Soumya Anantharaman

Director, Climate and Decarbonization, JLL

As Director with the Climate and Decarbonization Strategy team, Soumya provides strategic leadership for the Decarbonization Consulting practice that aligns with JLL's sustainability goals, and identifies emerging trends in real estate decarbonization. She leads thought leadership initiatives and collaborates across platforms to deliver holistic client solutions. Soumya oversees a team of project managers at various experience levels while managing complex, high-value decarbonization projects on both portfolio and asset levels. She drives business growth by identifying new opportunities in the market, maintaining key client relationships, and representing JLL at industry events.

Prior to joining the CDS team, she was the AMER Sustainable Operations lead with JLL’s Sustainability Operations Team where she managed a team of Senior Sustainability Managers overseeing sustainability operations in Amazon Corporate offices portfolio across North and South America, ~ 45million sqft spanning over 150 buildings.

Prior to joining JLL, Soumya worked at Burlington Stores as an Energy Manager and helped build the in-house Energy Engineering team to support the sustainable operations of over 40 million sqft, spread across 800 retail stores, 10 warehouses and 6+ office sites across the United States.

She also worked as a Senior Analyst at Socotec (formerly Vidaris) building energy models for LEED submissions for few of the most prolific buildings in Manhattan such as the Hudson Yards development project. Soumya completed her Masters degree in Architectural Engineering from Purdue University where she developed her thesis on developing a Building Integrated Photo Voltaic/Thermal system. She has her Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Anna University in India.