MARILU HASTINGS

Executive Vice President

Marilu Hastings is executive vice president of the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation in Austin, Texas, where she leads initiatives advancing sustainability, energy systems innovation, and regional economic development. She also directs the foundation's Mitchell Innovation Lab, a portfolio of emerging initiatives exploring new approaches to energy, infrastructure, and environmental sustainability.

She launched CGMF's most recent philanthropic venture, the Permian Energy Development Lab (PEDL), a cross-sector consortium bringing advanced energy technologies, workforce development, and economic opportunity to the Permian Basin. Her work focuses broadly on the intersection of energy systems, infrastructure development, and community prosperity in major resource-producing regions.

She has written and spoken on the societal dimensions of large infrastructure systems, including energy development and community engagement, and is increasingly exploring how emerging digital infrastructure—including the rapid expansion of AI computing—intersects with energy systems, regional economies, and local governance.

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 serves as chair of the University of Texas Energy Institute Advisory Board and is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin. She also serves on the National Academy of Sciences' Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and is a board member of the National Sustainability Society.

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. She was raised in Midland, Texas, at the heart of the Permian Basin, an experience that continues to shape her interest in the relationship between energy systems, regional economies, and community prosperity.