The Board is the highest decision-making authority of GAUC, which is composed of one executive leader of each member university and responsible for the vision of the Alliance.
The Executive Committee is the principal consultation and decision-making body of the Alliance, and it is responsible for the Alliance strategy. The Academic Committee of the Alliance shall design and promote the academic work of the Alliance in accordance with the strategy.
The Secretariat is principally responsible for operations of the Alliance. The first Secretariat of the Alliance is based at Tsinghua University for a term of four years.
President of Tsinghua University
Chair
Director of London School of Economics and Political Science
Co-Chair
President of Imperial College London
President of Sciences Po
President of Australian National University
Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley
President of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Director of Indian Institute of Science
President of Columbia University
Vice-Chancellor of the Oxford University
President of Yale University
President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vice-Chancellor of University of Cambridge
President of the University of Tokyo
Rector of Stellenbosch University
The Executive Committee is the principal consultation and decision-making body of the Alliance, and it is responsible for the Alliance strategy.
Vice President and Provost of Tsinghua University
Chair
Director of London School of Economics and Political Science
Co-Chair
Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, the Oxford University
Special Advisor, Climate and Sustainability, Columbia University
Dean of the College of Natural Resources (CNR), University of California, Berkeley
Deputy Vice Chancellor: Strategy and Internationalisation，Professor, Global Health, FMHS, Stellenbosch University
Vice President for Research E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Director of the Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
Vice President, Professor of Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, the University of Tokyo
Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean at the Yale School of the Environment
Professor of Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences ，Director of Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science
Deputy Director of COPPE / UFRJ, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Vice President for International Affairs, Sciences Po
The Academic Committee of the Alliance shall design and promote the academic work of the Alliance in accordance with the strategy.
Chair, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Chair
Chairman of the Academic Committee, ICCSD, Tsinghua University
Co-Chair
Founding Dean, Columbia Climate School, Columbia University
Chaired Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering，Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor Divecha Centre for Climate Change (DCCC),Indian Institute of Science
Researcher in Political Science, Sciences Po
Director for China Engagement, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University
Director of Cambridge Zero, University of Cambridge
Director of Science Technology and Innovation, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Professor, Department Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University
Professor; Director of the Urban Metabolism Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vice Director, Institute for Future Initiatives, the University of Tokyo
Director of the Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
Co-Director of the Grantham Institute
Deputy Director of COPPE / UFRJ, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean at the Yale School of the Environment
Secretary-General
Executive Secretary-General
Liaison Officer
Communication Officer
Chief Youth Officer
The Organization Committee is responsible for the specific transactional work of the Alliance.
Assistant Director, Academic Initiatives, Columbia Climate School, Columbia University
Director of Policy and Translation, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London
Policy Fellow of Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Director of California-China Climate Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Professor, Department Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University
Project Specialist, International Projects Promotion Group, Research Promotion Department, the University of Tokyo
Assistant Vice President, Environmental Stewardship, Columbia University
Deputy Vice President for International Affairs, Sciences Po
Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives , Yale University
Researcher of COPPE/UFRJ, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Deputy Director of Cambridge Zero, University of Cambridge
GAUC currently has 15 university members, across six continents and nine countries. Our members agreed to keep the Alliance at a manageable small scale, but have highlighted the importance of having equal geographical representations across continents while developing new members.
How to apply:
1. Candidate universities should send a letter to the Secretariat to express interests of joining GAUC.
2. Candidate universities must contact and be nominated by at least two current Board members (a list of current Board members can be found at https://www.gauc.net/about/about.html ). Nomination letters should be sent to the Secretariat.
3. Relevant documents will be collected by the Secretariat and submitted to the Board to discuss and make the final decision. Candidate universities must receive unanimous approval from existing members in order to be accepted as Alliance members.
More inquiries related to membership, please contact the GAUC Secretariat at gauc@tsinghua.edu.cn.
