Emily Hickson is the senior manager for The B Team’s Net-Zero by 2050 initiative, which works with CEOs to encourage the courageous leadership necessary to transition the global economy through transformative business models, supporting enabling policy, and shifting norms in capital markets. Hickson also leads the work on business responsibility for a just transition at The B Team. In recent months, they have developed, with the ITUC, the first set of general guidance for business on how to make a just transition. Before joining The B Team, Hickson spent three years working at Climate Action Network (CAN), a network of over 1,000 NGOs working on climate change. During her time there, she coordinated campaigning to influence country targets ahead of the Paris Agreement.

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Kate Gordon is an expert on the intersection of clean energy and economic development. She wears a number of hats, including partner on the sustainability team of Ridge-Lane Limited Partners; senior advisor at the Paulson Institute; and non-resident fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Gordon is perhaps best known for her work as the founder and director of the “Risky Business Project,” co-chaired by Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Tom Steyer and focused on the economic risks the U.S. faces from unmitigated climate change. A prolific writer, she is currently at work on a book focused on the economic transition of communities built around fossil fuel extraction.

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Biography coming soon.

Kelly supports information and communications technology companies in achieving their sustainability goals, with a focus on climate change, women's empowerment, and human rights.

Prior to BSR, Kelly spent more than six years consulting on energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy for California’s utilities and public-sector clients, such as the University of California. She started her career with the U.S. Peace Corps in Washington, D.C., where she supported programming and training efforts on collaborative international development initiatives. Kelly also serves on Spark’s Board of Directors, advising the nonprofit on grantmaking for women’s empowerment organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York Metropolitan Area, and overseas. She speaks English and is proficient in Italian.

Kelly holds an M.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in Global Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  

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