Terzah Tippin Poe, an Inupiat from the US Arctic, is a lecturer at Harvard University in the Sustainability and Environmental Management program and consults, writes and speaks about a broad range of sustainability issues including international environmental governance, marine policy, and business resilience. Her areas of expertise are sustainability management, new country entries, vulnerable community/indigenous relations, land use, risk assessment/mitigation and policy. In addition, she lectures at Harvard Law, Tufts and Boston College and other institutions on social/food/environmental justice, indigenous rights and collaborative development.
As part of Poe’s portfolio with a global energy company, she negotiated agreements with communities and worked with international organizations including the World Bank, Inuit Circumpolar Council, WWF, First Peoples Worldwide, Living Earth and The Nature Conservancy to develop policy.
Poe holds a Masters from Harvard in Sustainability and Environmental Management, a Bachelors in Journalism, and post graduate studies in Public Policy and Ethics.
Energy systems transformation can be a messy, chaotic process fraught with uncertainty for workers, companies, and whole economies. This session will view the energy transition through the lens of mitigating risks and maximizing emerging opportunities.