EPI Team

 

The EPI Team

The Environmental Performance Index is a joint project of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

Lead authors

Sebastián Block, Ph.D, Principal Investigator, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

John W. Emerson, Adjunct Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University

Daniel C. Esty, Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

Alex de Sherbinin, Associate Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University

Zachary A. Wendling, Research Associate, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy; Project Manager, Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Writers

Yale College

Daevan Mangalmurti, Caroline Benedetti, Adia Keene, Rhea Cong, Caleb Lee, Benjamin Everett-Lane, Alex Wyckoff

University of Melbourne

Oliver Miltenberger

Data programming

Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University

Rhea Cong, Adia Keene, Matthew Benstock, Sharon Handoko

Geospatial analysis

Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University

Tricia Chai-Onn, Senior Geographic Information Specialist

James Gibson, Research Staff Assistant

Researchers

Yale College

Quinn Nortonsmith, Sam Brigham, Slaveya Zaharieva, Iris Li, Mathew Jacob

Harvard College

Ella Bradford

Data visualization

School of the Environment, Yale University

Jennifer Marlon

Yale College

Topher Allen

Graphic design

Yale Printing & Publishing Services

Jason England, Gregg Chase

Website development

School of the Environment, Yale University

Michael Slattery

Yale Printing & Publishing Services

Nicholas Appleby

Media strategy

Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications

Fred Mamoun, Kevin Dennehy

School of the Environment, Yale University

Fran Silverman, Paige Stein

Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

Shoshana Micon, Madeleine Zaritsky, Marc Gonzalez

Artwork

Lindsey Kernodle Artwork

www.lindseykernodle.com

 

Expert contributors & advisers

Columbia University

Marc A. Levy, Deputy Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Simon Ferrier, Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Land & Water

Tom Harwood, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Land & Water

Chris Ware, Research Scientist, CSIRO Land & Water

Google Earth

Rebecca Moore, Director, Google Earth Engine

Noel Gorelick, Co-founder, Google Earth Engine

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Michael Brauer, Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia;   Lead, Environmental Risk Factors Team

Katrin Burkhart, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences,  University of Washington

Jeff Stanaway, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington

Ashley Marks, Research Manager

Charlie Ashbaugh, Research Manager

Fiona Bennitt, Data Extraction Analyst

Kate Causey, Post Bachelor Fellow

Sarah Wozniak, Post Bachelor Fellow

Jeff Zhao, Post Bachelor Fellow

Map of Life

Walter Jetz, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of Yale School of the Environment, Yale University

Ajay Ranipeta, Lead Software Engineer

Alexander Killion, Postdoctoral Researcher

D. Scott Rinnan, Research Scientist

Taylor Mascari, Program Coördinator

Wendy Dorman, Research Associate

John Wilshire, Senior Software Engineer

Anna Schuerkmann, Program Manager

Michelle Duong, Project Manager

Mullion Group

Robert Waterworth, Chief Executive Officer

Geoff Roberts, Director – Carbon Projects and Supply Chains

Oliver Miltenberger, Vice President of Policy and Technology

Robert de Ligt, Director - Corporate & Government Projects

B. Holt Thrasher, Synovia Capital, Board Member

Sea Around Us

Maria L.D. Palomares, Senior Scientist and Project Manager

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Xin Zhang, Assistant Professor, Appalachian Laboratory

Tan Zou, Ph.D. student, Appalachian Laboratory

University of Sydney

Federico Maggi, Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering

Fiona Tang, Research Scientist, Environmental Engineering

World Resources Institute

Mikaela Weisse, Program Manager, Global Forest Watch