Emma Stewart

Head of sustainability solutions

Autodesk

Emma Stewart is Head of Sustainability Solutions at Autodesk, where she leads the design software company’s efforts to make sustainable design easy, insightful, and cost-effective for its millions of engineering and design customers. She also teaches on “intrapreneurship for sustainability” at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Prior to Autodesk, Ms Stewart founded and directed the Environmental R&D Division at Business for Social Responsibility, where her team designed corporate initiatives to analyze and adapt to horizon issues such as payments for ecosystem services, water footprinting, carbon offsets and trading, voluntary supply chain standards, and sustainable product design. She has also been a regularly featured columnist for Harvard Business Online, Environmental Leader, and GreenBiz.

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