Vien Truong is a nationally recognized climate strategist, systems-change leader, and one of the country's foremost voices on building an equitable green economy. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eco Equity, a leading climate strategy and implementation firm, and a Harvard Salata Climate Fellow.

Born the youngest of eleven children to a Vietnamese refugee family in Oakland, California, Vien grew up at the intersection of poverty, pollution, and possibility. That experience shaped a career defined by one conviction: that the communities bearing the greatest burden of climate change should be at the front of the line for its solutions. That conviction has translated into impact at scale across every sector.

As Senior Director of Global Sustainability Engagement at Nike, she served as the Chief Sustainability Officer's only direct report and ran his entire global team, leading cross-functional and external partnerships across consumers, employees, industry, and governments to advance the company's sustainability goals worldwide.

Vien co-led the coalition creating the biggest fund in history for frontline communities, which has invested over $9 billion into California communities from big polluters, a model now replicated in other states and nationally. She co-led Charge Ahead California, scaling the adoption of electric vehicles while ensuring low-income communities are not left behind. She directed Climate Justice efforts for the Tom Steyer PAC, led the Biden-Harris Climate Engagement Advisory Council, and supported California's Business and Jobs Recovery Task Force on climate solutions. She previously served as Senior Advisor to Tom Steyer for President 2020 and was a leading author of his climate platform.

As President and CEO of Dream Corps, she led a national organization at the intersection of criminal justice reform, climate justice, and economic opportunity, building coalitions from Flint activists to Wall Street investors, from celebrity influencers to White House insiders. Under her leadership the organization's work was covered by the New York Times, CNN, Fox News, TechCrunch, and TMZ.

Vien was selected for World 50 Next Women, an exclusive global program recognizing top executive leaders. She was a White House Champion of Change and has been profiled in Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, Shondaland, and Parent Magazine, and featured in two New York Times bestsellers. She was a senior advisor for Elemental Excelerator and on the Board of The California Endowment. She now serves on the board of Ceres.

At Harvard, her fellowship research focuses on the intersection of climate equity, systems change, and collaborative leadership, work that informs her forthcoming book on how to build across differences and win.

She holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law.