E-ffiliates Retreat 2022
speakers
Frames, Norms, and Narratives in the Energy Transition: Behavioral Science Insights for Corporate Action
Erica J. Borggren
Vice-President, Customer Solutions, ComEd, an Exelon Company
Erica J. Borggren currently serves as Vice-President of Customer Solutions at ComEd, where she leads the company’s sustainability programs on energy efficiency, demand response, and beneficial electrification. Previously, she led ComEd’s customer channels and communications functions, including media, stakeholder, and employee communications. A Rhodes Scholar and West Point graduate, Borggren is a former Army captain who served in Iraq, in the Republic of Korea, and throughout the U.S. Central Command region in the Middle East. She previously served as the Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs, where she spearheaded the launch of Illinois Joining Forces, an award-winning public-private network of organizations committed to working together to serve veterans better; Borggren was selected in 2014 as a White House “Champion of Change” for her veteran-related efforts. She also served as Acting Secretary of the Illinois Department of Transportation. A Leadership Greater Chicago and Crain’s 40-under-40 alumna, she resides in Chicago and serves on the boards of Metropolitan Family Services and Illinois Joining Forces.
Sue Brown
Executive Group Director Sustainability, Worley
Replaced by Cheryl Ginyard-Jones
Sue Brown is accountable for driving the sustainability vision and strategy for Worley, advising the Board and management on emerging sustainability and climate issues. Prior to this role Brown was Group Director of Corporate Affairs, with responsibility for government engagement, external communications and sustainability performance.
Brown represents Worley on ESG matters with customers, governments, investors, NGOs, and academics, and leads delivery of initiatives to promote Worley’s thought leadership on sustainability, build sustainability culture and support achievement of company purpose and strategy. She joined Worley in 2012 to lead the Environment and Society consulting group in Melbourne and has acted in senior advisory roles within Advisian. Brown has deep domain expertise honed over 20+ years working on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues of the energy, chemicals, and resource industries globally. Prior to joining Worley Sue led sustainability teams in the energy sector.
Brown holds an honors degree in chemical engineering and a bachelor of science from the University of Melbourne and a graduate certificate in environmental management and development (Climate Change) from the Australian National University. Brown led sustainability teams for BP and AGL.
Sara Constantino
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Policy
Northeastern University
Sara Constantino is an assistant professor at Northeastern University in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Psychology and a visiting research scholar at the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. Her research is broadly on social and environmental policy and decision-making, with a focus on energy transitions and adaptation responses among vulnerable communities. She studies the role of social context – social norms, social groups, work-place, coalitions – in stimulating or stifling collective action. Her work has been supported by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Data-Driven Social Science Initiative at Princeton.
Prior to joining the faculty of Northeastern, Constantino was a research scholar and lecturer at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton, a senior research fellow at the Jain Family Institute, a founding editor at Nature Human Behavior, and a policy analyst with the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and the World Bank. She completed her Ph.D. in cognitive and decision sciences at New York University and holds an M.Sc. in economics from University College London.
Danielle Fugere
President, As You Sow
Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel, leads As You Sow’s program teams in creating lasting social and environmental change through shareholder advocacy and legal initiatives. She brings an in-depth knowledge of clean energy, sustainability, and team building to her work.
Fugere previously served as executive director of the Environmental Law Foundation, focusing on environmental health and water protection; as western regional program director for national nonprofit, Friends of the Earth, she spearheaded innovative climate change strategies and directed campaigns to promote sustainable alternative energies and fuels.
Through her work, Fugere has been instrumental in securing industry conversions to environmentally sound technologies and securing compliance with environmental laws. She holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a B.A. in political economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Cheryl Ginyard-Jones
Group Director, Growth and Performance, Americas, Worley
Cheryl Ginyard-Jones is the Group Director for Performance and Growth at Worley. She is responsible for leading development and implementation of Worley’s business and growth strategy for Americas’ operations which covers Canada, the US and Latin America. She joined Worley over 3 years ago as seasoned international business leader with expertise in business planning, strategy, process operations and commercial management.
Ginyard-Jones has had an extensive career in Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Telecommunications, and Industrial Products industries, holding leadership and executive positions in companies such as BP, Verizon, Owens Corning and Celanese. Cheryl holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland. In addition, Cheryl is a board member of Fairfax Water, a water utility in Virginia and sits on the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland, Clark School of Engineering.
