Cyrus Wadia

Dr. Cyrus Wadia is the former Director of Worldwide Product Sustainability at Amazon. He led a mission to offer customers products that are more sustainable, affordable, and beneficial for business. His team embedded sustainability into core retail decision-making and launched Climate Pledge Friendly, Amazon's flagship sustainable shopping program, setting higher product standards for all products in Amazon’s catalog. Prior to Amazon, Cyrus was Vice President of Sustainable Business & Innovation at Nike, responsible for integrating sustainability into new product development, advancing Nike's efforts in carbon management, enterprise risk management, and modernizing Nike’s brand and consumer engagement strategy. Cyrus served as Assistant Director in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2010 to 2015, advising the Obama administration and leading new budgetary and legislative initiatives in energy, climate, advanced materials, manufacturing, and critical minerals. In this role, he was responsible for creating and expanding more than $1 billion in new budget initiatives and leading the development of the nation's first policy framework and strategy on critical minerals. Between 1996 and 2010, Cyrus held various leadership roles as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, a senior program officer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and as the founding member and Co-Director of the Haas School of Business's Cleantech to Market initiative. Cyrus holds a Ph.D. in Energy & Resources from U.C. Berkeley and an M.S. and S.B. in Chemical Engineering from MIT.