Suzanne Hunt has nearly two decades of experience solving problems in energy, agriculture, transportation and the environment. She is currently a policy advisor to Generate Capital in the U.S. and serves on the external Sustainability Council that advises the CEO and senior leadership of Bayer Corporation in Germany.
She is an Associate at the International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS) in Germany, a Northeast Chapter Director of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), and a member of the NY Clean Energy in Agriculture Task Force, the Agriculture and Forestry Advisory Panel to the NY Climate Action Council, and the NY Clean Transportation Roadmap Expert Advisory Board. She is also a Board Trustee of the Seneca Park Zoo Society, a Member of the Board of the Finger Lakes Wine Alliance, and she serves on the Advisory Councils of Carbon180 and the Center for Earth Ethics at the Union Divinity School. She is the Chair of the External Advisory Board to Cornell AgriTech and Chair of the Sustainability Advisory Committee to the NY Wine & Grape Foundation.
Suzanne has served as an advisor to entities such as the Club of Madrid, Air New Zealand, and the Carbon War Room. Suzanne was a founding advisor to the annual Art Center Sustainable Mobility Summit. From 2005–2007, Suzanne directed the Worldwatch Institute’s bioenergy program where she orchestrated the landmark research initiative and resulting book, “Biofuels for Transportation: Global Potential and Implications for Energy and Agriculture.”
In 2007 she founded Hunt Green LLC whose clients have included a wide variety of private equity firms, U.N. bodies, government agencies, clean tech startups, Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits. In the spring of 2015, she moved the business from Washington D.C. to the Finger Lakes region of New York to help run her family’s seventh generation farm and 40-year-old sustainable winery (HuntWines.com), and to help accelerate climate action in her home state. Suzanne has been featured as a “Pioneer” in Science Magazine, and as an expert in her fields in national and international print media and television.