Anne Choate

Anne leads our Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure operating group. Her team of more than 2,600 professionals advises commercial, federal, state, and local clients on energy markets, climate change, clean energy, environmental planning, conservation, transportation planning, and disaster management.

Anne brings more than 25 years of experience and expertise working at the intersection of clean energy, climate change, resilience, and transportation. She has built and utilized state-of-the-art models to track lifecycle emissions, monitor carbon in soils, and pioneer approaches for indicator-based climate risk assessments. Over the course of her career, Anne has supported decarbonization planning and carbon target-setting activities at the federal level and in nearly all 50 states; led resiliency efforts for multiple cities and investor-owned utilities; and advised dozens of national parks, national estuary programs, transit agencies, and state Departments of Transportation.

Anne is a member of the Standing Committee on Extreme Weather and Climate Change Adaptation under the National Academies of Science/Transportation Research Board. She was an author of the National Climate Assessment, released in November 2018. She also serves as a trustee on the Pennsylvania Board of The Nature Conservancy. Before joining us in 1995, Anne worked at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.

Anne is also a senior fellow with the ICF Climate Center. In this role, she provides compelling research and objective perspectives on a wide range of climate-related topics to help advance climate conversations and accelerate climate action.