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Ryan Schuchard

Associate Director, Climate Change

San Francisco

Ryan helps business create strategies to address climate change and navigate the changing global energy landscape.

He has developed new ways to advance low-carbon power sourcing for data centers, sustainability for the range of transportation fuels, and supply chain energy efficiency in China. Ryan has experience building multistakeholder collaborations from the ground up and has contributed to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Value Chain (Scope 3) standard and Solar Energy Industry Association's commitment to sustainability.

Before joining BSR, Ryan applied business to international development through various roles, including as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan, team leader for a U.S. State Department initiative building diplomacy with Afghanistan, and consultant for Jordan’s top environmental conservation NGO. Ryan is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and has authored dozens of articles on business climate leadership. He is proficient in Russian.

Ryan holds an M.B.A. from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a B.S. in Finance from Oregon State University.

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