As NGSA’s President and CEO, Dena Wiggins leads efforts to advance the natural gas industry’s economic and environmental agenda with NGSA member companies, regulators, legislators and other key stakeholders.
Dena has spent much of her professional career engaged in representing producer/marketers before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). She has testified before FERC on policy matters pending before the Commission and has been involved in every major natural gas rulemaking since Order No. 436. She frequently speaks with key Hill and White House staff, NARUC and other policymakers on the importance and benefits of natural gas use, supply and competitive markets.
She represents NGSA at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and chairs the CFTC’s Energy and Environmental Matters Advisory Committee, which explores the relationship between infrastructure constraints and natural gas markets.
Dena currently serves on the Board of the National Association of Manufacturer’s Council of Manufacturing Associations; on the Board of the British-American Business Association; on the Advisory Council of New Mexico State University’s Center for Public Utilities; and a member of the Council Group of the American Bar Association’s Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section.
Previous to NGSA, she was a partner in the law firm of Ballard Spahr and served as General Counsel to the Process Gas Consumers Group. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Richmond and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.