Robin O'connell

Director, Climate Change Program Office (CCPO)

Robin O’Connell is currently serving as the Director of the Climate Change Program Office at the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Headquarters (NAVFAC HQ) in Washington DC. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Director of Sustainability & Land Use and Senior Climate Change Advisor. During her 11-yr tenure as the Sustainability & Land Use Director, her focus was to develop a land use approach that struck a balance between sustaining military readiness, resource conservation and renewable energy development. Robin also served as the Director of Global and Strategic Planning, helping to expand NAVFAC’s planning portfolio to address the infrastructure needs of new weapons platforms and integrated global logistics. Prior to joining Headquarters, Robin lived and worked in East Asia and the Pacific for more than 20 years, where she held environmental policy and regional development positions in the US Federal government, private industry, academia, and international organizations. Robin received her AB in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College with a major in Chinese and a minor in Geography. She later received her MA in Geography and Regional Planning from the University of Hawaii while serving as a degree fellow at the East-West Center, Environment and Policy Institute.