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SandyNessing

Sandy Nessing

AEP
With 27 years in the utility industry and more than 30 years of communications expertise, Sandy Nessing has responsibility for leading corporate ESG/sustainability strategy and disclosure, stakeholder engagement and strategic initiatives for American Electric Power (AEP). She chairs AEP’s Enterprise Sustainability Council and Corporate ESG Committee and serves on the Company’s Risk and Resilience Subcommittee. In 2023 she was named to Sustainability Magazine’s Top 100 Women in Sustainability.

She oversees corporate initiatives on climate change, environmental and social justice, political engagement, and Just Transition. In partnership with AEP’s Finance team, Nessing helped to craft AEP’s Sustainable Finance Framework, combining green bonds with social bonds to support the company’s clean energy transition. Through the Framework the company secured $1.45 billion in green bonds to support its largest wind energy facilities, now serving customers in three states.

Nessing is active with the Electric Power Research Institute’s sustainability-related initiatives. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) ESG/Sustainability Committee, and on EEI’s Customer Solutions Sustainability Subcommittee.

She currently serves as Chair of the Franklin Park Conservatory Board of Trustees, one of the nation’s premier botanical gardens located in Columbus, Ohio. She serves on the Board of Directors of Datamaran, the world’s only data-driven platform to identify and monitor material ESG risks and opportunities (AEP is an investor in Datamaran). She is Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors for NAEM, a national organization for environment, safety & health, and sustainability professionals. She is a member of Chief, a private network for executive women to strengthen their leadership and magnify their influence while paving the way for others. She has also been a long-time Executive Sponsor of the Ohio Chapter of the Women’s International Network of Utility Professionals (WiNUP).

She is a graduate of Briarwood College and DeVry University and completed Sustainable Capitalism & ESG Online, an executive certification program from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She lives in Westerville, Ohio.