Past Speakers
Adam Gromis
Head of Sustainability Policy, Uber
Adam Klauber
Vice President Sustainability and ESG, World Energy
Alice Reynolds
President, California Public Utilities Commission
Amb. Eleni Kounalakis (RET.)
Lieutenant Governor of California
Ambassador Nina Hachigian
Special Representative for City and State Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State
Anne Smart
Vice President of Public Policy, ChargePoint
Beccie Drake
Offshore Wind Digital Lead, Arup
Beth Wytiaz
SVP, Net Zero Strategy Executive, Bank of America
Cathy S. Woollums
SVP, Chief Sustainability Officer, Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company
Chris Benjamin
Director, Corporate Sustainability, PG&E
Crystal Upperman, PhD
Senior Manager, Deloitte
Dan Krekelberg
Policy Director, The Climate Registry
Dana Mooney Davis
Assistant VP, Sustainability, Energy, Climate, WSP USA
Deborah January-Bevers
President and CEO, Houston Wilderness
Doreen M. Harris
President and CEO, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
Dr. Austin J. Shelton
Director, University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant
Dr. Idania Zamora
Program Manager, Climate Protection, Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD)
Dr. Natalie Suder Egnot
Managing Health Scientist and ESG Advisor, Stantec
Eddie Ahn
Executive Director, Brightline Defense
Elizabeth Babcock
Deputy Director, City and County of Denver's Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency
Elizabeth Beardsley, P.E.
Senior Policy Counsel, U.S. Green Building Council
Emily Cloke
His Majesty’s Consul General, British Consulate General, Los Angeles
Emily Pierce
VP, Global Regulatory Climate Disclosure, Persefoni
Emily Sanford Fisher
Executive Vice President, Clean Energy, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
Emily Wimberger, PhD
Managing Partner, Hua Nani Partners
Esther Sosa
Senior Advisor for Policy, IRA Implementation, Environmental Protection Agency
Gene Rodrigues
Assistant Secretary of Energy (Office of Electricity), U.S. Department of Energy
Governor Jay Inslee
State of Washington
Gwen S. Yamamoto-Lau
Executive Director, Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority
Heather Repenning
Executive Officer, Sustainability Policy, LA Metro
Heather Rosenberg
Associate Principal and Resilience Leader, Arup
James Lee
ESG Sourcing Manager, The Clorox Company
Janet Peace
Head of Advisory Services, Anew Climate
Jawaad Malik
Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, SoCalGas
Jennifer Phillips
Assistant Secretary, California Natural Resources Agency
Jessica Filante Farrington
Director, Global Environmental Sustainability, AT&T
Joe Baker
Senior Sustainability and ESG Reporting Specialist, IBM
John O. Niles
Natural Climate Solutions, Senior Manager, Salesforce
Joshua Tenorio
Lt. Governor, Guam
Josiah McClellan
Carbon Assets, Land O'Lakes Truterra
Julia Souder
Chief Executive Officer, Long Duration Energy Storage Council (LDESC)
Julia Pyper
Vice President of Public Affairs, GoodLeap
Karen Glitman
Senior Director, Distributed Energy Resources Program, Center for Sustainable Energy
Kate Gordon
Senior Advisor to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Department of Energy
Kathryn Zyla
Executive Director, Georgetown Climate Center
Kevin Davis
Director of Emerging Technologies, CarbonCure Technologies
Laurie Fitzmaurice
Business Development - Renewables & New Energies (Americas), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Luiz Barata
Waterfront Resilience Program Senior Planner, Port of San Francisco
M. Bernadette Bezy
U.S. Ecological Sciences Technical Discipline Leader, Stantec Consulting Inc.
