Suriya Jayanti is the CEO of SMR development company Denetek LLC, and the co-founder and managing director of Eney, a US-Ukrainian decarbonization company. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the Vice Chair of the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s Group of Experts on Renewable Energy, and serves as energy transition counsel at the US Department of Commerce, where she advises foreign governments on how to formulate and implement their energy transition strategies. Before starting Eney, she served as a US diplomat with the US Department of State. As well as assignments in Kuwait, the Bahamas, Iraq, and Washington, DC, she served as the US energy, cybersecurity, environment, science, technology, and health chief in Kyiv, Ukraine, followed by a stint covering telecommunications policy in EB/CIP. Before her diplomatic career, she worked as an attorney in the Brussels office of Hunton & Williams, and for Donahue & Goldberg in Washington, DC. She clerked for Chief Judge Eric Washington of the DC Court of Appeals.
Suriya has contributed to multiple textbooks and published in such venues as the Atlantic Council, TIME, the Globalist, and the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), as well as in law reviews at Georgetown, Rutgers, and American Universities, among others.
Originally from Los Angeles, she holds an undergraduate degree from Claremont McKenna College, a law degree from American University, and an LLM from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where she is also completing a PhD focused on the saga of Nord Stream 2.