As the senior director of Sustainable Finance, Shelagh leads collaboration with philanthropic, public, and private sector partners to explore and scale climate-related finance strategies. Shelagh brings two decades of experience in sustainable finance, energy and carbon markets, including as a chief sustainability officer and the head of climate and energy programs. She holds a master’s from Tufts University.

Sneha is a cooling strategist and associate director for the Clean Cooling Collaborative. Sneha has worked at the nexus of built environment, energy efficiency, and sustainability for over 20 years. She brings deep knowledge of the cooling sector, a focus on emerging economies, and consulting experience for non-profits. Sneha holds a master’s from the University of South Carolina.

Jessica Hitt serves as the Associate Director of the Adaptation & Resilience program at ClimateWorks Foundation, where she focuses on mobilizing philanthropy to fund adaptation initiatives as well as growing ClimateWork’s adaptation strategy. With over 15 years of experience in climate adaptation, Jessica brings a wealth of expertise in assessing climate risks and vulnerabilities, prioritizing adaptation strategies, and building capacity to address climate impacts.

 

Prior to ClimateWorks, Jessica worked at Ogilvy as part of the Resilience Action Partners. She served as a principal technical consultant supporting FEMA’s strategic communications and integration of climate impacts into project design and implementation.  Before this, she was the Lead Scientist and Program Manager at EcoAdapt, a non-profit dedicated to climate adaptation, where she provided strategic support for various projects, trained adaptation practitioners, and facilitated knowledge sharing across sectors.  In this role, she was instrumental in developing and executing the first U.S. National Adaptation Forum, a bi-annual conference that has played a key role in advancing climate adaptation practices across the U.S. since 2012.

 

Jessica has advised and served on the United Nations Environment Program’s Global Adaptation Network (GAN) Steering Committee, the U.S. National Adaptation Forum’s Program Committee, the California Adaptation Forum’s General Advisory Committee, and the Interagency Land Management Adaptation Group.

Anna is an associate director for Aviation and has experience in decarbonizing the aviation sector along with climate action and climate policy analysis. Previously, she worked as a researcher for environmental non-profits and think tanks. Anna holds a master’s from the University of Ottawa.

Soojin is an associate director for Food and Agriculture. Soojin brings 17 years of international experience from the United Nations, the private sector, and non-profits. She’s been working in the intersections of climate and land use in agriculture and forestry, as well as energy, and continues to build collaborations in this space.

Scott brings over two decades of experience pioneering low-carbon and sustainable architectural design. As a strategist, Scott focuses on opportunities to reduce the carbon intensity of global building materials such as concrete, cement, and steel. Scott previously was a partner with EHDD Architecture and is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. He has an architectural degree from Auburn University, and master’s degrees from Stanford and the University of Chicago.

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