Marian Van Pelt
Senior Vice President, Climate and Clean Energy + ICF Climate Center Senior Fellow
Matthew Cranford
Director, Pollination
Melissa Hoffer
Climate Chief, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Michael Jung
Executive Director, Climate Center, ICF
Michelle Passero
Director, Climate and Nature-based Solutions, The Nature Conservancy
Michelle Miano
Environmental Protection Division Director, New Mexico Environment Department
Michelle Thomas
Principal Manager, Building Electrification & Codes and Standards, Southern California Edison
Mitchell Toomey
Vice President of Sustainability and Responsible Care®, American Chemistry Council
Monique Oxender
Chief Sustainability Officer, Keurig Dr Pepper
Nancy Sutley
Deputy Mayor of Energy and Sustainability, Office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
Past Speaker: Alexia Kelly - Climate Leadership Conference
Climate Mitigation Expert, U.S. Department of State (2013)
Past Speaker: Alka Banerjee - Climate Leadership Conference
Managing Director, Product Management, S&P Dow Jones Indices (2015)
Past Speaker: Amy Francetic - Climate Leadership Conference
Senior Vice President, New Ventures and Corporate Affairs, Invenergy LLC (2017)
Past Speaker: Andrew Revkin - Climate Leadership Conference
Senior Reporter, Climate, ProPublica (2017)
Past Speaker: Andy Hoffman - Climate Leadership Conference
Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan (2020)
Past Speaker: Anna Pavlova - Climate Leadership Conference
Vice President Government Relations, Schneider Electric (2019)
Past Speaker: Ben Grumbles - Climate Leadership Conference
Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment (2018)
Past Speaker: Bernadette Woods-Placky - Climate Leadership Conference
Chief Meteorologist and Climate Matters Director, Climate Central (2019)
Past Speaker: Brian Deese - Climate Leadership Conference
Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor, White House (2015)
Past Speaker: Bruno Sarda - Climate Leadership Conference
Director, Sustainability Operations, Dell Technologies (2014)
Past Speaker: Carl Pope - Climate Leadership Conference
Vice Chairman, America’s Pledge (2019)
Past Speaker: Carol M. Browner - Climate Leadership Conference
Former EPA Administrator (2015)
Past Speaker: Catherine McKenna - Climate Leadership Conference
Minister of Environment & Climate Change, Canada (2018)
Past Speaker: Cathy Woollums - Climate Leadership Conference
Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Berkshire Hathaway Energy (2019)
Past Speaker: Chelsea Mozen - Climate Leadership Conference
Sustainability Lead, Etsy (2019)
Past Speaker: Chris Crane - Climate Leadership Conference
President and CEO, Exelon Corporation (2017)
Past Speaker: Chris Wheat - Climate Leadership Conference
Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Chicago (2017)
Past Speaker: Christine Kehoe - Climate Leadership Conference
Executive Director, California Electric Plug-in Vehicle Collaborative (2014)
Past Speaker: Dan Reicher - Climate Leadership Conference
Executive Director, Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University (2016)
Past Speaker: Danielle Azoulay - Climate Leadership Conference
Head of CSR and Sustainability, L’Oreal (2018)
Past Speaker: Deb Frodl - Climate Leadership Conference
Global Executive Director, GE's Ecomagination (2017)
Past Speaker: Diane Leopold - Climate Leadership Conference
Chief Operating Officer, Dominion Energy (2020)
Past Speaker: Dirk Forrister - Climate Leadership Conference
President & CEO, IETA (2015)
Past Speaker: Dr. Atyia Martin - Climate Leadership Conference
CEO, All Aces (2018)
Past Speaker: Dr. Georges Benjamin - Climate Leadership Conference
Executive Director, American Public Health Association (2019)
Past Speaker: Dr. Jalonne L. White-Newsome - Climate Leadership Conference
Senior Program Officer, Environment at The Kresge Foundation (2020)
Past Speaker: Ed Maibach - Climate Leadership Conference
Director, George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (2015)
Past Speaker: Edan Dionne - Climate Leadership Conference
Vice President, Corporate Environmental Affairs, IBM (2019)
Past Speaker: Edward B. Murray - Climate Leadership Conference
Mayor, City of Seattle (2016)
Past Speaker: Emilie Mazzacurati - Climate Leadership Conference
Founder and CEO, Four Twenty Seven (2017)
Past Speaker: Erin Meezan - Climate Leadership Conference
VP and Chief Sustainability Officer, Interface, Inc. (2020)
Past Speaker: Ethan Zindler - Climate Leadership Conference
Head of Americas at BloombergNEF (2020)
Past Speaker: Eugenia Gregorio - Climate Leadership Conference
Director of Corporate Responsibility, The Tower Companies (2015)
Past Speaker: Frank Senso - Climate Leadership Conference
