Experts & Staff

Kelly Levin is an associate with WRI’s international climate objective. She leads WRI’s work on developed country emission reduction pledges and has conducted an annual review of climate change science for WRI since 2005. She is also Research Director of the 2009 World Resources Report, which is dedicated to climate change adaptation. She pursued her doctoral work at Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she dedicated her research to enhancing adaptation policies to contend with climate change impacts to biodiversity. Kelly was a writer for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Reporting Services, covering biodiversity and climate change meetings, including the UN climate change negotiations. Kelly has also worked as a climate policy/technical analyst at NESCAUM (Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management), where she devoted her time to developing a regional greenhouse gas registry in the Northeast. Kelly holds a PhD and Master of Environmental Management from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale College.