Vice President for Climate

Evelyn N. Wang is the inaugural vice president for climate and the Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She previously served as the director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) from 2023 to 2025, where she led the agency’s development, launch, and execution of high-risk, high-reward energy research and development programs. At MIT, she developed technologies for thermal management, energy conversion and storage, and water harvesting and purification. She holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. She also received an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.