Rohini Sengupta is an aviation industry climate change and sustainability leader, leveraging her expertise to help scale low carbon solutions to draw down the impact of higher carbon industries. As the Director of Decarbonization at United Airlines, Rohini leads a team that manages United’s transition to net-zero, focusing on the energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward sustainable alternatives. As the lead for carbon technology and supply strategy to meet United’s climate goals through in-sector reductions, Rohini focuses on emerging technology solutions that need to be scaled to help solve the hardest part of the global ambition to decarbonize aviation. Rohini is an expert on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and aviation climate policy, nominated to ICAO’s Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) Fuels Task Group, sits on Argonne National Laboratory’s SAF Industry Advisory Board, and engages with domestic and international industry associations.

Before joining United, Rohini led environmental and greenhouse gas work at BP, where she started her career in biofuels R&D. Rohini received her Bachelor of Science in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University in New York.