Lise Strickler is co-founder and managing principal of Three Cairns Group, a mission-driven investment and philanthropic firm focused on accelerating scalable climate action and the transition to a clean energy economy.

Over the past two decades, Lise has worked with local, state, and national organizations to advance effective climate policy and build momentum for lasting climate solutions.

At Three Cairns Group, she and her husband, co-founder Mark Gallogly, champion investments and philanthropic grantmaking in advocacy, talent, communications, and strategic initiatives. Three Cairns also supports efforts across New York city and state to advance clean energy, infrastructure, and transportation goals, protect parkland and natural areas, expand clean water access, and preserve the Adirondacks.

Lise played a key role in advancing congestion pricing in New York City, a landmark climate and transportation reform decades in the making. She is a trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund and serves on the board of its political advocacy partner, EDF Action. As former co-chair of EDF Action, she helped expand the organization’s reach and impact while tripling its annual budget, and played a key role in federal advocacy efforts leading to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. She also serves on the advisory boards of Environmental Advocates of New York, Columbia University’s Climate School, the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, and the leadership council of the Yale School of the Environment.

Before devoting herself fully to advancing climate progress, she worked in the entertainment industry’s financial sector.

Lise holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.