Complete list of expert staff

  • Ahmed, Iqra
    Manager, Equitable Food and Water Resources

    Areas of expertise: ecology, policy, equity, biodiversity conservation, community-based environmental management, environmental justice

  • Alkafaji, Roya
    Manager, Healthy Communities

    Areas of expertise: Lead in drinking water, water quality, environmental health, children’s health

  • Allen, Michelle
    Manager, Community Engagement

    Areas of expertise: Environmental policy, clean energy, petrochemical solutions, community and civic engagement

  • Alpert, Alice
    Senior Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Climate change science, climate change mitigation, methane measurement and abatement, United Nations framework convention on climate change, intergovernmental panel on climate change

  • Alvarez, Ramon
    Associate Chief Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Air quality, oil and natural gas, methane emissions

  • Amare, Tsion
    Project Manager, Texas Political Affairs

    Areas of expertise: Texas Legislative and Policy Landscape, Environmental Justice, Climate Policy, and Clean Energy

  • Amidi-Abraham, Garshaw
    Senior Specialist, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Watershed planning and restoration, groundwater sustainability, geospatial analysis, nonprofit management, stakeholder engagement and outreach

  • Anderson, Katie
    Senior Director, Business, Food and Forests

    Areas of expertise: Corporate sustainability strategy, agricultural supply chain sustainability, agricultural methane, deforestation, jurisdictional approaches

  • Baird, Millie Chu
    Vice President, Science Capacity and Innovation, Office of the Chief Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Climate change, innovation, applied science and partnerships

  • Barone, Aurora
    Senior Economics and Policy Analyst

    Areas of expertise: U.S. climate policy, environmental economics and policy, geographic information systems (GIS)

  • Battista, Willow
    Senior Manager, Climate Resilient Food Systems

    Areas of expertise: Food systems; Aquatic foods; Climate-resilient fisheries; Data-limited scientific assessment (stocks and ecosystems) and adaptive management; Designing equitable management systems; Effective governance for sustainable management; Principles for scaling successful solutions; Designing behavioral science-based interventions for marine conservation problems

  • Baxter, Andrew
    Senior Director, Business and Energy Transition

    Areas of expertise: Oil and gas, methane emissions, sustainable finance

  • Beatty, Lauren
    High Meadows Postdoctoral Economics Fellow

    Areas of expertise: Energy and environmental policy, energy modeling, oil and gas economics

  • Beaulac, Leah
    Manager, Climate Resilient Food and Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Sustainable water management; global food security and livelihoods for frontline producers; natural disasters and climate change; conflict, migration and refugee Responses; market linkages

  • Becker, Sam
    Project Manager, Global Clean Air, U.S. Region

    Areas of expertise: Air pollution monitoring, coalitions, fleet electrification

  • Berkow, Mina
    Director, Energy Transition

    Areas of expertise: Global energy policy, data access, oil and gas, grid modernization

  • Boicourt , Kate
    Director, Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds

    Areas of expertise: Coastal resilience, watershed ecology and protection, resilient design, consensus-building, policy and advocacy.

  • Boné, Eduardo
    Senior Manager, Oceans

    Areas of expertise: Fisheries bio-economic modelling, Latin America & the Caribbean, Community-based Resource Management, Learning Networks.

  • Bonfiglio, Joe
    Executive Director, U.S. Region

    Areas of expertise: Climate change advocacy, U.S. government and politics

  • Bonzon, Kate
    Vice President, Climate Resilient Fisheries

    Areas of expertise: Oceans Program, renewing fisheries