Kemen Austin Leads a research agenda evaluating the ecological, social, and economic impacts and tradeoffs of land-sector climate change mitigation policy scenarios at state, national, and global scales. She was previously a forest and climate research analyst in the People and Ecosystems Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI). She has a PhD in Environmental Science and Philosophy from Duke University and an MA and a BSc in environmental science from Brown University where her research included measuring terrestrial carbon in the northeast United States and the evaluation of carbon offset projects in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Prior to joining WRI she worked with The Nature Conservancy to quantify forest carbon and carbon changes due to small holder agricultural production in the Adelbert Mountains of Papua New Guinea.