Fellowship
Fellow
Class
28
Current Firm
Amazon Climate Pledge Fund
Location
United States

Phoebe Wang

Fellowship
Fellow
Class
28
Current Firm
Amazon Climate Pledge Fund
Location
United States
Education

Harvard University

Executive Program, Negotiation and Leadership

Widely recognized as the preeminent leader in the field of negotiation, negotiation research, and dispute resolution, the Program on Negotiation (PON) is an interdisciplinary multi-university consortium based at Harvard Law School. Since its founding in 1983, PON has established itself as one of the world’s outstanding executive education negotiation training institutions.Widely recognized as the preeminent leader in the field of negotiation, negotiation research, and dispute resolution, the Program on Negotiation (PON) is an interdisciplinary multi-university consortium based at Harvard Law School. Since its founding in 1983, PON has established itself as one of the world’s outstanding executive education negotiation training institutions.

 

Rice Business - Jones Graduate School of Business

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance and Energy

Grade: 3.9

Activities and societies: Scholarship recipient. Finance and Energy Concentration.

 

Wright Fund Student Senior Analyst (Manage energy sector portfolio and three junior analysts and $1mm AUM), Out for Business Vice President, Finance and Energy Club Member, Rice Career Management Center Ambassador

 

 

Activities and societies: Scholarship recipient. Finance and Energy Concentration. Wright Fund Student Senior Analyst (Manage energy sector portfolio and three junior analysts and $1mm AUM), Out for Business Vice President, Finance and Energy Club Member, Rice Career Management Center Ambassador

 

Tsinghua University

Executive Program at X-Lab, Venture Capital and the Innovative Value ChainExecutive Program at X-Lab, Venture Capital and the Innovative Value Chain

Venture capital training provided by Tsinghua and BP.

 

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley Acceleration Program (BAM)

Entrepreneur Cohort at Berkeley Skydeck, excelled in Berkeley Acceleration Program (BAM).

Winner/Finalist at Launch Festival, Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), Startup of the Year.

 

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor’s Degree, Materials Science and Engineering

Grade: 4.3

Activities and societies: Exchange program with courses such as statistics and polymer scienceActivities and societies: Exchange program with courses such as statistics and polymer science

 

University of California, Los Angles

Executive Study, Corporate Governance and Board Training

Grade: Certification awarded (passed the certification exam)

Activities and societies: Boardroom Essentials

-Current Governance Challenges

-Regulatory Changes Impacting the Boardroom

-Strategic Management and the Board

-Ethical Considerations and the Board

-Board’s Role in Succession Planning

-Key Accounting Considerations

-Expanding Your Impact

-Digging Deeper into Your Firm’s Financial Statements

-Managing Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures and Alliances

-Ensuring Effective Committees: Audit & Compensation

-Engagement with Activist Shareholders

 

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Executive Program, Business - Decision Making

Demystify Decision Making

The course  will delve into the decision-making process to achieve the best possible outcomes. Examine creative approaches and critical techniques to evaluate decision making process.

Professional

Investment Partner, Head of Female Founder Initiative, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund

Phoebe Wang serves as the investment partner at Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, a $2 billion venture investment fund supporting the development of sustainable technologies and services that will enable Amazon to meet its net-zero carbon goal. Her investment focus area covers climate tech companies in transportation & logistics, energy generation, storage, and utilization, buildings, manufacturing & materials, circular economy, food & agriculture, and carbon removal. She has over a decade experience in climate tech with strong passion in fighting climate change for the future generations. She was also an ex-entrepreneur and built a start-up in technology commercialization. Phoebe was the recipient to Top 10 Entrepreneur by Silicon Valley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) in 2016, Global Corporate Venturing Top Rising Star in 2020, and the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Business C3E Award in 2022.

Phoebe is a Charterholder of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), with an MBA concentrated in Climate and Finance, and a BSc in Materials Science and Engineering. Phoebe has invested in frontier tech companies such as Genecis Bioindustries, ZeroAvia, Veros Systems (acquired by Baker Hughes), Ionomr, Aurora Hydrogen, Bluware, Quanterra, South 8 Technologies, Antora, Celadyne, Li Industries, Aurora Hydrogen, Connected Freight, FreeWire, Xpansiv, Zubie, and currently sit on Rocky Mountain Institute Third Derivative Corporate Advisory Board, Global Corporate Ventures Advisory Board, Counterpart Venture Council Advisory Board and Rice Alliance Energy Advisory Board. She serves as a Special Advisor to the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and Department of Energy (DOE). She is a frequent guest lecturer at Brandeis University, UC Berkeley, MIT and Rice University. In her free time, Phoebe enjoys reading, working out and practicing vipassana.

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