Career
Kyte has focused on affordable,reliable,and sustainable energy as the key to combating both poverty and climate change. [5] [6] [7] From 2016 to 2019,Kyte managed SEforALL's work to mobilise action towards its 2030 goals of ensuring universal access to modern energy services;doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency;and doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix. As Special Representative for the Secretary-General,she was also the point person in the United Nations for action towards the Sustainable Development Goal 7 on sustainable energy.
Kyte served until December 2015 as World Bank Group Vice-President and Special Envoy for Climate Change,leading the Bank Group's efforts to campaign for an ambitious agreement at the 21st Convention of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 21). She was previously World Bank Vice-President for Sustainable Development and was the International Finance Corporation Vice-President for Business Advisory Services.
Recipient of numerous awards for women's leadership,climate action,and sustainable development,she is a professor of practice in sustainable development at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. On 8 April 2019,it was announced that Kyte would become the next Dean of the Fletcher School,effective 1 October 2019. [8] On 22 June 2023,after creating controversy by abusing her position as dean to promote herself as a climate advocate,she was forced to resign as Dean of the Fletcher School prior to the end of her contract,effective 30 June 2023. [9] In the Tufts announcement,her abrupt departure was described as a progression of her "decades-long fight to address the impacts of climate change and energy scarcity." [10]
She was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to energy and combating climate change. [11]
Kyte joined the advisory board of General Atlantic's climate change fund,BeyondNetZero,in July 2021. [12]
In November 2023,Kyte joined the Blavatnik School of Government,University of Oxford,as Professor of Practice in Climate Policy. [13] [14] On 21 October 2024,she was also appointed UK Special Representative for Climate by the British Government. [15] [16] In June of 2025,Kyte was criticised in the news for her carbon footprint. [17]
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