Clea Schumer is a Research Associate with WRI’s Climate Program, where she supports the research, analysis, and outreach efforts of WRI projects focused on raising national ambition in accordance with the Paris Agreement. Specifically, Clea’s work helps to improve understanding of national and global ambition for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and uses data and analysis to inform and influence a diverse set of international climate policy stakeholders contributing to nationally determined contributions (NDCs), long-term strategies, and net-zero targets. Clea also supports the Systems Change Lab’s research on transformational change required to achieve net-zero emissions.

Clea holds an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford and a BA in Environmental Science and Public Policy (with a specialization in Climate Change Economics) from Harvard University.

In her spare time, she enjoys playing guitar and singing, skiing, watercolor painting, and spending time with her friends and family.