Science, Environment and Development Group

Ms. Kira Matus
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
502 Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-496-0739
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: kira_matus "at" ksgphd.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Doctoral Research Fellow

Kira Matus is Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development and a doctoral candidate in the Public Policy Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government . Her research focuses on the application of innovative technology to address sustainable development. She is working with the Green Chemistry Institute to explore the potential of green chemistry as a "leap-frog" technology in the United States, India and China. She is the recipient of the Vicki Norberg-Bohm Fellowship (2006). Matus received an SM in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2005. While at MIT, she was a research assistant in the Joint Program for the Science and Policy of Global Change. As a part of that group, she worked to quantify the economic impacts of the health effects of urban air pollution on the economies of the United States and China. She was a participant in the Alliance for Global Sustainability’s IPOS graduate student symposium in 2004 in Thailand. Matus is a 2003 graduate of Brown University where she earned an ScB in chemistry.