Dr. Aubrey Paris

Dr. Aubrey Paris is the Senior Policy Advisor for Gender, Climate Change, & Innovation in the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) at the U.S. Department of State, where she leads foreign policy and public diplomacy efforts related to the nexus of gender equality and climate change. Previously, she served as a Science, Technology, & Innovation Policy Advisor in the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary (E/STAS) and was the recipient of the IEEE-USA Engineering and Diplomacy Fellowship from 2019-2021. At the State Department, she launched the Innovation Station initiative to amplify the impact of woman and girl innovators developing translatable solutions to climate-related challenges, while simultaneously drawing subnational connections between domestic and international communities. Prior to these current roles, Dr. Paris was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Energy and Climate Scholar at Princeton University, where she designed catalysts capable of transforming carbon dioxide into useful and marketable products. During her graduate studies, she also contributed to research projects on water security implications of coal-fired power plants, the future of U.S. nuclear energy, and climate change impacts on national security. Dr. Paris received her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Materials Science from Princeton University (2019), M.A. in Chemistry from Princeton University and B.S. in Chemistry and Biology with a minor in French from Ursinus College. (Source: https://www.ursinus.edu/live/profiles/6355-aubrey-paris)