Billy Williams

Biography

Billy M. Williams (he, him, his) is the senior vice president for ethics, diversity, and inclusion at AGU.

He currently serves as the principal investigator on Catalyzing Cultural Change in the Sciences with New Resources and Tracking Tools, a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Williams was a member of the 2017-2018 National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Impact of Sexual Harassment in Academic Science, Engineering and Medicine, as well as the 2019-2020 Committee on Increasing the Number of Women in STEMM.

Prior to joining AGU in 2012, he served as a senior program officer at the National Academy of Sciences and as a global research and development director at Dow Chemical Company.