Emma Stewart, Ph.D.

Current

• Senior Program Lead, Sustainability Initiative at Autodesk

Past

• Director of Environmental R&D at BSR
• Senior Consultant at Environmental Defense Fund
• Teaching Fellow, Graduate School of Business at Stanford University

• Associate at Synergy (UK)
• Research Analyst at INFORM Inc.

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Education

• Stanford University
• University of Oxford

Recommended

5 people have recommended Emma

Connections

308 connections

Industry

Environmental Services

Websites

• Column in Harvard Business
• Column in GreenBiz
• Column in Environmental Leader

Emma Stewart, Ph.D.’s Summary

Professional Experience
• Have advised and conducted research for Fortune500 companies on environmental issues covering climate, water, land use, biodiversity, toxicity, and product design
• Have built, defined and funded new global R&D function at BSR ($800,000 raised)
• Have outlined and prioritized an organization-wide research agenda based upon the analysis of global trends
• Have developed and managed multi-year, multi-sector, multi-partner projects from inception through execution
• Have identified and formed strategic partnerships with select research, policy, multilateral and NGO organizations
• Have negotiated participation of key industry players (e.g. Shell, Goldman Sachs, BP, Unilever, Chevron, McD)
• Have managed teams ranging from three full-time staff to 14 part-time staff

Quoted in The Wall Street Journal (3/24/08), Harvard Business Review Green (3/24/08), The New York Times (11/7/07, 6/13/07, and 12/28/06), International Herald Tribune (11/6/07), Contra Costa Times (3/6/08), Human Resources Magazine (2/1/08), Argus Air Daily (8/24/07), Inside Green Business (3/14/07), Global Finance (9/06)

Work cited in PBS Nightly Business Report (3/25/08), Reuters InterActive (8/6/07), Financial Times (4/25/07), Christian Science Monitor (1/10/07), Fast Company (8/14/06)

Emma Stewart, Ph.D.’s Specialties:

Environmental trends analysis, policy and metrics design, management consulting and research

Emma Stewart, Ph.D.’s Experience

• Senior Program Lead, Sustainability Initiative

  Autodesk

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADSK; Computer Software industry)

  November 2008 — Present (9 months)

• Director of Environmental R&D

  BSR

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Environmental Services industry)

  April 2005 — April 2008 (3 years 1 month)

  I launched and directed Environmental R&D at BSR, a non-profit business membership association that provides its 250 Fortune1000 member companies with research and consulting in environmental and social best practice.
  
  
  Illustrative Initiatives:
  • “Environmental Markets: Risks & Opportunities for Business”, a 2-year project engaging major companies on the emerging market mechanisms trading in air, climate, water quality and biodiversity assets.
  • “Decarbonizing the ICT Supply Chain”, a 2-year initiative with support from the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct to undertake root cause analysis and address obstacles to enhance embodied product energy
  • “China Water Quality Initiative”, a 1-year initiative with Beijing University to develop new metrics, tools and techniques for disclosure and improved performance in apparel water quality management

• Senior Consultant

  Environmental Defense Fund

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Environmental Services industry)

  2004 — 2008 (4 years)

  Programmatic design, strategy development and project scoping for three of EDF's flagship programs (Corporate Partnerships, Strategic Partnerships, and Oceans)

• Teaching Fellow, Graduate School of Business

  Stanford University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years)

  Helped to create and teach new “Social Entrepreneurship” course, a joint venture between Stanford Graduate School of Business School and Humanities Graduate School
  
  Generated ideas and partnerships between the two schools and managed team of 14 case writers
  
  Teaching Fellow for "Environmental Entrepreneurship" course

• Associate

  Synergy (UK)

  (Renewables & Environment industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  • Consulted on sustainable development alternatives in developing world contexts, including trust funds, carbon offsetting, community wildlife management, social auditing
  • Clients included: EU, IUCN, Dept for International Development (UK), WWF-UK

• Research Analyst

  INFORM Inc.

  (Research industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year)

  • Created a comprehensive directory of the fuel cell industry as it applies to transportation

Emma Stewart, Ph.D.’s Education

• Stanford University

  PhD , Environmental Science, Policy and Management

  Doctoral Thesis: “Achieving Sustainable Development through Corporate Sustainability; a comparison of environmental and social performance in the Caribbean hospitality sector”, in collaboration with Environmental Defense Fund, the Cuban Ministry of Science, the Cuban Ministry of Tourism and the Dominican Office of the President.
  
  Committee members: Don Kennedy, William H. Durham, William Barnett, Dominique Irvine

• University of Oxford

  BA Honours , Human Sciences

  B.A. degree (Honours) in Human Sciences Degree includes: biology, ecology, animal behavior, genetics, evolution, anthropology, statistics, sociology, demography, brain & behavior
  
  Honours Thesis: “An Analysis of the Relative Potential of Two Strategies in Conservation: A Brazilian Exemplar of a Single-Species Level Flagship Approach and an Ecosystem-Level Community-Based Conservation Approach”, in collaboration with The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas

Additional Information

Emma Stewart, Ph.D.’s Websites:

• Column in Harvard Business
• Column in GreenBiz
• Column in Environmental Leader

Emma Stewart, Ph.D.’s Interests:

International travel, modern dance, reading, running, gardening

Emma Stewart, Ph.D.’s Groups:

Next Generation Fellow, The American Assembly
Advisory Committee Member, UN Environment Program Finance Initiative
Board Member, ODC San Francisco

•    Sustainability Professionals
•    Autodesk'ers
•    GreenBiz.com -- Green Business Professionals
•    The Carbon Professionals Networking Group

Emma Stewart, Ph.D.’s Honors:

Bernard J. Siegel Award for Outstanding Research & Publication
O’Bie Shultz Fellowship in International Studies
Latin American Studies Research Grantee
Mellon Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Top Ten Thesis, Human Sciences degree, Oxford University

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