Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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Katherine Li
Sustainability Technology and Business Analyst, Sustainability Accelerator
BioKatherine Li is a Sustainability Technology & Business Analyst at the Stanford Sustainability Accelerator, where she supports Stanford-led research teams in externalizing their innovations to create sustainability impact. She holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Stanford and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Duke University, where she was a Pratt Research Fellow and NAE Grand Challenge Scholar.
Katherine previously worked in the Intellectual Property Office at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, supporting the commercialization of energy and physical sciences technologies. Her research background spans water affordability, environmental pollution, and uncertainty modeling, with work conducted at Stanford, Duke, and Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has co-authored peer-reviewed publications and received multiple honors, including the Eric Pas Award for Outstanding Research from Duke, the NSERC Undergraduate Research Award, and the Stanford Digital Learning Design Challenge. She is also passionate about climate and science communication and has led youth-focused climate storytelling and education initiatives. -
Charlotte Joy Darcia Pera
Executive Director, Sustainability Accelerator
BioCharlotte Pera has worked for more than 30 years in clean energy, climate change, and philanthropy. In 2023 she was named one of the 50 most powerful women in U.S. philanthropy by Inside Philanthropy magazine. In July 2024, she became the first Executive Director of the Sustainability Accelerator at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Previously, she served as Vice President and Deputy CEO at the Bezos Earth Fund, a philanthropic organization created by Jeff Bezos that is spending $10 billion this decade to address climate change and protect and restore nature. Before joining the Earth Fund, Charlotte served for nearly nine years as President & CEO of the ClimateWorks Foundation, a leading philanthropic organization that works globally to advance climate solutions through intelligence services, convening, and grantmaking. Earlier in her career, Charlotte advanced clean energy technology and policy in the U.S. and China at the Energy Foundation and at engineering consulting firm Acurex.
Charlotte serves on the advisory board of the 100X Impact Accelerator at the London School of Economics, the governing board of the International Council for Clean Transportation, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Philanthropy for Climate and Nature. She is a Senior Fellow at the Bezos Earth Fund and a Senior Fellow with the Mission Possible Partnership. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.
