Titles

• Chief Executive Officer, Christensen Global
• Founder, Sun Valley Institute for Resilience
• Member, Board of Directors of the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation at ASU
• Member, Board of Directors, National Forest Foundation
• Member, Board of Governors, Andrus Center for Public Policy, Boise State University
• Member, Board of Directors, Food + Planet
• Member, Board of Directors, Confluence Philanthropy

Biography

Aimée Christensen has three decades of climate and sustainability experience in policy, law, investment, philanthropy and business including at Baker & McKenzie, Google, The White House, The World Bank, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Christensen drafted and negotiated the first U.S. bilateral and regional climate change agreements (U.S.-Costa Rica, et. al., 1994-1997), drafted the first-ever university endowment climate investment policy (Stanford University, 1999) and while Climate Maven at Google, guided the company’s early climate strategy including a commitment to carbon neutrality in 2007, lobbying for the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) (2006), and developing Google.org’s first climate project, RechargeIT, to advance the electrification of transportation and vehicle to grid (2006-2007). She is founder and CEO of Christensen Global, a strategic advisory firm developing, accelerating and scaling solutions for impact, with clients ranging from founder innovators to global businesses, from multilateral institutions to investors. Clients have included Aleph Farms, The B Team, Clinton Global Initiative, Duke Energy, The Elders, Ford Motor Company, Global Ocean Commission, Microsoft, Riskthinking.AI, Swiss Re, UN Development Program, Virgin, and Wolfensohn + Co. She advised three of Sir Richard Branson’s initiatives, The Elders, The Carbon War Room and The B Team, she served as Senior Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General’s High-level Group on Sustainable Energy For All (2012), and she founded and led the Sun Valley Institute for Resilience (2015-2020) and founded and curates the Sun Valley Forum (2015-present). She is a board member of Confluence Philanthropy, Food + Planet, and the National Forest Foundation as well as the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University and the Global Institute on Sustainability and Innovation at Arizona State University. She is an Aspen Institute Catto Fellow (2010), a Hillary Institute Leadership Laureate (2011) and an Idaho Business Review Woman of the Year (2020). She has a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. from Smith College. 

Education

• JD, Stanford Law School
• BA, Smith College