People
2025 Board of Directors
President
Professor and Director, Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington
Immediate Past-President
Dean of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
Secretary
Assistant Professor of Business and Design, Parsons School of Design - The New School
Treasurer
Associate Professor, Engineering Systems and Environment, Engineering & Society, University of Virginia
Councilor (3 year)
Associate Professor, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University
Councilor (2 year)
Associate Director, Future Earth, US Global Hub Director, Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress
Councilor (2 year)
Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Cincinnati
Councilor (1 year)
Assistant Research Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Vermont
Staff
Cristy Watkins
Incoming Operations and Engagement Director
Sustainability and Development Program Manager, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
Jaron Rothkop
Consultant
Graduate Student at the University of Michigan's School for the Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) and Executive Director, The Last Kilometer
Committee Members
Nicole Ardoin, Director, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) and Associate Professor, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Arun Agrawal, University of Notre Dame, Pulte Family Professor of Development Policy in the Keough School of Global Affairs, and Director of the ND strategic initiative for sustainability.
Krista Hiser, Senior Lead and Advisor for Sustainability Education, Global Council on Science and the Environment. Professor of Composition & Rhetoric, Kapi‘olani Community College
Elena Irwin, Distinguished Professor of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in Economics and Sustainability; Faculty Director, Sustainability Institute, Ohio State University
Casandra Rauser, L.A. Climate Fund Advisor, CIV:LAB and Founder & Principal, MorphoStrategies
Jessica Hellman, Executive Director, Institute on the Environment, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior in the College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota
Lisa Graumlich, Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, and Dean Emerita, College of the Environment, University of Washington
Mark Hartman, outgoing Chief Sustainability Office, Cit of Phoeniz, AZ
Ben Sovacool, Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University
Marco Ugarte, Director of Sustainability, Walmart:
Jessica Hellman, Executive Director, Institute on the Environment, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior in the College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota
Cynthia Koenig, Founder & CEO, Wello. Principal Product Manager, Amazon
Marilu Hastings, Executive Vice President, George & Cynthia Mitchell Foundation
Anu Ramaswami, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies, Princeton University
Ryan Johnson, Executive Director, Executive and Professional Education, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University
Maya Tolstoy, Maggie Walker Dean, College of the Environment, University of Washington
Jay Golden, Pontarelli Professor of Environmental Sustainability and Finance, Public Administration and International Affairs Department, Syracuse University
Monica Contestabile, Chief Editor, Nature Sustainability
Joshua Abbott, Professor and Director, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Wendy Jepson, Professor, Department of Geography, Associate Director, Texas Water Resources Institute and AgriLife Dallas Research Center, Texas A&M University
Shelie Miller, Professor; Jonathan W. Bulkley Collegiate Professor of Sustainable Systems; Co-Director, Center for Sustainable Systems, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan