Adriana Kocornik-Mina is Guest Researcher at Alterra – Wageningen UR in the Netherlands. She was with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science until March 2015 as a Researcher in the Adaptation and Development team. Previously she worked on electricity transmission at the US Department of Energy and was a Research Fellow at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy at George Mason University. Adriana has taught research methods and governance and policy processes to graduate students at Georgetown University and George Mason University, respectively. Adriana holds a PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University.