Christina Angelides

Managing Director of Policy, Elemental Impact

2024 C3E Policy & Advocacy Award Winner

Christina Angelides is a senior leader with a passion for scaling climate technologies and solutions that deliver transformative impact for communities. She has over eighteen years of experience in senior strategy and management roles in the nonprofit, government, and finance sectors. Angelides has worked with chief executive officers, mayors, investors, climate and environmental justice organizations, philanthropic funders, and many other stakeholders to implement national initiatives that drive investment in local communities, create jobs, and reduce pollution.

Angelides is currently the Managing Director of Policy at Elemental Impact, where she leads policy strategy, government affairs, and community engagement programs for Elemental and its portfolio companies. She also leads strategy for the organization’s public investment portfolio, including Elemental’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program, which is investing millions of dollars in projects around the country to benefit low-income and other underserved communities.

Prior to Elemental, Angelides designed, launched, and ran several multi-city and state climate initiatives, including serving as the Director of the American Cities Climate Challenge, a donor-funded $100 million program that enabled 25 U.S. cities to collectively exceed Paris Climate Agreement targets. Through her 13 years at the Natural Resources Defense Council, she advanced policies and programs at the city, state, and federal levels and across a range of climate and clean tech issues. She also expanded the Environmental Entrepreneurs network, supported Fortune 500 companies in implementing their climate commitments, and led a jobs assessment that became the cornerstone of U.S. Department of Energy and Bureau of Labor Statistics efforts to track U.S. clean energy and transportation job growth. 

Angelides received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in Social Studies from Harvard University.