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Warren Adams
Director of Climate and AI Incubator
Warren Adams is the director of the climate and AI incubator at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University. Prior to joining the Roux, Adams was founder of the Two Degrees Innovation Lab, where he advised family offices, foundations, and nonprofits working on market-based solutions to climate change. Adams is also an emeritus partner of the Clean Energy Venture Group which provides seed capital and management expertise to climate tech start-ups.
A pioneer in the field of social networking, Adams founded PlanetAll, which was acquired by Amazon. Subsequently, Adams founded Patagonia Sur, a for-profit conservation company that invested in, protected, and monetized ecologically valuable ecosystems in Chilean Patagonia. Patagonia Sur also launched several non-profit entities including Tierra Austral, Chile’s first land trust; MERI, a blue whale research institute; and Reforestemos, a public-private campaign to plant millions of native-species trees in Torres del Paine and other national parks.
Adams received a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He was a 2015 Fellow at Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative and has served as a board member at ChileMass and Vineyard Power and a member of the President’s Council at the Woodwell Climate Research Center.