Presented by
BeechTree is a boutique advisory firm that helps organizations build resilience and drive meaningful change in the face of climate challenges. We specialize in both executive search and technical advisory services, providing clients with comprehensive, end-to-end solutions housed under one roof. For more information contact [email protected] or visit beechtreesearch.com
👥 Know someone who would benefit from Climate Proof’s news, insights, and job postings? Refer them now so they can receive the newsletter every week:
Top Moves
Katie Schlick has been named Massachusetts’ first statewide Heat Resilience Officer by Governor Maura Healey, making it the second state in the nation to establish a role dedicated to extreme heat. Schlick will report jointly to Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer and Department of Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, coordinating across state government and with communities to prepare for rising temperatures and reduce the public health impacts of extreme heat. She previously led the resilience portfolio at the US Climate Alliance and served as Special Assistant to the White House National Climate Advisor, where she helped coordinate the first White House Summits on Extreme Heat and Building Climate Resilient Communities.
Kate Levick has left policy think tank E3G after nearly eight years, where she most recently served as Associate Director for Finance & Resilience. She has taken on a new role as Deputy Executive Director and Director of Systemic Resilience at Earth Capital Nexus@LSE, a research initiative led by Professor Nicola Ranger at the London School of Economics, hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Global School of Sustainability, where she will lead work on corporates, financial institutions, and value chains. E3G's Finance & Resilience team will now be led by Jurei Yada as the new Associate Director for Finance & Resilience.
‼️Climate Proof is supported by paying members. Their commitment to independent media helps sustain our work — and makes it possible to share this monthly People Moves feature without a paywall.
Join 300+ members today in sustaining high-quality adaptation content
Departures
Mathew Sanders has left The Pew Charitable Trusts after six years, serving most recently as Senior Officer, Disaster Resilience Policy. During his tenure, Sanders helped broaden Pew’s flooding-focused work into a multi-hazard approach spanning wildfire, extreme heat, and drought, advanced resilience policy in multiple states, and built the State Resilience Planning Group as a national forum for collaboration. He also launched Weathering Change, Pew's disaster resilience newsletter.
Paula Pagniez has left Howden Group Holdings, where she served as Executive Director, Head of Americas and Co-Lead of Agriculture & Nature within the Climate Risk and Resilience practice since 2023. Pagniez previously served on FEMA’s National Advisory Council and as a Global Board Director for the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s ARISE private sector network.
Systemiq has shut down its US operations, ending the roles of co-founders Tucker Van Aken, Senior Director and Co-Lead of Systemiq North America, and Dee Yang, Partner and Head of the US Office. The pair had co-founded the firm’s first US office in 2025, working with organizations across North America on system-level change and resilience financing.
New Roles & Promotions
De Rui Wong has been appointed Head of Sustainability at Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, leading its Sustainability Office, which conducts sustainability-related investment research and develops strategies to address sustainability issues affecting the firm's portfolio. Wong joined GIC in 2019 and has served in the Sustainability Office since its 2022 launch; he previously worked at GIC from 2010 to 2017 as a macro and equity analyst.
Sharmala Naidoo has joined adaptation-focused investment business Morphosis as Associate Director. She began her career in South Africa's public service working on international finance and economic policy, including engagement with the G20, IMF, World Bank, and OECD, and has since held regional leadership and technical roles at the Global Green Growth Institute, Tetra Tech, and Mott MacDonald.
Chiara Zahn has been named Program Manager at DSR & Partners — The Climate Adaptation Advisors, after building the Adaptation Exchange, a cross-sector platform bringing together more than 25 corporates, insurers, financial institutions, and solution providers to move corporate climate adaptation from awareness to action.
Pierre Buisson has been promoted to Head of Weather & Agro at Munich Re, based in Zurich, where he will work with clients across Europe to help them understand, manage, and hedge weather-related risks. Buisson has been with the reinsurer for five years, most recently as Agro & Weather Senior Structurer, and previously worked at Axpo Solutions AG, where he served as Head of Models & Core Markets and, earlier, as a Senior Analyst and Data Scientist.
