June 5, 2023
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Jessica Uhl
Executive Co-Chair, Mission Possible Partnership
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Executive Co-Chair, Mission Possible Partnership
With over 20 years in the energy industry, Jessica has led global businesses in many of the key energy sectors, from wind and solar manufacturing to power and LNG sales and trading and upstream oil and gas production. Her work has been guided by the ambition of achieving an energy system that is sustainable, just and resilient.
Jessica is currently the Executive co-Chair of Mission Possible Partnership and a Strategic Advisor to Breakthrough Energy, working to decarbonize the hard to abate sectors and address climate change. She is also a board member of Goldman Sachs, RMI and the Columbia Center for Global Energy Policy. Until April 2022, she was CFO of Shell plc where she shaped its shift to a net zero strategy and drove the transparency agenda. Prior to Shell, Jessica worked with Enron and Citibank. Jessica has been named to the Forbes and Fortune lists of the Most Powerful Women and an OUTstanding Ally. Jessica graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley and received an MBA from INSEAD. She has lived in the Netherlands, France, the UK, Panama and the US and now calls Seattle home. Jessica is married and has three children and two golden retrievers.
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