Power Lunch with Tanja Vujic

Current Duke students are invited to join a Power Lunch featuring Tatjana Vujic Founder of , with discussion to follow. Lunch will be provided.

Current Duke students are invited to join a Power Lunch featuring Tatjana "Tanja" Vujic, founder of Novi Strategies, with discussion to follow. Lunch will be provided.

Event capacity will be limited so that all attendees have the chance to introduce themselves, ask questions, and exchange ideas. Advance registration required. This Power Lunch is for current Duke students only.

A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE, so please register only if you are committed to attending. If your plans change, please cancel your registration so someone else can take part.

BIO

Vujic formed Novi Strategies in answer to the tremendous opportunity and challenge of finding viable solutions to climate change and evolving the energy system. For decades, Vujic has worked innovatively at the intersection of new markets, emerging technology, policy and regulation, and public-private partnerships to tackle some of the most pernicious environmental and climate issues of our day.

Vujic offers extensive experience across various disciplines and venues, with a special knack for knitting seemingly disparate groups and initiatives into cohesive solution pathways. She has developed groundbreaking programs for major academic and nonprofit institutions and businesses to help them achieve ambitious climate commitments, scale renewable energy and pollution control systems, and launch highly profitable new business streams.

Prior to Novi, Vujic was recruited to launch and co-chair Jenner & Block’s Transitions in Energy and Climate Solutions practice, where she focused on such topics as tax credits and funding mechanisms for emerging energy and technology development, environmental attribute generation, powerplant regulation, utility natural gas decarbonization, and agricultural project development. She also co-chaired the firm’s ESG practice, where she concentrated on the significance of social elements to environmental goals and climate risk.

Vujic founded Duke University’s Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative in 2009, a nationally recognized effort through which she designed and executed the University’s external GHG reduction strategy, with a special focus on pollution reduction measures that would improve community and environmental outcomes. At DCOI, she spearheaded full-scale proof-of-concept projects and wove together research, public funding, policy, market incentives, and public-private partnerships to make emission reduction solutions accessible. Her work at DCOI earned her an invitation to chair North Carolina’s Energy Policy Council in 2012. She has been an active member on state and national-level efforts focused on natural climate solutions, resilience, and renewable natural gas development. Related to international issues, she has held research and adjunct appointments at Duke University, was integral to developing the blueprint for what is now the Energy Access Project at Duke University, and started WasteNot Strategies to support foundations, various national nonprofits, and companies in fulfilling their renewable energy investment, GHG reduction, and environmental attribute monetization goals.

Vujic earned dual degrees in geology and geophysics and studies in theeEnvironment from Yale University and a J.D. with honors from The George Washington University. She clerked for the Honorable James C. Cacheris of the Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria Division) and worked in the U.S. EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance. In 2019 she was recognized as a U.S. Trailblazer by BioCycle Magazine and in 2020 served on the steering committee for the Resilience Roadmap project.

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