Anne Slinn is Executive Director of Research of the MIT Sustainability Science and Strategy. She has over thirty years of experience organizing MIT's interdisciplinary and multi-institutional research collaborations addressing global change and its integrated environmental and human dimensions. She manages a diverse portfolio of sponsored research aimed at improving understanding of complex challenges, and helping guide societal transitions toward a more sustainable future. Her key contributions are to the integration of research priorities with resource development, and the synthesis of scientific description. She helped launch the MIT Center for Global Change Science in 1990, as well as the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change in 1991, and served as Executive Director of Research of both organizations until they were incorporated and succeeded by the Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy in 2024. An engineer and scientist by training, her early academic focus was on fluid dynamics and heat transfer, with work involving satellite remote sensing of wind-induced stresses on the ocean surface to analyze the interaction of wind and large-scale ocean circulation, and combining molecular theory with experimental laser design to measure the radiative absorption properties of hydrocarbon gases that are common in the atmosphere.