Cynthia Cummins

Cynthia is a Sustainability and Climate Expert Leader with Deloitte’s Sustainability and ESG Services. She has been a pioneer in the Corporate GHG Management space for more than 25 years, working to define corporate climate leadership and designing and managing various government and NGO programs that mobilize companies to reduce GHG emissions. Cynthia joined Deloitte from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy where she advised various programs in aligning their research, development, and deployment strategy with the real-world challenges of industry to decarbonize.  Prior to this role, Cynthia worked at the World Resources Institute where she co-founded and co-led the Science Based Targets initiative and was the Deputy Director of the GHG Protocol where she led the development of various corporate GHG accounting and reporting standards and research on emerging GHG management issues.  Earlier in her career, Cynthia was the founding director of U.S. EPA’s Climate Leaders Program which was the first effort in the U.S. to incentivize companies to measure and disclose their corporate GHG emissions and set ambitious emissions reduction targets. Cynthia holds a MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Administration from Cornell University.