Making Massachusetts the world’s climate innovation lab
Please join the MIT Energy Initiative as we welcome Emily Reichert, CEO of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. She will present as part of the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition speaker series for the fall 2025 semester.
Massachusetts’ leaders want to cement the state as the global leader in climate technology by building a connected network–a climate corridor–of testing and demonstration sites, accelerators, companies, manufacturing facilities, and research institutions from the Berkshires to Cape Cod.
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, the state’s clean energy and climatetech economic development agency, is leading the 10-year strategy to bring this vision to life as the federal administration cuts support for entrepreneurs and researchers.
This seminar will explore why state-level climate leadership is more important than ever, how innovative programming is driving climate progress, and what climatetech means for local economies in Massachusetts.
This event is for the MIT Community. Please register with an MIT.edu email address.
About the speaker
As chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), Emily Reichert leads MassCEC’s efforts to build a robust, internationally competitive clean energy and climatetech economy in Massachusetts.
Before joining MassCEC, Reichert served as CEO of Greentown Labs, the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, for nearly a decade. Over her tenure, Greentown incubated hundreds of cutting edge climatetech startups who have raised more than $2 billion and created thousands of jobs in Massachusetts.
Reichert started her career at Arthur D. Little as a PhD scientist and was the director of Business Operations at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry.
Reichert has been appointed to the Massachusetts Governor’s Economic Development Planning Council, the Massachusetts Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Advanced Energy Technologies. She currently serves as an ambassador for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Initiative and was appointed by Governor Healey to the STEM Advisory Council in June 2024.
She holds a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned her MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.