Madden named executive director of CU’s Getches-Wilkinson Center
BOULDER — Alice Madden has been named executive director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment) at the University of Colorado Law School, effective July 11.
Madden has held a senior fellow position at the center since February. She succeeds Britt Banks, who served as the center’s executive director since 2014.
The center promotes research and problem-solving to further sustainability. It focuses on environmental justice, public lands and tribal-resource management, climate change and energy development.
As executive director, Madden will lead the center’s fundraising and external relations efforts, oversee day-to-day programmatic and administrative functions, serve as the primary point of contact for internal relations with other university units and law schools, provide support for the center’s academic and research programs and carry out her own research.
In 2013, Madden served as principal deputy assistant secretary for intergovernmental and external affairs at the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she was the Timothy E. Wirth Chair in Sustainable Development at the University of Colorado Denver from 2011-13.
From 2009-11, Madden was the climate adviser and deputy chief of staff to Gov. Bill Ritter, focusing on developing a clean-energy economy.
Madden served as majority leader of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2004 to 2008.
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