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.
On 8 April 2019,it was announced that Kyte would become the Dean of the Fletcher School,effective 1 October 2019. [8] Kyte stepped down from her position in June 2023,before her contract expired. There was controversy over her attempts to illegally rebrand the school from “The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy”(as required by the terms of its creation) to “Fletcher,The Graduate School of Global Affairs.” [9] The rebrand was rolled back after backlash from students and alumni. [10] Some opinion pieces and letters criticized her leadership style (e.g.,her communication and decision-making). [11] [12]
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. [13]
Kyte joined the advisory board of General Atlantic's climate change fund,BeyondNetZero,in July 2021. [14]
In November 2023,Kyte joined the Blavatnik School of Government,University of Oxford,as Professor of Practice in Climate Policy. [15] [16] On 21 October 2024,she was also appointed UK Special Representative for Climate by the British Government. [17] [18] In June of 2025,Kyte was criticised in the news for her carbon footprint. [19]
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