Katie Segal is a Climate & Ocean Research Fellow at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE). Her past work has focused on climate and energy policy and she is especially interested in U.S. state-level policy. Prior to joining the CLEE team, Katie worked at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs as a research assistant for the Arctic Initiative, focusing on environmental issues facing the changing Arctic region.

Katie spent four years with ICF as a research assistant and then analyst with the Regulatory, Economics, Environment & Energy Team. At ICF, Katie conducted analysis and provided regulatory development support on behalf of 30+ state and federal government agencies on issues such as electric vehicles, renewable energy, and resilience planning. Katie holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, where she was also a Bacon Environmental Leadership Fellow, and a B.S. from Tufts University in Biology, Environmental Studies, and Political Science. During graduate school, Katie spent a summer working with the United States Climate Alliance. Her master’s thesis project focused on offshore wind development. She is originally from Southern California.