Joshua Busby (Civilian University Principal Investigator) – Dr. Joshua Busby is a Professor at the University of Texas-Austin at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Climate Advisor at the U.S. Department of Defense. He has been a leading investigator and principal investigator of two Minerva Initiative research grants including the CCAPS and CEPSA initiatives.
Emily Holland (PME Principal Investigator) – Dr. Emily Holland is an Assistant Professor in the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the US Naval War College. Previously she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, and a visiting fellow at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU, the European Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin), and the German Institute for Economic Research (Berlin) amongst several other fellowships. Dr. Holland holds a Ph.D., MA, and BA in political science from Columbia University.
Morgan Bazilian – Dr. Morgan Bazilian is the Director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy and Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Previously, he was Lead Energy Specialist at the World Bank. Dr. Bazilian holds a Ph.D in energy systems, and was a Fulbright fellow. His work has been published in Science, Nature, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Previously he was a senior diplomat at the United Nations. He was the EU’s lead negotiator on technology at the UN climate negotiations.
Mark Deinert – Dr. Deinert is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and a member of the Payne Institute for Public Policy. He has external appointments in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University and as a senior consultant to the World Bank on climate resilience. He holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Cornell University.