Allison Morrill Chatrchyan

Dr. Allison Morrill Chatrchyan is the Climate Change Education & Stakeholder Engagement Director, for the AI-Climate Institute at Cornell University, and an Adjunct Professor of environmental law at the Cornell Law School. Her interdisciplinary research is focused on assessing climate change impacts and adaptation strategies and policies; multi-level climate change governance; negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); and engaging and understanding stakeholder views and actions on climate change and agriculture. Dr. Chatrchyan co-chaired the agriculture chapter of the New York State Climate Impacts Assessment and is co-leading the Stakeholder Engagement and Education components of the new NSF/NIFA AI-Climate Institute, working with Johannes Lehmann. She has led the Cornell Delegation to the UNFCCC COP conferences since COP1 in Paris and served on the Armenian Party delegation to the CIOS. She co-developed and leads the Cornell Climate Smart Farming with Art DeGaetano, and the Cornell Climate Stewards program with Katherine Bunting-Howarth. Allison received her Ph.D. and M.A. in international environmental politics and comparative politics from the University of Maryland, and her B.A. with honors in government and environmental studies from Colby College.