Join us for a Career Conversation seminar with Jane Woodward, ’83, MBA ’87, the 2024 SDSS Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Come learn more about Jane’s career in academia and her business venture efforts. Jane currently teaches at SDSS and is a member of the Precourt Institute for Energy Advisory Council. 

Jane Woodward, ’83, MBA ’87, is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University where she has taught classes on energy and environment since 1991. She currently serves on the teaching teams for Understand Energy and Stanford Climate Ventures.  Jane also serves on Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy Advisory Council and has founded and continues to fund multiple sustainable energy education initiatives at the university. Jane is a founder and Managing Partner of WovenEarth Ventures, a US early-stage climate venture fund of funds. Additionally, she is an investor in several early-stage sustainable energy companies and funds, as well as an advisor and director for some of them. Jane is a Founding Partner at MAP Energy, an energy investment firm currently focused on oil and gas royalty interests. In 2016, Jane created The Foster Museum, a 14,000-square-foot art museum in Palo Alto, to share artist-explorer Tony Foster’s powerful exhibitions of watercolor journeys with an intention to inspire connection to the natural world. Jane has a BS in Geology from UC Santa Barbara, and both an MS in Engineering and Petroleum Geology and an MBA from Stanford.

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