Anchor and Washington Bureau Chief, CNN (1984-2009) and Director, George Washington University's School of Media & Public Affairs (2016)
Past Speaker: Gerry Anderson - Climate Leadership Conference
Chairman and CEO, DTE Energy (2018)
Past Speaker: Gina McCarthy - Climate Leadership Conference
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2016)
Past Speaker: Gwen Migita - Climate Leadership Conference
Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Citizenship, Caesars Entertainment (2016)
Past Speaker: Harriet Tregoning - Climate Leadership Conference
Director, Office of Economic Resilience, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2015)
Past Speaker: Harry Lamberton - Climate Leadership Conference
Vice President - Energy and Environmental Services, Waste Management (2016)
Past Speaker: Jairo Garcia - Climate Leadership Conference
Director, Climate Policy, City of Atlanta (2017)
Past Speaker: James Balog - Climate Leadership Conference
Founder and Director, Earth Vision Institute and Extreme Ice Survey (2017)
Past Speaker: James Chen - Climate Leadership Conference
Vice President of Public Policy, Rivian (2020)
Past Speaker: Jamie M. Gentoso - Climate Leadership Conference
Chief Executive Officer of US Cement Operations at LafargeHolcim (2020)
Past Speaker: Jenell Moffett - Climate Leadership Conference
Climate Protection, City of Austin (2013)
Past Speaker: Jerry Norcia - Climate Leadership Conference
President and CEO at DTE Energy (2020)
Past Speaker: Jewel James - Climate Leadership Conference
Vice President, Market Expansion & Policy, Renovate America, Inc. (2017)
Past Speaker: Jigar Shah - Climate Leadership Conference
President & Co-Founder, Generate Capital (2019)
Past Speaker: John Hickenlooper - Climate Leadership Conference
Governor of Colorado (2018)
Past Speaker: John Viera - Climate Leadership Conference
Global Director, Sustainability, Ford Motor Company (2013)
Past Speaker: Jonathan Powers - Climate Leadership Conference
Federal Environmental Executive, White House Council on Environmental Quality (2013)
Past Speaker: Katharine Hayhoe - Climate Leadership Conference
Director of the Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University (2018)
Past Speaker: Katherine Hammack - Climate Leadership Conference
Assistant Secretary, Installations, Energy & Environment, U.S. Army (2013)
Past Speaker: Kathy Baughman McLeod - Climate Leadership Conference
Director of The Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, The Atlantic Council (2020)
Past Speaker: Kelly Semrau - Climate Leadership Conference
Senior Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs, Communication & Sustainability, S.C. Johnson (2014)
Past Speaker: Kevin Bryan - Climate Leadership Conference
Senior Policy Director, Keystone Policy Center (2018)
Past Speaker: Kevin Rabinovitch - Climate Leadership Conference
Global Sustainability Director, Mars Incorporated (2016)
Past Speaker: Kim Cobb - Climate Leadership Conference
Georgia Power Chair | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences ADVANCE Professor | Director, Global Change Program at Georgia Institute of Technology (2020)
Past Speaker: Kim Jordan - Climate Leadership Conference
Co-Founder & Executive Chair, New Belgium Brewing (2018)
Past Speaker: Kimberly Hill-Knott - Climate Leadership Conference
Detroit Climate Action Collaborative/ Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (2017)
Past Speaker: Kyung-Ah Park - Climate Leadership Conference
Managing Director and Head of Environmental Markets at Goldman Sachs (2020)
Past Speaker: Larry Hogan - Climate Leadership Conference
Governor of Maryland (2019)
Past Speaker: Liesl Clark - Climate Leadership Conference
Director of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (2020)
Past Speaker: Lisa Jackson - Climate Leadership Conference
Vice President, Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, Apple (2017)
Past Speaker: Lisa Shibata - Climate Leadership Conference
Senior Manager, Corporate Citizenship, The Walt Disney Company (2017)
Past Speaker: Lou Hutchinson - Climate Leadership Conference
VP, Public Sector, Constellation (2013)
Past Speaker: Louise Bedsworth - Climate Leadership Conference
Deputy Director, California Office of Planning and Research (2014)
Past Speaker: Mandela Barnes - Climate Leadership Conference
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin (2020)
Past Speaker: Maria Vargas - Climate Leadership Conference
Director, DOE Better Buildings Challenge, U.S. Department of Energy (2015)
Past Speaker: Mary Nichols - Climate Leadership Conference
Chair, California Air Resources Board (2014)
Past Speaker: Matt Clouse - Climate Leadership Conference
Director, Renewable Energy Policy and Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2015)
