Meet Susy Torriente

Susy's passion for sustainability, climate adaptation and resilience has been nurtured through her more than 30 years of local government experience in Florida. She has pioneered several firsts - first sustainability director for Miami-Dade County, where she developed the county’s first sustainability and climate action plan (GreenPrint) and first chief resilience officer (CRO) for the City of Miami Beach.

She was a founding member of the Southeast Florida Climate Change Compact, the first climate change regional collaborative created to plan for climate adaptation and mitigation across municipal boundaries. 

Susy believes resilience is never housed within a single department but, rather, something that informs all departments. It is not a stovepipe, it is horizontal to every stovepipe and that approach improves overall governance. She’s particularly proud of being part of 100 Resilient Cities and through that opportunity, bringing those resources to the City of Miami Beach. Those resources allowed them to update a strategic plan that had been dormant for four years and update it through the lens of resilience.

Resilient cities are now her focus, as she blends her local government experience and sustainability knowledge into the mix. In partnership with our subject matter experts, she can work with you to incorporate resilience solutions into your plans and policies.

Susy holds a bachelor of arts in english and a master of public administration from the University of Miami and has shared her experiences at hundreds of climate, sustainability and resilience conferences around the world over the past more than 11 years.