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Ingrid Irigoyen

Senior Director, Ocean and Climate

Ingrid Irigoyen is the Senior Director, Ocean and Climate, for the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program (EEP), where she leads EEP’s work at the ocean-climate nexus and serves as a strategic advisor and facilitator for multi-stakeholder initiatives seeking to address climate, ocean, and coastal challenges. Her responsibilities include serving as the facilitator and project lead for Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels (coZEV), a coalition of major multinational consumer products companies and other freight buyers working to accelerate the pace of decarbonization in maritime shipping. She also serves as the President and CEO of the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), a non-profit organization and first-of-its-kind buyers group within the maritime sector with the mission accelerate commercial deployment of zero-emission shipping, enable economies of scale, and help cargo owners maximize emissions reduction beyond what any one freight buyer could accomplish alone. 

Prior to joining Aspen in 2018, she was a Senior Mediator and Program Manager at Meridian Institute, where she devoted 13 years to the design, management, and facilitation of collaborative efforts to solve multi-stakeholder environmental and sustainability problems, with a special focus on oceans and coasts. Prior to this, among other positions, Ingrid was a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of New Hampshire. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her family and speaks Spanish fluently. 

Our Team

Alexis Anderson

Program Assistant, Executive Office

Annabella Ronca

Program Assistant, Ocean & Climate

Bea Kuijpers

Program Manager, Climate & Environment

Bridget Boyer

Program Manager, Ocean & Climate

Catherine Kent

Finance Manager

Catie Tobin

Senior Program Manager, EPPIC

Dana Lhundup

Program Assistant, Ocean & Climate

Emily Engel

Program Coordinator, Ocean & Climate

Greg Gershuny

Vice President And Executive Director

Jade Rouse

Program Associate, Climate & Environment

Jérôme Krumenacker

Senior Operations Associate

Jillian Sacksner

Intern, Communications

Julia Merjan

Senior Development Associate

Kate Jaffee

Director, Climate & Environment

Kathryn Benz

Senior Policy Manager, Ocean & Climate

Kitty Pollack

Senior Advisor to the Executive Director

Laura Schifter

Senior Fellow, This Is Planet Ed

María Ortiz Pérez

Managing Director

Melody Salerno

Program Associate, EPPIC

Michelle Faggert

Senior Program Associate, This Is Planet Ed

Michellie Hess

Senior Program Associate, Ocean & Climate

Nadia Phyu

Executie Associate

Nikki DeVignes

Associate Director

Selena Elmer

Senior Program Manager, Ocean & Climate

Sophia Powless

Program Coordinator, This Is Planet Ed

Tanzia Redi

Program Associate, Energy & Mitigation Policy

Taylor Goelz

Senior Program Manager, Ocean & Climate

Timothy Mason

Director, Energy & Mitigation

Yvonne Reed

ZEMBA Procurement Lead, Ocean & Climate

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