Amy Bailey is the Senior Director of Operations at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). In this role, she develops and implements policies and practices to ensure C2ES’s impact as a high-performing organization. She is passionate about empowering C2ES’s exceptional and diverse team through organizational services and support, efficient processes, collaborative change management, and risk mitigation.
Ms. Bailey brings to the role extensive nonprofit experience developing cutting edge research and managing programmatic initiatives, as well as expertise in climate resilience, corporate climate leadership, stakeholder engagement, and award-winning employee engagement and education.
Prior to C2ES, Ms. Bailey worked with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the City of Atlanta’s Division of Sustainability, the Sustainability Office for the city and county of Durham, North Carolina, and as a high school biology and chemistry teacher. She holds a master’s degree in environmental management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and a bachelor’s degree in zoology from Miami University.