Christine Harada
Federal Chief Sustainability Officer
Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President
On November 16, Christine Harada was appointed to the White House Council on Environmental Quality by President Obama, where she serves as the Administration's Federal Chief Sustainability Officer. In this capacity, she is responsible for promoting environmental and energy sustainability across Federal Government operations including 360,000 buildings, 650,000 vehicles, and $445 billion annually in purchased goods and services. The Office of Federal Sustainability works collaboratively with the Executive Office of the President and each of the Federal agencies to implement the President’s Executive Orders on Federal Sustainability and the GreenGov initiative.
Prior to her appointment, Harada served as the Associate Administrator for Government-wide Policy at the U.S. General Services Administration, where she helped provide government-wide policies and guidance to enable the sustainable and efficient use of assets, effective acquisition leadership, identity management and sound information management.
Previously, she worked at The Boston Consulting Group and Booz Allen Hamilton, where she was a consultant to Fortune 500 and public sector clients. During her tenure, she worked with corporate, not-for-profit and government entities on key strategic, operational and organizational issues across a range of sectors, including health care, international relief and development, aerospace, and the federal government. She led major projects to generate performance improvements through process streamlining, enhanced customer service, improved deployment of technology, more effective marketing programs and strengthened organizational effectiveness. Prior to her work in the consulting field, Harada worked in Silicon Valley as an international program manager and Lockheed Martin as a senior satellite systems engineer.
She was educated at the Wharton School and Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received both an MBA in Finance and an M.A. in International Studies with a focus on East Asia and Japanese language, at Stanford University, where she received an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and at MIT, where she received a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics.