{"id":2092,"date":"2024-06-10T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2092"},"modified":"2024-06-12T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:52:17","slug":"mindy-lubber","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/profiles\/mindy-lubber\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindy Lubber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceres.org\/\">Ceres<\/a>. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks and global initiatives have grown significantly in size and influence.<\/p>\n<p>As a global thought leader, Lubber has inspired capital market leaders including some of the world\u2019s largest institutional investors and corporate boards and executives to factor responsible investment and business practices into their overall strategies. She regularly speaks to high-level global and national policymakers on the need for stronger climate policies that accelerate the transition to a more just and resilient economy. She is frequently quoted in mainstream business and financial news outlets and pens columns for<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mindylubber\/#1ffe900f5ed1\">Forbes.com<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/authors\/mindy-lubber\/\">Reuters.com<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>on a variety of sustainability topics. In 2015, Lubber helped catalyze the necessary business support to get the historic Paris Agreement across the finish line, leading<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/projects\/13373340\/climate-change-summit-women-cop21-warriors-global-warming\/\">Vogue Magazine<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>to name her a \u201cClimate Warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lubber has received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership. In 2020, she was awarded the United Nations \u2018Champions of the Earth\u2019 Entrepreneurial Vision award. She has made Barron\u2019s Magazine\u2019s list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance for four consecutive years and received the Climate Visionary Award from the Earth Day Network, the William K. Reilly Award for Environmental Leadership from American University, and the Skoll Foundation\u2019s Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Ceres has been named a top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts for five years in a row by the Globe Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Ceres, Lubber served as a Regional Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She also founded Green Century Capital Management and served as the director of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22474,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2092\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}