Catherine T. “Katie” Hunt, Ph.D. is R&D Director, Innovation Sourcing & Sustainable Technologies at The Dow Chemical Company. She has a strong history of building federally-funded, technology partnerships across industry, academia and national labs; partnerships that have successfully delivered innovative solutions. Katie began her career as a senior scientist in analytical research at Rohm and Haas in 1984 after completing an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University. Over her 25 year career with Rohm and Haas , Katie held positions of increasing responsibility and ultimately served as Corporate Sustainability Director and Leader for Technology Partnerships.
Dr. Hunt holds an A.B. in Chemistry (Cum Laude) from Smith College and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Davis. She was the 2007 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS) where she championed education, collaboration and innovation, especially related to the Sustainability of Energy, Food and Water. She is passionate about energy from conserving energy to identifying alternate sources of energy – from championing the RetroFIT Philly project with the City of Philadelphia and the Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA) and working on the SunShot $1-a-Watt Program with leading universities, national labs and the Department of Energy (DOE).