Dr. Susan Kemball-Cook is a climate scientist and vice president with WSP and is based in San Francisco. Sue leads the Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change corporate climate risk practice supporting clients in evaluating and managing their climate risks and mainstreaming climate across their organizations. Sue’s expertise includes climate risk and resilience assessment, analysis and enhancement of climate governance, stakeholder engagement and training, and development of disclosures and low carbon transition plans. She has more than 20 years’ experience in modeling of the atmosphere and the climate system. Her recent work includes qualitative and quantitative TCFD-aligned physical and transition climate risk assessments for numerous Fortune 500 companies and asset-level adaptation and resilience planning across a variety of sectors.
Sue holds a PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis, a BA from Yale University and a Sustainability and Climate Risk Certification from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
