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Title: Chief Sustainability Officer Company: Google Industry: Technology

Kate Brandt, Google’ s Chief Sustainability Officer, oversees strategy across operations, products and supply chains, working closely with data centre, real estate, hardware and cloud teams to deliver climate and resource goals. Since joining Google in 2016 and becoming Chief Sustainability Officer in 2018, she has led initiatives including seven consecutive years of matching electricity use with 100 % renewable energy, continued carbon neutrality and ambitious circularity commitments for products and packaging. The company also aims to replenish more water than it consumes in water-stressed regions and help restore ecosystems through targeted partnerships. ​Previously the first Federal Chief Sustainability Officer of the United States, she orchestrated sustainability across vast public assets, experience that informs her systems approach within a complex global technology ecosystem.

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