Avi Zevin is a partner at Roselle LLP, where he advises businesses, NGOs, and state governments on a wide range of energy-related legal and policy matters, including federal and state electric regulation, energy tax, and federal financial assistance before federal and state agencies, Congress, and the courts.
Prior to forming Roselle, Avi served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Clean Energy Implementation, working to advance policies and programs— that facilitate the transition to a carbon-free, reliable, and cost-effective energy system. Avi was a day-one Biden Administration appointee at the United States Department of Energy, where he served as the Principal Deputy General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel for Energy Policy, advising the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Energy and the Department’s senior leadership on legal and policy matters and helping lead all aspects of the Office of General Counsel.
Prior to his recent federal service, Avi worked with a major technology company to help develop federal energy policy strategy to achieve 24/7 carbon-free energy procurement goals, and was a senior attorney and affiliated scholar at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law. Avi started his legal career as an attorney at the law firm Van Ness Feldman LLP.
Avi holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law, an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A., with high honors, from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and daughter and plays drums in the DC punk rock band Weird Babies.