Christopher Graves
Founder & President, Ogilvy Center for Behavioral Science, Ogilvy
Christopher Graves was named founding President of the Ogilvy Center for Behavioral Science in 2017 after serving 12 years as Global Chairman, Global CEO, and Regional (APAC) CEO for Ogilvy Public Relations. He also served as a member of the Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Board and Executive Committee.
During the pandemic, Graves has been supporting the WHO, UNICEF, Georgetown University, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Milken Institute, and the Chicago Department of Public Health with the behavioral science of pandemic behaviors and vaccine hesitancy. Beyond public health and vaccine hesitancy, Graves has deployed behavioral science insights in the domain of sustainability and climate change, including for FEMA, and works in countering disinformation.
Graves co-invented a behavioral science research methodology to reveal the Sensemaking Genome™ of individuals at scale to better decode and predict behavior. This innovation has now won six global awards including the Top Paper award from the ESOMAR world research community, and the Grand Prix from the Marketing Research Society. Graves joined Ogilvy after two decades in media and news, including 18 years with Dow Jones & The Wall Street Journal. He also headed all news & programming for the TV networks CNBC Asia and CNBC Europe. He was awarded a prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency in 2016 for his work in behavioral science in communications. He was elected life member to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2010. Graves actively contributes to publications such as the Harvard Business Review and appears on television news as a guest expert.
Kevin Green
Vice President, Center of Behavior & the Environment, Rare
Kevin Green is a vice president at Rare, where he leads the Center for Behavior & the Environment. Green and his global team of behavioral and social scientists, designers, and trainers work with partners around the world to design behavior-centered solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, overfishing, and more. He holds an master’s in international development and economics from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and sociology from Washington & Lee University.
Chris Greig
Acting Associate Director for External Partnerships, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Senior Research Scientist at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University
Chris Greig joined Princeton in 2020 as a member of the Energy Systems Analysis Group at the Andlinger Center. Greig is a principal investigator of Princeton’s Net-Zero America (NZA) study, which identifies five technological pathways to achieve net-zero emissions in the U.S. by 2050, and is contributing to NZA-inspired studies for Australia and Asia. Greig was director of the Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia and the founding director of the UQ Energy Initiative.
During a 25-year career in industry, Greig held executive roles in the construction and energy resources sectors, including as CEO of ZeroGen, a large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. Greig also served as chairman of the Energy Policy Institute of Australia and deputy chairman of Gladstone Ports Corporation. His main research interests lie in energy transitions, economics and policy, mega-project implementation, and CCS. Greig has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE).
Jason Jacobs
Partner, MCJ Collective
Jason Jacobs is a longtime entrepreneur, most recently as founder/CEO of Runkeeper, one of the largest mobile fitness apps and communities, which was acquired by ASICS in 2016 for $85m. He is now a Partner at MCJ Collective, a platform that consists of a podcast and newsletter, a vibrant member community, and a fund, that has backed more than 60 top climate tech companies across stages and sectors over the last 18 months. The goal with MCJ Collective is not to convert anyone to a specific worldview, but to learn publicly about climate change and the best ways to address it, and to enable each participant in the community to form their own worldview on the problem from a more informed position.
Gita V. Johar
Meyer Fieldberg Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
Gita V. Johar (Ph.D. NYU 1993; MBA Indian Institute of Management Calcutta 1985) has been on the faculty of Columbia Business School since 1992 and is currently the Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business. She served as the school’s inaugural Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from 2019 to 2021, Faculty Director of Online Initiatives from 2014 to 2017, Senior Vice Dean from 2011 to 2014, and as the inaugural Vice Dean for Research from 2010 to 2011. Dr. Johar served as co-editor of the premier academic journal on consumer behavior, the Journal of Consumer Research from July 2014 to December 2017 and co-edited a 2021 Special Issue of the Journal of Marketing on Better Marketing for a Better World. She is currently president of the Society for Consumer Psychology. Dr. Johar’s expertise lies in consumer psychology, focusing on consumer identity, beliefs, and persuasion as they relate to branding, advertising, and media. Her current research is focused on combating misinformation and false beliefs.
Saphira Rekker
Senior Lecturer Finance, University of Queensland
Saphira Rekker has a Ph.D. in finance and is a senior lecturer in sustainable finance at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia. Her teaching, which includes Australia’s first Carbon Literacy course, has been recognized with multiple awards.
