People

 


Directors

Kelly Sims Gallagher, Center Co-Director
Dean, The Fletcher School
Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy
Director: Climate Policy Lab
Email: kelly.gallagher@tufts.edu
Melissa McCracken, Center Co-Director
William R. Moomaw Assistant Professor of International Energy and Resource Policy
Director, Shared Waters Lab
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: Melissa.Mccracken@tufts.edu


Faculty

Jenny Aker
Daniel G. Sisler Professor of Development Economics, Cornell University
Research Professor, The Fletcher School

Carlos Alvarado Quesada
Professor of Practice of Diplomacy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: Carlos.Alvarado@tufts.edu
Malam Assane Maigari
Research Lecturer, Agropedology, University of Diffa, Niger
Research interests: Increasing resilience of rural populations through improvements to plant production and environmental protection
Email: assanemaigari@gmail.com

Steve Block
Professor of International Economics, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Charles Chester
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Email: charles.chester@tufts.edu
Website: earthweb.info
Erin Coughlan de Perez
Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Travis Franck
Assistant Research Professor
Climate Modeling and Policy Director
Email: travis.franck@tufts.edu
Eric HinesEric Hines
Professor of Practice, Tufts University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: eric.hines@tufts.edu
Eric HinesJustin Hollander
Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Email: justin.hollander@tufts.edu
Karen Jacobsen
Henry J. Leir Professor in Global Migration
Director, Refugees in Towns Project at the Feinstein International Center
Amy Myers Jaffe
Director of the Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York University’s School of Professional Studies
Maulik Jagnani
Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: maulik.jagnani@tufts.edu
Barbara Kates-Garnick
Professor of Practice, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Hassaan Furqan Khan
Assistant Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Email: Hassaan_Furqan.Khan@tufts.edu
Marcia Moreno-Baez
Research Professor, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Email: marcia.morenobaez@tufts.edu
Easwaran Narassimhan
Assistant Professor of Climate and Energy Policy, The Fletcher School
Email: Easwaran.Narassimhan@tufts.edu
Ken Pucker
Professor of the Practice, The Fletcher School
Email: Ken.Pucker@tufts.edu
Nigel Purvis
Professor of Practice, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Email: nigel.purvis@tufts.edu
Susanne Schmeier
Professor of Water Cooperation, Law, and Diplomacy, IHE Delft
Deborah Sunter
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Affiliate, The Fletcher School
Rockford 'Rocky' Weitz
Professor of Practice
Entrepreneur Coach
Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: rockford.weitz@tufts.edu
Aaron Wolf
Professor, Oregon State University
Fang Zhang
Associate Professor, Tsinghua University School of Public Policy & Management

Sally Zhang
Assistant Professor of Economics, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: sally.zhang@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


Senior Fellows

Mounkaila Kindo Boubacar
Sahel Consulting Group, Niger
Adamou Hamadou
Director, Sahel Consulting Group, Niger
Maman Lawan Borko
Associate Director Sahel Consulting Group, Niger
Gina McCarthy
Senior Fellow

Postdoctoral Scholars

CIERP trains postdoctoral scholars and hosts visiting scholars from around the world. See past Postdoctoral Scholars here.

Nora Hampl
Postdoctoral Scholar
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: nora.hampl@tufts.edu
Hengrui (Henry) Liu
Postdoctoral Scholar
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: hengrui.liu@tufts.edu


Saidou Abdoulaye Sy
Postdoctoral Scholar
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: saidou_abdoulaye.sy@tufts.edu


Research Fellows

CIERP trains doctoral students who serve as pre-doctoral Research Fellows in CIERP and the Climate Policy Lab. Our students have co-authored journal articles, reports and other publications with CIERP faculty and visiting scholars, and independently published papers of their own.

Kwame Ababio
Junior Research Fellow
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: kwame.ababio@tufts.edu
Kate Chi
Junior Research Fellow
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: kate.chi@tufts.edu
Zheng Cui
Junior Research Fellow
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: zheng.cui@tufts.edu
Tarun Gopalakrishnan
Predoctoral Research Fellow
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: tarun.gopalakrishnan@tufts.edu
Siddharth Jain
Junior Research Fellow
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: Siddharth.Jain@tufts.edu
Soyoung Oh
Predoctoral Research Fellow
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: soyoung.oh@tufts.edu
Miguel Ángel Ojeda-Ruíz
Visiting Scholar
Professor, Departamento de Ingeniería en Pesquerías, Autonomous University of Baja California Sur
Seth Owusu-Mante
Predoctoral Research Fellow
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: Seth.Owusu_Mante@tufts.edu
Bethany Tietjen
Predoctoral Research Fellow
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Email: bethany.tietjen@tufts.edu


Administrators


Mieke van der Wansem
Director of Programs
Email: mieke.wansem@tufts.edu
Phone: (617) 627-2476
Jillian DeStone
Senior Associate Director, Research Administration
Email: jillian.destone@tufts.edu
Phone: (617) 627-2778

Sara Rosales Laverty
Executive Staff Officer
Email: sara.rosales@tufts.edu
Phone: (617) 627-3079
Alyssa Scheiner
Program Coordinator
Email: alyssa.scheiner@tufts.edu
Phone: (617) 627-6610