Kara Hurst

Kara Hurst is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Amazon. In this role, she leads the worldwide teams who work on environmental sustainability and social responsibility across the company. Kara joined Amazon in 2014 to build its sustainability roadmap and now oversees the company’s evolution toward more sustainable operations, transportation, products, and packaging, as well as its efforts around water stewardship, and reduced waste. Under her leadership, Amazon announced its commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040 and co-founded The Climate Pledge, which now has over 500 signatories. Kara holds an undergraduate degree from Barnard College of Columbia University and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from the University of California, Berkeley. She serves on the Board of Directors of Water.org and Stolen Youth.