About the Speaker
Dr. Andrea Strimling Yodsampa is founder and CEO of DEPLOY/US, a convener, funder, and accelerator of climate leadership across the political spectrum. DEPLOY/US is the only organization in the country focused on building the capacities, amplifying the voices, and scaling the impact of the entire ecosystem of civic enterprises and leaders working right-of-center on climate change as a crucial foundation for bipartisan policy.
Dr. Yodsampa brings to this work a background in negotiation, strategic alliances, planning and assessment, and energy and environmental policy. She played a leadership role in developing methodologies and software tools for resiliency assessment and joint civil-military strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, piloted by the NATO Training Mission – Afghanistan, US Department of State, and US Central Command. She served as a Commissioner with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. She led negotiation and conflict management programs in Asia, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe, lectured on negotiation and civil-military coordination at private universities and military academies, and established and directed FMCS’s Inter-Organizational Cooperation Program, working with the US Departments of State and Defense and the US Agency for International Development on early joint planning efforts. She co-founded the Alliance for Peacebuilding and served on the US delegation to the Stockholm Forum on Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in 2002. She has a BA in history from Dartmouth College, an MPP in energy and environmental policy from the Harvard Kennedy School; and a PhD in international relations from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.
