About the Panelists
Claire Henly is the Executive Director of the Super Pollutant Action Alliance, a philanthropic funders collaborative focused on strengthening global efforts to reduce super pollutants, which cause half of current climate change and millions of premature deaths worldwide. Claire brings to this role 15 years of experience advancing climate solutions within government, civil society, start-ups, and academia. Most recently, Claire served as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, where she led the team that launched and implemented the Global Methane Pledge, the Global Fertilizer Challenge and other international efforts to tackle super pollutants.
Jamey Mulligan is a senior scientist at Amazon and the technical and strategy lead on Amazon’s carbon neutralization team. Previously, Jamey held positions at the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the White House Office of Management & Budget. His work focuses on assessing a range of natural and technological measures for carbon removal and abatement on feasibility, lifecycle performance, cost, social impact, and scalability parameters–and developing and implementing strategies to scale those measures. Jamey has played a role in a number of major climate initiatives, including the LEAF Coalition, Amazon’s Agroforestry & Restoration Accelerator, the US Climate Alliance Natural & Working Lands Initiative, the development of WRI’s Carbon Removal program, successful efforts to expand and strengthen DOE funding and 45Q tax incentives for carbon removal, the Clean Power Plan and several other doomed regulations under the Clean Air Act, and the US Government’s first assessment of the fiscal risks of climate change. He holds an MS in Natural Resources & Environment and an MA in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan.
Anastasia O’Rourke leads the Carbon Containment Lab’s work on superpollutants, including cooling and carbon markets. She also serves as Treasurer, and teaches a class at Yale School of the Environment on Superpollutant mitigation. She has deep expertise in carbon markets, green procurement, standards development, venture investing, and entrepreneurship. Prior to the CC Lab, Anastasia was a Senior Consultant with Industrial Economics Inc., where she led a sustainability practice delivering on the sustainability objectives of federal and state governments, large companies, NGOs, and international organizations. She co-founded Big Room Inc., developers of the .eco top-level domain and Ecolabel Index. She was a founder of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC), a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit, and served as Board Chair.
Anastasia holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, a M.Sc. in industrial environmental management and policy from Lund University, Sweden, and a B.A. with first-class honors from Sydney University, Australia, for which she was awarded the University Medal.
Jessica Seddon is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Deitz Family Initiative on Environment & Global Affairs at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. Her work on environmental governance focuses on how novel data sources, technologies, and analytical tools can be leveraged to enable new (and more sustainable) ways of interacting with the environment around us. Her career in India and the U.S. spans academic, program leadership, and strategic advisory roles focused on institutional design for integrating science into policy and social initiatives. Seddon is a co-founder of The Institutional Architecture Lab (TIAL) and a Fellow with the African Tech Futures Lab. She serves on the academic council of the Indian School of Public Policy in New Delhi.
Seddon has most recently focused on governance of various aspects of the atmosphere, from climate change to air quality to climate intervention. She built and led the global air quality program at the World Resources Institute (WRI) and co-chairs the Global Air Quality Forecasting and Information Services initiative of the World Meteorological Organization. She co-chairs the Oversight Committee for the Exploring Climate Cooling Program at the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). Prior to joining WRI, Seddon co-founded and led Okapi, an India-based strategy group incubated at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras that focuses on institutional design for social innovation. She has worked with numerous institutions in India, including as visiting fellow at IDFC Institute (Mumbai), later Artha Global, and Senior Fellow at the Center for Technology and Policy, IIT Madras. Seddon has published book chapters and articles on infrastructure, Indian political economy, information technology and governance, environmental regulation, and other institutional design topics in international academic and policy venues, including Cambridge University Press, the Journal of Development Economics, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Foreign Affairs, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Harvard Business Review. She earned her Ph.D. in political economy from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and her B.A. in government and Latin American studies from Harvard University.
Randy Spock is the Carbon Credits and Removals Lead at Google, where he spearheads the company’s global strategy to neutralize residual greenhouse gas emissions through high-integrity carbon credits and early-stage carbon removal solutions. Based in the Boston–Cambridge area, he leads a cross-functional team that designs and executes large-scale procurement of high-quality removals, including Google’s commitments of over $100 million in carbon removal credits and partnerships such as the Frontier advance market commitment. Prior to Google, Randy held senior roles in carbon markets and climate-focused product strategy at Patch and Indigo, and led customer-facing businesses at Wayfair, building on earlier experience in strategy and impact-driven finance at the Boston Consulting Group and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and frequently speaks on the role of corporate demand in scaling durable carbon removal and tackling super-pollutants.
