Hara Wang is a climate field builder and system thinker. She is the co-founder and Chief Programs Officer of Cascade Climate, a nonprofit organization accelerating progress in super pollutant mitigation and durable carbon removal by orchestrating field-catalytizing initiatives that span policy, commercial and scientific spheres.

Before co-founding Cascade Climate, she was a Principal at RMI, a multinational nonprofit "think-do-scale tank" and led their carbon markets initiative and the Third Derivative climate tech accelerator program. Hara began her career in the private sector, spending a number of years as a cleantech venture capital investor and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Her climate journey also included a stint conducting market research of China's then-burgeoning solar manufacturing sector, designing harvesting tools for cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast, and building off-grid electrification pilots in rural Namibia.

She has degrees in chemical engineering and atmosphere/energy engineering, and was born and raised in China before moving to the United States at 17.