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
Martin J. Wolf, 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
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