CISSM FORUM: April 7, 2011
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm, 1203 Van Munching Hall
"Climate Monitoring:Setting Policy in the Context of a Presidential Initiative"
Sarah Stewart Johnson, Policy Analyst, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Sarah Stewart Johnson joined the Obama Administration as a White House Fellow in 2009 and currently works in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. A research scientist by training, Sarah’s policy portfolio at the White House includes climate, sustainability, greenhouse gas monitoring, and science diplomacy. She has been active in international climate negotiations as part of the United States delegations to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Bali in 2009, Busan in 2010, Geneva in 2011, and Abu Dhabi in 2011. Her portfolio previously included disaster risk reduction, and last year she worked with USAID to help restore telecommunications infrastructure following the earthquake in Haiti.
Sarah holds a B.A. in mathematics and environmental studies from Washington University, a second B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics and an M.Sc. in biology from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. in planetary science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently on leave from the Harvard Society of Fellows, where she is developing life detection techniques for use in extreme environments on Earth and on Mars.
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