Energy, Sustainability & Environment speakers
Eenergy professor at UT Austin on the convergence of engineering, policy & commercialization
Author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
Author of Water: A Biography, Scientific Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, a Former Partner at McKinsey & Company and Chief Strategy Officer at the Nature Conservancy.
Author of The Boom and Superpower on the American energy revolution.
• One of the world's foremost authorities & experts on the impacts of weather and extreme weather events both here & abroad.
• Cultural anthropologist
• Author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
• Scientific Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)
• Co-Founder of Chloris Geospatial, a company specialized in measuring nature from space
• Former Partner at McKinsey & Company, and Chief Strategy Officer at the Nature Conservancy
• Award-winning investigative journalist at Texas Monthly and formerly The Wall Street Journal
• Author of The Boom and Superpower on the American energy revolution.
• President of Environmental Defense Fund
• Senior Editor at The Atlantic
• Host of the podcasts, Floodlines and Holy Week
• Host of the Emmy-nominated PBS Kids show Dinosaur Train
• Passionate advocate for connecting people with nature
• MIT professor & researcher
• Author of The Resilient Enterprise and other books
• Journalist and author of several books, most recently American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice (2025)
• Former senior editor for National Geographic and White House correspondent for Newsweek
• Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business and Executive Director of Ethical Systems
• Author of Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
• Edward R. Murrow recipient and 7-time Emmy Award-winning CBS News National Correspondent
• Energy professor at UT Austin
• Former CS&TO of ENGIE, former CTO of Energy Impact Partners
• Speaks on the convergence of engineering, policy & commercialization
• Global futurist & bestselling author