Rekker’s research focuses on tools to measure and verify the efficacy of decarbonization commitments by corporations. As part of the Princeton-led Rapid Switch initiative, she leads UQ’s Corporate Climate MAP program, which evaluates the alignment of companies and investment portfolios with the Paris Agreement. Rekker is a member of the Technical Working Group of the Science Based Targets initiative for the Oil & Gas Sector, and a contributor to EU climate benchmarking regulation. She has ongoing collaborations with numerous industry partners including MunichRE, Ernst & Young and Norges Bank.
Valerie C. Smith
Chief Sustainability Officer, Managing Director, Citi
Val Smith was appointed Citi’s first Chief Sustainability Officer in 2019 and has helped grow sustainability efforts at Citi since 2004. She oversees Citi’s Sustainability & ESG team, with responsibility for the bank’s Sustainable Progress Strategy and priority initiatives, including the $1 Trillion Sustainable Finance Goal. Val is leading the development of Citi’s Net Zero Emissions by 2050 plan. She also leads Citi’s implementation of the Principles for Responsible Banking and guides its climate risk disclosure. Smith is an advisor and spokesperson on sustainable finance, Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) disclosure, stakeholder engagement, human rights, ESG integration and sustainability trends.
Prior to joining Citi, Smith spent a decade working in the environmental sector, including the National Audubon Society, Brainerd Foundation, and the Houston Advanced Research Center. She began her career with the United States Peace Corps, where she served for two years as an environmental specialist in Honduras.
Smith serves on the board of Net Impact and is a member of the UNEP FI Global Steering Committee and the Aspen Institute Business & Society Leaders Forum. Smith earned her MBA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her bachelor’s degree in environmental science from the University of Virginia. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.
Geoff Tuff
Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLC, Future of Energy Leader
Geoff Tuff has 30 years of experience consulting to some of the world’s top companies on the subjects of strategy, growth, innovation, and adapting business models to deal with change. Currently, Tuff is a principal at Deloitte, leads its Future of Energy initiative and holds various leadership positions across its Sustainability, Innovation and Strategy practices. Prior to this, he led the innovation firm Doblin and was a senior partner at Monitor Group, serving as a member of its global Board of Directors. Tuff’s work centers around helping clients transform their businesses to grow and compete in nontraditional ways. He is a widely sought-after speaker and writer on the topic of growth through innovation. His writing has appeared in journals such as Harvard Business Review and he is the co-author of two bestselling books. Originally Canadian, he settled in the U.S. for university and holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Harvard University.
Michael P. Vandenbergh
David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law, Vanderbilt Law School, Vanderbilt University
Michael P. Vandenbergh is the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, director of the Climate Change Research Network, and co-director of the Energy, Environment and Land Use Program. An award-winning teacher, Professor Vandenbergh has published on private environmental governance and household energy use in peer-reviewed publications such as the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, Nature Climate Change, and Energy Policy, and in legal publications such as the Columbia, NYU, and Cornell law reviews. Vandenbergh has served as Chief of Staff of the Environmental Protection Agency and as a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the Wharton School. His research has been discussed in National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, National Geographic, USA Today, Time Magazine and the Washington Post. He is a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, a member of the Board on Environmental Change and Society of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, and a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers.
Elke U. Weber
Associate Director for Education, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Elke Weber’s research models decision-making under risk, uncertainty, and time delay from a psychological and neuroscience perspective, with applications to both financial and environmental decisions. She was a lead author on the Fifth Assessment Report and is one on the current Sixth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Weber has served as president of three professional societies (Neuroeconomics; Judgment and Decision Making; and Mathematical Psychology) and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Experimental Psychology. She received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Risk Analysis and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Gautam N. Yadama
Dean & Professor, Boston College School of Social Work, Boston College
Gautam Yadama is Dean of Boston College School of Social Work, Boston College. His focus is to understand and intervene in energy-poor communities to improve social, health, economic, livelihood, and quality of life outcomes. His research is published in the Lancet, Environmental Health Perspectives, Environmental Research Letters, Environmental Science & Technology, Energy Research & Social Science, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He is a member of the Implementation Science Network (ISN) at the Fogarty Institute of the National Institutes of Health, USA. Yadama was a member of the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health to reduce air, soil, and water pollution. Yadama’s book Fires, Fuel and the Fate of 3 Billion: State of the Energy Impoverished (Oxford University Press) outlines an argument for transdisciplinary research to tackle complex problems at the intersections of poverty, environment, and health.
