Climate Policy Center Leadership

Christopher Knittel
Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability
Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California,…
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Bethany Patten
Senior Lecturer
Bethany Patten is the inaugural Executive Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Climate Policy Center–MIT’s “front door” to provide evidence-based climate research for local, state, national, and international policymakers…
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John D. Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He is also the Director of the MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan…
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Staff and Affiliated Researchers

Drew Story
Policy Director, MIT Climate Policy Center; Managing Director, MIT Policy Lab
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Joshua Hodge
Research Director
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Krystal Noiseux
Sr. Associate Director, MIT Climate Pathways Project

Michael A. Mehling
Deputy Director, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
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Tony Tran
Operations Manager

Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Director of Strategic Communications
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Juan Senga
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
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Laurent Liote
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium Impact Fellow
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Jaclyn Rambarran
Graduate Research Asst., MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
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Fischer Argosino
Graduate Research Asst., MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
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Sophia Lee
Data and Communications Co-op, MIT Climate Policy Center