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Carnegie Climate Mobility Network

Over the past three years, the Climate Migration Council emerged as a leading coalition advancing human-centered solutions to climate mobility. Incubated by Emerson Collective, the council grew into a cross-sectoral network of nearly 100 influential leaders, launched widely adopted policy frameworks, and shaped the global discourse on climate displacement.  

In November 2025, the Climate Migration Council was transferred to Carnegie, where it has been renamed the Carnegie Climate Mobility Network. This network will build on the council's work and remain a leading source of expertise and thought leadership on climate mobility. A refreshed research and convening agenda will be developed. Carnegie looks forward to engaging with partners and allies in this next chapter, which may include current partners as well as new ones. 

The council’s past work will continue to be available here. Carnegie’s climate mobility work, including items related to the Carnegie Climate Mobility Network, will be available on this website.   

Our Climate Mobility Team

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Senior Fellow and Director, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program

Alejandro Martin Rodriguez
Fellow, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program

Otoniel Ramos
Research Assistant, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program


Climate Mobility Network Members

T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility;
Former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees

Luis Almagro
10th Secretary General
Organization of American States

Carlos Alvarado Quesada
Former President
The Republic of Costa Rica

José Andrés
Founder
World Central Kitchen

Manish Bapna
President and CEO
Natural Resources Defense Council

Dr. Rebecca Bill Chavez
President
Inter-American Dialogue

Melissa Blaustein
Vice Mayor
City of Sausalito, CA

Carl J. Bon Tempo
Associate Professor
University of Albany, SUNY

John Bridgeland
CEO & Executive Chair, More Perfect;
Executive Chair, Office of American Possibilities;
Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council

Sharon Burke
President of Ecospherics;
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense

Maxine A. Burkett
Emerson Collective Professor of Climate, Environment, and Society 
Stanford University

Michael Chertoff
Former US Secretary of Homeland Security

Laura Chinchilla
Former President
Republic of Costa Rica

Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper (ret.)
Former Director of National Intelligence

Adjany Costa
Former Minister for Culture, Tourism, and Environment
Republic of Angola

Tjada D'Oyen McKenna
CEO
Mercy Corps

Sergio Diaz Granados
Executive President
Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean

Ivan Duque
Former President
Republic of Colombia

Jan Egeland
Secretary General
Norwegian Refugee Council

Maribel Escobar
Former Mayor
City of La Palma Chalatenango, El Salvador

John Feeley
Executive Director
Center for Media Integrity of the Americas
Former U.S. Ambassador to Panama


Elizabeth Ferris
Research Professor
Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University

Badruun Gardi
Founder
New Nomad Institute

Lori Garver
Former Deputy Administrator
NASA

Francois Gemenne
Professor,
HEC Paris

Todd Gloria
Mayor
City of San Diego, CA

Arancha Gonzalez Laya
Dean of Paris School of International Affairs
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain

Josh Green
Governor
State of Hawai'i

Timothy J. Greene, Sr.
Chairman
Makah Tribal Council

Michael B. Hancock
Former Mayor
City of Denver, CO

Becca Heller
Co-Founder
International Refugee Assistance Project

Mark Hetfield
President and CEO
Hebrew Immigrants Aid Society

Roberta Jacobson
Former US Ambassador to Mexico

Brett Jenks
CEO
Rare

Cecilia Jimenez-Damary
UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced People
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Walter Kaelin
Envoy of the Chair
Platform on Disaster Displacement

Timothy M. Keller
Mayor
City of Albuquerque, NM

Tim Kelly
Mayor
City of Chattanooga, TN

Jeremy Konyndyk
President
Refugees International

Fred Krupp
President
Environmental Defense Fund

Claudia Lopez Hernandez
Former Mayor
City of Bogotá, Colombia

Jane McAdam
Professor of Law and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow
University of New South Wales

Robert McLeman
Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University

Anya McMurray
President
Welcome.US

Nicole Melaku
Executive Director
National Partnership for New American

David Miliband
President and CEO
International Rescue Committee

Michael Morell
Former Deputy Director of CIA

Cecilia Muñoz
Former Director
White House Domestic Policy Council

Dr. Raya Muttarak
Professor
University of Bologna

Janet Napolitano
Former US Secretary of Homeland Security
Director of the New Center for Security in Politics, UC Berkley

Dr. Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe
Professor
University of Ghana

Michelle Nunn
President and CEO
CARE USA

Krish O'Mara Vignaraja
President and CEO
Global Refuge

Leon Panetta
Former US Secretary of Defense

Rachel Peric
Executive Director
Welcoming America

Colette Pichon Battle
Co-founder
Taproot Earth

Dr. Navi Pillay
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Erika Pires Ramos
Co-Founder
RESAMA

Amy Pope
Director General
International Organization for Migration

Laurene Powell Jobs
Founder and President
Emerson Collective

Jaime Pumarejo Heins
Former Mayor
City of Barranquilla, Colombia

Marta Lucia Ramirez
Former Vice President
Republic of Colombia

Marvin Rees
Former Mayor
City of Bristol, UK

Dan Restrepo
Senior Fellow
Center for American Progress

Satya Rhodes-Conway
Mayor
City of Madison, WI

Fernando Riosmena
Professor
University of Texas, San Antonio

Arturo Rodriguez
President Emeritus
United Farm Workers

Teresa Romero
President
United Farm Workers

Celeste Saulo
Secretary-General
World Meteorological Organization

Libby Schaaf
Former Mayor
City of Oakland, CA

Br. Michael Schopf, SJ
Deputy International Director
Jesuit Refugee Service

Dr. Matthew Scott
Adjunct Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Law
Lund University

Andrew Selee
President
Migration Policy Institute

Peggy M. Shepard
Executive Director
We ACT for Environmental Justice

Erin Sikorsky
Director
Center for Climate and Security

Janti Soeripto
President and CEO
Save the Children

ADM Scott H. Swift (ret.)
USN, Commander, US. Pacific Fleet
The Swift Group LLC

Dr. Adelle Thomas
Senior Director
Natural Resources Defense Council

Hamdi Ulukaya
Founder and CEO
Chobani, LLC.

Gaia Vince
Author and Journalist
The Guardian and BBC Online

Alex Walker-Griffin
Former Mayor
City of Hercules, CA

Mark Watts
Executive Director
C40 Cities

Dr. Michael Werz
Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations

Sherrie Westin
CEO
Sesame Workshop

Surangel S. Whipps, Jr.
President
The Republic of Palau

Jocelyn Wyatt
CEO
Alight

Ana Zacapa
Chair of Root Capital
Root Capital

Vittoria Zanuso
Executive Director
Mayors Migration Council

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