Aimée has worked at the intersections of environment, human rights, and development for nearly two decades, gaining diverse perspectives from her time in government, in the private sector, and with non-governmental organizations. She is currently applying her experience in law, policy, philanthropy, and communications to providing practical guidance to clients in all sectors who are seeking to contribute to solving the global challenges of climate change and wider ecosystem degradation and resource scarcity. She believes that addressing these issues is critical to our global stability, equity, health, and true prosperity, and that we are in a time when the technologies, information, and motivation are available to make incredible progress toward this better future. ... Read More
Previously, Aimée worked with Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, where she developed strategy, guided early initiatives, and built the team working on global warming and its broader relationship to poverty, development, and public health. She worked closely with Google's Greenteam to develop the corporate climate strategy including a commitment to carbon neutrality and advocate for adoption of a "shadow price" for carbon. In 2005, Aimée served as a full time consultant to the World Bank's Legal Department, advising the Bank's Carbon Finance Business. In 2003 and 2004, she was Executive Director of Environment2004, informing the American public about the impact of federal environmental policy on health, the economy, and quality of life. Immediately prior, Aimée practiced law with Baker & McKenzie, advising clients on energy and environmental transactions and compliance as well as legislative strategies. She also worked on trade and environmental issues for the International Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development in Geneva, opening understanding between governments and activists at a time of increasing challenge to the global trading framework and globalization itself. From 1994 to 1998, Aimée developed and executed Latin American energy policy at the U.S. Department of Energy, including negotiating the Summit of the Americas energy agenda and the first bilateral and regional agreements on climate change, and serving as energy advisor for Presidential engagement with Latin America. She has been named an "Emerging Leader" by the New Leaders Council, and at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aimée was elected to represent "U.S. Youth at Rio", introducing then Senator Al Gore before the Global Forum, and calling for greater U.S. leadership toward a shared vision of a healthier, safer, more equitable future.
Aimée has appeared on NPR, Fox News, McLaughlin: One on One, Salon.com, and Grist Magazine; and she served as a panelist for America's Town Hall on energy moderated by Governor Jennifer Granholm (MI) at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (and member of the Council's Independent Task Force on Climate Change), a member of Newsweek's Global Environmental Leadership Advisory Board, and of the Advisory Boards of EKO Asset Management Partners, Sustainable Endowments Institute, Vote Solar, and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. She is a Board member of the American Council on Renewable Energy, ecoAmerica, and the National Association of Environmental Law Societies. She received her B.A. from Smith College and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she wrote and led efforts to obtain the adoption by Stanford's Board of Trustees of the "Climate Change and Investment Responsibility Policy" that governs Stanford's investments to this day.
David brings ten years of experience in public policy development and strategic planning around international and domestic environmental issues. He has worked in government, political campaigns and the philanthropic sector.
David served for two years in the Clinton White House as the Special Assistant for Policy to the President’s senior adviser on environmental issues. In that capacity he helped coordinate the work of various federal agencies and White House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives. He then worked on the policy staff of Governor Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, and subsequently for Senator Barack Obama, first as Deputy Policy Director for Obama's senate campaign and then as a member of his transition staff helping to establish office-wide best practices and internal communications systems. ... Read More
Most recently, David served as Chief of Staff at the MacArthur Foundation where he worked on special projects that cut across the foundation’s domestic and international programs, managed implementation of the President's long-term vision, and monitored operations. He had previously served as the Director of Program Operations in the Foundation’s international program, where he coordinated the activities of MacArthur’s four international offices and its headquarters staff in Chicago.
David earned his M.S. in International Development Management from the London School of Economics, and his B.S. from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources.
Dee has more than ten years of experience in strategic planning, program management, and communications in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. As a consultant, Dee works with corporations and consulting firms on projects around sustainability, corporate responsibility, philanthropy, and developing and managing partnerships.
Dee has a background in international development and conservation, combined with experience working with international corporations on corporate responsibility and sustainability issues. Previous projects include managing a corporate responsibility campaign for United Technologies and developing water conservation guidelines for Nike.
Previously, Dee was a program manager for five years at the Peace Corps, where she advised overseas offices on management and strategy, developed cross-sector partnerships, and helped launch an information technology program in Latin America and the Pacific Islands. She also served as a natural resource management volunteer in Guatemala.
Sophie brings a background in government, communications, social entrepreneurship and corporate sustainability consulting. She most recently worked with the energy sector and research team at at SustainAbility, where she was part of a small team dedicated to implementing a new research process and strategy for the firm. She also worked with energy clients on corporate sustainability and stakeholder engagement strategies.
Sophie previously served as a research analyst for the Corporate Executive Board, a best-practice research firm that serves executives in the Fortune 500, where she wrote research briefs on corporate strategy, corporate R&D, and corporate quality. She designed and implemented a communications strategy, managed web activity, and developed several teleconference series. Sophie is currently the co-chair of the Washington D.C. chapter of StartingBloc, a fellowship program dedicated to social entrepreneurship, corporate sustainability and international development.
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