Owen Meaney has joined Lockton as US Parametric Leader within its Alternative Risk Solutions practice, part of the broker’s continued build-out of its parametric insurance specialism. Meaney joins from Descartes Underwriting, where he spent more than three years, most recently as AVP of Business Development, and previously worked at USI Insurance Services and Marsh.
Bradley Dean has joined Chubb as AVP for Community Resilience, where he will focus on advancing policy, innovation, and community partnerships to strengthen resilience, including work to quantify the benefits of resilience investments in reducing risk and supporting recovery.
Open Opportunities
📍 Bloomberg is hiring a Team Leader for its Climate and Nature Data team to lead and grow a team of climate data management experts, driving the development of climate and nature datasets for the Bloomberg Terminal and Enterprise products. Responsibilities include leading large data projects, ensuring data quality and governance, and collaborating across Product, Engineering, and Sales teams. The role is based in New York, NY. Apply here
📍 Zurich Resilience Solutions is hiring a Head of Climate Resilience Centre, APAC to define and execute the strategic vision and growth agenda for its new regional climate resilience platform, building the firm’s credibility with governments, multilateral development banks, and corporates across Asia-Pacific, and driving commercial growth through advisory services and partnerships. The role is based in Singapore, with regional travel required. Apply here
📍 Ramboll is hiring a Climate Adaptation Planner/Resilience Designer for its Water Infrastructure & Climate Adaptation practice, working on coastal and interior flood resilience projects across the Northeast, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic regions, including schematic design, community engagement, and climate risk and vulnerability assessments spanning sea level rise, storm surge, extreme heat, drought, and wildfires. The role is based in New York, NY. Apply here
📍 Mott MacDonald is hiring a Senior Advisory Consultant, Climate Resiliency to lead climate change risk and vulnerability assessments for major infrastructure programs, serving as technical lead on assessments using the PIEVC Protocol and integrating climate risk and adaptation considerations into capital planning, asset management, and infrastructure design. The role is based in Toronto, ON, or Vancouver, BC. Apply here
📍 JP Morgan is hiring an Executive Director for its Climate, Nature and Social Risk team to lead physical risk modeling strategy, translating climate model outputs into actionable insights and coordinating with data, technology, and modeling teams to support the firm's resilience to physical climate risks. The role is based in New York, NY. Apply here
📍 CGC, a non-profit investment firm financing clean energy, water, and resilient infrastructure projects, is hiring a Communications & Policy Associate to support internal and external policy, communications, and strategic initiatives, including coordinating high-priority projects, monitoring policy and media developments, and translating complex policy and market issues into clear materials for internal and external audiences. The role is based in Washington, DC, or New York, NY. Apply here
📍 Eztia Materials, maker of HydraVolt™ apparel-integrated cooling technology for workers in extreme heat, is hiring its first US Enterprise Sales Director to build its commercial go-to-market strategy from the ground up, focused initially on construction and industrial customers, including sourcing and closing enterprise deals, designing customer pilots, and eventually hiring a regional sales team. The role is based in San Francisco, CA. Apply here
📍 Neara, which builds physics-enabled digital twins of electricity grids to simulate extreme weather and structural stress, is hiring a Principal Research Scientist — Risk to lead its applied research function for infrastructure risk and resilience, developing predictive models for equipment damage, vegetation failure, outage likelihood, and wildfire-related risk, and quantifying the value of resilience investments for utilities. The role is hybrid, based in New York City. Apply here
📍 Tetra Tech is hiring a Graduate Consultant — Flood to join its flood risk and drainage teams, supporting flood risk solution design, hydraulic modeling, hydrology assessment, and SuDS across public and private sector infrastructure projects. The role is based in Leeds, Manchester, or London, starting September 2027. Applications close October 31. Apply here
📍 Aon is hiring a Catastrophe Risk Analyst for its UK&I Property Team, part of the Catastrophe Analytics group within Aon Reinsurance Solutions, to lead client portfolio analysis using catastrophe analytics and reinsurance structures, and advise clients on topics including View of Risk, climate change, and event response. The role is based in London. Apply here
Know a move we missed?
Submit your update or open role for next month’s column HERE
Thanks for reading!
Louie Woodall
Editor
