Luke Elder Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, CA, US

Mountain View, CA, US

The Global Sustainability Team enables Google to build a more sustainable future for everyone by driving strategy and catalyzing solutions at scale. We lead sustainability programs on carbon, circular economy, water, product integration, reporting, strategy and partnerships, and employee engagement. For more information, see sustainability.google.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Support key sustainability reporting activities, including preparation of Google’s corporate annual Environmental Report, CDP report, and EU NFRD report
• Assist in the development and implementation of Google’s reporting and disclosure strategy by applying global sustainability reporting frameworks and guidelines
• Review Google’s internal and external sustainability communications and claims to ensure alignment with public sustainability disclosures and data
• Support engagement with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders at all organizational levels, including technical experts and senior executives

New York, NY, US

• Managed WeWork’s first Materiality Assessment, identifying top 13 social, environmental, and governance material topics that guide future sustainability programmatic strategy and reporting
• Lead public reporting strategy related to global sustainability work, ensuring alignment with non-financial disclosure requirements, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Developed corporate water stewardship strategy to mitigate business risk across global real estate portfolio of 628 buildings, identifying “high” or “extremely high” water risk for building portfolio, committed.
• Managed baseline greenhouse gas inventory process across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions to track WeWork's progress towards carbon neutrality
• Built framework for global waste campaign, including data analysis of global waste audit, data visualizations, and management of global team advancing waste stewardship
• Developed knowledge management system to track raw data, assumptions, and methodologies for all global sustainability information, ensuring communication is accurate, uniform, and verifiable

New Haven, Connecticut, US

• Researched and discussed the theory of carbon pricing, global experiences implementing carbon pricing schemes, and how these lessons could apply to Yale University.
• Oversaw and implemented energy reduction efforts in Kroon Hall and all other F&ES buildings.
• Communicated with the occupants of F&ES buildings to engage them and the larger community in energy-saving strategies.

Austin, Texas, US

• Measured Tesla’s 2017 carbon footprint across global facilities, sales, service, energy, and supercharging network
• Contributed to Tesla’s first-ever Impact Report, summarizing operational and product impact, employee policies, and corporate governance
• Analyzed recyclability and life-cycle environmental impact of current Model 3 closures and two new closure design innovations
• Calculated resources (time, space, labor, energy, CapEx, OpEx, logistics, scrap, and warranty) to build Model 3 closures, establishing a baseline to compare new closure design resource requirements for vehicles in.

Washington, DC, US

• Supported the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) as a part of the Carbon Markets and Innovation Unit (GCCMI) for the World Bank Climate Change Group.
• Co-authored a knowledge product on how ship-financing banks can employ internal carbon pricing to accelerate decarbonization across the international shipping industry.
• Co-authored an inception report on greenhouse gas mitigation potential in global industrial processes.
• Assessed relevance and potential impact of project proposals from external stakeholders.

Washington, DC, US

• Developed, managed &/or executed consulting contracts with domestic & international clients in English & Spanish.
• Designed & implemented a comprehensive Sustainability Management System which guides the construction, design & eventual operation of an eco-resort in the Dominican Republic.
• Researched & wrote two reports (& press release) for a Clinton Global Initiative partnership project with JetBlue Airways on the economic value of intact coastal ecosystems in the Caribbean.
• Researched & wrote the 2013, 2014 & 2015 annual UN Global Compact Communication on Progress (COP) reports for a Caribbean real estate & tourism company.
• Researched, reviewed, wrote & managed grant proposals & projects.
• Participated in internal reviews of applicant projects seeking TOF’s fiscal sponsorship.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Drafted responses to questions & concerns regarding environmental issues from constituents & interest groups.
• Attended briefings & hearings, & provided summaries for legislative staff.
• Compiled daily national & local press clippings for the Senator, Press Secretary, & staffers.
• Selected by Senator Johnson’s office for one of the only full-time, paid internships on Capitol Hill.

Arlington, VA, US

• Managed buildings, grounds & occupants (ages 20 to 60) of TNC’s Hoft Farm Field Station.

• Surveyed, monitored, & protected threatened shorebird & cliff-dwelling bird species (Piping plover, American oystercatcher, Least tern, Bankswallows, Kingfishers, etc.).
• Conducted echolocation surveys of Martha’s Vineyard bat population to assess the impact of white-nose syndrome. Data from this effort contributed to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s proposed listing of Northern.
• Selected by The Betsy & Jesse Fink Foundation for funding.

Middlebury, Vermont, US

• Compiled & edited sections of Middlebury’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory.
• Researched the carbon neutrality of biomass in order to more accurately assess Middlebury’s GHG emissions.
• Conducted campus outreach to raise awareness of Middlebury’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2016.

Arlington, VA, US

• Conducted a four-week monitoring study of the most effective process of converting old agricultural fields into native grasslands.
• Collected spatial data & used ArcMap 10 to map TNC trails, property boundaries, & invasive species (kudzu, knotweed, stiltgrass, spurge, giant hogweed).
• Maintained TNC’s public island preserves and private lands (chainsawing, brush cutting, mowing, and tractor use).
• Participated in seed collection, weeding, plant division and propagation in Native Plant Nursery

• Translated documents (Spanish to English) on the economic valuation of natural resources for a forestry project in Andalucía

Washington, DC, US

• Conducted research on the future of the changing relationship between humans and the ocean.

Middlebury, Vermont, US

• Compiled & edited sections of Middlebury’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory.
• Researched the carbon neutrality of biomass in order to more accurately assess Middlebury’s GHG emissions.
• Conducted campus outreach to raise awareness of Middlebury’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2016.
• Assisted in completing Middlebury’s application to STARS (Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System)

Master Of Environmental Management, Business And The Environment

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Global Master'S In Management - Exchange Program

Bachelor Of Arts, Environmental Studies And Conservation Biology

Environmental Studies - Exchange Program