Dr. Kira Matus - Senior Policy Analyst Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering at Yale Yale University, USA

Speaking on Understanding Innovation for Sustainable Development: A Comparison study of Green Chemistry in the United States, India and China

Dr. Kira Matus received her PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University in 2009." She was a Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard’s Center for International Development from 2007-2009, and a US Environment Protection Agency STAR graduate fellow. She did her B.Sc. in chemistry from Brown University in 2003.

Her research focuses on the application of innovative technology to address sustainable development. She is working with the Green Chemistry Institute to explore the potential of green chemistry as a “leap-frog” technology in the United States, India and China.

She is a recipient of the Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellowship in Sustainability Science (2007) and the Norberg-Bohm Fellowship (2006). Dr. Matus received an SM in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. While at MIT, she was a research assistant in the Joint Program for the Science and Policy of Global Change . As a part of that group, she worked to quantify the economic impacts of the health effects of urban air pollution on the economies of the United States and China. She was a participant in the Alliance for Global Sustainability’s Intensive Program on Sustainability graduate student symposium in 2004 in Thailand.