Andrew Himes is the director of Collective Impact at the Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington, working on collective impact initiatives to reduce embodied carbon emissions in built environments, including building materials, design, construction, and retrofits. He is a partner in Carbon Innovations LLC, a social-impact business consultancy focused on business-based solutions to climate change.

In 1987, Andrew was founding editor of MacTech, still today the leading Apple technology journal; then co-founded the Microsoft Developer Network and led the first web development project at Microsoft, in the early '90s. In 2018, he was coordinator of Carbon Smart Building Day, a conference affiliated with the Global Climate Action Summit focused on transforming the global building industry to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Andrew was the founding executive director for Charter for Compassion International. He is the author of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family and producer / author of Voices in Wartime.