Marilyn Waite

Marilyn Waite leads the climate and clean energy finance portfolio at the Hewlett Foundation, is author of Sustainability at Work: careers that make a difference, and serves on the Board of Advisors of COI Energy and as Vice President of the Kachuwa Impact Fund.

She has written the 12-part series on green economy ventures, The Innovators, on GreenBiz, where she writes as editor-at-large. Marilyn previously led the cleantech practice at the venture capital firm Village Capital, modeled and forecasted energy solutions to climate change as a senior research fellow at Project Drawdown, and served in a number of roles in nuclear and renewable energy at Orano (formerly AREVA).

She holds a Masters Degree with distinction in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, magna cum laude, from Princeton University.