Felicia Marcus

is currently the Landreth Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Water in the West Program. Felicia has been Chair of the California State Water Resources Control Board, Regional Administrator of the U.S. EPA Region IX, head of the City of Los Angeles’ Department of Public Works, Western Director at NRDC, EVP/COO of the Trust for Public Land, and a public interest and private sector attorney. With her range of experience (federal, state, and local government; regulatory, operations, and advocacy roles; and across a range of environmental issues), she has frequently been at the center of historic agreements, breakthroughs in relationships between warring parties, and hard decisions. She is perhaps best known recently for her leadership role in California’s drought of the mid-teens, where the state passed historic groundwater management legislation, transformed the management and scope of the drinking water program, expanded and facilitated a paradigm shift in water recycling, imposed very successful mandatory urban conservation requirements, and navigated challenging water rights issues. She is an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and the American College of Environmental Lawyers and serves on the Board of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council. She is currently working on issues including water recycling, nature-based solutions, protecting and restoring instream flows, water rights, groundwater management, international climate adaptation, and water justice.