Alicia Zhao is a research manager at the Center for Global Sustainability. Her work focuses on climate mitigation and sustainability, with an emphasis on integrated quantitative analysis and modeling of energy systems, land use and related issues at the center of climate and sustainability debates.
Prior to joining CGS, Zhao worked at the sustainability nonprofit Ceres. She then completed her master's degree in environmental management at Duke University, where she became passionate about mitigating climate change through the use of data science, economics and stakeholder engagement. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental science from Cornell University. In her free time, Zhao enjoys playing music, being outdoors and exploring different cafes and restaurants.
- Climate change mitigation & adaptation; energy policy; environmental justice
Successfully addressing the climate crisis while achieving sustainable development goals will require carefully constructed strategies to enact rapid economic transitions to a cleaner economy—tailored to national circumstances and priorities. The Center for Global Sustainability has deep expertise in country-specific analytical and policy approaches across key sectors and in support of a 1.5°C-pathway.
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The Center for Global Sustainability is the analytical lead for America Is All In - a coalition of over 4,000 cities, states, businesses, universities, communities of faith, and others that have pledged their commitment to support the goals of the Paris Agreement. CGS works with U.S. subnational and international partners to deliver analysis that informs how an "all-of-society" climate strategy can drive actionable and feasible policy. CGS informs U.S. climate policy from the local to global through developing integrated modeling and climate scenarios for the federal government, advising on international discussions to ramp up ambition, and collaborating from the bottom up to move the resources necessary to set and achieve ambitious climate goals.
Learn More about U.S. ProgramSchool Authors: Alicia Zhao, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Claire Squire, Kiara Ordonez Olazabal , Laura Hinkle, Stephanie Vo, Michelle Faggert, Camryn Dahl, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Carla Campos Morales, Jiaxun Sun, Wei Peng, Xiangjie Chen, Xinyuan Huang, Kuishuang Feng, Adriana Bryant
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui
Other Authors: Lauren Harry-Villain, Yann Briand, Henri Waisman, Frederic Rudolph, Catherine Hall, Harro van Asselt, Mark Gjerek, Rico Merkert, Marcio de Almeida D'Agosto, George Vasconcelos Goes, Daniel Neves Schmitz Gonçalves, Ricardo Delgado Cadena, Maria Rosa Munoz, Dipti Gupta, Amin Hassani, Jordi Tovilla, Thalia Hernandez, Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi, Sidsel Ahlmann Jensen , Hilton Trollip
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Gokul Iyer, Haewon McJeon, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Xinyuan Huang, Wei Peng, Yang Ou, Shannon Kennedy
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Kowan O’Keefe, Claire Squire, Kiara Ordonez Olazabal , Camryn Dahl, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Adriana Bryant
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Alicia Zhao, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Allen Fawcett, Haewon McJeon, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Adriana Bryant, John Bistline, Geoffrey Blanford, Rachel Goldstein, Amanda Levin, Megan Mahajan, Robbie Orvis
School Authors: Allen Fawcett, Gokul Iyer, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: John Bistline, Aaron Bergman, Geoffrey Blanford, Maxwell Brown, Dallas Burtraw, Maya Domeshek, Anne Hamilton, Jesse Jenkins, Ben King, Hannah Kolus, Amanda Levin, Qian Luo, Kevin Rennert, Molly Robertson, Nicholas Roy, Ethan Russell, Daniel Shawhan, Daniel Steinberg, Anna van Brummen, Grace Van Horn, Aranya Venkatesh, John Weyant, Ryan Wiser
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Kowan O’Keefe, Claire Squire, Kiara Ordonez Olazabal , Matthew Binsted, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui
Other Authors: Adriana Bryant
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Maria Borrero, Christoph Bertram, Jenna Behrendt, Audrey Rader, Mel George, Jiehong Lou, Andy Miller, Tiruwork Berhanu Tibebu, Kowan O’Keefe, Xinyue Li, Mengye Zhu, Claire Squire, Nathan Hultman, Xiangwen Fu, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: Dmitry Churlyaev, Jordan Snarski, Bhavika Buddi, Alexandra Kreis
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Christoph Bertram, Kiara Ordonez Olazabal , Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Kowan O’Keefe, Matthew Binsted, Camryn Dahl, Claire Squire, Kiara Ordonez Olazabal , Steven J. Smith, Jiehong Lou, Kathleen Kennedy, Gail Chalef, Nathan Hultman, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui
Other Authors: Shannon Kennedy, Adriana Bryant, Jordan Snarski, Dmitry Churlyaev
School Authors: Kowan O’Keefe, Gokul Iyer, Kathleen Kennedy, Alicia Zhao, Haewon McJeon, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Yang Ou
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Gokul Iyer, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: Aman Malik, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Medhavi Sandhani, Pallavi Das, Chetna Arora, Nishtha Singh
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Kowan O’Keefe, Matthew Binsted, Haewon McJeon, Claire Squire, Steven J. Smith, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Gokul Iyer, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Adriana Bryant, Mengqi Zhang, Yang Ou
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Kowan O’Keefe, Matthew Binsted, Haewon McJeon, Claire Squire, Steven J. Smith, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Gokul Iyer, Nathan Hultman, Camryn Dahl
Other Authors: Shannon Kennedy, Adriana Bryant, Mengqi Zhang, Yang Ou
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Nathan Hultman, Camryn Dahl
Other Authors: Lei Ma, Shawn Edelstein, Aishwary Trivedi, Aldana Joel Canton, Haley Leslie-Bole, Christopher Wade, Alice Favero, Kevin Kennedy, Audrey Denvir, Kyle Clark-Sutton, Shannon Wood, George Hurtt, Shannon Kennedy
School Authors: Kathleen Kennedy, Alicia Zhao, Steven J. Smith, Kowan O’Keefe, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Camryn Dahl, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Bradley Phelps, George Hurtt, Lei Ma, Patrick O’Rourke, Yang Ou, Camille Wejnert-Depue, Shannon Kennedy
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Gokul Iyer, Haewon McJeon, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Wei Peng, Xinyuan Huang, Yang Ou, Shannon Kennedy
School Authors: Haewon McJeon, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: John Bistline, Maxwell Brown, Maya Domeshek, Cara Marcy, Nicholas Roy, Geoffrey Blanford, Dallas Burtraw, Jamil Farbes, Allen Fawcett, Anne Hamilton, Jesse Jenkins, Ryan Jones, Ben King, Hannah Kolus, John Larsen, Amanda Levin, Megan Mahajan, Erin Mayfield, James McFarland, Robbie Orvis, Neha Patankar, Kevin Rennert, Sally Robson, Christopher Roney, Ethan Russell, Greg Schivley, Daniel Shawhan, Daniel Steinberg, Nadejda Victor, Shelley Wenzel, John Weyant, Ryan Wiser, Mei Yuan
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Jenna Behrendt, Andy Miller, Christoph Bertram, Mel George, Maria Borrero, Alicia Zhao, Gokul Iyer, Kathleen Kennedy, Jiehong Lou, Haewon McJeon, Kowan O’Keefe, Mengye Zhu, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Matthew Zwerling, Michael Westphal , Alexandra Kreis, Dillon Walton, Aldana Joel Canton, Shiqi Chen, Yingtong Li, Shannon Kennedy
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Haewon McJeon, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Kowan O’Keefe, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: Yang Ou, Mengqi Zhao, Yang Qiu, Daniel H. Loughlin
