2026 Team

The EPI Team

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

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

Alex de Sherbinin, Director, Center for Integrated Earth System Information, Columbia Climate School, Columbia University

Sebastián Block, Spatial Data Scientist, Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology

WRITING, RESEARCH, & PRODUCTION

Yale College

Megan Brueck, Patrick Cannon, Bendegúz Dörnyei, Ethan Guo, Clara Kleindorfer, Devki Misra, Alicia Shen, Amalia Tuchman

Yale School of the Environment

Watson Mwabila

Yale School of Public Health

Samuel George

Harvard College

Hudson Allain

DATA ANALYSIS & PROGRAMMING

Yale College

Chi Ngyuen, Pam Ogbebor

Yale University, Department of Statistics and Data Science, 

Jacey Fang

GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS

Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions

Austin Madson, Yeim We

WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Yale School of the Environment

Michael Slattery

EPI Logo

Sun Mun

Graphic Design

Yale College

Patrick Cannon, Ethan Guo, Devki Misra

Expert Contributors & Advisors

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Chris Ware, Research Scientist, CSIRO Land & Water

Duke University

John Virdin, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Division of Marine Science and Conservation; Director, Ocean Policy Program, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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

Sea Around Us

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

Daniel Pauly, Principal Investigator

Spark Climate Solutions

Martin Wolf, Senior Engagement Manager

University of Maryland

Xin Zhang, Associate Professor, Center for Environmental Science; Director, Global Nitrogen Innovation Center for Clean Energy and Environment

World Resources Institute

Michelle Sims, GIS Research Associate, Global Nature Watch

Radost Stanimirova, GIS Research Associate, Land & Carbon Lab

Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change

Alexander Killion, Managing Director

MEDIA STRATEGY

Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

Nicole Itano

Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications

Fred Mamoun

Yale School of the Environment

Fran Silverman, Paige Stein