Abby Sullivan

Biographie: Abby Sullivan is the Chief Resilience Officer in the Philadelphia Office of Sustainability. In this role she leads Philadelphia’s citywide resilience planning. Previously, she served as an Environmental Scientist at the Philadelphia Water Department where she worked on their green stormwater infrastructure program and led the Department’s coastal flood resilience efforts with the Climate Change Adaptation Program. She recently helped launch PEERS (Practitioner Exchange for Effective Response to Sea level rise), a global community of practice for sea level rise adaptation professionals. Abby is a Certified Floodplain Manager and serves on NASA’s Sea Level Change Practitioner Consultation Board. She has a Master of Resource Management degree from the University of Akureyri in Iceland.