Bio: April Salas brings over 20 years of management and board experience in global and domestic capital markets, with expertise in energy, sustainability, and climate. Before joining EFIF, Salas served as the global director of public policy at Microsoft’s Environmental Sustainability team, where she developed and advanced key global policy and legislative initiatives across the company’s global sustainability commitments of responsible sourcing, zero waste, and becoming water positive and carbon negative by 2030. At Microsoft, she led public policy strategy on AI’s role in advancing a low-carbon energy transition; carbon reduction across the supply chain, including semiconductors, steel, and cement; and advancing access to zero-carbon power, including advanced nuclear. Salas has coauthored Microsoft’s Accelerating Sustainability with AI: A Playbook, engaged policymakers globally, and was a technical reviewer for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the International Energy Agency.

This event is presented as part of the 2026 Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge Seminar Series:

• Most Mondays, Spring Semester 2026, 2:55-4:10 p.m.
• 155 Olin Hall & Zoom

This university-wide seminar series is open to the public (via Zoom), and provides important views on the critical issue of climate change, drawing from many perspectives and disciplines. Experts from Cornell University and beyond present an overview of the science of climate change and climate change models, the implications for agriculture, ecosystems, and food systems, and provide important economic, ethical, and policy insights on the issue. The seminar is being organized and sponsored by the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.