Ms. Majida Mourad is the Chief of Staff & Senior Vice President - Federal Government Relations at Tellurian Inc., a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) company. Before joining Tellurian, she served as Vice President of Government Relations at Cheniere Energy, where she was instrumental in helping the company receive the first US LNG export permit in the lower 48. Prior to Cheniere, Ms. Mourad was the President of Abraham & Roetzel LLC, and a Partner of The Abraham Group LLC, a strategic consulting firm focused on the international energy sector with the former Secretary of Energy, Spencer Abraham.
From January 2001 until February 2005, Ms. Mourad served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, focusing on the United States Department of Energy international relations efforts. She represented the Department at summits throughout the world, including: the North American Initiative, the G8 Energy Ministerial Conferences, the Western Hemispheric and US-African Energy Ministerial Conferences, as well as numerous other initiatives. She also served as one of the Department’s senior officials for the Liquefied Natural Gas Summit, the International Partnership for a Hydrogen Economy, and the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum.
Ms. Mourad began her career on Capitol Hill working for the late Congressman Sonny Bono and then his successor, Congresswoman Mary Bono. Following her time in the House of Representatives, Ms. Mourad transitioned to the Senate to serve Senator Spencer Abraham.
Ms. Mourad is a member of the Board of the United States Energy Association and the Atlantic Council, as well as the National Energy Resources Organization, the Advisory Board for the Association of Former Members of Congress, and the Executive Committee of the Corporate Council for Meridian. She also serves on the Board of the Ohio Governor’s Imagination Library.