Speakers
Past Speakers
We thank these climate advocates, among many more, from across diverse sectors and regions who have
lent their voices to the Climate Leadership audience over the past 10 years.

Alexia Kelly
Climate Mitigation Expert, U.S. Department of State (2013)

Alka Banerjee
Managing Director, Product Management, S&P Dow Jones Indices (2015)

Amy Francetic
Senior Vice President, New Ventures and Corporate Affairs, Invenergy LLC (2017)

Andrew Revkin
Senior Reporter, Climate, ProPublica (2017)

Andy Hoffman
Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan (2020)

Anna Pavlova
Vice President Government Relations, Schneider Electric (2019)

Ben Grumbles
Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment (2018)

Bernadette Woods-Placky
Chief Meteorologist and Climate Matters Director, Climate Central (2019)

Brian Deese
Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor, White House (2015)

Bruno Sarda
Director, Sustainability Operations, Dell Technologies (2014)

Carl Pope
Vice Chairman, America’s Pledge (2019)

Carol M. Browner
Former EPA Administrator (2015)

Catherine McKenna
Minister of Environment & Climate Change, Canada (2018)

Cathy Woollums
Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Berkshire Hathaway Energy (2019)

Chelsea Mozen
Sustainability Lead, Etsy (2019)

Chris Crane
President and CEO, Exelon Corporation (2017)

Chris Wheat
Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Chicago (2017)

Christine Kehoe
Executive Director, California Electric Plug-in Vehicle Collaborative (2014)

Dan Reicher
Executive Director, Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University (2016)

Danielle Azoulay
Head of CSR and Sustainability, L’Oreal (2018)

Deb Frodl
Global Executive Director, GE's Ecomagination (2017)

Diane Leopold
Chief Operating Officer, Dominion Energy (2020)

Dirk Forrister
President & CEO, IETA (2015)

Dr. Atyia Martin
CEO, All Aces (2018)

Dr. Georges Benjamin
Executive Director, American Public Health Association (2019)

Dr. Jalonne L. White-Newsome
Senior Program Officer, Environment at The Kresge Foundation (2020)

Ed Maibach
Director, George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (2015)

Edan Dionne
Vice President, Corporate Environmental Affairs, IBM (2019)

Edward B. Murray
Mayor, City of Seattle (2016)

Emilie Mazzacurati
Founder and CEO, Four Twenty Seven (2017)

Erin Meezan
VP and Chief Sustainability Officer, Interface, Inc. (2020)

Ethan Zindler
Head of Americas at BloombergNEF (2020)

Eugenia Gregorio
Director of Corporate Responsibility, The Tower Companies (2015)

Frank Senso
Anchor and Washington Bureau Chief, CNN (1984-2009) and Director, George Washington University's School of Media & Public Affairs (2016)

Gerry Anderson
Chairman and CEO, DTE Energy (2018)

Gina McCarthy
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2016)

Gwen Migita
Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Citizenship, Caesars Entertainment (2016)

Harriet Tregoning
Director, Office of Economic Resilience, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2015)

Harry Lamberton
Vice President - Energy and Environmental Services, Waste Management (2016)

Jairo Garcia
Director, Climate Policy, City of Atlanta (2017)

James Balog
Founder and Director, Earth Vision Institute and Extreme Ice Survey (2017)

James Chen
Vice President of Public Policy, Rivian (2020)

Jamie M. Gentoso
Chief Executive Officer of US Cement Operations at LafargeHolcim (2020)

Jenell Moffett
Climate Protection, City of Austin (2013)

Jerry Norcia
President and CEO at DTE Energy (2020)

Jewel James
Vice President, Market Expansion & Policy, Renovate America, Inc. (2017)

Jigar Shah
President & Co-Founder, Generate Capital (2019)

John Hickenlooper
Governor of Colorado (2018)

John Viera
Global Director, Sustainability, Ford Motor Company (2013)

Jonathan Powers
Federal Environmental Executive, White House Council on Environmental Quality (2013)

