Science, Environment and Development Group

Ms. Elizabeth McNie
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
503 Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-384-5737
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: elizabeth_mcnie "at" ksg.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Doctoral Research Fellow

Elizabeth McNie is a Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development and a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder where she was a research assistant at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. McNie explores how to improve the utility of scientific information in decision-making and the institutional design, organizational dynamics, and social capital needed for forging effective linkages between scientists and decision makers. Her doctoral research explores how scientists and policy makers co-produce short-term climatic information that is both needed and used in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program. She also researches ‘boundary organizations’ that facilitate the integration of knowledge and action for sustainable development. This research focuses on the Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services (RUPES) projects developed and implemented by the World Agroforestry Centre – ICRAF in Indonesia. McNie was a fellow with the NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program (IGERT) from 2002-2005, and was the co-recipient of an NSF International Supplemental Research Grant that focused on paleo-climate research and climate policy in Iceland. She has an MA in Psychology/Organization Development from Sonoma State University and a BS and minor in Marine Transportation and Engineering from the California Maritime Academy. She is also a U.S. Merchant Marine Officer.