Aileen Lerch

Aileen leads sustainability at Allbirds, a B Corp that makes footwear and apparel with a focus on premium natural materials. She is responsible for the Allbirds sustainability strategy, the Flight Plan, which includes ambitious targets to cut the company’s per-unit carbon emissions in half by 2025, and to near zero by 2030. Prior to joining Allbirds in 2020, Aileen conducted climate research at Rocky Mountain Institute, worked on sustainability in the buildings sector, and was a Fellow with the Clean Energy Leadership Institute. Aileen earned a Masters in Environmental Engineering from Stanford.