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Chrissa Pagitsas

  • First Vice President of ESG at Fannie Mae (launching the ESG Strategy and building the Green Financing Business, issuing over $51 billion in Green Bonds)
  • Author of 'Chief Sustainability Officers at Work'
  • Recognized as a “Green Bond Champion” by the Climate Bonds Initiative
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Chrissa Pagitsas is an advisor, board member, keynote speaker, and author who helps organizations navigate uncertainty, foster innovation, and build strategies for lasting value creation. As CEO of Pagitsas Advisors, she supports senior executives and boards in aligning strategies with corporate priorities to ensure sustainability and transformation efforts drive measurable results. As the first Vice...

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Chrissa Pagitsas is an advisor, board member, keynote speaker, and author who helps organizations navigate uncertainty, foster innovation, and build strategies for lasting value creation.

As CEO of Pagitsas Advisors, she supports senior executives and boards in aligning strategies with corporate priorities to ensure sustainability and transformation efforts drive measurable results.

As the first Vice President of ESG at Fannie Mae, Chrissa launched the enterprise’s ESG Strategy and built the Green Financing Business, issuing over $51 billion in Green Bonds and positioning Fannie Mae as the largest issuer of Green Bonds globally.

She is the author of Chief Sustainability Officers at Work (Apress, 2022), featuring leadership strategies from executives at Fortune 500 companies. Recognized as a “Green Bond Champion” by the Climate Bonds Initiative and a US Green Building Council Leadership Award recipient, Chrissa has driven market-transforming innovations, including the first Green Commercial MBS in the U.S.

Chrissa holds an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and a BA from Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves on two boards.

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Chrissa Pagitsas in Media

Speaker Programs

Commercializing Sustainability: Creating Value, Accelerating Impact
demonstrates how sustainability teams today must connect tangible business value to their programs, offering proven approaches for how to integrate sustainability with strategy, strengthen partnerships, accelerate progress, and drive measurable results. ...more
demonstrates how sustainability teams today must connect tangible business value to their programs, offering proven approaches for how to integrate sustainability with strategy, strengthen partnerships, accelerate progress, and drive measurable results. ...less
Thriving in the Disruptive 21st Century: How Successful Businesses Innovate and Grow
offers a proven framework businesses can use to meet the moment and find new growth. Leaders will leave with a clear roadmap for navigating uncertainty and turning disruption into opportunity. ...more
offers a proven framework businesses can use to meet the moment and find new growth. Leaders will leave with a clear roadmap for navigating uncertainty and turning disruption into opportunity. ...less
Building Resilience: Businesses and Teams that Drive Lasting Value Creation
draws on Chrissa's own experience and insights from exemplary leaders to offer a powerful playbook executives and their teams can use to embrace change, inspire new ways of thinking, and create a more resilient culture ...more
draws on Chrissa's own experience and insights from exemplary leaders to offer a powerful playbook executives and their teams can use to embrace change, inspire new ways of thinking, and create a more resilient culture built to last. ...less
The Art of the Calculated Leap: How Visionary Leaders Take Risks for Success
inspires executives to rising leaders to unlock their potential and empower their teams, offering new tools for turning bold decisions into drivers of growth. ...more
inspires executives to rising leaders to unlock their potential and empower their teams, offering new tools for turning bold decisions into drivers of growth. ...less

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