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Title: Chief Sustainability Officer Company: Amazon Industry: Retail

Kara Hurst shapes Amazon’ s global sustainability strategy as Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer for Worldwide Sustainability, overseeing the company’ s environmental, social and governance commitments, leading the Climate Pledge team and managing sustainability reporting for one of the world’ s largest and most operationally complex companies. She joined Amazon in 2014, bringing with her a distinguished background as CEO of The Sustainability Consortium and more than a decade of strategic advisory experience at BSR, one of the world’ s leading sustainability consultancies. Her academic formation, an MPP in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Urban Studies from Barnard College, underpins a career defined by rigorous systems thinking and cross-sector collaboration. Kara’ s influence extends well beyond Amazon itself; through the Climate Pledge, she has helped build a growing coalition of companies committed to reaching net zero emissions a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement timeline.

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