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PostJune 17, 2022

MIT Climate Working Group Rosters

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The Institute's Fast Forward plan called for the creation of the three climate working groups: climate policy; climate education; and MIT's carbon footprint. The membership of these working groups, as of January 2023, is provided below.

Carbon Footprint Working Group

  • Julie Newman (co-chair), director of the Office of Sustainability and lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning

  • Franz-Josef Ulm (co-chair), professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; faculty director, Concrete Sustainability Hub

  • Meghan Blumstein, postdoc, Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Kate Brown, professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society

  • Yeji Cho, undergraduate student, Department of Biological Engineering

  • Lillian DeWitt, director of strategic sourcing and contracts, Office of the Vice President for Finance

  • Jay Dolan, head, Facility Services Department, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Joe Higgins, vice president for campus services and stewardship

  • Peter Jacobson, graduate student, Leader for Global Operations

  • Miho Mazereeuw, associate professor, Department of Architecture

  • David Mazumder, graduate student, Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program

  • Marianthe Mewkill, chief financial officer, MIT Investment Management Company

  • John Sterman, professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the Sloan Sustainability Initiative

  • Athena Wang, undergraduate student

  • Kent (Jingxu) Zheng, postdoc, Department of Physics

 

Climate Education Working Group

  • David Hsu (co-chair), associate professor, Urban and Environmental Planning

  • David McGee (co-chair), associate professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

  • Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, postdoc, MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium

  • Antje Danielson, director of education, MIT Energy Initiative

  • Dara Entekhabi, professor in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

  • Hope Fu, undergraduate student, Department of Physics

  • Stefan Helmreich, professor in the Department of Anthropology

  • Sarah Meyers, education program manager, Environmental Solutions Initiative

  • John Mose, undergraduate student, Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Curt Newton, director, MIT OpenCourseWare

  • Elsa Olivetti, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and co-director of the Climate and Sustainability Consortium

  • Alexandra Raeber, postdoc, Department of Chemistry

  • Eduardo Rivera, managing director for MIT-Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay, MISTI

  • Eli Sanchez, graduate student, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

  • Kieran Setiya, professor, Department of Philosophy

  • Kate Trimble, director, Office of Experiential Learning

  • Yujie Wang, graduate student, Department of Architecture

  • Amos Winter, associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

 

Climate Policy Working Group

  • Chris Knittel (co-chair), professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
  • Janelle Knox-Hayes (co-chair), associate professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Awad Abdelhalim, postdoc, Urban Mobility and Transit Labs
  • Anushree Chaudhuri, undergraduate student, Dept. of Economics; Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Arlene Fiore, professor, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
  • David Goldston, director, MIT Washington Office
  • Laur Hesse Fisher, program director, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
  • Masumi Ito, graduate student, MIT Integrated Design and Management
  • Joy Jackson, graduate student, Technology and Policy Program
  • Evan Lieberman, professor, Political Science and Contemporary Africa
  • Bethany Patten, senior associate director, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative
  • Mahmoud Ramadan, graduate student, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
  • Prudence Robinson, executive director, Center for Advanced Urbanism
  • Noelle Selin, professor, Institute for Data, Systems and Society and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; director, Technology and Policy Program
  • Karoush Shirvan, professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Argen Smith, undergraduate student, Dept. of Physics; Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
  • Nikki Springer, postdoc, Climate and Sustainability Consortium
  • Drew Story, managing director, Policy Lab
  • Demitria Wack, operations associate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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