Claudia Nierenberg

Biography

Claudia Nierenberg is the Deputy Division Director for the Climate and Societal Interactions division at the NOAA Climate Program Office.  Claudia entered federal service as a Presidential Management Intern with positions at the US Treasury Department and the National Science Foundation.  For the last twenty years, she has worked as a science manager in global change research.  Claudia has co-chaired inter-agency working groups, contributed to the design of programs and institutions designed to support the use of information for adaptation to climate variability and change,  and creatively enhanced federal service with a year as a Research Associate at the Heinz Center for the Science and Economics of the Environment, and a year as an Associate Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes.  She holds a Bachelors degree in English Literature from the University of Virginia and a Masters degree in International Political Economy from Columbia University.