# Josh Parker

Head of Sustainability, Nvidia. TIME100 AI 2026, Thinkers. Nvidia's sustainability chief is a former patent lawyer who got hired while trying to poach someone from Nvidia. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/nvidia-sustainability-exec-ai-boom))

- Education: JD, Law, New York University, 2006; BS, Electrical engineering, Brigham Young University, 2003 ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuajparker), [impactpodcast.com](https://impactpodcast.com/episode/2026/05/helping-the-world-meet-sustainability-goals-with-josh-parker-of-nvidia/))
- Career: Nvidia (Head of Sustainability, 2023 to now); Western Digital (Head of Sustainability, Assistant General Counsel, 2013–2023); Baker Botts (Senior Associate, 2006–2013) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuajparker), [time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/josh-parker/), [blogs.nvidia.com](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/author/joshparker/))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/josh-parker/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/josh-parker

- Trained as an electrical engineer, then spent years as a patent attorney and litigator in Texas and California. ([impactpodcast.com](https://impactpodcast.com/episode/2026/05/helping-the-world-meet-sustainability-goals-with-josh-parker-of-nvidia/))
- Was running Western Digital's ethics compliance in Asia from Bangkok when he volunteered to build the company's first sustainability program. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/nvidia-sustainability-exec-ai-boom))
- Nvidia hired him while he was trying to recruit someone from Nvidia to Western Digital, a reverse poaching. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/nvidia-sustainability-exec-ai-boom))
- Joined Nvidia's sustainability team when it had one other person; three years later the team was four times bigger. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/josh-parker/))
- Says Nvidia's Rubin generation is its first AI architecture to reach 100% liquid cooling. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/josh-parker/))
- Calls himself an introvert who 'would have been shocked' to be doing this much public speaking. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/nvidia-sustainability-exec-ai-boom))