Past Speaker: Matthew Rodriquez - Climate Leadership Conference
Secretary for Environmental Protection, California Environmental Protection Agency (2016)
Past Speaker: Michael Hancock - Climate Leadership Conference
Mayor, City of Denver, CO (2018)
Past Speaker: Michael Mann - Climate Leadership Conference
Distinguished Professor and Director, Earth System Science Center (ESSC), Penn State University (2014)
Past Speaker: Michael Regan - Climate Leadership Conference
Secretary, Department of Environmental Quality, North Carolina (2018)
Past Speaker: Mustafa Santiago Ali - Climate Leadership Conference
Senior Vice President of Climate, Environmental Justice & Community Revitalization, Hip Hop Caucus (2018)
Past Speaker: Naomi Oreskes - Climate Leadership Conference
Professor, History of Science, Harvard University and Author, Merchants of Doubt (2017)
Past Speaker: Nate Hurst - Climate Leadership Conference
Global Director of Environmental Progress, HP (2015)
Past Speaker: Patricia Espinosa - Climate Leadership Conference
Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2017)
Past Speaker: Patricia Fuller - Climate Leadership Conference
Canada’s Ambassador for Climate Change (2020)
Past Speaker: Projal Dutta - Climate Leadership Conference
Director, Sustainability Initiatives, New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (NYMTA) (2014)
Past Speaker: Rachel Kyte - Climate Leadership Conference
Dean of The Fletcher School, Tufts University (2020)
Past Speaker: Ray Mabus - Climate Leadership Conference
Secretary, U.S. Navy (2015)
Past Speaker: Rebecca Boudreaux - Climate Leadership Conference
President & Board Member, Oberon Fuels (2017)
Past Speaker: Rhea Suh - Climate Leadership Conference
President, National Resources Defense Council (2016)
Past Speaker: Richard Saines - Climate Leadership Conference
Partner, Head- North American Climate Change and Environmental Markets Practice, Baker McKenzie, LLP (2017)
Past Speaker: Rob Bernard - Climate Leadership Conference
Chief Environmental Strategist, Microsoft (2016)
Past Speaker: Robert Rubin - Climate Leadership Conference
Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary (2015)
Past Speaker: Scott Tew - Climate Leadership Conference
Executive Director, Center for Energy Efficiency & Sustainability, Ingersoll Rand (2019)
Past Speaker: Senator Debbie Stabenow - Climate Leadership Conference
U.S. Senator for Michigan (2020)
Past Speaker: Stephanie Rico - Climate Leadership Conference
Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Wells Fargo (2013)
Past Speaker: Steve Tochilin - Climate Leadership Conference
General Manager, Environmental Sustainability, Delta Airlines (2013)
Past Speaker: Suzanne Lindsay-Walker - Climate Leadership Conference
Chief Sustainability Officer at UPS (2020)
Past Speaker: Tim Mohin - Climate Leadership Conference
Senior Director, Corporate Responsibility, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (2016)
Past Speaker: TJ DiCaprio - Climate Leadership Conference
Global Director of Sustainability, Microsoft (2013)
Past Speaker: Tom Langan - Climate Leadership Conference
External Affairs Director, North America, Unilever (2014)
Past Speaker: Tom Steyer - Climate Leadership Conference
Retired Founder, Farallon Capital Management (2014)
Past Speaker: Vince Digneo - Climate Leadership Conference
Sustainability Strategist, Corporate Responsibility, Adobe (2018)
Past Speaker: Wayne Balta - Climate Leadership Conference
Vice President for Corporate Environmental Affairs, IBM (2014)
Past Speaker: William K. Reilly - Climate Leadership Conference
EPA Administrator, 1989-93 | Chairman Emeritus, World Wildlife Fund | CoChair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (2020)
Peter Weisberg
Director, Development, 3Degrees
Rebecca Foster
Chief Executive Officer, VEIC
Robert Kay
Americas Climate and Sustainability Services Leader, Principal, Arup
Roshini Das
Associate Director, Commercial Sustainability, Guidehouse
Saskia Feast
Managing Director, Global Client Solutions, Climate Impact Partners
Senator Henry Stern
California State Senate
Sharon Nolen
Program Manager & Fellow, Global Natural Resource Management, Eastman Chemical Company
Stephen Torres
Principal Manager, Climate Adaptation & Resilience Planning, Southern California Edison
Susan Joy Hassol
Director, Climate Communication
Suzanne Fallender
VP, Global ESG, Prologis
Suzanne MacDonald
Senior Researcher, Stakeholder Engagement, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Verena Radulavic
Vice President for Business Engagement, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES)
Zahirah Mann
President & Chief Executive Office, South Los Angeles Transit Empowerment Zone (SLATE-Z)