In January 2018, I completed a roughly 2.5-year research fellowship hosted by the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment (Stanford, CA), during which most of my day-to-day was spent visioning and implementing the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s grant making strategies around climate change mitigation. I worked most closely with the Packard Foundation’s Climate — Innovations and Climate — Land Use teams. In addition to supporting, cultivating, and learning from our amazing network of grantees and partners, a few other projects I was able to work on at the Foundation included:
- Co-authoring the Packard Foundation’s Palm Oil Strategy Review (meant to stocktake progress made under the Foundation’s Palm Oil Strategy since its inception in 2014 to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions trajectory of the global palm oil industry) and Palm Oil Strategy Refresh (meant to guide the Foundation’s palm oil grant making through 2020 based on lessons learned). Links coming soon!
- In collaboration with Oak Foundation and Good Energies Foundation, as well as non-donor partners Citizen Engagement Lab and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, designing and implementing the new Climate Strategies Accelerator (CSA) program focused on incubating and launching disruptively innovative climate strategies. Through this program, we had the privilege of supporting some amazing folks doing work ranging from reducing red meat consumption in China to disrupting coal finance globally. You can learn more about CSA here.
GILLIAN LUI 