anne choate

Executive Vice President, Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure, ICF

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Anne Choate leads the Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure group at ICF, a global consulting firm. Her team of more than 2,700 professionals advises commercial, federal, state, and local clients on energy markets, climate change, clean energy, environmental planning, conservation, transportation planning, and disaster management. Choate brings nearly 30 years of experience and expertise working at the intersection of decarbonization, clean energy, climate adaptation, and infrastructure resilience. She has built and utilized state-of-the-art models to assess lifecycle emissions, monitor carbon in soils, and pioneer approaches for indicator-based climate risk assessments. Over the course of her career, 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 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. She was an author of the National Climate Assessment, released in November 2018. In addition, she serves as a trustee on the Pennsylvania Board of The Nature Conservancy. She is also a senior fellow with the ICF Climate Center. She has won numerous awards for her leadership, including Consulting Magazine’s 2023 Women Leaders in Consulting Award and WashingtonExec’s Longevity Award.

Choate earned her MS in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University and her BA in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University.