Carita Walker
Head of Legal & General Counsel
Greenlots
Carita Shanklin Walker is currently Head of Legal & General Counsel at Greenlots, a Shell company dedicated to unlocking the possibilities of the electric mobility future by delivering game changing software and services at scale. Previously based in Doha, Qatar, with Qatar Shell Services Company as Senior Legal Counsel, Carita supported operations for Pearl GTL, the world’s largest source of gas-to-liquids products, and the Qatargas 4 LNG joint venture (a fully integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) project). With over 20 years’ experience as an attorney, the last 14 working for Shell companies, Carita started her career as an environmental lawyer in private practice for global law firms based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC. Carita also taught legal research and writing and appellate advocacy as an adjunct law professor and published an article in Ecology Law Quarterly titled Pathfinder: Environmental Justice.
She has served in key professional and civic leadership roles in the US and participated in programs and panels focused on the development of junior lawyers and women. Carita was Shell’s Fellow to the Leadership Counsel for Leadership Diversity (group dedicated to preparing diverse talent for the highest positions of leadership), Co-Chair of the Shell Black Networking Group African-American Women’s Circle, the Shell Legal Representative to the Western States Petroleum Association and was selected to participate in the inaugural group of the University of Texas, Center for Women in the Law’s In-House Counsel Coaching Circle.
