Emma Stewart, Ph.D. is chief scientist of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) where she works to expand the leadership of NRECA and electric co-ops in the scientific and engineering communities. She leads the Business & Technology Strategies team to further advance research into grid resilience and reliability, transmission and distribution, cybersecurity and more. Dr. Stewart most recently served as Associate Program Leader, Defense Infrastructure, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. She also managed the Grid Integration Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, led the distribution planning, modeling and analysis consulting group at BEW Engineering, a DNV Company, and performed research on hydrogen fuel cells and other hydrogen programs at Sandia National Laboratory. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Master of Engineering degree from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.