Uvini Lokuge

Uvini is a leader within IDEO’s Climate portfolio, where she directs design teams and multi-stakeholder collaborations that turn climate ambition into market-ready products, programs, and ventures. Her work spans the circular economy, clean electricity, food systems, and coastal conservation — bridging systems-level strategy with the creative execution needed to make sustainability commercially and humanly real.

Her notable work includes building a clean electricity venture from the ground up, leading a first-of-its-kind multi-retailer pilot to eliminate the single-use plastic bag, guiding a global food company toward a healthier and more sustainable future, and helping build and run the innovation function for a climate investment office. Across each, she’s helped leadership teams commit to bold directions with confidence — translating complexity into offers that customers, partners, and markets actually want.

Uvini’s background spans management consulting, clean energy, and over six years leading multidisciplinary teams at IDEO across retail, CPG, food, energy, and the nonprofit sector. She holds an MBA with a sustainability certificate from MIT Sloan.