Aimée Christensen is founder and CEO of Christensen Global, a sustainability advisory firm where she leverages deep expertise and a diverse network to guide clients including Apparel Impact Institute, Clinton Global Initiative, Duke Energy, The Elders, FEMSA, Ford Motor Company, Global Ocean Commission, Mastercard Impact Fund, Microsoft, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Russell Family Foundation, Swiss Re, United Nations Foundation and Virgin Group.

Christensen has three decades of climate experience across policy, law, investment, philanthropy and business including at The White House, U.S. Department of Energy, Baker & McKenzie, The World Bank and Google. She 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 as Climate Maven at Google, shaped 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, advancing the electrification of transportation and vehicle to grid (2006-2007). She was recruited to serve 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 the annual Sun Valley Forum (2015-present). 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.