Director, Public Policy Graduate Programs and Associate Professor, Climate Change and Energy, Oregon State University
Hilary Boudet is the Director of Public Policy Graduate Programs and an Associate Professor of Climate Change and Energy in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. She was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Stanford Prevention Research Center in the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Social Ecology Lab, where she managed a community-based intervention with 30 Northern California Junior Girl Scout troops aimed at reducing household energy use. Her research interests include environmental and energy policy, social movements, and public participation in energy and environmental decision making. In 2010, she completed her dissertation in Stanford’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources on the factors and processes shaping community mobilization around proposals for liquefied natural gas facilities. Prior to Stanford, Hilary worked for three years as a senior project engineer in the environment and regulatory group at the ExxonMobil Development Company. She holds a BA in Environmental Engineering and Political Science from Rice University.