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Tina Seelig
Executive Director, Knight-Hennessy ScholarsBioDr. Tina Seelig is Executive Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University - the largest endowed fellowship program in the world - which cultivates and supports a multidisciplinary and multicultural community of graduate students from across the university, and prepare graduates to address complex challenges facing the world. She is also Director Emerita of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, where she served as executive director, faculty director, and professor of the practice in the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E). She teaches courses on leadership, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in MS&E and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford.
Dr. Seelig earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford University School of Medicine where she studied neuroplasticity. She has worked as a management consultant for Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, as a multimedia producer at Compaq Computer Corporation, and was the founder of a multimedia company called BookBrowser.
Tina Seelig has written 17 books and educational games. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins, explore the process of bringing ideas to fruition. They include What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 (2009/2019), inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity (2012), and Creativity Rules (September 2017.) Her earlier books include The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, which focus on the chemistry of cooking, published by Scientific American; and a dozen games for children, called "Games for Your Brain," published by Chronicle Books.
Tina Seelig has been widely honored for her work, including the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, recognizing her as a national leader in engineering education; the SVForum Visionary Award; the National Olympus Innovation Award; the Richard W. Lyman Award, which recognizes one outstanding Stanford faculty member for extraordinary service to the Stanford Alumni Association programs; and the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Legacy Award. Her work was also featured in a 10 part TV series in Japan, produced by NHK. -
Alicia Seiger
Affiliate, Bank of America
Visiting Scholar, Precourt Institute for EnergyBioAlicia Seiger is a recognized expert at the intersections of climate, technology, policy, finance, and innovation. She is a Visiting Scholar at SDSS and an occasional lecturer. Alicia currently directs the climate program at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Prior to CZI, Alicia led sustainability and energy finance initiatives at Stanford Law, Graduate School of Business, and the Doerr School for Sustainability. Alicia has served as an advisor to the Governors of California and New York, the New York State Comptroller, and numerous pension fund, endowment, and family office CIOs on the topics of climate risk, opportunity, and resiliency. For over two decades, Alicia has designed and executed climate and energy strategies for businesses, foundations, investors, and NGOs. She has led on the management teams of multiple startups, including at TerraPass, a pioneer of the US voluntary carbon offset market, and Flycast Communications, one of the world’s first web advertising networks. She co-founded Stanford Professionals in Energy (SPIE) and serves on the boards of Prime Coalition and The E-liability Institute and on the Editorial Board of the Oxford Open Climate Change Journal.
Her first book, "Settling Climate Accounts: Navigating the Road to Net Zero" contextualizes the history of climate action, examines the practices of pursuing net zero, and makes recommendations for the road ahead. Alicia received her BA from Duke University in a self-designed curriculum intersecting environmental science and policy with cultural anthropology, and earned her MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
