Nate Aden
Senior Associate, Business Center
Experts & Staff
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63 Featured Experts
Program Experts & Staff
Jenny Arthur
Head of Cool Food Membership Development
Oliver Ashford
Program Associate, Ocean Program
Arooj Asif
Executive Assistant, Managing Director for Global Delivery
Becky Atkins
Product Manager, Research, Data and Innovation
Courtnae Bailey
Associate, Adaptation Finance
Jon Baines
Research Associate, Sustainable Ocean Economies
Jonathan Baines
Ocean Data Manager, Sustainable Ocean Initiative
Tsvetilena Bandakova
Program Manager, Nature Crime Alliance
Melissa Barbanell
Director, US-International Engagement
Pandora Batra
Strategic Engagement Manager, Climate Program / WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Clare Brennan
Operations and Events Manager, Sustainable Ocean Initiative
Matthew Cronin
Project Coordinator II
Alexander Dane
Senior Manager, Clean Energy Innovation & Partnerships
Edward Davey
Policy and International Engagement Director, Food and Land Use Coalition; Co-Director, WRI UK
Carrie Dellesky
Program and Outreach Manager, Carbon Removal and Industrial Innovation
Amy Dobbs
WRI Europe Operations Manager
Héctor Miguel Donado
Research Analyst, Climate Program
Christopher M. Ede-Calton
Senior Engagement Manager, Land & Carbon Lab
John Feldmann
Research Analyst II, WRI United States
Nicola Frost
Deputy Director of the Ocean Program and Deputy Head of Secretariat for the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy
Todd Gartner
Director, Cities4Forests and Natural Infrastructure
Morgan Gillespy
Programme Director, Food and Land Use Coalition
Tatsatom Gonçalves
Research Analyst II, Energy Program
Liz Goodwin
Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste
Catlyne Haddaoui
Research Manager, National Climate Action
Matt Herbert
Communications Manager, Climate Program, WRI US
Meredith Hess
Associate, Water Program
Leo Horn-Phathanothai
Head, WRI UK Office; and Director, Strategy and Partnerships, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Edwina Hughes
Head, the Cool Food Pledge
Jake Ireland
Communications Specialist, FOLU
Joel Jaeger
Research Associate II, Climate Program
Micheline Khan
Program Associate, Ocean Program
Yuke Kirana
Data Analyst, Systems Change Lab
Dan Lashof
Director, WRI United States
Katie Lebling
Associate II, Carbon Removal and Industrial Decarbonization
John Lyons
Senior Communications Manager, Ocean Program
Christian Madera
Global Director for Digital Communications
Elise Mazur
GIS Research Associate, Land & Carbon Lab
Katie McCoshan
Policy and International Engagement Manager, Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU)
