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
Zachary A. Wendling, 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
Alex de Sherbinin, Associate Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University
Daniel C. Esty, Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
Writers
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
Kara Hoving, Christina D. Ospina, Jon-Michael Murray, Liam Gunn, Margaret Ferrato, Maximilian Schreck
Yale College
Mathew Jacob, Nick Dahl, Alexia Godron
Data programming
Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University
Nick Dahl, Nicholas Dorobek, Sharon Handoko
Geospatial analysis
Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University
Tricia Chai-Onn, Senior Geographic Information Specialist
Jane Mills, Geographic Information Specialist
Researchers
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
Qingyang Liu, Harris Feldman, Kathryn Sierks
Yale College
Rachel Chang, Begoña Madridejos
School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh
Antonio Ballesteros-Figueroa
Data visualization
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
Qiuzi Chen
Graphic design
Yale Printing & Publishing Services
Gregg Chase
Website development
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
Michael Slattery
Yale Printing & Publishing Services
Nicholas Appleby
Media strategy
Yale College
Daniela Schulman
Expert contributors & advisers
Adam Mickiewicz University
Jakub Nowosad, Assistant Professor, Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation
The Anthropocene Institute
Jennifer Sletten, Staff Attorney, Oceans; ProtectedSeas Outreach Coordinator
Virgil Zetterlind, ProtectedSeas Director
Closed Loop Partners
Jon Powell, Vice President
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
Esri
Dan Pisut, Living Atlas of the World Environment Lead
Rebecca Lehman, Account & Program Manager, Nonprofit & Global Organizations
Google Earth Outreach
Brian Sullivan, Senior Program Manager
Noel Gorelick, Co-founder, Google Earth Engine
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Michael Brauer, Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences; Lead, Environmental Risk Factors Team
Katrin Burkhart, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences
Jeff Stanaway, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences
Ashley Marks, Project Officer
Charlie Ashbaugh, Project Officer
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 Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Yanina Sica, Research Associate
Wendy Dorman, Research Associate
D. Scott Rinnan, Research Scientist
Ajay Ranipeta, Senior Software Engineer
John Wilshire, Senior Software Engineer
Anna Schuerkmann, Program Manager
Michelle Duong, Project Manager
Mullion Group
Robert Waterworth, Chief Executive Officer
Geoff Roberts, Senior Consultant
Robert de Ligt, Senior Consultant
B. Holt Thrasher, Synovia Capital, Board Member
Sea Around Us
Maria L.D. Palomares, Senior Scientist and Project Manager
UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Katherine Despot-Belmonte, Programme Officer
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Xin Zhang, Assistant Professor, Appalachian Laboratory
Tan Zou, Ph.D. student, Appalachian Laboratory
World Resources Institute
Mikaela Weisse, Program Manager, Global Forest Watch
Mengpin Ge, Associate, Climate Program