About Mitsue

As a Fulbright grantee, she earned a Master in Design Engineering at Harvard University, where she was part of the Climate Leaders Program, the Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment and an organizer of the Circular Economy Symposium at Harvard and the Student Climate Change Conference at Harvard.

Her ability to perform qualitative and quantitative research, understand diverse stakeholders’ views, and communicate complex systems allows her to define challenges and identify sustainability opportunities for innovative problem-solving. Her multidisciplinary knowledge about climate, circularity, and sustainability makes her a natural team leader.

She has developed innovations projects for McKinsey & Co. United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, World Wildlife Fund, Samsung, Aeromexico, Uber, Instituto Municipal de la Juventud, Tec de Monterrey, and Club Premier in Sweden, Mexico, United States, Spain, Belgium, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Madagascar.

Work experience

McKinsey & Co.

Circular Design, Associate Design Director - Stockholm Sweden

United Nations Frameworks Covention of Climate Change

Adaptation Programme Response Subdivision Consultant - Bonn, Germany

Future of Climate Cooperation

Consultant - Oxford, UK

WWF Global Climate and Energy Practice

Initiative Innovation Strategist and Knowledge Manager - Cambridge, USA

Tec De Monterrey (ITESM)

Professor / Design Methodologies & Systems theory for the Water Economy - Leon, Mexico

Mayday.earth

Design Lead / Geoengineering Digital Educational Platform - New York, USA

re+connect

Co-Founder and Product Lead / Community Resilience to Climate Change - Cambridge, USA

WWF Global Climate and Energy Practice

Africa Energy Access Initiative Design Strategist Intern - Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Madagascar

SBB

Lead Design Strategist - Mexico City, Mexico

Education

Harvard University

Master in Design Engineering (Climate change and sustainability) - Cambridge, U.S.A. / 2018-2020

Joint program within the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)

Graduate Consortium on Energy and the Environment - Member
Harvard Climate Leaders Program - Member
Circular Economy Symposium at Harvard – Organizer
Student Climate Change Conference at Harvard - Designer
Master Thesis: An integral soloution to Mexico City's Hydric Crisis - Independent Design Engineering Project

Relevant coursework:

Oxford Climate Society

The Michaelmas 2023 School of Climate Change Certification - Remote / 2023

Global Comission on Adaptation & University of Groningen

Making Climate Adaptation Happen: Governing Transformation Strategies for Climate Change - Remote / 2021

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

From Linear to Circular: Atlanta Cohort / Circular Pioneer Certification - Remote / 2020

Tec De Monterrey (ITESM)

B.A. in Industrial Design (Academic Achievement Scholarship) - Leon, Mexico

Relevant coursework:

Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (HOWEST)

Exchange semester: Digital Creative Projects Management - Kortrijk, Belgium / 2016

Escola Superior De Disseny I Enginyeria De Barcelona (ELISAVA)

Exchnage semester: Interior equipment module, trends and forecasting materiality - Barcelona, Spain / 2015

Social and Behavioral Research Investigators

Human Subjects Research (HSR) - Remote / 2020

Imparted by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). This series provides core training in human subjects research and includes the historical development of human subject protections, ethical issues, and current regulatory and guidance information.
Course Number: 36338162