anne choate

President, ICF

Ambassador

Anne Choate is the President of ICF, a global solutions and technology provider, where she leads the company’s client-facing teams and oversees market strategy, development and execution, as well as corporate growth. A recognized leader in the energy sector, Choate has spent more than 30 years helping organizations navigate evolving energy markets, strengthen infrastructure resilience, and deliver lasting impact for communities.

Previously, she led the Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure group at ICF, a team of more than 2,700 professionals advising commercial, federal, state, and local clients on energy markets, resilience, decarbonization, environmental planning, conservation, transportation planning, and disaster management. Over the course of her career, she has built and used state-of-the-art models to assess lifecycle emissions, monitor carbon in soils, and pioneer approaches for indicator-based climate risk assessments. She has supported decarbonization planning and carbon target-setting activities at the federal level and in nearly all 50 states; led resilience efforts for multiple cities and investor-owned energy utilities; and advised cities, metropolitan planning organizations, national parks, transit agencies, and state departments of transportation.

Choate was a founding member of the Standing Committee on Extreme Weather and Climate Change Adaptation under the National Academies of Science/Transportation Research Board. In addition, she served for 9 years as a trustee on the Pennsylvania/Delaware Board of The Nature Conservancy. Her leadership has been recognized with Consulting Magazine’s 2023 Women Leaders in Consulting Award and WashingtonExec’s Longevity Award.

Choate earned an MS in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University where she also completed a Certificate in Science, Technology, and Human Values. Choate also completed Harvard Business School’s Certificate of Management Excellence in 2024.