Executive Vice President of the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Marilu Hastings is executive vice president of the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation in Austin, Texas. Marilu also directs CGMF’s Mitchell Innovation Lab, a varied portfolio of breakthrough sustainability ideas and opportunities that the foundation develops and incubates. She launched the foundation’s most recent philanthropic venture, the Permian Energy Development Lab, a cross-sector consortium bringing advanced energy technology, workforce development, and economic development to enrich the world’s most important energy producing region. Marilu was raised in Midland, Texas.
Marilu is a member of the National Petroleum Council and co-chaired the Societal Impacts and Considerations chapter of the NPC’s most recent study, Charting the Course: Reducing GHG Emissions from the U.S. Natural Gas Supply Chain.
She is chair of the University of Texas’s Energy Institute Advisory Board, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability.
Marilu earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science from Duke University, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin.