E William Stetson

Eugene William Stetson III has been a film producer, a political, arts and environmental adviser for over 40 years. Stetson is currently a Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council, where he serves on the climate cohort at the Global Energy Center. Under President Obama, he was a member of PACA and later co-chaired the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize with his wife, Jane Watson Stetson. Stetson has served Governors Howard Dean, James Douglas and Peter Shumlin as a member of their Councils on Energy & the Environment. He has served on Vermont Public Radio/Vermont PBS, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Connecticut River Conservancy. He is a Trustee and Governor for the Smith Richardson Foundation, a foundation dedicated to addressing domestic and international public policy challenges. He established the Vermont Film Commission, serving as its founding President. Stetson has produced numerous independent films, most notably A Closer Walk, which highlights the impact of the AIDS epidemic on women. Stetson earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, where he was appointed a Fellow to the Institute of Politics. He also attended the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.