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April 18, 2025 • 10:00 am - 11:00 am edt

Ukraine Peace Talks: How Energy is Taking Center Stage

Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA for a rapid response briefing with Kadri Simson, CGEP Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute of Global Politics Carnegie Distinguished Fellow,...

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Ukraine Peace Talks: How Energy is Taking Center Stage

Kassia Yanosek

Managing Director, Bechtel Enterprises

Biography

Kassia Yanosek is Managing Director of Bechtel Enterprises, where she leads Bechtel’s global partnerships with private capital funds. Her responsibilities also include driving new financings and commercial opportunities in collaboration with Bechtel’s Energy and Manufacturing & Technology global business units.

Ms. Yanosek has 25 years of experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors, with expertise spanning strategy, capital projects, and principal investing. Before re-joining Bechtel in September 2024, she was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where she was a leader in the firm’s global energy platform and co-led its global energy private equity practice. In 2019, Ms. Yanosek founded Advancing Women Executives, a McKinsey initiative aimed at accelerating the number of women CEOs in the energy sector and other underrepresented industries.

Prior to her time at McKinsey, Ms. Yanosek founded Tana Energy Capital, an energy investment and advisory firm, and worked as an investment professional at Hudson Clean Energy Partners, one of the first renewable energy infrastructure private equity funds. She also held roles at bp Plc and began her career in project finance at Bechtel. In 2005, she served as an energy advisor at the White House National Economic Council.

Ms. Yanosek holds a BA in government from the University of Virginia, an MBA from Stanford University, and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of Advancing Women Executives. Ms. Yanosek resides in Houston with her husband and four children.

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