Melissa Barbanell
Director, U s -international Engagement @World Resources Institute
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WORK HISTORY
Director, U s -international Engagement @World Resources Institute
As the Director of US-International Engagement within the World Resources Institute’s climate program, Melissa leads high-level climate and energy dialogues between governmental, academic, NGO and philanthropy-based U.S. participants and counterparts in China, India, and the European Union. The objective of these dialogues is to strengthen the avenues of communication through informal discussions on critical issues to facilitate climate action and the energy transition. Melissa co-leads WRI\'s global energy program\'s efforts to ensure a secure and responsibly sourced minerals supply chain. Within the U.S, Melissa focuses on ways to encourage and drive ambitious international-facing climate action on topics ranging from clean hydrogen to power sector decarbonization and climate finance; she focuses on opportunities to overcome domestic and international barriers to a rapid transition to a clean energy economy.
EDUCATION
Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs
Master's degree, magna cum laude
Tulane University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Univerity of Utah
Project Management Excellence Certificate
University of Utah
Master's degree
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Doctor of Law (J.D.). order of the coif
ABOUT MELISSA BARBANELL
working at the nexus of climate and energy policy and geopolitics
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