Amy Harder

Amy Harder is executive editor of Cipher, a news publication supported by Breakthrough Energy. She joined Breakthrough Energy in 2021 to help launch Cipher, which covers the opportunities and challenges of the energy transition. Previously, Harder was an energy and climate reporter for Axios, since its launch in 2017. She was the inaugural journalism fellow for the University of Chicago Energy Policy Institute for the 2018–2019 school year. Earlier in her career, she covered similar issues for The Wall Street Journal and National Journal. She has appeared on “PBS NewsHour,” CSPAN, MSNBC, CBS, and NPR, among others, and speaks at events around the world. Harder won the American Energy Society’s 2022 Energy Writer of the Year Award.