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
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Julie Newman (co-chair), director of the Office of Sustainability and lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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Franz-Josef Ulm (co-chair), professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; faculty director, Concrete Sustainability Hub
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Meghan Blumstein, postdoc, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Kate Brown, professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society
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Yeji Cho, undergraduate student, Department of Biological Engineering
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Lillian DeWitt, director of strategic sourcing and contracts, Office of the Vice President for Finance
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Jay Dolan, head, Facility Services Department, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Joe Higgins, vice president for campus services and stewardship
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Peter Jacobson, graduate student, Leader for Global Operations
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Miho Mazereeuw, associate professor, Department of Architecture
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David Mazumder, graduate student, Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program
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Marianthe Mewkill, chief financial officer, MIT Investment Management Company
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John Sterman, professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the Sloan Sustainability Initiative
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Athena Wang, undergraduate student
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Kent (Jingxu) Zheng, postdoc, Department of Physics
Climate Education Working Group
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David Hsu (co-chair), associate professor, Urban and Environmental Planning
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David McGee (co-chair), associate professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, postdoc, MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium
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Antje Danielson, director of education, MIT Energy Initiative
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Dara Entekhabi, professor in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
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Hope Fu, undergraduate student, Department of Physics
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Stefan Helmreich, professor in the Department of Anthropology
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Sarah Meyers, education program manager, Environmental Solutions Initiative
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John Mose, undergraduate student, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Curt Newton, director, MIT OpenCourseWare
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Elsa Olivetti, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and co-director of the Climate and Sustainability Consortium
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Alexandra Raeber, postdoc, Department of Chemistry
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Eduardo Rivera, managing director for MIT-Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay, MISTI
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Eli Sanchez, graduate student, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Kieran Setiya, professor, Department of Philosophy
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Kate Trimble, director, Office of Experiential Learning
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Yujie Wang, graduate student, Department of Architecture
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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
