Rhys Gerholdt Email & Phone Number

Rhys Gerholdt is a Director of Communications, Climate Economics and Finance Program, World Resources Institute at World Resources Institute. He possess expertise in media relations, strategic communications, project management, social media, climate change and 13 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Rhys does an excellent job leading the development and implementation of our climate communications strategy. He is relentless in asking the hard questions and keeping us focused. His creativity and humility make Rhys an important participant in all of our strategic planning. I was also impressed with his work managing relationships with journalists around UN climate talks both with WWF and when he worked at USCAN. We are lucky to have someone of Rhys's background and experience on our climate team at WWF." and "I worked closely with Rhys on creating WWF's Earth Hour City Challenge (EHCC) initiative. He was instrumental in helping to develop WWF's theory of change for EHCC. Through his own initiative, he researched why the American public is inactive on the climate change issue. This research, along with his organization of 8 focus groups, helped inform our program and our messaging. Once the initiative was up and running, Rhys was in charge of executing our member engagement campaign that reached over 2,000 U.S. cities and was instrumentally in getting 29 cities and countries to join EHCC in year one (2012) and an additional 30 in year 2 (2013). One of the great aspects of working with Rhys is he brings a lot of ideas to the table and is constantly thinking of innovative ways to plug into communication channels. He is very passionate about his work."

Listed skills include Media Relations, Strategic Communications, Project Management, Social Media, and 14 others.