Stefanie is a Policy Entrepreneur and a senior researcher at Igarape Institute, working to improve sustainable competitiveness, strategy, and governance in the face of climate risk. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. She is alumni of the Faculty for the Future Fellowship, Global Solutions Program Fellow (Google sponsored) at SingularityU, and Skoll Forum delegate. Her work in Sustainability and Innovation began at The Earth Institute, Columbia University, over 15 years ago and today spans four continents. As a Policy Entrepreneur, she provides modeling tools for stakeholder engagement to improve decisions and strengthen institutions that govern over resources.
She has been an invited speaker to the U.S. State Department, the Institute of Water Resources, the World Resource Institute, and several academic institutions in Brazil, Ecuador, and the USA.
She was raised in Ecuador, educated in the USA, and currently resides in Brazil.
Agriculture has come a long way in the twenty-first century. From precision irrigation systems to face recognition in livestock to deploying drones for improved crop yield, emerging techn...
On the heels of the IPCC report, the threat of hurricanes and wildfires are causing problems to already-stretched governments. The technologies that will help us tackle climate change dir...
2020年はパンデミック（世界的大流行）の不確実性に直面し、あらゆるセクターで加速的な変化を余儀なくされた年でした。新型コロナウイルスのサンプルを検査機関に届ける自律走行型ドローンや、感染リスクを予測し接触者の追跡を支援するAI（人工知能）は、急激な変化のほんの一例です。なかでもパブリックセクターは、最も影響を受けた部門のひとつでしょう。変化に対応するためのルールの枠組み...
The year 2020 forced an accelerated change in every sector in order to navigate the uncertainties of the pandemic. From autonomous delivery drones delivering COVID-19 samples to testing l...
