Emma Stewart

Emma Stewart, Ph.D., is the inaugural Netflix Sustainability Officer, where she leads the cross-company effort to decarbonize operations at the speed prescribed by climate science, support creators who choose to represent sustainability into their film/series/games, and spotlight sustainability stories for the over half billion Netflix members who seek them (Netflix Sustainability).

Previously Emma founded the Sustainability Solutions department at design software giant Autodesk and consulted for Fortune500 companies from within global energy company ENGIE, think tank World Resources Institute, and business membership organization BSR. She has served on the Board of the U.S. Green Building Council (LEED) and 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.

Emma has been rated a “Finalist Top 100 Chief Sustainability Officer” by Imperial College, a”top 3 speaker” by The Economist, an “urban pioneer” by FORTUNE Magazine, a “sustainability insurgent” by MIT Sloan Management Review, and a “Badass Woman of Sustainability” by GreenBiz. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Reuters, The Guardian, Tribune, The Huffington Post, LA Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Environmental Law Journal, etc. She is a contributing author to Corporate Responses to Climate Change and The Encyclopedia of Sustainable Business, and her work has been profiled in books Frugal Innovation, The Big Pivot, Chief Sustainability Officers at Work, and The Solutionists.