Board
Faculty
Founder
Professors of Practice
Research Affiliates
Teaching Affiliates
Research Fellows
Administrators
Research Assistants
Board
 | Andy Darrell (F88-MALD) Chief of Strategy, Global Energy & Finance, Environmental Defense Fund |
 | John Harper (F85-MALD) Principal and Founder, Birch Tree Capital |
 | John Holdren Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School |
 | Ed Hoyt (F62-MALD, F64-PhD) |
 | Barbara Kates-Garnick (F73-MA, F78-MALD, F85-PhD) Professor of Practice and Senior Research Fellow, Fletcher School |
 | Chris Wendel (F93-MALD) President, Volta Industries |
Faculty
 | Jenny Aker, Center Co-Director Professor of Development Economics Email: jenny.aker@tufts.edu |
 | Kelly Sims Gallagher, Center Co-Director Director: Climate Policy Lab Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy Email: kelly.gallagher@tufts.edu |
 | Ujjayant Chakravorty Professor of Economics, Tufts University Email: ujjayant.chakravorty@tufts.edu |
 | Timothy Griffin Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Email: timothy.griffin@tufts.edu |
| Eric Hines Professor of Practice, Tufts University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Email: eric.hines@tufts.edu |
 | Sulmaan Khan Assistant Professor of Chinese Foreign Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Email: sulmaan.khan@tufts.edu |
 | Laura Kuhl Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University Faculty Affiliate, Fletcher School Email: l.kuhl@northeastern.edu |
 | Gilbert E. Metcalf Professor of Economics, Tufts University Email: gilbert.metcalf@tufts.edu |
 | Colin Orians Professor of Biology, Tufts University Email: colin.orians@tufts.edu |
 | Shinsuke Tanaka Assistant Professor of Economics, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Email: shinsuke.tanaka@tufts.edu |
 | Rockford 'Rocky' Weitz Professor of Practice, Entrepreneur Coach, Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program Email: rockford.weitz@tufts.edu |
Founder
 | William Moomaw Professor Emeritus Founder of CIERP, Center Director 1992-2013 Co-Director Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts Email: william.moomaw@tufts.edu |
Professors of Practice
| Barbara Kates-Garnick Professor of Practice and Senior Research Fellow |
 | Rachel Kyte Non-Resident Professor of Practice of Sustainable Development Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All |
 | Mihaela Papa Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sustainable Development and Global Governance Co-Investigator, Rising Power Alliances project |
 | Patrick Verkooijen Non-Resident Professor of Practice of Sustainable Development Diplomacy CEO, Global Center on Adaptation Former Special Representative for Climate Change at the World Bank |
Research Affiliates
 | Charles Chester Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Brandeis University Curator of international-environmental-info.net Email: cchester@brandeis.edu |
 | Kyle Emerick Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University Email: kyle.emerick@tufts.edu |
 | Kevin Knobloch Senior Research Affiliate Email: kevin.knobloch@tufts.edu |
 | Dan Reifsnyder Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International and Scientific Affairs US State Department |
 | Joel Trachtman Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Email: Joel.Trachtman@tufts.edu |
Teaching Affiliates
 | Steve Block Professor of International Economics & Academic Dean The Fletcher School, Tufts University EIB E240: Development Economics: Macroeconomic Perspectives EIB E243: Agriculture and Rural Development in Developing Countries |
 | Ann Rappaport Lecturer, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, Tufts University DHP P257: Corporate Management of Environmental Issue |
 | David Wirth Visiting Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School, Tufts University ILO L223: International Environmental Law |
Research Fellows
CIERP trains pre- and post-doctoral research fellows and hosts visiting scholars from around the world. Our students have co-authored journal articles, reports and other publications with CIERP faculty and visiting scholars, and independently published papers of their own.
 | Fang Zhang, China Research Coordinator & Predoctoral fellow How governments mobilize domestic finance for innovation: The case of the domestic clean energy sector Government often plays a crucial and active role in funding technology innovation. Almost every major technical change in recent years can be traced back to state funding. A lack of state financing is a well-recognized barrier to the development of clean energy technologies. This is partially due to insufficient research on how governments can mobilize domestic finance for clean energy innovation, and on which policies are most effective in leveraging investments. My research explores how governments mobilize domestic finance for clean energy innovation based on four country cases: the United States, Germany, China, and India. Email: zhangfang0403@gmail.com |
 | Rishikesh Bhandary, Predoctoral Fellow Mobilizing Climate Finance Viruses and Venus Fly Traps: the design and effects of national climate funds This dissertation investigates how developing countries have sought to mobilize climate finance by setting up national climate funds. Through case studies of national climate funds in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, and Indonesia, this study harvests early lessons on the opportunities and challenges afforded by national climate funds. The dissertation also utilizes Fiji's ongoing exploratory process of designing its national climate fund as a real-time study of how a country designs its national climate fund. Email: Rishikesh.Bhandary@tufts.edu |
 | Zdenka Myslikova, Predoctoral Fellow Indicators of innovation capabilities in clean energy technologies: Assessing the technology gap between developed and developing countries Zdenka Myslikova is a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with an interest in energy technology innovation, climate policy and regulation. In her doctoral research, she assesses energy technology innovation in the transition countries – what factors are key in motivating energy technology innovation? – and applies the adaptive leadership framework to understand why some countries are leaders in energy technology innovation while others are not. She holds a master’s degree in economics from the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico, and before starting her doctorate, she served at Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission. Email: zdenka.myslikova@tufts.edu |
