Episode 3: Rachel Kyte

About our speaker

Rachel Kyte was named by Time magazine as one of the 15 women leading climate action. She is an extremely accomplished and experienced leader, with an appetite to keep on learning.

She has worked at the UN and with the World Bank, was the Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All, and was the 14th dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University until June 2023.

In this episode she talks about the influence her dad and the Girl guides had on her, and she reminisces about growing up in the East of England.

She is optimistic about the next generation and hopeful that change can happen if people work in community. Her TED talk on sustainable cooling mentioned in the show is here.

Rachel Kyte is Dean Emerita, Professor of Practice at The Fletcher School at Tufts and committed to lifelong learning for the need for a warp-speed digitalized, decarbonizing world with revitalized international solidarity and private/public partnerships for a fairer, more resilient, greener world.

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