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The school's leadership team combines unparalleled experience as scholars, researchers, educators, and higher education leaders with a profound commitment to the school’s mission. 

 Dean Arun Majumdar

Arun Majumdar

Arun Majumdar is the Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University, a faculty member of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering (by courtesy) and Senior Fellow and former Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy. He is also a faculty in Department of Photon Science at SLAC.

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Integrative initiatives

Scott Fendorf

Scott Fendorf
Senior Associate Dean for Integrative Initiatives 

Karen Casciotti
Associate Dean for Space Planning

Jenna Davis

Jenna Davis
Associate Dean for Integrative Initiatives in Institutes and International Partnerships

Rodolfo Dirzo

Rodolfo Dirzo
Associate Dean for Integrative Initiatives in Environmental Justice

 

Paula Welander

Paula Welander
Associate Dean for Integrative Initiatives in DEI

 

Faculty affairs

jonathan-payne

Jonathan Payne
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

 

Jack Baker

Jack Baker
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

 

Education

Lynn Hildemann

Lynn Hildemann
Senior Associate Dean for Education 

Department chairs

William Barnett

William Barnett
Chair, Environmental Social Sciences

Sarah Billington

Sarah Billington
Civil and Environmental Engineering 

Marshall Burke

Marshall Burke
Associate Chair, Environmental Social Sciences

Noah Diffenbaugh

Noah Diffenbaugh
Earth System Science 

Rosemary Knight

Rosemary Knight
Geophysics 

Wendy Mao

Wendy Mao
Earth & Planetary Sciences

 

Hamdi Tchelepi

Hamdi Tchelepi
Energy Science and Engineering 

Interdisciplinary degree program directors

Jeffrey R. Koseff

Jeff Koseff
Co-director, Sustainability Science and Practice

Julia Novy

Julia Novy
Co-director, Sustainability Science and Practice

Kabir Peay
Earth Systems

Krish Seetah
Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources

Institute directors

William Chueh

William Chueh
Precourt Institute for Energy

Chris Field
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Accelerator directors

Yi Cui
Faculty Director

Charlotte Pera portrait

Charlotte Pera
Executive Director

Staff leadership

Jennifer Calvert
Chief of Staff

Chuck Litchfield

Charles Litchfield
Senior Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer 

Lynn Miles
Senior Associate Dean for External Relations