Gillian Caldwell
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Gillian Caldwell | |
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| Climate Change Coordinator and Deputy Assistant Administrator, United States Agency for International Development | |
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| Born | Gillian Briggs Caldwell |
| Children | Tess Caldwell, Finley Spitzer |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Georgetown University (JD) |
Gillian Briggs Caldwell is the Climate Change Coordinator and Deputy Assistant Administrator at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In this role, she is the Biden administration’s political appointee responsible for planning, directing and supervising all climate and energy work in USAID and serves as the USAID liaison with other federal agencies, the US Congress, NGOs, foreign governments and international and regional organizations.[1] Prior to her political appointment, she had years of experience as a social justice leader specializing in human rights and environmental activism.
Career[edit]
While pursuing her University education, Caldwell had multiple internships at the Andrew Glover Youth Program, South Brooklyn Legal Services Corp and the Durban-based Legal Resources Centre. Upon obtaining her undergraduate degree at Harvard University, she worked the NYC Board of Correction, the NYC Department of General Services/Human Resources Administration. Then, after getting her law degree at Georgetown University, she worked as a law clerk for The Honorable Geoffrey M. Alprin before becoming an attorney at Kohn & Einstein handling cases involving the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title VII sexual discrimination, and the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA). Between 1995-1997, she worked as an attorney on the Council for Child Abuse and Neglect.
From 1995-1998, Caldwell served as the co-director of the Global Survival Network, where she organized a two-year undercover investigation into Russian Mafia involvement in trafficking women for forced prostitution with her colleague Steven Galster. Her work was cited in a book by Kevin Bales titled Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Caldwell produced and directed Bought & Sold: An Investigative Documentary into the Trade in Women, which received media coverage in the United States and abroad, including specials on ABC Primetime Live, CNN, and BBC. During this time she also worked as an attorney on the Council for Child Abuse and Neglect.
From 1998-2007, Caldwell served as executive director at WITNESS, an organization co-founded by musician Peter Gabriel to empower human rights advocates to use video to create change. Gillian led WITNESS' rapid expansion during her decade of leadership and helped produce over 30 documentary shorts and films for use in systems-changing advocacy campaigns in partnership with NGOs in dozens of countries around the world. During her time there Caldwell co-authored Video For Change: A Guide to Advocacy and Activism and produced and directed videos on human rights challenges worldwide, including Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the War on Terror, Operation Fine Girl: The Use of Rape as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone and Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on US Saipan.[citation needed]
After serving as the director of WITNESS, Caldwell helped launch and was the campaign director of 1Sky from 2007-2010. 1sky grew to become one of the largest collaborative campaigns on climate change in the United States. 1Sky's goal was to create five million green jobs through an energy efficiency and conservation wave, to enact a federal cap on global warming pollution with steep reductions in carbon pollution, and to transition the United States off of coal and onto renewable energy sources. As a start up short term campaign, 1Sky grew within two years to combine the force of over 640 allied organizations, a team of organizers in 23 states nationwide at the height of the 2009 Congressional debate, more than 200,000 climate advocates and more than 4000 volunteer “Climate Precinct Captains” covering every state and Congressional District in the country[2]. 1Sky completed a planned merger with 350.org after Caldwell's departure.
Caldwell was the president of Gillian Caldwell Consulting LLC from late 2010 to July 2015, serving as an executive coach, strategic planner, retreat facilitator, and organizational development consultant to NGOs, as well as foundations, socially responsible corporations, films, and the White House. In 2013, she was the producer, along with Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, of Citizen Koch, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Citizen Koch was the subject of a Jane Mayer article in The New Yorker and extensive press nationwide.
Caldwell was appointed as the London-based executive director of Global Witness in July 2015. During her tenure at Global Witness, the team generated numerous systems-changing impacts, reshaped strategy to double down on the climate crisis, strengthened its governance, management team and communications capabilities, significantly increased its budget, financial reserves and staff size and opened a new office in Brussels to complement those already in place in London, Washington DC and Beijing. Her work was based in the London office until 2019, when she relocated to the Washington DC area to restart her consulting practice, Gillian Caldwell Consulting LLC. When she is consulting she specializes in strategic planning, organizational development and executive coaching. She also served on the Board of Directors for EarthRights International.
In 2021, she became the Biden administration’s political appointee responsible for planning, directing and supervising all climate and energy work in USAID and serves as the USAID liaison with other federal agencies, the US Congress, NGOs, foreign governments and international and regional organizations. Her role is the Climate Change Coordinator and Deputy Assistant Administrator in the organization.
Awards[edit]
Caldwell is a recipient of numerous awards and honors for social entrepreneurship, including an Echoing Green fellowship, the Skoll Award, the Schwab Foundation Award and an Ashoka Award. She was also honored as an MIT Directors Fellow and given a Next Generation Leadership Award by the Rockefeller Foundation. Gillian has benefited from several intensive leadership development programs, including Rockwood’s 'Art of Leadership' and their yearlong program 'Leading from the Inside Out' as well as a Master Class on the 'Art of Transformational Consulting' with Robert Gass.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Gillian Caldwell - Agency Climate Change Coordinator and Deputy Assistant Administrator". USAID.gov. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ↑ Caldwell, Gillian. "Gillian Caldwell Consulting LLC". Gillian Caldwell Consulting LLC. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
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