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• Developing ESG impact strategies with portfolio companies across different sectors for a PE firm, setting new impact-oriented metrics and targets with senior leadership teams.
• Providing guidance to investment teams on EU sustainable finance regulations: SFDR, EU Taxonomy, and NFRD/CSRD along with SASB, GRI, CDP, SBTi to enable impact due-diligence for the investment firm.
• Performing impact-oriented due diligence for potential investments.

Greater New York City Area

• Developed climate mitigation strategies along with senior leadership at four of the largest global energy companies, now leaders in large-scale renewables and transport electrification
• Designed and led over 200 senior leaders in a leading global logistics company through a speculative futures process to identify new sustainable business models, exposing them to disruptors and to think beyond the.
• Created and led a leadership development program at one of the… Show more
• Created and led a leadership development program at one of the leading FMCG companies across its global operations to apply tools such as horizon scanning, system mapping, and backcasting, to create a roadmap to.
• Facilitated a multi-stakeholder workshop on the shift to plant-based diets with global retailer, helping the client in its mission to inspire and enable healthier and more sustainable food choices
• Facilitated a multi-stakeholder workshop on a furniture-as-a-service business model with a global retailer, helping the client in its commitment to become a circular business

Greater New York City Area

Managed a project on water scarcity for a foundation, identifying grantmaking opportunities related to ecosystem health and livelihoods.

Greater New York City Area

Performed research, gave internal/client-facing briefings and developed communication materials. Projects included a materiality assessment using the Global Reporting Initiative framework for a major food and beverage company, and scanning/prioritization studies for a foundation targeting social/environmental problems.

• Provided tailored analysis for companies seeking to compete in the low-carbon economy. Projects involved these sectors: electric utilities, solar power, energy efficiency, water, logistics, shipping and supply chains..
• Building a PV module for a planning tool simulating solar capacity using technology cost learning curves and adoption rates to 2050, creating PV generation profiles for commercial/residential building stock.
• Integrating building energy efficiency… Show more Provided tailored analysis for companies seeking to compete in the low-carbon economy. Projects involved these sectors: electric utilities, solar power, energy.
• Integrating building energy efficiency modeling in an integrated resource planning tool for utilities to simulate the long-term effects of efficiency.
• Determining best practices from research of over 40 leading global electric utilities in the areas of energy efficiency, demand response, distributed generation/storage and electric vehicles.
• Developing levelized cost of energy model to assess electric utility pathways towards an increase in renewables, greater efficiency and reduction in water consumption in a regional case study.

Taught courses on the role designers can have in reducing impacts on human and environmental health.

I helped with the launch of a home energy efficiency initiative in New York City utilizing community-based organizations for outreach and recruitment. I helped develop the training and resource materials for outreach workers, and helped with the selection of the tracking/evaluation system for the initiative. See http://prattcenter.net/retrofitnyc.Developed.

Taught courses on the role designers can have in reducing impacts on human and environmental health.

Internship assisting policy director with research and development of legislative proposals. Met with constituents and staff to help set overarching goals in Brad’s district. Policy areas included ‘greening’ the building code, air quality improvements at ports and safer streets.

Trained youth how to perform energy audits for small businesses, helping provide measurable environmental and financial benefits.

Directed a program primarily focused on the passage of environmental laws in New York City and the US. I managed projects, hired consultants and supervised technical staff. Projects included the development of an Excel-based life cycle assessment tool that quantifies the energy use and 200+ air emissions of products for a Fortune 500 company.

Ms, Environmental Management And Policy

Bs, Industrial Design