Soo Jin Kim

Soo Jin Kim is the vice president of Engineering and Standards. In this role, she is responsible for providing engineering analysis and support for NERC activities and directing all aspects of NERC’s continent-wide standards development process by providing oversight, guidance, coordination, and industry education around the development of Reliability Standards.
Throughout her time at NERC, Ms. Kim has worked on numerous initiatives involving Standards,
Compliance, and coordination across the ERO Enterprise. She joined NERC in 2012 as a standards
developer and has since served as reliability manager and senior manager of Standards. From 2020 to 2023, she served as director of Power Risk Issues and Strategic Management (PRISM) where she transformed the group into a cross-cutting department that serves as technical advisors to other NERC functions. Under her leadership, PRISM initiated several projects to tackle energy assurance risks, particularly those addressing extreme weather challenges. Most notably, her team was instrumental in the formation of the Energy Reliability Assessment Task Force and the efforts to provide the technical support for registering new inverter-based resources. She also works with the Reliability Issues Steering Committee, and she was an integral leader in planning and executing the 2023 NERC Leadership Summit.
Prior to joining NERC, Ms. Kim was an associate at Troutman Sanders LLP in Washington, D.C. in their Energy Practice. At Troutman Sanders, she worked on a variety of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission compliance matters. Prior to attending law school, she was a consultant/business analyst with various consulting firms focused on energy and commodity trading.
Ms. Kim has a bachelor’s degree in Economics and English from the University of Georgia and her juris doctor degree from American University, Washington College of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Georgia and Washington, D.C. She also served for five years on the board of the Women’s Energy Network and as co-president for two of those years.