Carrie Houtman

In her role as Global Sustainability Director for Climate, Carrie will accelerate our efforts and strategies around climate, water and biodiversity. She will organize a team of technical experts to support and guide the Company efforts on key sustainability priorities and will provide strategic input for external ESG reporting. In this capacity, she also has responsibility to represent Dow externally with several key stakeholders, including the CEO Water Mandate and Task Force for Nature Related Disclosures.

In her previous role as the Director of the Global Public Policy and Issues Management team, she was responsible for the company’s policy and strategy development to matters of key strategic importance for Dow, including addressing climate change and resolving plastic waste management issues, among others, and leading multi-disciplinary teams to mitigate enterprise risk.

Carrie joined Dow in 1996 in technical service and development. Throughout her career, she has spent more than 12 years in Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability, including various roles in Dow’s toxicology laboratory, environmental expertise and product stewardship. She also served on the Remediation team representing the company to external stakeholders and media. In her 13 years in Government Affairs, she has led cross-functional issues teams to manage key challenges to Dow’s licenses to operate and sell, represented Dow at trade associations, lobbied on Capitol Hill, and staffed Dow’s Chairman & CEO and other senior executives with the Obama White House, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Australian Growth Centre Programme.

A graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Carrie is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, and is a Leadership Midland alumnus. She is on the Board of Directors for the Saginaw Children’s Zoo and is on the Board of Trustees for the Keystone Policy Center. She has also completed programs in Risk Analysis and Risk Communication at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.