Isabel Munilla is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Market Development, Climate and Multilateral Engagement within the Office of International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. She oversees the Office of International Market Development and the Office of Multilateral Engagement. The Office of Market Development drives deployment of U.S. energy technologies to international markets, while building supply chain resilience and enhancing U.S. competitiveness in global energy markets, in order to create jobs and promote energy security. The office covers international trade issues, including critical minerals and materials, market standards, foreign direct investment and supports DOE bilateral engagements. The Office of Multilateral Engagement leads the Department’s participation in international fora including the G7, G20, the International Energy Agency, Mission Innovation (MI), the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), and others. The office amplifies U.S. energy policy positions, developing and implementing multilateral energy initiatives, partnerships, and relationships to support DOE’s mission to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges. Isabel currently serves as the United States representative to MI and CEM.

Prior to DOE, Isabel served as Director of U.S. Financial Regulation for the Ceres Capital Markets Accelerator, an initiative of the sustainability nonprofit, Ceres, leading legal and regulatory strategy with U.S. financial regulators to address climate financial risk. She worked with investors, companies and civil society stakeholders to evaluate evolving market expectations of corporate performance on physical and transition risks, including GHG exposure. Prior to Ceres, she was Lead, Transparency Policy for global oil, gas and mining for humanitarian organization Oxfam, focusing on upstream project economics, regulation and standards for contract, tax and payment transparency, and methane abatement. She led engagement with industry and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Previously, she served as Director of Publish What You Pay United States, the US chapter of a global coalition, leading strategy on U.S. legislation and securities regulation, corporate engagement and assessing best practice in transparency norms and regulations.

Previously, Isabel worked for a decade at the World Resources Institute managing projects on global and national norms and standards around oil, gas, mining and forestry projects, with a focus on indigenous rights, land tenure and systems public and private finance. She began her career at the University of Maryland R.H. Smith School of Business, as the Corporate Relations Manager for the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. She holds degrees in Journalism and French from the University of Maryland, College Park.