Director/Head of Sustainability
Edison International
Aurora Winslade, MBA ’15, is the Head of Sustainability for Edison International. 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 climate and sustainability strategy and helps advance one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, SCE, towards a clean energy future. She recently led the writing of Edison International’s recent white paper, “Reaching Net Zero: Accelerating California’s Clean Energy Transition.”
Aurora was previously the Director of Sustainability for Stanford University where she founded the Living Lab Fellowship Program for Sustainability and Swarthmore College 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 and founded and led sustainability programs at the University of Hawaii and the University of California Santa Cruz. She is also a visiting faculty in Bard College’s MBA in Sustainability where she helped establish a global certificate program in Sustainability and Social Enterprise. She has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.