Vicki Arroyo

Vicki Arroyo is the executive director of the Georgetown Climate Center of Georgetown University Law Center where she is also a visiting professor. She oversees the Center’s work at the nexus of climate and energy policy, supervising staff and student work on climate mitigation and adaptation at the state and federal level. She previously served at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, most recently as the Pew Center’s vice president for domestic policy and general counsel. She has recently been appointed to the TRB’s Executive Committee and is currently serving three-year terms on an advisory committee to the National Science Foundation and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a consortium of 77 Ph.D-granting research universities. She also serves on the editorial boards of the Climate Policy Journal and the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. She holds a B.S. in biology, high honors, from Emory (double major in philosophy); a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard (top honors in program), and a J.D., Magna Cum Laude, from Georgetown Law, where she was editor-in-chief of The Georgetown International Environmental Law Review.