Owen Gow
He/Him/His
Owen Gow is the deputy director for the extreme heat resilience pillar at the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center (formerly known as Arsht-Rock). In this role, he leads the heat-related initiatives and strategy, as well as the development of heat adaptation solutions and related city partnerships. Gow also manages the Heat Action Platform, an engagement-oriented tool for city officials, practitioners, and financial institutions to find guidance, existing resources, and solutions for reducing the human and economic impacts of extreme heat at the regional or municipal level.
While Gow’s expertise lies in extreme-heat planning and capacity building, he has held previous positions at several humanitarian organizations and think tanks prior to the Climate Resilience Center. Gow held positions at the Migration Policy Institute, Mercy Corps, and the International Rescue Committee. Before that, he worked on several political campaigns in Oregon. Gow assisted with the launch of the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance, the broader expansion of the Extreme Heat Initiative, as well as the Climate Resilience Center’s Humanitarian Initiative.
Gow has contributed to publications on extreme heat for the Atlantic Council, the Migration Policy Institute, and Scientific Reports.
Originally from Seattle, Washington, Gow holds a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
