Presents

40 Women Leaders in Climate

2 Interviews every Wednesday for 20 weeks
29 -
9 August 2023

Speakers include

CEZ
Office nunclear energy
Abatable
World resources institute
shiru
Rio tinto
Kita
Holcim
Greentown labs
gaiascope
Full hasvest
circ
nth cycle
citi bike
Thallo
banyan
CTVC

Event Overview

The climate crisis is a global and diverse issue, we need global and diverse voices to solve the problem. Sustainability must be at the forefront of every industry, and these leaders across our 16 verticals are driving us towards decarbonization. Less than 3% of VC funding goes to female founders. This is compatible with our focus on inclusivity to solve our great societal challenge. Join us for 40 hours of interviews with 40 leading women in climate with 2 Interviews every Wednesday for 20 weeks, to explore the issues and answers to our climate challenge from the perspective of these incredible leaders

Agenda

Wednesday, March 29th

5pm BST | 12pm EDT | 11am CDT | 9am PDT
Women in Climate: Monique Motty - Minister and Head of Country Office in DRC
Monique Motty is the Senior Climate Finance Advisor to the Minister of Environment in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Join in to hear from Monique about sustainable growth and climate adaptation in Africa.

Wednesday, April 5th

4pm BST | 11am EDT | 10am CDT | 8am PDT
Women in Climate: Nour Ghadanfar - Greentown Labs
We sit down for a conversation with Nour Ghadanfar Director of Partnerships at Greentown Labs. Greentown Labs brings together startups, corporates, investors, politicians, and many others to shape a more sustainable future. We discuss Nour’s journey with Greentown Labs and their impact on climate Tech
7pm BST | 2pm EDT | 1pm CDT | 11am PDT
Women in Climate: Janice Tran - Kanin Energy
Janice Tran is the CEO of Kanin Energy, a development company that focuses on transforming industrial waste heat into emission-free power. We will explore the future of clean energy, and how Kanin will provide a bundled solution for industrial customers that include the design, capital, construction, and operations for the project, with the core focus on capturing waste heat for power generation and district heating projects.

Wednesday, April 12th

3pm BST | 10am EDT | 9am CDT | 7am PDT
Women in Climate: Natalia Dorfman - Kita Earth
We sit down with Natalia Dorfman, the CEO and Co-Founder of Kita Earth. Kita’s mission is enabling nature-based solutions and negative emission technologies to thrive via parametric insurance products that remove carbon delivery risk from buyers and sellers in the voluntary carbon market, thus enabling development and accelerating climate impact. We will hear more about Natalia’s vision for Kita the role of risk mitigation to scale carbon capture technologies.
4pm BST | 11am EDT | 10am CDT | 8am PDT
Women in Climate: Maria Eugenia Filmanovic - Abatable
Maria Eugenia Filmanovic is the Co-Founder of Abatable. The mission at Abatable is to enable climate action for the hard to abate emissions by building the infrastructure for corporates and investors to navigate, access and support credible climate solutions. Join us to dig deeper into the potential of nature-based carbon removal as a solution for the hard to abate emissions.

Wednesday, April 19th

3.30pm BST | 10.30am EDT | 9.30am CDT | 7.30am PDT
Women in Climate: Hayley Moller - Thallo
5pm BST | 12pm EDT | 11am CDT | 9am PDT
Women in Climate: Paramita Das - Rio Tinto
Join our conversation with Paramita Das, the global ESG head for metals and minerals at Rio Tinto. Paramita is a global executive with extensive experience in the commodities segment. Hear more from Paramita about ‘green’ aluminum, and how it will help in our quest for a carbon-free future.

Wednesday, April 26th

4pm BST | 11am EDT | 10am CDT | 8am PDT
Women in Climate: Magali Anderson - Holcim
Magali Anderson is Chief Sustainability and Innovation Officer at Holcim. She has had a 27-year career in oil and gas, and although she came into the sustainability sphere late in her career, she is a female leader driving our quest to net zero through decarbonizing the hard to abate cement industry.
8pm BST | 3pm EDT | 2pm CDT | 12pm PDT
Women in Climate: Julie Willoughby - Circ
In this conversation with Julie Willoughby, Chief Scientific Officer at Circ, we will discuss how Julie and her team are tackling fashion waste head on. Circ makes the technology that (re)sources and (re)harvests raw ingredients out of clothing waste, so it can be reused in a variety of ways.

