Aimée CHRISTENSEN
Member of ICTSD’s Governing Board
Ms Aimée Christensen has been CEO of Christensen Global Strategies since 2005, advising clients including the Clinton Global Initiative, Duke Energy, Swiss Re, the United Nations Development Program, Virgin Unite, and Wolfensohn & Co.Trained as an environmental and energy lawyer, Aimée has developed climate change and sustainability strategy in the corporate, governmental, and philanthropic sectors. She previously worked with Google.org, the World Bank, Environment2004, and Baker & McKenzie, and she negotiated the first bilateral and regional agreements on climate change while at the U.S. Department of Energy in the 1990s. She was a National Co-Chair of Cleantech & Green Business for Obama, and in early 2009 she co-founded the Clean Economy Network, whose collaboration with other business groups through the We Can Lead campaign brought over 250 business leaders to Capitol Hill in October 2009, to advocate for passage of comprehensive climate change and energy legislation.
Aimée serves on several boards and advisory boards including the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Task Force on Sustainability and Efficiency advising Secretary Janet Napolitano; the Board of Directors of the American Council on Renewable Energy; and the Advisory Board of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. Aimée addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and as a member of “U.S. Youth at Rio,” introduced Al Gore at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. She has a BA from Smith College, and a JD from Stanford Law School, where she wrote the University’s “Climate Change and Investment Responsibility Policy” adopted by the Trustees in 1999.