Rose McKinney-James has experience in environmental business and technology policy, renewable and clean energy advocacy, and sustainable development.
Ms McKinney-James directed the Department of Business and Industry (Nevada's state agency) and was chief executive of CSTRR, a solar and renewable energy company.
She also has over two decades of service as a public company director and has been a board member of MGM Resorts International since 2005, and chair of non-profit organisation Energy Foundation.