Erika Spanger-Siegfried
Senior Analyst, Climate & Energy Program
Erika Spanger-Siegfried, a senior analyst in the Climate and Energy Program at UCS, co-manages the organization's new Energy-Water Initiative. This program aims at raising awareness of the energy-water connection, particularly in the context of climate change, and motivating and informing effective low-carbon and low-water energy solutions. Ms Spanger-Siegfried formerly managed the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA), a collaboration between UCS and a multi-disciplinary team of more than 50 scientists from across the region that explored future climate change in the Northeast states and the impacts on key sectors.
Prior to joining UCS in 2005, Ms. Spanger-Siegfried was an associate scientist at the Boston Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, where for six years her work focused on understanding and building coping and adaptive capacity among highly vulnerable populations in Sudan, India, and Southeast Asia. Earlier in her career, Ms. Spanger-Siegfried worked with the Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Environmental Laboratories. She serves on several relevant advisory bodies, including the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee.
Ms. Spanger-Siegfried has a master's degree in energy and environmental analysis from Boston University and a bachelor's degree in fisheries biology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
