Do massive floods worldwide and soaring heatwaves foreshadow changes in the global climate status quo? Last February, the freeze in Texas caused massive power outages, damage to infrastructure, and 172 people lost their lives. What does a system more resilient to catastrophic risk look like? Is our response coming too late? Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment Alice Hill will talk with us about confronting the dangers ahead in our November 1 webinar.
About the speaker:
Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously served as a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and as senior counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2009. Hill led developments of policy regarding national security and climate change as special assistant to the President and senior director of resilience policy at the National Security Council during the Obama Administration. In 2015, Hill was honored with the Meta-Leader of the Year award from Harvard’s University’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. Her 30-year career includes experience as a federal prosecutor, judge, and White House insider.
About the Moderator:
Brendon Steele is Future 500’s resident expert on all things energy, oil and gas, and climate policy. He grew up with one foot in the San Francisco Bay Area and the other in an oil family, where he was able to find common ground in uncommon places. Steele holds a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Davis and a masters in Climate and Society from Columbia University. While at Columbia, Steele worked with the Urban Climate Change Research Network at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies to facilitate knowledge sharing on climate change and cities. He spent six years working in the environmental chemistry field, where he was a liaison between federal regulators and his team of chemists and data analysts.