Kristina L. Costa

Kristina Costa is a nonresident fellow with the Hamilton Project and is the managing director for policy and strategic engagement at the University of Chicago Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth. Until January 2025, Costa served as deputy assistant to the president and director of the Office of Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation in the Biden White House, where she was responsible for managing the successful implementation of the clean energy and climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. Costa managed a lean White House team and an interagency process that saw guidance issued on 23 clean energy tax provisions, obligated more than $98 billion in federal grants, and spurred more than $450 billion in private-sector clean energy investment. Prior to her White House role, Costa was senior advisor and speechwriter to Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. She also served in the Obama White House, in the United States Senate, and on presidential campaigns, and was previously a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Costa is a graduate of Wellesley College and the McCourt School for Public Policy at Georgetown University, where she was a McCourt Scholar.