Lauren Herzer Risi is the Program Director of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center. She works with policymakers, practitioners, donors, and researchers to generate innovative, transdisciplinary solutions to development and security challenges related to environmental change and natural resource management. She has authored and edited a number of reports and she is the managing editor of New Security Beat; co-producer of a series of podcasts exploring the unintended consequences of responses to climate change; and co-producer of a series on water, conflict, and peacebuilding. Risi holds a master’s degree in environmental security and peace from the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica.
This bio was taken from the Wilson Center website, where a longer version of Lauren Herzer Risi's bio can be found.
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