Danielle Riedl is a Research Associate working across WRI US' Climate and Energy Programs. She carries out research and analysis on people-centered transitions within the US energy transition context, responsible carbon removal deployment, as well as US power market reform.

Prior to joining WRI, Danielle worked as a Research Analyst in Industrial Decarbonization and Just Transitions for the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). She has also worked for the Climate Policy Support Program at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Bonn, and the UN ECLAC in Santiago, Chile.

Danielle holds a Masters of Science (MSc) in Climate Change, Development and Policy from the University of Sussex and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK, and a BA in International Studies from Leiden University, in the Netherlands.

Danielle lives in Brooklyn, NY and enjoys analog photography.