Elizabeth J. Wilson

While directing the Institute she oversaw the construction of the new building, worked with Advancement to raise $54 million, brought in and supported another $5 million in research grants, awarded $800,000 in research funds, established a Sustainable Energy minor and sponsored talks, workshops, seminars and events engaging faculty, students, and practitioners across campus and around the world.

Wilson was awarded a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and was selected as a 2014-5 CIC Academic Leadership Fellow. She was chosen as a Leopold Leadership Fellow in 2011. She spent the 2009-2010 academic year as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, in Beijing, supported by a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, and 2016-7 and 2021-2 at the Danish Technical University's National Wind Research Laboratory. Prior to joining Dartmouth College, Wilson was a Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Law at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota (2005-2026).  At the University of Minnesota, Wilson worked for a decade with the Institute on the Environment, which supports a wide range of initiatives and projects related to land and water use, food diversity, sustainable enterprise, and the integration of economics and ecology.  Previously she worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and before that Wilson worked in Belgium, Burundi and Tanzania. She holds a doctorate in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.