Johanna Wassermann is the Innovation Manager at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). She is the staff lead for the C2ES Innovation Program, which seeks to advance the commercialization of key climate technologies through strategic convenings, market development, and policy creation.

Ms. Wassermann leads the project management for the Innovation Program and supports its execution, including through convening technology working groups on the topics of clean firm energy, sustainable aviation fuel, engineered carbon removal, and clean hydrogen. She also contributed to the development of C2ES’s Innovation Policy Matrix, a framework designed to help policymakers assess and craft effective innovation policy.

Before joining C2ES, Ms. Wassermann worked with several climate startups and served as the project manager for a multi-million-dollar Series A raise for World Tree, an agroforestry startup. Her corporate sustainability experience includes contributing to Weyerhaeuser’s inaugural Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

Ms. Wassermann holds a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds a BA in English Literature and Environmental Studies from Williams College.