Katharine Hayhoe
Director of the Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University (2018)

Katherine Hammack
Assistant Secretary, Installations, Energy & Environment, U.S. Army (2013)

Kathy Baughman McLeod
Director of The Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, The Atlantic Council (2020)

Kelly Semrau
Senior Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs, Communication & Sustainability, S.C. Johnson (2014)

Kevin Bryan
Senior Policy Director, Keystone Policy Center (2018)

Kevin Rabinovitch
Global Sustainability Director, Mars Incorporated (2016)

Kim Cobb
Georgia Power Chair | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences ADVANCE Professor | Director, Global Change Program at Georgia Institute of Technology (2020)

Kim Jordan
Co-Founder & Executive Chair, New Belgium Brewing (2018)

Kimberly Hill-Knott
Detroit Climate Action Collaborative/ Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (2017)

Kyung-Ah Park
Managing Director and Head of Environmental Markets at Goldman Sachs (2020)

Larry Hogan
Governor of Maryland (2019)

Liesl Clark
Director of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (2020)

Lisa Jackson
Vice President, Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, Apple (2017)

Lisa Shibata
Senior Manager, Corporate Citizenship, The Walt Disney Company (2017)

Lou Hutchinson
VP, Public Sector, Constellation (2013)

Louise Bedsworth
Deputy Director, California Office of Planning and Research (2014)

Mandela Barnes
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin (2020)

Maria Vargas
Director, DOE Better Buildings Challenge, U.S. Department of Energy (2015)

Mary Nichols
Chair, California Air Resources Board (2014)

Matt Clouse
Director, Renewable Energy Policy and Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2015)

Matthew Rodriquez
Secretary for Environmental Protection, California Environmental Protection Agency (2016)

Michael Hancock
Mayor, City of Denver, CO (2018)

Michael Mann
Distinguished Professor and Director, Earth System Science Center (ESSC), Penn State University (2014)

Michael Regan
Secretary, Department of Environmental Quality, North Carolina (2018)

Mustafa Santiago Ali
Senior Vice President of Climate, Environmental Justice & Community Revitalization, Hip Hop Caucus (2018)

Naomi Oreskes
Professor, History of Science, Harvard University and Author, Merchants of Doubt (2017)

Nate Hurst
Global Director of Environmental Progress, HP (2015)

Patricia Espinosa
Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2017)

Patricia Fuller
Canada’s Ambassador for Climate Change (2020)

Projal Dutta
Director, Sustainability Initiatives, New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (NYMTA) (2014)

Rachel Kyte
Dean of The Fletcher School, Tufts University (2020)

Ray Mabus
Secretary, U.S. Navy (2015)

Rebecca Boudreaux
President & Board Member, Oberon Fuels (2017)

Rhea Suh
President, National Resources Defense Council (2016)

Richard Saines
Partner, Head- North American Climate Change and Environmental Markets Practice, Baker McKenzie, LLP (2017)

Rob Bernard
Chief Environmental Strategist, Microsoft (2016)

Robert Rubin
Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary (2015)

Scott Tew
Executive Director, Center for Energy Efficiency & Sustainability, Ingersoll Rand (2019)

Senator Debbie Stabenow
U.S. Senator for Michigan (2020)

Stephanie Rico
Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Wells Fargo (2013)

Steve Tochilin
General Manager, Environmental Sustainability, Delta Airlines (2013)

Suzanne Lindsay-Walker
Chief Sustainability Officer at UPS (2020)

Tim Mohin
Senior Director, Corporate Responsibility, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (2016)

TJ DiCaprio
Global Director of Sustainability, Microsoft (2013)

Tom Langan
External Affairs Director, North America, Unilever (2014)

Tom Steyer
Retired Founder, Farallon Capital Management (2014)

Vince Digneo
Sustainability Strategist, Corporate Responsibility, Adobe (2018)

Wayne Balta
Vice President for Corporate Environmental Affairs, IBM (2014)

William K. Reilly
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)