Anne Choate
Anne is a strategic growth and operations leader with more than 30 years of experience at ICF guiding diverse teams through transformation to meet evolving client needs and market demands.
Anne serves as the President of ICF. In this role, she leads the company’s client-facing teams and oversees market strategy, development and execution, as well as corporate business development, ensuring ICF delivers sustained growth while remaining deeply responsive to client needs.
Prior to this role, Anne led ICF’s Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure operating group, drawing on decades of experience across energy and transportation. Throughout her career, she has leveraged technology to deliver pragmatic and interdisciplinary solutions to commercial, state and local, and federal clients. A commitment to client-centricity and resource optimization has consistently defined her leadership approach.
Anne has built and utilized state-of-the-art models to assess lifecycle energy requirements and air quality emissions, monitor carbon in soils, and pioneer approaches for indicator-based risk assessments. Over the course of her career, she has supported energy planning in nearly all 50 states; led resiliency efforts for multiple cities and investor-owned utilities; and advised dozens of cities, metropolitan planning organizations, and state agencies.
Anne served for nine years as a trustee on the Pennsylvania/Delaware Board of The Nature Conservancy and is a recognized leader in the energy space.
- Insights and analytics
- Integrated risk management
- Disaster mitigation
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Asset management
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Renewable energy
- Transportation
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M.S., Environmental Science, Johns Hopkins University
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B.A., Environmental Science and Policy, Duke University
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Certificate of Management Excellence, Harvard Business School
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Certificate in Science, Technology, and Human Values, Duke University
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Jacobs, J.M., M. Culp, L. Cattaneo, P. Chinowsky, A. Choate, S. DesRoches, S. Douglass, and R. Miller (2018). Transportation. In Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II. U.S. Global Change Research Program.
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Choate, A., Dix, B., Rodehorst, B., Wong, A., Jaglom, W. (ICF); Keller,J., Lennon, J., Dorney, C., Kuchibhotla, R., Mallela, J., Sadasivam, S. (WSP); Douglass, S. (South Coast Engineers) (2017). Synthesis of Approaches for Addressing Resilience in Project Development. Federal Highway Administration.
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Evans, C., Wong, A., Snow, C., Choate, A., & Rodehorst, B. (2014). Indicator-Based Vulnerability Screening for Improving Infrastructure Resilience to Climate Change Risks. In ICSI 2014: Creating Infrastructure for a Sustainable World (pp. 215–228). American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Rowan, E., Snow, C., Choate, A., Rodehorst, B., Asam, S., Hyman, R. Kafalenos, R, and Gye, A. (2014). Indicator Approach for Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability in Transportation Infrastructure. In Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2459: Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Evacuation, and Logistics of Disaster Recovery 2014 (pp.18-28). Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.
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Beucler, Brian; Choate, Anne; Dix, Brenda; Hyman, Robert; Kafalenos, Robert; Kuna, Jess; Rodehorst, Beth; Snow, Cassandra. (October 2014). “Gulf Coast Study, Phase 2; Assessing Transportation System Vulnerability to Climate Change: Synthesis of Lessons Learned and Methods Applied.” U.S. Department of Transportation. FHWA Report # FHWA-HEP-15-007.
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Reidmiller, D.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, K.L.M. Lewis, T.K. Maycock, and B.C. Stewart (eds.). (2018). Transportation. In Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II.
