Program Staff & Experts

Lauren Herzer Risi

Program Director, Environmental Change and Security Program

Amanda King

Former Program Associate, Environmental Change and Security Program

Blair A. Ruble

Distinguished Fellow;
Former Wilson Center Vice President for Programs (2014-2017); Director of the Comparative Urban Studies Program/Urban Sustainability Laboratory (1992-2017); Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (1989-2012) and Director of the Program on Global Sustainability and Resilience (2012-2014)

Fitz Nicholas

Contractor, Environmental Change and Security Program

Tim Campbell

Global Fellow;
Consultant, Urban Affairs

Gordon Feller

Global Fellow;
Founder, Meeting of the Minds

Bessy Kong

Global Fellow, Former Public Policy Scholar;
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Housing and Urban Development

Robert H. McNulty

Global Fellow;
President, Partners for Livable Communities

Hank Savitch

Global Fellow;
Brown & Williamson Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Louisville

Caroline Wanjiku Kihato

Global Fellow;
Visiting Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg