Lauren Boyd leads the efforts of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Geothermal (OG) to improve performance, reduce costs, and accelerate deployment of geothermal technologies. In this role, Lauren is responsible for geothermal research, development, and demonstration and champions OG’s partnerships with industry, academia, the DOE national laboratories, and others to increase geothermal deployment and advance geothermal as an economically competitive and widely available part of the U.S. energy supply.  Prior to becoming director, Lauren served as OG’s senior advisor, providing technical expertise and input on matters across the Office’s portfolio. She also spent more than a decade leading OG’s enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) program, where she was instrumental in spearheading and launching DOE’s flagship EGS research site, the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE).