Kate Brandt is an American businessperson, former government official, and the current Chief Sustainability Officer for Google.

[4] After his successful election, Brandt relocated to Washington, D.C., where she worked for the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change as a policy analyst.

[4] As she was relatively young, Brandt stated she fought off self-doubt by focusing on the changes she wanted to achieve: “When I was 24, I worked at the Pentagon.

[2] In 2014, President Obama named Brandt as America's first Chief Sustainability Officer, where she was responsible for improving the sustainability of the United States government's wide array of buildings and vehicles including annual purchases totaling $445 billion in goods and services.

[9] In this role, Brandt is focused on Google's sustainability efforts ranging from "machine learning to help cool its data centers to smart thermostats that conserve home energy".