Kathy Baughman McLeod
Director, Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, and Senior Vice President, Atlantic Council
Kathy Baughman McLeod is director of the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center at the Atlantic Council, where she is senior vice president. She chairs the Center’s Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance and is spearheading a global push to name and categorize heat waves. Baughman McLeod was previously SVP for environmental and social risk at Bank of America, managing director for climate resilience at The Nature Conservancy, and a renewable-energy finance and climate advisor for corporate clients, among other positions. Recipient of the Fuqua School of Business 2021 Leader of Consequence Award, she was appointed to FEMA’s National Advisory Council as its first-ever climate specialist in 2021. Her prior service includes the Florida Energy and Climate Commission and the Clean Energy States Alliance.
