April Salas
Board Member

April Salas

Board Member
With 3Degrees since 2021

April M. Salas serves as an independent Board Director for 3Degrees. April brings nearly 20 years of public and private sector experience in global and domestic energy markets, rooted in energy systems analysis. Her broad industry knowledge covers a range of energy domains, including electric power, liquid fuels, natural gas, energy finance, distributed energy resources, technology integration, resilience, cyber security, energy equity, and sustainability. 

She currently serves as Executive Director of the Revers Center for Energy at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. Previously, April directed the White House’s Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force Secretariat, publishing more than 70 recommendations for the future of the nation’s energy system. She has also served in senior roles at the U.S. Department of Energy, including Director of the State Energy Assurance Program, where she worked with industry, state and local energy officials, regulated utility commissioners, and state emergency management directors. In addition, April served as Chief of Planning and Analysis for all federal energy emergency responses with FEMA, including emergency response around the globe, and held roles at the United Nations, UNESCO, in corporate social responsibility, and in energy finance consulting. She has represented U.S. government interests at NATO, is leading dialogue on emerging technologies and society with the National Academy of Sciences Arab-American Frontiers program, and presenting at the International Energy Agency on the role of behavioral change in the energy transition.

April lives in Hanover, NH, speaks Arabic, French, and Spanish, has worked or lived in over 65 countries, and enjoys snowboarding with her husband and four children.

MBA, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, SC JOHNSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT; MBA, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY, SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS; M.A., INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, AND CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS; M.A., INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND ECONOMICS, L’INSTITUT CATHOLIQUE DE PARIS, FOCUSED ON ENERGY POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT; B.A., INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, PRE-LAW, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY