Aurora Winslade
Edison International and its subsidiaries, Southern California Edison and Trio, lead the clean energy transformation through a focus on clean energy, efficient electrification and advising the world’s largest organizations to navigate the energy transition. Aurora provides leadership for the company’s sustainability strategy and helps advance one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, SCE, towards a clean energy future. She is the lead author of Edison International’s recent paper, “Reaching Net Zero: Accelerating California’s Clean Energy Transition.”
Aurora was previously the Director of Sustainability for Stanford University (2021-2023) where she founded the Living Lab Fellowship Program for Sustainability and Swarthmore College (2015-2021), where she launched and co-led the Swarthmore’s “To-Zero by Thirty-Five” energy infrastructure project, a plan to eliminate nearly all of the college’s Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions through an electrified, renewably-powered geo-exchange system. Prior to that, she led Hawaii Energy’s Market Transformation Program (2014-2015) and founded and led sustainability programs at the University of Hawaii (2012-2014) and the University of California Santa Cruz (2004-2012). She was also a core instructor in Bard College’s Sustainable MBA program (2017-2023) where she co-founded a global certificate program in Sustainability and Social Enterprise. She has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.B.A. from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.