Engineering Systems and Environment Professor Chosen for Environmental Leadership Program

Andres Clarens, a professor in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment and associate director of the Environmental Resilience Institute at the University of Virginia, is one of 21 fellows from North American academic institutions chosen to participate in the 2021-2022 Earth Leadership Program. Formerly called the Leopold Leadership Program for conservationist Aldo Leopold, known as the “father of wildlife ecology,” the program gained prestige over two decades for its cohort-based training model, which includes a “collective leadership framework” emphasizing collaboration and crossing boundaries between stakeholders. Applicants come from a cross section of disciplines as high-performing, mid-career environmental researchers who want the tools to turn their research into policies and applied technologies that will move the needle on environmental issues important to them. TheEarth Leadership Programrefers to this concept as “knowledge to impact.”