Wednesday, May 3rd

4pm BST | 11am EDT | 10am CDT | 8am PDT
Women in Climate: Kim Zou - Climate Tech VC
Kim Zou is the Co-Founder of Climate Tech VC, a leading source on climate innovation read by 50,000+ subscribers. Kim and Paul will talk on data-driven perspectives on the climate economy. We will hear from Kim how CTVC guides investors and operators to innovate on climate.
5pm BST | 12pm EDT | 11am CDT | 9am PDT
Women in Climate: Jasmin Hume - Shiru
CEO and Founder of Shiru, Jasmin Hume is playing a leading role in reducing emissions in the food and agriculture sector through developing alternative plant-based protein.  Jasmin founded Shiru to make delicious, nutritious, sustainable, and scalable ingredients so that all food companies can quickly develop plant-based products. We will dive into how Shiru’s B2B developments have the potential to redesign the food system in a more sustainable way.

Wednesday, May 10th

4pm BST | 11am EDT | 10am CDT | 8am PDT
Women in Climate: Amanda Li - Banyan Infrastructure
Amanda has over 10 years of experience as a sustainable infrastructure investor, consultant in the technology and finance sectors, and engineer. She has firsthand experience of managing risk for project finance investments and understands that sustainable infrastructure will not scale quickly without leveraging technology. Join in for a conversation with Paul and Amanda on the future of sustainable infrastructure.
5pm BST | 12pm EDT | 11am CDT | 9am PDT
Women in Climate: Megan O'Connor - Nth Cycle

Wednesday, May 24th

7pm BST | 2pm EDT | 1pm CDT | 11am PDT
Women in Climate: Christine Moseley - Full Harvest

Wednesday, June 21th

4pm BST | 11am EDT | 10am CDT | 8am PDT
Women in Climate: Rebekah Shirley - Africa World Resources Institute

