CEO, Christensen Global
Aimée Christensen is CEO of Christensen Global where she leverages deep expertise to build a resilient world by advising innovators, global businesses, multilateral institutions, and philanthropists. She is the founder and curator of the Sun Valley Forum and recently served as Senior Adviser for Climate Finance at the Milken Institute.
Over her 30+ year career, Christensen has been a pioneering leader and policymaker at The White House and U.S. Department of Energy, as a climate and clean energy lawyer at the World Bank and Baker & McKenzie, and as Google’s first climate hire. She began her career in government, negotiating the first U.S. climate change agreements. As a Stanford law student, she successfully co-authored and advocated for the first university endowment climate investment responsibility policy. Christensen launched Google.org’s first climate impact project, to accelerate the electrification of transportation, led Google’s advocacy for California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, and guided Google’s 2007 commitment to carbon neutrality. She served as Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General’s High-level Group on Sustainable Energy For All, was a member of the Department of Homeland Security Sustainability and Efficiency Task Force, and founded and led the Sun Valley Institute for Resilience. She serves on the board of the National Forest Foundation and is a governing board member of the Andrus Center for Public Policy, the Smith College Center for Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability, and the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.
Christensen was named an Aspen Institute Catto Fellow, the Hillary Institute Leadership Laureate, and an Idaho Business Review Woman of the Year. She earned a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. from Smith College.
