Laura Fischer is a Senior Team Leader Leader at EPRI. At EPRI, Ms. Fischer leads research on climate impacts and resiliency in the context of the electric power sector. She is the lead for Physical Climate Data and Guidance in EPRI's Climate Resilience and Adaptation Initiative (READi) and serves as an Author for the Adaptation chapter and Technical Contributor for the Energy chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment. She manages EPRI's Exploring Climate Impacts in Utility Operations and Planning Interest Group, a multi-company collaborative forum for sharing leading practices on identifying and assessing physical climate risk to the power sector.
Ms. Fischer holds a Master of Science with Distinction in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Georgetown University. Her dissertation at Oxford explored the relevance of extreme weather event attribution to long-term planning for disaster risk reduction.