 | Easwaran Narassimhan, Predoctoral Fellow Carbon Pricing and its impact on Clean Technology Innovation and Investments Easwaran is a PhD candidate and a Junior Fellow at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Prior to enrolling in the doctoral program, Easwaran received a Master's degree from The Fletcher School specializing in environmental policy and development economics. As a doctoral student, Easwaran focuses on Innovation and Industrial Policy for Clean Energy Technologies, trying to understand the role of government in transitioning to a low carbon future in developing countries. In addition to his dissertation, Easwaran is currently working on comparing carbon pricing regimes, measuring the environmental efficacy of Chinese overseas energy investments, and assessing the effectiveness of demand side policies to promote electric vehicle in the U.S. Email: Easwaran.Narassimhan@tufts.edu |
 | Qi Qi, Junior Fellow The Cost-Benefit Analysis of China's Climate Policies Qi is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Economics and Public Policy under the joint supervision of faculty from the Fletcher School and the Department of Economics in Tufts’ School of Arts and Sciences. She has a special interest in using cost-benefit analysis and other types of economic methods to evaluate the climate change policies of China and other countries. For the Climate Policy Lab of CIERP, she is currently working on a paper investigating China’s policies conducive to green investments at home and abroad. Before coming to Fletcher, she was Senior Research and Program Officer in the China Office of Australia’s Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, based in the Australian Embassy in Beijing, facilitating bilateral cooperation in the fields of energy and resources. Qi received an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School and previously an MSc in International Relations from the University of Bristol in the UK. Email: qi.qi@tufts.edu |
 | Hengrui (Henry) Liu, Junior Fellow Hengrui is a first-year student of joint Ph.D. program in Economics and Public Policy of Tufts Department of Economics and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Before coming to the Tufts University, he served as a research assistant at the International Economics Department of Johns Hopkins University- School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Prior to that, he worked as a research associate at the U.S.-China Business Council where he focused on anti-monopolization, intellectual property rights, and investment treaty issues between the U.S. and China. He received a master’s degree in international economics and international affairs from Johns Hopkins University. Hengrui’s academic interests are international development, energy and environmental policy, and climate change issues, particularly in the context of the U.S.- China relationship. He is also interested in quantifying economic impacts of climate change in developing countries. Email: hengrui.liu@tufts.edu |
 | Jinliang Zhang, Postdoctoral Scholar Associate Professor, The University of North China Electric Power University, China Zhang Jinliang’s current research interests include forecasting, energy economics, energy environment. He had taken charge of 30 projects related to electricity and climate, such as two Chinese National Natural Science Foundation project, a China Postdoctoral Science Foundation project, Beijing Social Science Foundation Project. The total value of these projects is more than 4 million RMB. He had published more than twenty papers in the international and domestic journals which are mostly indexed by SCI/SSCI. In his research team, he has currently 17 graduate students. Email: zhangjinliang1213@163.com |
 | Ping Huang, Postdoctoral Scholar Ping Huang is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Climate Policy Lab (CPL), Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), The Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is working with Prof. Kelly Sims Gallagher on a project of China’s energy innovation landscape funded by Breakthrough Energy Coalition, along with four other studies on United States, Europe, Canada and Mexico. The project will cooperate with the Chinese partner (Prof. Su Jun from Tsinghua University) to evaluate the strengths and weakness of China’s clean energy innovation system, and to conduct several case studies to elucidate best practices, experiences with failure, and challenges in the Chinese context. Prior to joining this project, he worked with Prof. Vanesa Castán Broto on urban energy innovation and transitions in China, based at University College London. As a visiting scholar, he also worked at Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, with Prof. Marko Hekkert on China’s solar PV innovation system. He has published in key energy and transitions journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy Research & Social Science, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions and Technological Forecasting and Social Change (refer to his Google Scholar for more information.) Email: Ping.Huang@tufts.edu |
 | Keston Perry, Postdoctoral Scholar Keston K. Perry is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Climate Policy Lab (CPL), Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), The Fletcher School, Tufts University. His expertise is broadly in development policy and international political economy focusing on the intersections between and dynamics of governance and policy regimes, analysis of institutional environments and development outcomes. At the Climate Policy Lab, he is working with Profs. Kelly Sims Gallagher and Laura Kuhl (Northeastern University and Faculty Associate at the Fletcher School) on a project related to Climate investments in Haiti. The project builds upon the partnership between the CIERP at The Fletcher School and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on the development of national and local adaptation plans and the design and implementation of climate change policies. It aims to identify and analyze climate investment priorities across economic sectors, the synergies and trade-offs between mitigation, adaptation and development, inter-sectoral policy alignment assessing national climate policies with the Sustainable Development Goals, with specific focus on energy, land use management and forestry as well as private sector engagement for mobilizing climate finance in the Caribbean nation. He completed his PhD in Development Studies at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies in 2017 and presented his academic work in Europe, Latin America, and the United Kingdom. His work has been published with the Journal of Developing Societies. Email: Keston.Perry@tufts.edu |
Administrators
 | Mieke van der Wansem Associate Director, Educational Programs Email: mieke.wansem@tufts.edu Phone: (617) 627-2476 |
 | Jillian DeMair Assistant Director, Research Administration Email: jillian.demair@tufts.edu Phone: (617) 627-2778 |
 | Sara Rosales Program Coordinator Email: sara.rosales@tufts.edu Phone: (617) 627-3079 |
Research Assistants
Chinese Overseas Energy Investments
- Yuanda Wang
- Sophie Welsh