Marilu Hastings
HARC Fellow

email: mhastings@harc.edu

MARILU HASTINGS is a Program Officer for The Energy Foundation and the Environment Program Director for The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation.  She is responsible for the philanthropic activities of these charities that currently involve supporting clean energy and climate change mitigation policies in Texas, and Texas water policy. 

Prior to her current position Marilu was the Director of Climate Programs for the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) where she was employed for twelve years.  At HARC she specialized in examining the complex interactions between social, corporate and political behavior and environmental protection.  She focused on developing integrated research initiatives related to sustainability science.  

Marilu has over twenty years of experience analyzing an array of policy issues related to sustainable development, environmental protection, climate change, hazardous and solid waste management, water resources, market development for recycled products, and corporate sustainable development. She has worked in the public and independent sectors, as well as in collaboration with industry groups and companies.

Marilu is a trustee of the Regional Endowment for Sustainability Science, a $30 million endowment established by George P. Mitchell in 2005.  Marilu is on the Science Advisory Board for the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago.  She is co-chair of the Advisory Board for the Friends of Big Bend National Park.   She is on the Board of Directors of Living Word Lutheran Church in The Woodlands, Texas.

Marilu earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science from Duke University.