Emma Stewart, Ph.D. represents Climate Spring, a social enterprise supporting screenwriters and filmmakers globally to transform our cultural response to the climate crisis. Climate Spring provides script consultations as well as financing to grow the pipeline of compelling films and television series that reflect the transition to a clean economy, as well as the current climate and nature crises. Prior to that, she founded Netflix’s Sustainability Department as the Netflix Global Sustainability Officer, where she led the cross-company effort to decarbonize operations at speed, support creators who choose to represent sustainability in their film/series/games, and spotlight sustainability stories for the hundreds of millions of consumers who seek them.
Previously Emma founded Autodesk’s Sustainability Solutions department at design software giant Autodesk and consulted for Fortune500 companies from within global energy company ENGIE, venerable global think tank World Resources Institute, and corporate sustainability consultancy BSR. She has served on the Board of the U.S. Green Building Council (LEED) and software startup Ecomedes and was a member of faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business where she created and taught “Intrapreneurship for Sustainability”. In 2010, she was selected as a Fellow of The Aspen Institute.
She holds a Ph.D. in environmental science and management from Stanford University and a B.A. Honours degree in human sciences from Oxford University.
