Programs
Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics
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