policy. She graduated from Georgetown Law School, and since then her career has been on/off in government (mostly Dept. of Energy) and with major lawfirms. Her sister is Paula Dobriansky, and her father Lev E. Dobriansky, a Reagan era U.S. Ambassador to various overseas posts.

1 From Working for Exxon to the U.S. Government
2 Affiliations
3 Resources

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From Working for Exxon to the U.S. Government

Even while in government she continued to lobby for Exxon. As Chris Mooney summarizes her role:

Larisa Dobriansky, currently the deputy assistant secretary for national energy policy at the Department of Energy -- in which capacity she's charged with managing the department's Office of Climate Change Policy -- was previously a lobbyist with the firm Akin Gump, where she worked on climate change for ExxonMobil.^[1]

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