Speakers & Moderators

Monique Motty
Climate Finance Advisor
Ministry of Environment of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Monique is a Climate Finance Advisor to the Ministry of Environment of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over the past decade, she has worked internationally as a technical expert, focusing on climate technologies, clean energy transition, and green finance mostly in African countries. She is a board member of the Future Energy Leadership program of the World Energy Council (WEC) and sits on the Technology Executive Committee of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. She is an MPA graduate, Mason fellow and Bacon Environmental leader scholarship recipient from Harvard University. She also holds a MSc. in Energy, Environmental Technology and Economics from City, University of London.
Nour Ghadanfar - Greentown Labs
Nour Ghadanfar
Director of Partnerships
Greentown Labs
Nour Ghadanfar is the Director of Partnerships for Greentown Labs, North America’s largest climatetech incubator. In her role, she connects and engages corporate partners with startups within Greentown’s incubators and the overall climatetech ecosystem. She is also invested in helping to promote the burgeoning innovation ecosystem in Houston. Prior to joining Greentown Labs, Nour spent two years as an urban planner focused on transportation and land use and three years with PricewaterhouseCoopers as an internal auditor. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Development and Sociology from McGill University and a Master's degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Janice Tran - Kanin Energy
Janice Tran
CEO & Co-founder
Kanin Energy
Janice is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kanin Energy, a company developing projects that convert industrial waste heat into clean baseload power. Prior to Kanin, Janice was an early employee and Director at Generate Capital, a project finance investment firm that focuses on investing in renewable energy projects. There she built North America’s largest portfolio on anaerobic digestions assets. Her role spanned across deal execution, origination, market development and asset management. Prior to Generate capital, Janice worked at NRG, one of America’s largest power producers. Janice was integral in the implementation of their renewable microgrids business line. Janice is also the co-founder of Student Energy, a non-profit which is today’s largest global charity dedicated to educating and uniting post-secondary students on energy issues. Janice is a licensed Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in Canada. She holds a Master of Science in Sustainability Management from Columbia University in New York, where she received an Earth Institute Fellowship. Janice also has a Master’s in Accounting from the University of Saskatchewan, and double majored with a BA in Philosophy and BComm in Accounting from the University of Calgary.
Maria Filmanovic - Abatable
Maria Eugenia Filmanovic
Co-founder
Abatable
Maria Eugenia is Co-founder of Abatable, a carbon procurement and data insights platform connecting carbon project developers, companies and investors. Previously she worked as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs and advised large corporate and institutional investors on nature-based carbon removal and impact investment portfolios, most recently focused on work around carbon procurement.
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Hayley Moller
Head of Marketing
Thallo
Hayley is a communications expert and strategist with nearly a decade of delivering successful climate and sustainability efforts for multi-national corporations, global NGOs, and local governments around the world. Now a climate tech entrepreneur, she has helped craft sustainability strategy for organizations of all sizes, from lean start-ups to the United Nations to some of the world's most well-known brands. A proud member of the LGBTQ+ community and an advocate for women and underrepresented groups, Hayley is passionate about making inclusivity the norm. Hayley holds an MBA from INSEAD, where she led the school's Environment & Business Club and graduated with distinction. In 2011, she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science from UCLA, where she ran several campus sustainability programs. Always a Californian at heart, she currently lives in Paris.
Julie Willoughby - circ
Julie Willoughby
Chief Scientific Officer
Circ
Julie Willoughby is the Chief Scientific Officer at Circ. Julie was previously the Director of the Coatings Program at Nike, and has also worked as a Senior Scientist, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and Research Assistant. Julie has a long history of working in the engineering and science fields, and their experience with polyurethane and latex coatings, nonwovens and composites, and textile coating operations is unrivaled. Julie is a highly respected member of the scientific community, and their work has helped to shape the way that many businesses operate. Julie Willoughby has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky. Julie also went to Notre Dame Academy.
Magali Anderson - Holcim
Magali Anderson
Chief Sustainability and Innovation Officer
Holcim
Magali Anderson, Chief Sustainability and Innovation Officer of Holcim, is responsible for putting sustainability at the core of Holcim’s innovation pipeline but also of the company strategy and decision making. Magali joined Holcim in 2016 as Group Head of Health & Safety before being appointed to the Group Executive Committee and Chief Sustainability Officer in October 2019, a role which was expanded to her current position in 2021. Magali has over three decades of experience in the energy sector, primarily with Schlumberger. She started her career as a field engineer on offshore oil rigs in Nigeria and worked on 4 continents in both operational and functional roles. Magali graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from INSA Lyon, France.
Natalia Dorfman - Kita earth
Natalia Dorfman
CEO & Co-founder
Kita Earth
Natalia Dorfman is the CEO and co-founder of Kita, focused on developing carbon insurance to fight the climate crisis. Prior to founding Kita, Natalia spent 15 years as a business development and strategy specialist within the legal sector, including leading the Climate Risk practice strategy as Global Head of New Business at Clyde & Co LLP. Her experience with large corporations on their climate change-related challenges inspired her to help accelerate positive change through entrepreneurship. Natalia was accepted to Carbon Thirteen, the Cambridge-based venture builder for the climate emergency, where she met her two co-founders and created Kita in December 2021. She has been named among the “Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch” by NatWest and the Telegraph in November 2022.
