Business & Finance

Peter Melhus is an emeritus Associate Professor of Management and Sustainable Business at San Francisco State University. He served as executive director of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, a multi-stakeholder...

Bruce Paton is retired professor of Management and Innovation. Before retiring in 2023, he served as a Dean, Department Chair, and MBA Program Director. He currently serves as Chair of the Santa Clara County Sustainability Commission and Board Co-Chair for SF Bay Bird Observatory.

Chris Larson is completing a Master’s Degree in Business Administration at the Yale School of Management (SOM). At SOM, and through coursework at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, he is developing approaches to engage...

Sasha is the Ecoregional Ecologist at The Nature Conservancy for the Central coast of California, a region stretching from the Bay Area to Santa Barbara, and from the ocean to the Central Valley. Sasha obtained her doctorate from the...

Ann is a Senior Advisor, Climate Change Adaptation for the City of Seattle and Seattle Public Utilities. She focuses on leveraging SPU water management investments to generate broader multisector partnerships around equity-based public...

Evan Goldsmith is currently the Head of Business Development at IndiVillage, an impact sourcing social enterprise that delivers expert data annotation, natural language processing, and content optimization solutions that drive machine...

Drew Jones is Co-Director of Climate Interactive, a Washington DC-based “think and do tank” that creates policy-maker-oriented simulations for top leaders and civil society. Trained in system dynamics modeling at Dartmouth College and MIT...

Urvi currently leads the Renewable Energy Team at Facebook, Inc which is responsible for selecting, negotiating, contracting and managing renewable energy projects to achieve Facebook's goal of being 100% supported by clean energy by 2020...

Daniel F. Morris has spent the past decade and a half working to build economic and policy solutions powerful enough to adequately address the climate crisis. He is currently a Senior Climate Change Specialist and Clean Energy Lead for the...