Paramita Das - rio tinto
Paramita Das
Global ESG head for metals and minerals
Rio Tinto
Paramita Das is a global executive with extensive experience in the commodities segment (metal and oil and gas). She leads the development of the market development footprint globally and the establishment a more customer centric approach in the Americas. Prior to moving back to Chicago to lead the marketing and development space, Paramita was the Chief of Staff to the CEO of Rio Tinto and Chief Transformation Officer for the Atlantic Operations for Aluminium segment with Rio Tinto. Paramita joined Rio Tinto in 2015, prior to which, she was with companies like Sumitomo Corporation and BP.
Jasmin Hume - shiru
Jasmin Hume
CEO & Founder
Shiru
Dr. Jasmin Hume is the Founder and CEO of Shiru, a synthetic biology company addressing a critical need in the food industry by creating sustainable and healthy ingredients. Shiru is fueled by data-driven discovery, combining machine learning and fermentation to uncover and produce the most functional natural proteins as ingredients, and facilitating the transition towards more sustainable eating. Jasmin has been trailblazing in the alternative proteins industry for nearly a decade, applying cutting edge science and scalable business models to bring transformative, sustainable foods from concept to reality. Jasmin holds a doctorate in protein engineering from NYU, an MSc from Chalmers University, and a BEng from McGill University. She’s a proud mom of two young kids.
Megan O’Connor, PhD., is co-founder and CEO of Nth Cycle
Megan O’Connor
CEO & Co-Founder
Nth Cycle
Megan O’Connor, PhD., is co-founder and CEO of Nth Cycle, a metal refining company that has developed technology to enable a clean, domestic, and streamlined supply of critical metals for the clean energy transition. Dr. O’Connor leverages years of experience working on sustainable technology in many of America’s top research labs, where she helped develop the electro-extraction processes, she and her team are commercializing at Nth Cycle. Prior to founding Nth Cycle, Dr. O’Connor was an Entrepreneurial Fellow in the Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was a visiting researcher at Yale University’s Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering. Dr. O’Connor received her PhD in environmental engineering from Duke University and was recognized by Forbes on its “30 under 30” energy list in 2019. Nth Cycle is based in Boston, Massachusetts, and is supported by a world-class team of investors including Clean Energy Ventures, VoLo Earth Venture Fund, the Department of Energy, and Elemental Excelerator.
Christine Moseley - Full Harvest
Christine Moseley
CEO & Founder
Full Harvest
Christine Moseley, CEO and founder of Full Harvest, is a seasoned entrepreneur on a mission to combat food waste. As the leading B2B produce marketplace, Full Harvest connects food and beverage companies directly with farmers to purchase surplus and imperfect produce. With over 15 years of experience in both Fortune 100 companies, such as Maersk and Procter & Gamble, as well as high-growth food startups, Christine brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. Prior to founding Full Harvest, as Head of Strategic Projects and Business Development at Organic Avenue, an NYC healthy food + juice start-up, she helped the company double in size. Christine holds an MBA from Wharton School of Business and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been recognized by Inc. as a Top 100 Female Founder, Fortune as the #2 Most Innovative Woman in Food & Drink, and was named a World Economic Forum SDG Champion. To learn more about Christine and her work, visit her website at www.christinemoseley.com or www.fullharvest.com
Amanda Li Co-Founder & COO Banyan Infrastructure
Amanda Li
Co-Founder & COO
Banyan Infrastructure
Amanda has over 10 years of experience as a sustainable infrastructure investor, consultant in the technology and finance sectors, and engineer. She has firsthand experience of managing risk for project finance investments and understands that sustainable infrastructure will not scale quickly without leveraging technology. • Amanda was an Investor at Generate Capital where she focused on originating, closing, and servicing deals in distributed infrastructure investments including energy storage, solar, energy efficiency, waste, and water projects • Amanda was a Consultant at Mckinsey where she developed underwriting automation and financial planning workflow and technology implementation strategies at global financial institutions
Kim Zou Co-founder Climate Tech VC
Kim Zou
Co-founder
Climate Tech VC
Kim Zou is the Co-Founder of Climate Tech VC, a leading source on climate innovation read by 50,000+ subscribers. Kim and Paul will talk on data-driven perspectives on the climate economy. We will hear from Kim how CTVC guides investors and operators to innovate on climate.
Rebekah Shirley - World Resources Institute
Rebekah Shirley
Deputy Director for Africa
World Resources Institute
Dr. Rebekah Shirley is the Deputy Director for Africa, at the World Resources Institute, where she works to create widespread public access to high-quality data and insights for mobilizing sustainable development solutions. Prior to joining WRI, Rebekah was the Chief of Research at Power for All, a global non-profit organization advancing universal energy access. Over her tenure Rebekah built a novel energy research dissemination engine that fills critical knowledge gaps for practitioners and decision-makers on implementing integrated utility energy services, unlocking agricultural value-addition, and creating livelihoods in the African context, receiving multiple awards for this work. Rebekah earned her PhD and MSc from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, where as a University Chancellor’s Fellow she designed innovative tools for power system planning in emerging markets. She has over fifteen years of experience leading energy and environmental research across Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Hailing from the West Indies with roots in Jamaica and Trinidad, Rebekah now lives in Nairobi with her husband. Together they enjoy exploring Kenya’s great outdoors. She also lectures at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, where she mentors young students and researchers.

Speakers include

CEZ
Office nunclear energy
Abatable
World resources institute
shiru
Rio tinto
Kita
Holcim
Greentown labs
gaiascope
Full hasvest
circ
nth cycle
citi bike
Thallo
banyan
CTVC

Previous Speakers Include

CEZ
Office nunclear energy
Abatable
World resources institute
shiru
Rio tinto
Kita
Holcim
Greentown labs
gaiascope
Full hasvest
circ
nth cycle
citi bike
Thallo
banyan
CTVC

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